Course Catalog

Study Program WiSe 2024/2025

Marine Geosciences, M.Sc.

Sicherheitsschulung mit Brandschutzübung - PFLICHT-

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-BrandschutzSicherheits- und Brandschutzunterweisung

Lecture (Teaching)

Additional dates:
Tue. 15.10.24 10:00 - 14:00 HS2010
Mihaela Gianina Torozan
05-Brandschutz-engl.Lab Security Instructions and Fire Drill (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)

Additional dates:
Wed. 23.10.24 10:00 - 14:00 HS2010
Mihaela Gianina Torozan

1. Term

PD1 Advanced Digital Competences

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-PD1Advanced Digital Competences (in English)

Blockeinheit (Teaching)
ECTS: 6
Prof. Dr. Katrin Huhn-Frehers
Prof. Dr. Marta Gussinyer Perez
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß
Dr. Hanno Keil
Dr. Tilmann Schwenk
Prof. Dr. Thomas Laepple
Nikolas Römer-Stange

PG1 Field and Lab Practice

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-PG1Field and Lab Practice (in English)
Marine Field and Lab Practice

Study trip (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

gem. Exkursionsplanung
6 SWS

Dr. Torsten Bickert

CC1 Climate Change I: Fundamentals

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-CC1-1Earth System Modelling (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 4

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Fri. 14:00 - 18:00 GEO 1480+1490 (4 Teaching hours per week) L + E

4 SWS

Michael Schulz
05-MMG-CC1-2The Role of High Latitudes Oceans in Climate Change (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 2

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Fri. 12:00 - 14:00 GEO 1480+1490 (2 Teaching hours per week) L + E

2 SWS

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Stein
Dr. Juliane Müller

EA1 Environmental Archives: Methods

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-EA1-1Marine Ecosystems (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 1,5

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 09:00 - 10:00 GEO 3010 (1 Teaching hours per week) L + E

SWS 1

Stefan Mulitza
05-MMG-EA1-2Stable Isotopes and Trace Elements (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 1,5

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 11:00 - 12:00 GEO 3010 (1 Teaching hours per week) L+E

SWS 1

Dr. Torsten Bickert
05-MMG-EA1-3Terrigenous Signals (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 1,5

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 10:00 - 11:00 GEO 3010 (1 Teaching hours per week) L + E

SWS 1

Enno Schefuß
Walter Geibert
05-MMG-EA1-4Environmental Magnetism (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 1,5

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 08:00 - 09:00 GEO 3010 (1 Teaching hours per week) L + E

SWS 1

Dr. Yang Zhang
Prof. Dr. Tilo von Dobeneck

BG1 Biogeochemical Processes: Concepts

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-BG1-1Inorganic Geochemistry (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 2,5

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Wed. 08:00 - 10:00 GEO 0340 (Übungsraum) (2 Teaching hours per week) L+E

2 SWS

Stefan Moritz Holtappels
Simone Antonia Kasemann
Prof. Dr. Sabine Kasten
05-MMG-BG1-2Marine Microbes (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 1

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Wed. 10:00 - 11:00 GEO 0340 (Übungsraum) (1 Teaching hours per week) L + E

1 SWS

Dr. Gunter Wegener
05-MMG-BG1-3Molecular Geochemistry (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 2,5

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Wed. 11:00 - 13:00 GEO 0340 (Übungsraum) (2 Teaching hours per week) L + E

2 SWS

Wiss. Dir. Dr. Marcus Elvert
Lars-Peter Wörmer

SS1 Sedimentary Structures and Processes; Shelves and Passive Margins

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-SS1-1Seismic and Acoustic Imaging of Sedimentary Structures (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 1

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Fri. 08:00 - 09:00 GEO 1480+1490 (0.6 Teaching hours per week) L + E

SWS 0,6

Dr. Tilmann Schwenk
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß
05-MMG-SS1-2Sedimentary Structures and Processes at Passive Margins (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 2,5

