Modelling of Sedimentation Processes

Completed Projects

YEAR PROJECT FUNDING AGENCY
2018-2021 Micro-mechanics of weak layers: key role of sediment structure and composition (PhD project Ricarda Gatter) EU
2017-2022 European Traing Network - SLATE Submarine LAndslides and Their impact on European continental margins (coordinator) EU MSCA

2017-2019

Creeping deformation mechanics of the Tuaheni Landslide Complex (TLC) in the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (PostDoc Morgane Brunet)

DFG

2016-2018

Initiation of motion – marine biological factors controlling sediment stability (PhD project Marine LeMinor)

DFG

2016-2018 Initiation of motion - sediment bed transport mobility (PostDoc Gerhard Bartzke) DFG
2016-2019

The Role of Sediments Physical Properties in Preconditioning Submarine Landslides Initiation: A Sedimentological and a Numerical Investigation (PhD project Hadar Elyashiv)

MINERVA Stiftung
2014-2016 Time series analyses of data taken in the Ems Estaury (Germany) and Firth of Thames (New Zealand) (PostDoc Bryna Flaim) DFG
2014-2017 The composition and consolidation state of continental margin deposits control mainly the location, mechanics and timing of failure (researcher Lars Lindner) DFG
2013-2016 The influence of sediment texture on the mobility of mixed beds - Annular flume experiments and numerical modelling (PhD project Franziska Staudt) DFG
2011-2013 To which extend do sediment physical parameters control (I) slope failure and (II) transport mechanisms? - The Twin Slides (PhD project Jannis Kuhlmann) DFG
2010-2012 Seabed surface sediment distribution on the shallow sandy shelf of the North Sea using multivariate geostatisics method (PostDoc Ella Meilanda) DFG
2009-2012

Micro-scaled sediment-fluid interactions (PhD project Gerhard Bartzke)

DFG

2009-2018

International Research Training group INTERCOAST- Integrated Coastal Zone and Shelf Sea Research (coordinator / PI)

DFG

2009-2013 Kinematics of accretionary wedges (PhD project Linda Wenk) DFG
2009-2013 Physical characterisation of marine slope sediments utilizing numerical 3-D experiments (PhD project Lutz Torbahn) DFG
2008-2009 Numerical simulation of sediment transport on the gateway south of South Africa in relation to its geodynamic development Helmholtz
2006-2008

Numerical simulations of the temporal and spatial evolution of sediment drifts - Reconstruction of controlling factors applied to Drift 7, Antarctic Peninsula (PhD project Xin Li)

DFG

2007-2009

Micromechanics of granular materials in shear zones - frictional behaviour vs. pore pressure variations (PostDoc project Ingo Kock)

DFG

2007-2009

Interpretation and analysis of submarine slide complexes along the northern Cretan margin (PhD project Frank Strozyk)

DFG

2005-2009

Fluid-sediment interactions along the boundary interface (PostDoc project Michael Seyferth)

DFG

2003-2006

Deformation and micromechanics of granular materials in shear zones - Investigated with the Discrete Element Method (PhD project Ingo Kock)

DFG