Schwab, V. F.; Nowak, M.; Elder, C. D.; Trumbore, S. E.; Xu, X.; Gleixner, G.; Lehmann, R.; Pohnert, G.; Muhr, J.; Kuesel, K.et al.; Totsche, K. U.: 14C-free carbon is a major contributor to cellular biomass in geochemically distinct groundwater of shallow sedimentary bedrock aquifers. Water Resources Research 55 (3), pp. 2104 - 2121 (2019)
Schwab, V. F.; Nowak, M.; Trumbore, S. E.; Xu, X.; Gleixner, G.; Muhr, J.; Kuesel, K.; Totsche, K. U.: Isolation of individual saturated fatty acid methyl esters derived from groundwater phospholipids by preparative high-pressure liquid chromatography for compound-specific radiocarbon analyses. Water Resources Research 55 (3), pp. 2521 - 2531 (2019)
Nowak, M.; Schwab, V. F.; Lazar, C. S.; Behrendt, T.; Kohlhepp, B.; Totsche, K. U.; Küsel, K.; Trumbore, S. E.: Carbon isotopes of dissolved inorganic carbon reflect utilization of different carbon sources by microbial communities in two limestone aquifer assemblages. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21 (9), pp. 4283 - 4300 (2017)
Barth, J. A. C.; Nowak, M.; Zimmer, M.; Norden, B.; van Geldern, R.: Monitoring of cap-rock integrity during CCS from field data at the Ketzin pilot site (Germany): Evidence from gas composition and stable carbon isotopes. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 43, pp. 133 - 140 (2015)
Nowak, M.; Beulig, F.; von Fischer, J.; Muhr, J.; Küsel, K.; Trumbore, S. E.: Autotrophic fixation of geogenic CO2 by microorganisms contributes to soil organic matter formation and alters isotope signatures in a wetland mofette. Biogeosciences 12 (3), pp. 7169 - 7183 (2015)
van Geldern, R.; Nowak, M.; Zimmer, M.; Szizybalski, A.; Myrttinen, A.; Barth, J. A. C.; Jost, H.-J.: Field-based stable isotope analysis of carbon dioxide by mid-infrared laser spectroscopy for carbon capture and storage monitoring. Analytical Chemistry 86 (24), pp. 12191 - 12198 (2015)
Nowak, M.: The role of microbial CO2 fixation for belowground carbon cycling and ist influence on carbon isotopic signatures. Dissertation, XI, 149 pp., Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2017)
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods.
More frequent strong storms are destroying ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest. Storm damage was mapped between 1985 and 2020. The total area of affected forests roughly quadrupled in the period studied.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will hold a joint conference on the challenges of achieving carbon neutrality in Berlin on October 29-30, 2024.
The Chapter of the Order has elected the writer, philosopher and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and the mathematician Gerd Faltings as domestic members of the Order and the geologist Susan Trumbore and the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt as foreign members.
On June 24, Prof. Dr. Henrik Hartmann, head of the Julius Kühn Institute for Forest Protection and former group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, received an important award for his scientific achievements in the field of forestry. Our warmest congratulations!