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Best Disser­ta­tion Award to Christoph Daxer

Congrat­u­la­tion to Christoph Daxer, recip­ient of the 2026 Faculty of Geo- & Athmo­spheric Science Best Disser­ta­tion award

Congrat­u­la­tion Gerald Degen­hart

Gerald success­fully defended his PhD thesis enti­tled High reso­lu­tion X-ray computed tomog­ra­phy: new devel­op­ments of appli­ca­tions in Earth Sciences and Archaeom­etry

New Papers in Scien­tific Drilling

We contrib­uted to two new papers advancing X-ray computed tomog­raphy (XCT) methods for scien­tific ocean drilling

Earthquakes and Carbon Burial

We contrib­uted to a new study revealing how earth­quake-driven sedi­ment dynamics regu­late the burial and preser­va­tion of organic carbon in the Japan Trench.

Ideas, Insights and Impe­tus: Three pro­duc­tive Days in Obern­berg

Group Retreat Obern­berg 2026

First Facies Model for Hadal Trench Event Deposits

Our results of detailed facies analysis on IODP cores from the Japan Trench published in Sedimentology provide new insights into event bed deposition in a hadal trench environment

New Paper in Bio­geo­sciences

Michi Strasser contributed to a biogeoscience study advancing our understanding of subseafloor microbial life in deep-sea samples.

Why the 2011 Japan Tsunami was so intense

A new paper in Science co-authored by Charlotte Pizer explains why the 2011 tsunami in Japan was so intense