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Fri. 10:30 - 12:00 GEO 1480+1490 (1.7 Teaching hours per week) L + E

SWS 1,7

Dr. Tilmann Schwenk
Prof. Dr. Elda Miramontes Garcia
05-MMG-SS1-3Sedimentology and Ecology of Shelves (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 2,5

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Fri. 09:00 - 10:30 GEO 1480+1490 (1.7 Teaching hours per week) L + E

SWS 1,7

Dr. Rebecca Helen Rendle-Bühring

GB1 Evolution of Marine Ecosystems

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-GB1-1Evolution of Marine Ecosystems (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Tue. 08:00 - 12:00 GEO 3010 (4 Teaching hours per week) L+E+S

4 SWS

Simone Antonia Kasemann
Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann
Karin Zonneveld

MR2 Deep Sea Resources

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-MR1-2Applied Petroleum Geology (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 4

Additional dates:
Mon. 10.02.25 - Fri. 14.02.25 (Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri.) 09:00 - 16:30
Prof. Dr. Martin Fleckenstein
05-MMG-MR1-3Hydrocarbon Formation and Petroleum Exploration (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 2

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Wed. 14:00 - 16:00 GEO 3010 (2 Teaching hours per week) L + E

2 SWS

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Stein

OC2 Magmatic and Hydrothermal Processes

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-OC1-1Magmatic and Hydrothermal Processes (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Tue. 14:00 - 18:00 GEO 3020 (4 Teaching hours per week) L + E

SWS 4

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach
PD Dr. Andreas Klügel

TE1 Geophysical Surveying & Oberservation Technology

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-TE1-1Geophysical Survey Strategies and Planning (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 12:00 - 14:00 GEO 3010 (2 Teaching hours per week) L + E

2 SWS

Dr. Hanno Keil
Dr. Tilmann Schwenk
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß
05-MMG-TE1-2Observation Technologies (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 14:00 - 16:00 GEO 3010 (2 Teaching hours per week) L + E

2 SWS

Prof. Dr. Achim Kopf

2. Term

PD2 Complementary Skills

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-PD2-1Current developments in carbonate (actuo-) sedimentology (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Wed. 15:00 - 17:00 (2 Teaching hours per week)
Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal

Field, Marine and Lab Practice: PG2

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-PG2-5Sedimentological expression of Cenozoic climate events (in English)
March 04-08, 2024

Blockveranstaltung (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

The Cenozoic era, the Age of Mammals, which started with the demise of the Dinosaurs, spans the past 66 million years. Earth’s climate underwent a significant and complex evolution during the Cenozoic. One of the best and continuous paleoclimatic archives of this era come from deep-sea deposits or sediments. For more than 50 years now, in the world’s largest and longest international scientific endeavor, deep-sea sediments have been drilled by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and its predecessors. Major international scientific collaborative efforts investigated the sedimentary records and revealed, amongst many other findings, important details about the Cenozoic climatic evolution. The records showed gradual trends of warming and cooling driven by tectonic processes on time scales of 1 to 10 million years, rhythmic or periodic cycles driven by orbital processes with 10.000 to 100.000-year cyclicity, and rare rapid shifts and extreme climate events with durations of 1.000 to 100.000 years.
The given course will introduce to scientific methods and findings from scientific ocean drilling. It will focus on the sedimentological expression of outstanding climate events, their relation to astronomical forcing and their implication for future climate pathways. During the course Atlantic IODP sediment cores stores at the Bremen Core Repository will be investigated. Students will obtain a broad perspective on the Cenozoic climate evolution and insights into the (feedback) mechanisms that govern climate and carbon cycle dynamics.

Competences:
  • acquire visual core description techniques as carried out by sedimentologists on sea-going paleoceanographic cruises
  • provide an overview of the climate evolution of the Cenozoic
  • study selected extraordinary climate events during the past 66 million years in detail
  • discover the mechanisms that altered climate and carbon cycles dynamics
  • advanced skills in literature review, scientific writing and presentation by supplementing sedimentologic observations, findings from proxy records and numerical modeling to gain a comprehensive understanding of the studied events

Assessment:
15 minutes conference-style talks and ~5-page scientific article style report (in groups of 2-3)


Exam Form:
Presentation with written elaboration

Literature:
will be announced

Contents:
1st Day: Introduction in Cenozoic climate changes and carbon cycle dynamics
2nd Day: Core laboratory exercise and investigations
3rd Day: Core laboratory exercise and investigations
4th Day: Core laboratory exercise and investigations
5th Day: “Scientific Conference” with presentations of the participants

Dr. Thomas Westerhold

3. Term

Geoscientific Project

Compulsory Module, 15 CP
Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MAR-3-P-1, 05-MAG-GP1-1, 05-MMG-GP1-1, 05-GEO-3 P-1Geoscientific Project / geowissenschaftliche Projektübung (in English)
Presentations

Projektplenum (Teaching)
ECTS: 15

4 SWS

Prof. Dr. Katrin Huhn-Frehers

Research Seminar

Compulsory Module, 15 CP
Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
05-MMG-RS1-1Research Seminar (in English)
starts in December

Seminar (Teaching)
ECTS: 15

4 SWS

Dr. Torsten Bickert
Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Simone Antonia Kasemann
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß

05 - Course Offer from "Environmental Physics (PEP)"

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
01-PHY-MA-AMMDA-VApplied Mathematical Methods and Data Analysis (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Fri. 10:00 - 12:00 HS 1010 (Kleiner Hörsaal) (2 Teaching hours per week) Vorlesung
weekly (starts in week: 1) Fri. 12:00 - 14:00 HS 1010 (Kleiner Hörsaal) (2 Teaching hours per week) Übungen

Additional dates:
Fri. 31.01.25 15:00 - 17:00
Prof. Dr. Michail Vrekousis
01-PHY-MA-PhyO1-VPhysical Oceanography I (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 10:00 - 12:00 NW1 S1270 (2 Teaching hours per week) Vorlesung
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 12:00 - 14:00 NW1 S1270 (2 Teaching hours per week) Übungen
Dr. Oliver Huhn, Dipl.-Phys. (LB)
Dr. Reiner Steinfeldt (LB)

06 - Course Offer from "Physical Geography: Environmental History"

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
08-M27-1-EA1-1Seen und lakustrine Sedimente (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Tue. 14:00 - 16:00 FVG M0160 (2 Teaching hours per week)
Dr. Christian Ohlendorf, Dipl.-Geol.
Dr. Catalina Gebhardt, Dipl.-Geol.
08-M27-1-EA1-2Methoden der Limnogeologie (in English)
Übung/Seminar

Seminar (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Tue. 16:00 - 18:00 FVG M0160 (2 Teaching hours per week)
Dr. Christian Ohlendorf, Dipl.-Geol.
Dr. Catalina Gebhardt, Dipl.-Geol.
08-M27-1-VA1-1Einführung in die Geschichte der Kulturpflanzen (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 7) Mon. 16:00 - 18:00 FVG M2010 (1 Teaching hours per week)

Additional dates:
Wed. 08.01.25 12:00 - 14:00 FVG M2010
Prof. Dr. Felix Bittmann
08-M27-1-VA1-2Laborkurs in Archäobotanik (in English)
Blockveranstaltung am NIhK in Wilhelmshaven

Exercises (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Block in Wilhelmshaven, February 10-14, 2025

Prof. Dr. Felix Bittmann
08-M27-PG-1-CL1-1Einführung in die Klimatologie (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 10:00 - 12:00 FVG M0160 (2 Teaching hours per week)
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Marzeion
08-M27-PG-1-CL1-2Paläoklimatologie (in English)

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Mon. 14:00 - 16:00 FVG M0160 (2 Teaching hours per week)
Maria Lujan Garcia