Mr David Haberlah

Biography/ Background

2009- CO2CRC Research Fellow – modelling carbon dioxide geological storage at the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies

2006-2009 EIPRS PhD Scholar – PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, studying the complex response behaviour of fluvial systems to late Pleistocene loess deposition in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia)

2005 H.U.N.E. Researcher – Anthropologist for the Humboldt-University Nubian Expedition documenting the cultural landscape of the Manasir tribe at the 4th Nile cataract, Sudan)

2002-2003 ACACIA Research Assistant – Remote Sensing and GIS data analyses, mapping, geoarchaeological field work for the Collaborative Research Centre Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin)

Qualifications

2009 (PhD submitted) – Geology, University of Adelaide

2004 Diplom (MSc) – Geography (Geology, Islamic Social Sciences), Free University of Berlin

1999 Vordiplom (BSc) – Geography (Geology, Soil Sciences, Water Resources Management), Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

Research Interests

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) – pore-level to basin-scale modelling of CO2 geological storage

Advanced regolith/reservoir rock characterisation – high-resolution Particle-Size Analysis, quantitative mineral spectroscopy, carbon isotope geochemistry

Mud aggregation – parametric decomposition of minimally- vs. fully-dispersed Particle-Size Distributions, dispersion techniques, digital disaggregation (QEMSCAN® field scans)

Quaternary dating – AMS radiocarbon dating, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, age models

Australian loess – characteristics, provenance, distribution, formation, post-depositional processes

Neolithic Sahara – settlement and migration patterns, Wadi Howar

Dar al-Manasir – culture and resettlement of the Manasir tribe

Publications

Refereed papers

Haberlah, D. 2009. Loess and floods: late Pleistocene fine-grained valley-fill deposits in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Unpublished PhD thesis, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide (in submission).

Haberlah, D., Williams, M.A.J., Halverson, G., Hrstka, T., Butcher, A.R., McTainsh, G.H., Hill, S.M., Glasby, P. 2010. Loess and floods: high-resolution multi-proxy data of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) slackwater deposition in the Flinders Ranges, semi-arid South Australia, Quaternary Science Reviews, (in revision).

Haberlah, D., McTainsh, G.H. 2009. Quantifying particle aggregation in sediments, Sedimentology, (in revision).

Haberlah, D., Glasby P., Williams M.A.J., Hill S.M., Williams F., Rhodes E.J., Gostin V., O’Flanery A., Jacobsen G.E. 2009. 'Of droughts and flooding rains': an alluvial loess record from central South Australia spanning the last glacial cycle. In: Bishop, P. & Pillans, B. (eds) 2009, Australian Landscapes. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, (in press).

Haberlah, D. 2008. Response to Smalley's discussion of 'A call for Australian loess'. Area 40.1, 135-136.

Haberlah D. 2007: A call for Australian loess. Area 39.2, 224-229.

Haberlah, D. 2007: Cultural Landscape of Dar al-Manasir. Meroitica 15, 159-178.

Haberlah, D. 2007: Depositional models of late Pleistocene fine-grained valley-fill deposits in the Flinders Ranges, SA. In: Fitzpatrick, R.W., & Shand, P. (eds) 2007, Regolith 2006—Consolidation and dispersion of ideas. Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration, Perth, 122-126.

Haberlah, D. 2005. Satellite Worksheet Series 1:250.000 of Sudan. In: GRAS Annual Report 2004, Geological Research Authority of the Sudan, Ministry of Energy and Mining.

Haberlah, D., von dem Bussche, J. 2005. Das Dorf Atoyah auf der Insel Sherari. Wandel der Siedlungsstruktur im Dar al Manasir. Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 16, 125-135.

Haberlah, D. 2004. "GPS-Onscreen-Navigation" als Möglichkeit der Datenerhebung und qualitativen Analyse im Gelände - Ein Erfahrungsbericht. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie 5-6.1, 401-410.
 

Conference abstracts

Haberlah, D., Dosseto, A., Butcher, A.R., Hrstka, T. 2009. South Australian loess-palaeosol sequences spanning the last glacial cycle. (19th World Congress of Soil Science, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1-6 August 2010)

Haberlah, D., Botha, P.W.S.K., Cinar, Y., Dobrzinski, N., Daniel, R., Brugger, J., Dance, T., Butcher, A.R., Kaldi, J. 2010. Quantifying the impact of CO2 injection on a deep saline formation in Otway Basin, Australia. (AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., 11–14 April 2010)

Dobrzinski, N., Haberlah, D., Bunch, M., Holl, S., Ainsworth, B., Mokler, S., Kaldi, J. 2010. Modeling geological storage of CO2: A workflow perspective. (AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., 11–14 April 2010)

Dobrzinski, N., Haberlah, D., Daniel, R., Brugger, J., Dance, T., Butcher, A.R., Botha, P.W.S.K., Kaldi, J. 2009. Integrating Automated Mineralogy and conventional petrological analyses to improve reservoir characterization. (AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., 11–14 April)

Haberlah, D., Botha, P.W.S.K., Cinar, Y., Dobrzinski, N., Dance, T., Butcher, A.R. 2009. Quantifying the impact of CO2 injection on the pore-level characteristics of the Paaratte Formation, Otway Basin. (CO2CRC Research Symposium 2009, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, 1–3 December)

Dobrzinski, N., Haberlah, D., Daniel, R., Dance, T., Butcher, A.R., Botha, P.W.S.K. 2009. Pore-level characterisation of the deep saline Paaratte Formation by Automated Mineralogy and conventional petrological analyses. (CO2CRC Research Symposium 2009, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, 1–3 December)

Dobrzinski, N., Haberlah, D., Bunch, M., Holl, S., Ainsworth, B., Mockler, S. 2009. CCS modelling workflow: new aspects, emphases and knowledge gaps. (CO2CRC Research Symposium 2009, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, 1–3 December)

Bunch, M., Haberlah, D., Dobrzinski, N., Holl, S., Ainsworth, B., Vidal-Gilbert, S., Field, B. 2009. Defining geological systems for CO2 storage – characterisation and modelling. (SPE Technical Forum on CCS, Cadiz, Spain, 13-18 September 2009)

Haberlah, D., Cohen, T., Butcher, A.R., Hrstka, T. 2009. Last glacial dust cycles in South Australia: employing advanced automated mineralogy and sediment-size analyses in the study of provenance, transport and depositional palaeo-environments (15th International Joint Seminar on the Regional Deposition Processes in the Atmosphere (RDPA) and Climate Change, 12-14 November 2009, Taipei, Taiwan)

Haberlah, D., Williams, M.A.J., Hill, S.M., Halverson, G., Suto, A., Glasby, P., Butcher, A.R., Hrstka, T. 2009. The Flinders Silts: a last glacial alluvial loess record from South Australia (7th International Conference on Geomorphology 2009)

Haberlah, D., Hill, S.M., Strong, C., Butcher, A.R., McTainsh, G.H.,  Hrstka, T. 2009. Dust fingerprinting in regolith: an integrated high-resolution parametric particle-size analysis quantitative spectral mineralogy approach (7th International Conference on Geomorphology 2009)

Haberlah, D., Williams, M.A.J., Hill, S.M., Halverson, G., Glasby, P. 2007. A terminal Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) loess-derived palaeoflood record from South Australia? Quaternary International 167-168, 15.

 

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 3 Nov 2009