Dr Ulrike Schacht

Biography/ Background

1999-2001 OSRAM GmbH - Conditioning of Industrial Waste Waters;   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 CO2 Storage and Assurance Monitoring for CO2-storage Sites (Geochemistry)

Qualifications

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

Teaching Interests

Environmental Monitoring
Introduction to the Geological Storage of CO2

Research Interests

Core Flood experiments to study fluid-rock interactions; CO2 Storage; Caprock Systems for CO2 Storage; Environmental Monitoring; Stable Isotopes

Publications

Jenkins C, Cook PJ, Ennis-King J, Underschultz J, Boreham C, Dance T, de Catriat P, Etheridge D, Freifeld B, Hortle A, Kirste D, Paterson L, Pevzner R, SCHACHT U, Sharma S, Stalker L, Urosevic M (2012) "Safe storage and effective monitoring of CO2 in depleted gas fields." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 109(2): 35-41.

Olgun N, Duggen S, Croot P, Dietze H, SCHACHT U, Oskarsson N, Siebe C, Auer A (2011) "Surface ocean iron fertilization: The role of subduction zone and hotspot volcanic ash and fluxes into the Pacific Ocean." Global Biogeochemical Cycles 25: doi-10.1029/2009GB003761.

Hesse R,  SCHACHT U (2011) "Early diagenesis of deep sea sediments." In: H. Hueneke and T. Mulder (Eds), Developments in Sedimentology. Amsterdam-The Netherlands, Elsevier. 63: 557-713.

SCHACHT U, Regan M, Boreham C, Sharma S (2011) "CO2CRC Otway Project - Soil gas baseline and assurance monitoring 2007-2010." Energy Procedia 4: 3346-3353.

Kirste D, Perkins E, Boreham C, Stalker L, SCHACHT U, Underschultz J (2010) "Geochemical monitoring and geochemical modeling of the CO2CRC Otway Project CO2 storage pilot, Victoria, Australia." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(12): A521.

Schmidt Mumm A, Brugger J, SCHACHT U, Zhao C (2010) "Recent advances in  research on fluids in geological processes." Journal of Geochemical Exploration 106: doi-10.1016/j.gexplo.2010.02.009.

SCHACHT U, Wallmann K, Kutterolf S (2010) "The influence of volcanic ash alteration on the REE composition of marine pore waters." Journal of Geochemical Exploration 106: doi-10.1016/j.gexplo.2010.02.006.

Schmidt Mumm A, Brugger J, Zhao C, SCHACHT U (2010) "Fluids in geological processes - The present state and future outlook." Journal of Geochemical Exploration 106: doi-10.1016/j.gexplo.2010.01.005.

Stalker L, Boreham C, Underschultz J, Freifeld B, Perkins E, SCHACHT U, and Sharma S (2009) " Geochemical monitoring at the CO2CRC Otway Project: Tracer injection and reservoir fluid acquisition." Energy Procedia 1: 2119-2125.

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 101: doi-10.1016/j.explo.2008.11.035.

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: G. Alvarado and J. Buntschuh (Eds), Central America - Geology, Resources and Hazards.  Lisse-The 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.

SCHACHT U (1999) "Contaminated site clean-up in the Federal Republic of Germany." Technical University of Berlin.

Professional Associations

Geologische Vereinigung e.V.

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

 

Entry last updated: Thursday, 20 Sep 2012