Hildegard Westphal

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Topography of the terrestrial and marine earth. Westphal deals with processes of carbonate formation, which are important for coral reefs.

Hildegard Westphal (* 1968 ) is a German geologist and director of the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen . She was elected Vice President of the Leibniz Association in 2012.

biography

education and profession

Westphal studied geology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1991 she spent a year at the University of Queensland studying abroad. From 1995 she did her doctorate at the GEOMAR research center of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . From 1998 she held a postdoc position at the Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory at the University of Miami . From 1999 to 2003 she was assistant professor at the University of Hanover and then went to Erlangen in 2003 for two years. Her habilitation followed in 2004 . From 1995 she worked for five years at the Marum of the University of Bremen . In 2010 she first became head of sedimentology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , but in the same year she moved to the ZMT Bremen as director . She was elected Vice President of the Leibniz Association in 2012 and confirmed in office in 2013.

Hildegard Westphal is married and has two children. She is a member of the Lions Club Bremen Roland.

research

Westphal deals with carbonate sediment as an archive of environmental and climate changes. She researches the deposits on the sea floor, from which, like in a kind of climate archive, certain environmental factors in long periods of earth's history such as sea level fluctuations, changes in ocean currents, water temperatures or those prevailing at the time can be read. This study of climatic fluctuations in the earth's history also enables a better understanding of the climatic changes in the modern and "now" times.

Awards

Publications

  • Hilmar Schmundt, Milos Vec, Hildegard Westphal (editor): Mekkas of the modern age - the pilgrimage sites of the knowledge society . A project of the “Manners!” Working group of the Junge Akademie. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010.
  • Westphal et al .: Carbonate depositional systems - assessing dimensions and controlling parameters . Springer, 2010.
  • Chapter geology in: Eva-Maria Engelen et al .: Heureka - Evidence Criteria in the Sciences . Spektrum-Verlag, 2010.
  • Westphal et al .: The campus etiquette. From copying to a second opinion . CHBeck-Verlag, A project of Junge Akademie , 2006/2008.
  • Carbonate platform slopes . Springer, Berlin 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Westphal receives the Albert Maucher Prize.
personal data
SURNAME Westphal, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968