Gerhard Bohrmann

Gerhard Bohrmann (born March 30, 1956 in St. Ingbert , Saarland ) is a German geologist .

Life

From 1977 he studied geology and paleontology at the Technical University of Darmstadt and graduated in 1984 with a diploma. From 1984 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1988 he received his doctorate with the thesis On the sedimentation history of biogenic opal in the northern North Atlantic and the European Arctic Ocean . From 1988 to 1991 he worked at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, from 1991 to 2002 at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences in Kiel as a research assistant in the Department of Paleo- Oceanology , as a scientific assistant in the Department of Marine Environmental Geology and as head of the central facility Lithothek . Since 2002 he has been Professor of General Geology / Marine Geology at the University of Bremen . His work is integrated into the research field “gas and fluid leaks” at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences . He is particularly known for research on methane hydrate in seabeds, cold springs and asphalt volcanoes .

He was awarded the Hermann Credner Prize of the German Geological Society in 1991 and the Philip Morris Research Prize in 2001 with Erwin Suess and others . In 2017 he received the Tsungming Tu Prize .

Bohrmann is also a character in the novel The Swarm by Frank Schätzing . In this book, he is only lucky to survive a shark attack in which his fictional companion dies. This role is thanks for Bohrmann's technical assistance on the novel.

Web links

• Bohrmann working group
• Literature by and about Gerhard Bohrmann in the catalog of the German National Library