Bernhard Cramer (geologist)
Bernhard Cramer (* 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German geologist. He has been honorary professor for mineral deposits at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover since 2007 and has been the Saxon chief miner since December 2011 .
biography
Cramer studied hydrogeology and paleontology with a focus on applied geochemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel between 1988 and 1994 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Jülich Research Center of the Institute for Petroleum and Organic Geochemistry until 1997 . In cooperation with two Russian institutes in the Urengoy gas field, he carried out investigations into genesis, reservoir dynamics and gas exchange with the atmosphere. After his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat., which dealt with the creation of the Urengoy natural gas reservoir, Cramer switched to the oil and natural gas geology department of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hanover in 1997 . Since 1999 Cramer has been teaching mineral deposits at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University.
In 2004 Cramer was seconded to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor in Berlin as a raw materials consultant . After working in Berlin for a year, Cramer returned to BGR as Head of the Energy Resources and Deputy Head of the Energy Resources and Mineral Resources Department. In 2007 the Leibniz University appointed him honorary professor for mineral deposits. On August 30, 2011, Cramer was appointed the new chief miner in Saxony . After Reinhard Schmidt retired , he took over the management of the Saxon Mining Authority on December 1, 2011.
Act
His scientific work focuses on the availability of energy resources as well as the geology and geochemistry of fossil fuels, especially the Siberian Arctic .
In his dissertation, Cramer dealt with the formation of the world's largest natural gas reservoir, Urengoy, which could not be explained by basin studies. As an explanation, he provided the migration of natural gas dissolved in the groundwater from the south into a 2500 m thick aquifer as well as an uplift of the overburden in the Cenozoic . The DGMK German Scientific Society for Oil, Natural Gas and Coal awarded Cramer the Georg Hunäus Prize for this work in May 1999 . The German Geological Society awarded him the Bernd Rendel Prize for this in the same year .
Publications
- Methane in the northern West Siberian Basin , formation, reservoir dynamics and exchange with the atmosphere, dissertation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere 4: Petroleum and Organic Geochemistry, Jülich 1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Geological Society (PDF; 606 kB)
Web links
- Biography (PDF; 140 kB)
- Cabinet appoints new chief miner
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cramer, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |