2018
Congratulations Laurel!
Congratulations to Laurel on her successful application for an ETH Zurich Career Seed Grant!
Introduction of the ERC-project IRMIDYN
Ruben Kretzschmar, one of the two researchers at D-USYS, that received a prestigious Advanced Grant this year from the European Research Commission (ERC).
ETH plant ecologist Alessia Guggisberg and coworkers, including soil chemists, investigated the genomic basis of adaptation of plants to calcareous and siliceous soils
Paper published by Alessia Guggisberg, Xuanyu Liu, Léonie Suter, Guilhem Mansion, Martin C. Fischer, Simone Fior, Marie Roumet, Ruben Kretzschmar, Marcus A. Koch, and Alex Widmer.
Welcome Katrin
A new PhD student in the Soil Chemistry group
Quantitative X-ray diffraction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, and enriched Fe isotopes reveal how organic matter impacts Fe(II)-catalyzed iron mineral transformation
Paper published by Laurel ThomasArrigo, James Byrne, Andreas Kappler, and Ruben Kretzschmar in Environmental Science and Technology.
Soil Chemistry hiking day
Soil Chemistry Hiking Club went to Engelberg
Congratulation Michi!
Michael Simmler defended with success his PhD thesis today.
New study shows how mofette sites can be used to investigate Cu speciation along natural redox gradients
Paper published by Judith Mehlhorn, Johannes Besold, Juan S. Lezama Pacheco, Jon Petter Gustafsson, Ruben Kretzschmar, and Britta Planer-Friedrich in Environmental Science and Technology.
Magnesium binding by terrestrial humic acids
An article by Iso Christl about the pronounced ionic strength-dependence of magnesium binding to humic acids was published in Environmental Chemistry.
New study shows how spectroscopic and isotopic techniques can be combined to better understand the dynamics of phosphorus cycling in soils
Paper published by Julian Helfenstein, Federica Tamburini, Christian von Sperber, Michael S. Massey, Chiara Pistocchi, Oliver A. Chadwick, Peter M. Vitousek, Ruben Kretzschmar, and Emmanuel Frossard in Nature Communications.