2019
New publication follows ferrihydrite growth and transformation in the presence of ferrous iron and model organic ligands
Laurel ThomasArrigo and Ruben Kretzschmar, in collaboration with Ralf Kaegi from EAWAG, have published the paper in Environmental Science & Technology.
First prize in poster competition
Majorie Etique has been recognised for her poster about (bio)vivianite reduction of mercury.
Ruben Kretzschmar has co-authored a new publication showing that aggregation-dependent electron transfer via redox-active biochar particles stimulate microbial ferrihydrite reduction.
Paper published in Science of the Total Environment by Zhen Yang, Tianran Sun, Edisson Subdiaga, Martin Obst, Stefan B. Haderlein, Markus Maisch, Ruben Kretzschmar, Largus T. Angenent and Andreas Kappler.
Annual Soil Chemistry Hiking Weekend
This year the Soil Chemistry Hiking Club explored the Freiberg Kärpf in Canton Glarus
Field Trip to the Wadden Sea
The second field trip as part of the ERC-IRMIDYN took group members to the Wadden Sea in Germany.
Newly published paper examines the effect of extreme metal(loid) concentrations on prokaryotic community structure in floodplain soils contaminated with mine waste
Michael Simmler (a Soil Chemistry alumnus who recently defended his doctoral thesis), Iso Christl and Ruben Kretzschmar have authored the new paper, which has been published in Applied Soil Ecology.
Successful field campaign in Iceland
Laurel and Ruben embarked on a field trip to Iceland in June
Ruben Kretzschmar has co-authored a paper investigating the reducability of iron oxides during microbial reductive dissolution and transformation of ferrihydrite
Paper published in ES&T by Meret Aeppli, Sanja Vranic, Ralf Kaegi, Ruben Kretzschmar, Ashley R. Brown, Andreas Voegelin, Thomas B. Hofstetter and Michael Sander.
Ruben Kretzschmar has co-authored a new paper investigating the impact of microbial sulfate reduction on the mobility of arsenic in flooded rice paddy soils
Paper published by Xiaowei Xu, Peng Wang, Jun Zhang, Chuan Chen, Ziping Wang, Peter M. Kopittke, Ruben Kretzschmar, Fang-Jie Zhao in Environmental Pollution.
Soil Chemistry at ICOBTE in Nanjing, China
Three members of the Soil Chemistry group enjoyed fruitful engagement at the biannual conference for biogeochemistry of trace elements.