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Dr. Hermann Kudrass

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This web page has not been updated since the former colleague left MARUM.

Professional Experience

30 years as marine geologist at the German Geological Survey investigating heavy-mineral deposits, manganese nodules, hydrothermal sulfides and phosphorites, coordinator for the German participation in the Ocean Drilling Programme (ODP/IODP), head of the Department of Geological and Geophysical Research, after retirement lecturing on marine resources at the Hannover University, scientific adviser for MARUM, investigating the delta of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta. Investigation of the coastal archaeology of salt-producing kilns in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta. Scientific advisor for the Bangladesh /Myanmar Law-of-the-Sea negotiations. Advisor for the scientific branch of the Bangladesh Navy. Member of the editorial board of MINERALS.

Academic Achievements / Publications: some out of 100 publications

Geyh, M.A., Kudrass, H.R. & Streif, H. 1979: Sea-level changes during the late Pleistocene and Holocene in the Strait of Malacca.- Nature, 278, 441-443.

Kudrass, H.R., Erlenkeuser, H., Vollbrecht, R. & Weiss, W. 1991: Global nature of the Younger Dryas cooling event inferred from oxygen isotope data from Sulu Sea cores.- Nature 349, 406-409.

Kudrass, H.R., Michels, K., Suckow, A. & Wiedicke, M. 1998: Cyclones and tides as feeders of the submarine canyon off Bangladesh.- Geology, 26, 715-718.

Michels, K.H., Kudrass, H.R., Huebscher, C., Suckow, A., Wiedicke, M., 1998: The submarine delta of the Ganges-Brahmaputra: cyclone-dominated sedimentation patterns.- Marine Geology, 149, 133–154.

Kudrass, H.R., Hofmann, A., Doose, H., Emeis, K. & Erlenkeuser, H. 2001: Modulation and amplification of climatic changes in the northern hemisphere by the Indian summer monsoon during thelast 80,000 years.- Geology, 29, 63-66. Vol.:(0123456789)

Hanebuth, T. Kudrass H., Zander, A., Akhter S.H., Neumann‑Denzau, G, Zahid, A 2021: Stepwise, earthquake‑driven coastal subsidence in the Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta (Sundarbans)since the eighth century deduced from submerged in situkiln and mangrove remnants.
Natural Hazards https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-05048-2

Kudrass, H., Hanebuth,T., Zander, A., Linstäder, J.,Akther, H., Shohrab, H. 2022: Architecture and function of the salt-producing kilns of the late 8^th to 18 th century in the coastal Sundarban mangrove forest of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta. -Archaeology in Asia, 32, 100412.