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Bioremediation
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On our homepage you can receive information about teaching and research activities at the Friedrich Schiller University's Chair of Applied Geology. This Chair is very much involved in the education in the fields of earth sciences and biogeosciences.
We research basic environmental processes, especially the relations, interactions and feedbacks between the litho-, pedo-, hydro- and biospheres. Focussing on these issues is in line with the central importance of research done in earth sciences in order to meet future challenges of our society, particularly those ones related to the limited availability of natural resources, the care for sustainable development, the global change and the early detection of geohazards.
News
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Travaris Project Completed!
Last week, we concluded our BMFTR-funded joint project Travaris with a two-day project meeting. Together with our partners from the HZDR, Leibniz University Hannover, the University of Bremen, and the Öko-Institut e.V., we investigated the transport behavior of long-lived radionuclides in the rhizosphere of crop plants, as well as their uptake. Furthermore, uncertainties in the modeling of partitioning coefficients (Kd) were reduced. Work aimed at understanding these processes from the molecular biological scale to biosphere-scale modeling for dose assessment. We look back on more than three productive years of collaboration and would like to thank all our partners, as well as the BMFTR for the financial support!
Image: Marcus Boehm