Klaus Wallmann

Klaus Wallmann (* 1960 in Wolfsburg , Germany ) is a German chemist , engineer and university professor .

Scientific career

Klaus Wallmann completed his study of chemistry in 1986 with the diploma at the University of Marburg from. In 1990 he was awarded a doctorate in engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg . He spent his time as a postdoc first from 1990 to 1992 at the GKSS Research Center Geesthacht and then from 1992 to 1993 at the graduate school of the University of Bremen . Between 1993 and 2005 he was a scientist at IFM-GEOMAR , today GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research. He received his habilitation in the field of geology in 1999 at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Since 2005 he has been a professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and head of the research department Marine Geosystems at GEOMAR.

In 2007 he received the science award of the city of Kiel .

Positions

2001–2004 deputy spokesman of the SFB 574

2002 Chief Scientist of the METEOR Expedition M54 / 2

2005–2006 member of the steering committee of the SFB 574

2005–2007 spokesman for the Future Oceans Excellence Cluster
since 2008 sub-project leader of the SFB 754 A7 and B1

Research interests

Klaus Wallmann is interested in the metabolism of cold springs and mud volcanoes on the sea floor , the formation of gas hydrates , the microbial breakdown of organic substances in surface sediments and the return of nutrients from the sediments to the ocean. Furthermore, he evaluates the isotope trends recorded in marine carbonates and evaporites in order to reconstruct the long-term geochemical evolution of the oceans and the atmosphere and to simulate it with the help of numerical models.

Selected publications

H. Vollstaedt, A. Eisenhauer, K. Wallmann, F. Böhm, J. Fietzke, V. Liebetrau, A. Krabbenhöft, J. Farkaš, A. Tomašových, J. Raddatz, J. Veizer: The Phanerozoic δ88 / 86Sr Record of Seawater: New Constraints on Past Changes in Oceanic Carbonate Fluxes. In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Volume 128, March 1, 2014, pp. 249-265. doi: 10.1016 / j.gca.2013.10.006 .

AW Dale, S. Sommer, M. Haeckel, K. Wallmann, P. Linke, G. Wegener, O. Pfannkuche: Pathways and regulation of carbon, sulfur and energy transfer in marine sediments overlying methane gas hydrates on the Opouawe Bank (New Zealand). In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Volume 74, 2010, pp. 5763-5784. doi: 10.1016 / j.g approx . 2010.06.038 .

K. Wallmann, E. Suess, G. Winckler, M. Cita, GK Westbrook and MEDRIFF Consortium: Salty brines on the Mediterranean sea floor. In: Nature. Volume 387, 1997, pp. 31-32.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Curriculum Vitae by Klaus Wallmann on the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel homepage , accessed on November 8, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Wallmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Germany

[Curriculum-1] Curriculum Vitae by Klaus Wallmann on the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel homepage , accessed on November 8, 2013.