Funded Projects
Second Call for Proposals (Funding Period: 2018-2021)
| Bau, Michael (Bremen) | Non-detrital Gallium and Aluminum in Early Precambrian Marine Chemical Sediments and the Potential Use of the Ga/Al Ratio as a Geochemical Proxy for Metal Sources and Relative Fluxes to the Early Ocean |
| Carone, Ludmila & Noack, Lena (Heidelberg/Berlin) | The Archaean Earth - Coupling between geodynamics and 3D climate modelling |
| Duda, Jan-Peter & Reitner, Joachim & Thiel, Volker (Göttingen) | Kerogen in Archean rocks: Biotic vs abiotic signatures – Pt. II |
| Duda, Jan-Peter | Reaching for life in the distant past – deciphering the geobiology of modern and ancient hydrothermal sulfides (Emmy-Noether Group) |
| Dziggel, Annika (Aachen) | Terrane spotting – Testing models for the evolution of Earth’s first continents |
| Fischer-Gödde, Mario (Köln) | Constraining the timing of volatile arrival on Earth using Ru and Mo isotopes in the Archean mantle |
| Gehringer, Michelle (Kaiserslautern) | Reconciling biological and geochemical perspectives on the production of oxygen on early Earth |
| Hallmann, Christian (Bremen/MPI Jena) | The rise and fall of Archean atmospheric oxygen — Did temporary carbon burial as Fe(ox)–DOM complexes play a modulating role? |
| Heubeck, Christoph (Jena) | The role of early Archean Terrestrial Environments in Weathering, Sediment Transport, and the Colonization of Land |
| Hoffmann, Elis & Schwarzenbach, Esther & Strauss, Harald (Berlin/Münster) | Elucidating Eoarchean geodynamic processes by multiple sulfur isotopes |
| Hoppe, Peter & Vollmer, Christian (Mainz/Münster) | Iron-60 as a heat source for melting and differentiation of Earth-forming planetesimals and planetary embryos |
| Kappler, Andreas (Tübingen) | Investigating the roles of Fe(II)-silicate and Fe(III)-silicate complexes and nanoparticles in the survival of early cyanobacteria and photoferrotrophic bacteria |
| Kaus, Boris (Mainz) | Generation of Archean Granitoids and the Onset of Plate Tectonics |
| Klahr, Hubert (Heidleberg) | A) Linking the Earth-Building Material to Planetesimal formation in the Solar Nebula: Proper Icelines! B) The effect of collisions among Earth-Building Material on the chemical mix of Earth. |
| Kurzweil, Florian (Köln) | The evolution of the oceanic redox state before the Great Oxidation Event traced by stable tungsten isotope analyses in iron formations |
| Leitner, Jan (Mainz) | The Origin of Nitrogen on Earth: Implications from Isotope and Petrologic Studies of Planetary Materials at the Sub-Micrometer Scale.” |
| Noack, Lena (Berlin) | Global volatile cycles on early Earth |
| Pack, Andreas (Göttingen) | Using Δ17O of sedimentary carbonate as a new single-phase thermometer – Were the Archean oceans really hot or did they only have had lower δ18O values? |
| Schmitt, Axel & Trieloff, Mario (Heidelberg) | Biogenic Carbon in Magmatic Minerals and Implications for the Preservation and Obliteration of Hadean Isotopic Biosignatures |
| Schoenberg, Ronny & Strauss, Harald (Tübingen/Münster) | Was the Great Oxidation Event a sharp or an oscillating build-up of free atmospheric oxygen? A combined S-Mo-Se isotope study of continuous drill core records through the Duitschland/Rooihoogte and Timeball Hill formations, Transvaal Basin, South Africa. |
| Semenov, Dmitry (MPI Heidelberg) | Origin of volatiles and organics on Earth, IDPs, meteorites, and comets |
| Weyer, Stefan (Hannover) | Stromatolites as archives for metal mobilization and early life metabolisms? Uranium and Mo isotope studies of modern and Archean stromatolites and carbonates |
| Willbold, Matthias (Göttingen) | Tracing isotopic heterogeneities in the Early Earth's mantle through time |
| Wombacher, Frank & Galer, Stephen (Köln/Mainz) | Cadmium isotope constraints on the formation of the Earth-Moon system and volatile element cycling on the Moon |
First Call for Proposals (Funding Period: 2015-2018)
Determination of high resolution thermal and tectonic history of Archean terranes: Development of a tool through a case study from the Western Dharwar Craton and the Coorg block in S. India | |
Kerogen in Archean rocks: Biotic vs abiotic signatures | |
Light elements in the core of a habitable Earth | |
Identifying the mechanism for the early oxidation of the Earths interior | |
Expanding the Bio in Biogeochemistry: Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxygenation Event | |
The Influence of Atmosphere-Biology-Geology during the Great Oxidation Event | |
Influence of Earth's rotation on the differentiation of a terrestrial magma ocean | |
The role of Partial Convective Overturn in the Barberton Greenstone Belt: Linking deep crustal-mantle and surface processes through integrated sedimentary and structural analysis of the syntectonic Moodies Group | |
Granitoid-greenstone relationships in the eastern Kaapvaal craton and implications for early crustal evolution | |
Geodynamic modelling of the initiation of plate tectonics in a differentiating early Earth | |
Identifying the origin of Earth's building material: Where do the earth building Planetesimals and Pebbles originate from? A numerical approach of the accretion phase of the earth | |
Origin of coastal facies Banded Iron Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt (3.2 Ga) | |
Deciphering the early Archaean crustal history in the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons | |
The Origin of Nitrogen on Earth: Implications from Isotope and Petrologic Studies of Planetary Materials at the Sub-Micrometer Scale | |
The Archean isotope record of Hadean geodynamic evolution | |
Modelling of accretion and differentiation of the proto-Earth and its building blocks | |
Uli Ott & Mario Trieloff (Heidelberg) | Outgassing history and early atmospheric processes recorded by paleoatmospheric noble gases in Archaean rocks |
Using D17O of sedimentary carbonate as a new single phase thermometer - Were the Archean oceans really hot or did they only have had lower d18O values? | |
Triple oxygen, triple silicon, and trace elements of cherts for the reconstruction of d18O of seawater deep in time | |
Density and fate of silicate melts in the early Earth s mantle | |
Impact-induced melting, magma ocean evolution and core-mantle differentiation during accretion of the Earth | |
Cr(III)-mobility and isotopic effects by adsorption on Mn- and Fe-(hydr-)oxides in the Critical Zone and in marine sediments: Doubts that Mesoarchean Cr isotopic variations directly record free atmospheric oxygen | |
Uranium and V isotope variations in Archean sediments: Evidence for metal mobilization and enzymatic reduction in an overall anoxic world? | |
Spherule layers from South Africa as windows into the Paleoarchean meteorite bombardment of the Earth - Evidences from coupled Os-W isotope systematics and siderophile elements | |
Crystallizing the terrestrial magma ocean: thermo- and geodynamics | |
Crystallizing the terrestrial magma ocean: thermo- and geodynamics | |
High resolution electron microscopy (UltraSTEM) of the most primitive organic materials in chondrite parent bodies and comets - Formation and evolution of the organic inventory of early Earth | |
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