Group News

A new article, published in Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, presents fascinating results collected during a field study in the German Wadden Sea, demonstrating the effect of sulfide on Fe mineral transformations in coastal sediments.

A new publication in EGUsphere takes a deeper look at carbon dynamics in minerogenic salt marshes, with field work undertaken in the German Wadden Sea. The work was a collaboration with the University of Tübingen, which was undertaken as part of the ERC “Iron Minerals Dynamics in Soils and Sediments” project.

Katrin Schiedung has been awarded the Fritz-Scheffer-Award by the German Soil Science Society in recognition of her excellent doctoral thesis

The ERC “Iron Mineral Dynamics in Soils and Sediments” project, which ran in the Soil Chemistry group from 2018 – 2024, produced major advances in iron biogeochemical research, and could influence research methods in research disciplines beyond soil science. We offer some perspectives on the outcomes of the project in this contribution for the American Geophysical Union’s Eos magazine.

Marjana Yeasmin has joined us in the Soil Chemistry group for the next month from RMIT University, Melbourne.

Our short film about the ERC IRMIDYN project has been selected to be shown at the Spotlight on Academics Science Film Festival 2025. The showing will happen on site and online on Saturday the 8th of March.

The new article, published in Environmental Science & Technology, follows the transformation of ferrihydrite, with and without P absorption, within reduced intertidal sediments.

Congratulations to Joëlle Kubeneck, who has been awarded the ETH Medal in recognition of her doctoral thesis work.

Low molecular weight organic acids stabilise siderite against oxidation and influence the composition of iron (oxyhydr)oxide oxidation products: This is the title and major finding of the new article has rescently been published in the journal Environmental Science Processes and Impacts.