IODP/ODP involvement

Since 2005: Head of the IODP group & Bremen Core Repository (BCR) at MARUM, Bremen University

Since 2003: ECORD Science Operator (ESO) Curation & Laboratory Manager & IODP Curator for Europe

2002-2003: Representative of the Bremen Core Processing and Management Group within the interim European Science Operator consortium (iESO)

2002-2003: Member in the Joint European Ocean Drilling Initiative (JEODI) Work Package Group 7 (“Shipboard & onshore laboratory facilities in Europe as part of IODP”)

1991-1994: Assistant in the German ODP office, BGR, Hannover


Legs/Expeditions:

ODP Leg 122 (Exmouth Plateau): shore-based participant (carbonate sedimentologist)

ODP Leg 143 (Northwest Pacific Atolls and Guyots I): cruise participant (inorganic geochemist)

ODP Leg 144 (Northwest Pacific Atolls and Guyots II): shore-based part. (sedimentologist, downhole logs)

ODP Leg 165 (Caribbean Ocean History): cruise participant (physical properties specialist)

ODP Leg 171B (Blake Nose Transect): shore-based participant (physical properties, XRF core scanning)

ODP Leg 189 (Tasmanian Gateways): cruise participant (physical properties specialist)

ODP Leg 198 (Shatsky Rise): cruise participant (stratigraphic correlator, physical properties specialist)

ODP Leg 207 (Demerara Rise): shore-based participant (physical properties, XRF core scanning)

ODP Leg 208 (Walvis Ridge): cruise participant (stratigraphic correlator, physical properties specialist)

IODP Exp.302 (Arctic Coring Expedition): co-investigator (XRF core scanning)

IODP Exp.320 (PEAT I): co-investigator (XRF core scanning)

IODP Exp.318 (Wilkes Land): cruise participant (physical properties specialist, stratigraphic correlator)


Co-Proponent IODP Proposal #661 "Newfoundland Sediment Drifts" (IODP Exp. 342)

Recent Research Projects

In my role as ESO Curation & Laboratory Manager I was heavily involved in organizing the following IODP Mission Specific Platform (MSP) expeditions including running and hosting their Onshore Science Parties at MARUM - BCR:

IODP Exp.302 (Arctic Coring Expedition, ACEX)
IODP Exp.310 (Tahiti Sea Level)
IODP Exp.313 (New Jersey Shallow Shelf)
IODP Exp.325 (Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes)