Profile of the Laboratory

The Laboratory for Physical Geography of the Institute for Geographical Sciences investigates water and solid samples (e.g. suspended loads, soils, sediments, solid rocks etc.). The following aspects are conducted: sample preparation for sedimentological  and palynological investigations

• physical parameters (f.e.determination of grain-size, water content, oven-dry density, magnetic susceptibility etc.)
• chemical parameters (f.e.pH-value, electric conductivity of soil solutions, phosphate concentration etc.)
• determination of the mineralogic composition
• determination and quantification of the element concentration (f.e.  carbon contents (TC, TIC, TOC), nitrogen (TN), sulphurl (TS), heavy metal concentrations (Zn, Pb, Cd, ...), alkaline metals and  alkaline earth metals)

1) Poster for the "Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften 2007". [pdf]

2) Poster for the review of the cluster of excellency TOPOI [pdf]

Employees

Team Leader

Prof. Dr. Brigitta Schütt
Room H153
Tel.: (+49 30) 838 - 70749
Fax.: (+49 30) 838 - 458711
email: brigitta.schuett@fu-berlin.de

Head of Laboratory

Dr. Philipp Hoelzmann
Room B004
Tel.: (+49 30) 838 - 70635
Fax.: (+49 30) 838 - 458711
email: phoe@zedat.fu-berlin.de

technical assistants

Manuela Abendroth
Room B007
Tel.: (+49 30) 838 - 70634
email: manuela.abendroth@fu-berlin.de

Frank Kutz
Rooms KK72 and B002
Tel.: (+49 30) 838 - 70690
email: frank.kutz@fu-berlin.de

Trainees; up to 6 months/a

N.N.
Room B002
Tel.: (+49 30) 838 - 70634