Dr Ulrike Schacht

Biography/ Background

1999-2001 OSRAM GmbH - Material Sciences, Chemical Engineering;   2002-2005 Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences - Marine Sediment Diagenesis;   2006 Leibniz Universitaet Hannover - Marine Biogeochemistry;   since 2007 CO2CRC at the ASP - Natural Analogue Studies for Geosequestration (CO2-related Diagenesis) and Assurance Monitoring for CO2-Geosequestration Sites (Geochemistry)

Current Engagements:

guest editor for the Journal of Geochemical Exploration

 

Qualifications

1999 Vordiplom (BSc) - Geoengineering Sciences, Technical University of Berlin;   2001 Diplom (MSc) - Applied Geochemistry, Technical University of Berlin;   2005 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) - Marine Geochemistry, University of Kiel

Teaching Interests

Environmental Monitoring
Introduction to Geological Storage of CO2

Research Interests

Offshore Natural Analogues; CO2-Migration in Natural Analogues; Fluid-Rock Interaction

Sandstone Petrology and Diagenesis;

Inorganic (Sediment, Water) and Organic (Gas) Geochemistry

Marine Sediment Diagenesis

Publications

Olgun N, Duggen S, Croot P, Dietze H, SCHACHT U, Oskarsson N, Siebe C, Auer A (submitted) "Surface ocean iron fertilization: The role of subduction zone and hotspot volcanic ash and fluxes into the Pacific Ocean." Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

SCHACHT U, Wallmann K, Kutterolf S (under review) "The influence of volcanic ash alteration on the REE composition of marine pore waters." Journal of Geochemical Exploration.

Schmidt Mumm A, Brugger J, Zao C, SCHACHT U (under review) "Fluids in geological processes - The present state and future outlook." Journal of Geochemical Exploration.

SCHACHT U (accepted). "Early diagenesis of volcanogenic deep sea sediments." In: Deep Sea Sediments. H. Hueneke and T. Mulder (Eds). Elsevier.

SCHACHT U, Kutterolf S, Bartdorff O, Corrales Cordero E (2008). "Pore water composition of volcanogenic sediments from across the Central American subduction zone." Journal of Geochemical Exploration: doi-10.1016/j.explo.2008.11.035.

Stalker L, Boreham C, Underschultz J, Freifeld B, Perkins E, SCHACHT U, and Sharma S (2008) " Geochemical monitoring at the CO2CRC Otway Project: Tracer injection and reservoir fluid acquisition." Energy Procedia 1, 2119-2125.

SCHACHT U (2008) "CO2-related diagenesis in Tuna Field, Gippsland Basin: A natural analogue study for geosequestration." PESA Special Publications 3: 485-489.

SCHACHT U, Wallmann K, Kutterolf S, Schmidt M (2008). "Volcanogenic sediment-seawater interactions and the geochemistry of pore waters." Chemical Geology 249: 321-338.

Kutterolf S, Diener R, SCHACHT U, Krawinkel H (2008). "Provenance of the Carboniferous Hochwipfel-Formation (Karawanken Mountains, Austria/Slovenia) - Geochemistry versus petrography." Sedimentary Geology 203: 246-266.

Kutterolf S, Freundt A, SCHACHT U, Buerk D, Harders R, Moerz T, Perez W (2008). "The Pacific offshore record of Plinian arc volcanism in Central America: 3. Application to forearc geology." Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 9 (2): doi-10.1029/2007GC001826.

Kutterolf S, Freundt A, Perez W, Moerz T, SCHACHT U, Wehrmann H, Schmincke H-U (2008). "The Pacific offshore record of Plinian arc volcanism in Central America: 1. Along-arc correlations." Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 9 (2): doi-10.1029/2007GC001631.

Duggen S, Croot P, SCHACHT U, Hoffman L (2007). "Subduction zone volcanic ash can fertilize the surface ocean and stimulate phytoplankton growth: Evidence from biogeochemical experiments and satellite data." Geophysical Research Letters 34: L01612.

Kutterolf S, SCHACHT U, Wehrmann H, Freundt A, Moerz T (2006). "Onshore to offshore tephrostratigraphy and marine ash layer diagenesis in Central America." In: Central America - Geology, Resources and Hazards. G. Alvarado and J. Buntschuh (Eds). Lisse-Netherlands, Tokio-Japan, Balkema. 2: 395-423.

Theses
SCHACHT U (2005). "Alteration of volcanic glasses in marine sediments: Laboratory experiments and field studies." PhD-Thesis, University of Kiel: 193.

SCHACHT U (2001) "Chemical recovery of molybdenum out of acidic industrial waste solutions." Master-Thesis, Technical University of Berlin: 46.

Professional Associations

Geologische Vereinigung e.V.

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

 

Entry last updated: Friday, 18 Sep 2009