M.Sc. Vera Barbara Bender

10/2010 – 12/2010

since 10/2008

11/2007 - 08/2008

10/2007


08/2006 - 09/2006

09/2005



06/2002

Research Stay at the Servicio de Hidrographia Naval (SHN), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Instituto Oceanográfico (IO), Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil

EuroProx Phase III Phd student

Sedimentologist in "Formation and infill of buried Pleistocene tunnel-valleys in the North Sea" Project

M.Sc. degree "Marine Geosciences", University of Bremen (Thesis title: Evolution of the Galicia Mud Belt from Sediment Cores and Sediment Acoustic Profiles)

Research Stay at National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS), UK


B.Sc. degree "Geowissenschaften", University of Bremen (Thesis title: Mikrofazielle Veränderungen am Mt. Svilaja (dinarische Karbonatplattform, Südkroatien) im Unterapt/ Oberapt – Grenzbereich)

Abitur (university-entrance qualification), Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium, Eisenach (Thür.)

05/2011





08/2009







07/2009





04/2008





08/2006





03/2004

R/V Meteor M84/4 __________________________________________ NW Iberia
Vigo (Spain) – Vigo (Spain) / 01.05.2011 – 28.05.2011
Chief scientist: Dr. Till Hanebuth
GALIOMAR III expedition "Structures and critical interfaces of the Galician margin - transport routes and sediment fluxes"

R/V Hesperídes ____________________________________________ NW Iberia
Vigo (Spain) – Vigo (Spain) / 25.08.2009 – 05.09.2009
Chief scientist: Prof. Daniel Rey García
MARBANGA expedition "Forzamientos climáticos, controles tectónicos y conexiones tierra-mar en la evolución del registro sedimentario Pleistoceno y Holoceno del Margen Occidental del Banco de Galicia"
http://marbanga.geoma.net/?post=10

R/V Meteor M78/3b_________________________________ Uruguay/ Argentina
Montevideo (Uruguay) – Montevideo (Uruguay) / 17.06.2009 – 06.07.2009
Chief scientist: Prof. Gerold Wefer
MARUM research project Sediment Dynamics, "Sediment transport off Uruguay and Argentinia"

R/V Meteor M76/1a+b ________________________________________ Namibia
Cape Town (South Africa) – Walvis Bay (Namibia) / 12.04.2008 – 13.05.2008
Chief scientist: Dr. Matthias Zabel / Dr. Timothy Ferdelman
PROSA expedition "Process studies in the eastern South Atlantic"
https://www.marum.de/en/M76_Cruise_Legs_1ab.page

R/V Poseidon POS342 _______________________________________ NW Iberia
Vigo (Spain) – Vigo (Spain) / 19.08.2006 – 06.09.2006
Chief scientist: Dr. Till Hanebuth
GALIOMAR I expedition "Distribution pattern, residence times and export of sediments on the Pleistocene/Holocene Galician shelf (NW Iberian Peninsula)"

R/V Senckenberg _________________________ Weser Eastuary & German Bight
Wilhelmshaven (Germany) – Wilhelmshaven (Germany)
Several daily expeditions during internship at Senckenberg Institute, Dept. of Marine Research, Wilhelmshaven

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Abstracts

Bender, V.B., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Mena, A., Baumann, K.-H., Francés, G., von Dobeneck, T., accepted: Control of sediment supply, paleoceanography and morphology on late Quaternary sediment dynamics at the Galician continental slope. Geo-Marine Letters, doi:10.1007/s00367-012-0282-2.

Lantzsch, H., Hanbuth T.J.J., Bender, V.B., 2009: Holocene evolution of mud depocentres on a high-energy, low-accumulation shelf (NW Iberia). Quaternary Research, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2009.07.009.

Lantzsch, H., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Bender, V.B., Krastel-Gudegast, S., 2009: Sedimentary architecture of a low-accumulation shelf since the Late Pleistocene (NW Iberia). Marine Geology, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.12.008.

Frenz, M., Wynn, R.B., Georgiopoulou, A., Bender, V.B., Hough, G., Masson, D.G., Talling, P.J., Cronin, B.T., 2009: Provenance and pathways of late Quaternary turbidites in the deep-water Agadir Basin, northwest African margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 98(4): 721-733. doi 10.1007/s00531-008-0313-4.


Hanebuth, T.J.J., Alekseev, W., Andrade Grande, A., Baasch, B., Baumann, K.-H., Behrens, P., Bender, V.B., Von Dobeneck, T., dos S. Marques, A.I., Frederichs, T., Habernkorn, J., Hangen , J., Hilgenfeldt, C., Just, J., Kockisch, B., Lantzsch, H., Lenhart, A., Lipke, A., Lobo Sánchez, F.J., Mena Rodríguez, A., Müller, H., Petroivic, A., Rodríguez Germade, I., Roud, S., Schwab, A., Schwenk, T., Voigt, I., Wenau, S., 2012: Report and preliminary results of RV Meteor cruise M84/4 – Galiomar III. Vigo – Vigo, 1st – 28th May, 2011. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen, Vol. 283, 139 pp.

Hanebuth, T.J.J., Bender, V.B., Bujan, S., Elvert, M., Frederichs, T.W., Kockisch, B., Krastel-Gudegast, S., Lantzsch, H., Mena Rodríguez, Á., Schmidt, F., Strozyk, F. and Wagner-Friedrichs, M., 2007: Report and first results of the POSEIDON Cruise P342 GALIOMAR, Vigo - Lisboa (Portugal), August 19th - September 06th, 2006. Distribution Pattern, Residence Times and Export of Sediments on the Pleistocene/ Holocene Galician Shelf (NW Iberian Peninsula). Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen, Vol. 255, 203pp.


Lantzsch, H., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Bender, V.B., Schwenk , T., Chiessi, C., Garcá-Rodríguez, F., 2011: Restricted late-Quaternary depocentre formation under conditions of excessive terrigenous sediment supply and their role as environmental archives (Uruguayan margin). IAS Annual Meeting, Zaragossa, Spain.

Hanebuth, T.J.J., Bender, V.B., Mena, A., Baumann, K.-H., Francés, G., Lantzsch, H., 2011: Climatic, oceanographic and bathymetric controls on sediment dynamics on a continental margin over the past 30 thousand years (NW Spain). IAS Annual Meeting, Zaragossa, Spain.

Mena, A., Francés,G. , Pérez-Arlucea, M. , Hanebuth, T. and Bender, V.B., 2011: Sedimentation patterns in the Galician Interior Basin during the last 70ky: Paleoclimatic events and water mass circulation. RCMNS-RCANS Interim Colloquium, Salamanca, Spain.

Bender, V.B., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Mena, A., Baumann, K.-H., Francés, G., Gonzalez-Rodriguez, F., Chiessi, C.M., Violante, R., v.Dobeneck, T., 2010: Slope records of shelf sediment export from the Uruguayan and NW Iberian margins. 18th International Sedimentological Congress, Mendoza (Argentina).

Bender, V.B., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Baumann, K.-H. , 2010: Detrital Input, Marine Productivity, Deep-Water Currents and Sea Level alternatively influencing Sedimentation on the Galician Continental Margin over the past 30 ka BP. Deep-Water Circulation: Processes and Products. International Congress, Baiona (Pontevedra, Spain).

Bender, V.B., Lantzsch, H., Hanebuth, T.J.J., 2007: Later and Temporal Evolution of the Galicia Mud Belt (NW Iberia). GV Conference "The Oceans in the Earth System", Bremen.