Dipl.-Geol. Oliver Rach
Contact
University of Potsdam,
Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
Dipl.-Geol. Oliver Rach
Building 27, Room 2.36
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
- E-mail:
- rach@geo.uni-potsdam.de
- Phone:
- +49 331 977 5858
- Fax:
- +49 331 977 5700
- Biography
- Research
- Publications
Biography
- Jan 2012
- Young Scientist's Travel Award (YSTA) for EGU 2012
- May 2010
- Starting PhD-Thesis at the University of Potsdam in organic geochemistry
- February 2010
- Degree "Diplom Geologe" at the University of Potsdam
- May 2009
- Starting Diploma-Thesis "Mid Holocene high-resolution reconstruction of climate and environmentally conditions based on warved sediments of Meerfelder Maar, Germany"
- Feb, March, April 2008
- Geological-mapping Rosguill Peninsula, Ireland: "Geological history of the Metasedimentary rocks and magmatites of the Dalradian-supergroup in north-west Ireland"
- 2006 - 2010
- Student-assistant at German research Centre for Geosciences (Dt. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam)
Research
In view of future development of the climate and the importance for human life, it is necessary to comprehend the climate forcing mechanisms. Especially changes in the hydrological part can be crucial for life-supporting or hostile conditions for regions all over the world.
The key for decryption of climate forcing mechanisms is the reconstruction of the climate of the past. In this context paleoclimate research with stable isotopes (Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon) plays a leading role.
In my current research I am doing a high-resolution analysis on stable Hydrogen isotopes ratios (H/D) of n-alkanes to reconstruct the paleoclimate conditions for certain periodes of the lateglacial and Holocene in Europe based on lake sediments.
Publications
Abstracts
Rach, O., Brauer, A., Wilkes, H., Sachse, D., 2011. A high-resolution paleohydrological record of the Younger Dryas episode from Western Europe – using lipid biomarker D/H ratios. Mineralogical Magazine, Volume 75, Number 3, 1685, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2011. (Talk/Abstract)
Biography
- Jan 2012
- Young Scientist's Travel Award (YSTA) for EGU 2012
- May 2010
- Starting PhD-Thesis at the University of Potsdam in organic geochemistry
- February 2010
- Degree "Diplom Geologe" at the University of Potsdam
- May 2009
- Starting Diploma-Thesis "Mid Holocene high-resolution reconstruction of climate and environmentally conditions based on warved sediments of Meerfelder Maar, Germany"
- Feb, March, April 2008
- Geological-mapping Rosguill Peninsula, Ireland: "Geological history of the Metasedimentary rocks and magmatites of the Dalradian-supergroup in north-west Ireland"
- 2006 - 2010
- Student-assistant at German research Centre for Geosciences (Dt. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam)
Research
In view of future development of the climate and the importance for human life, it is necessary to comprehend the climate forcing mechanisms. Especially changes in the hydrological part can be crucial for life-supporting or hostile conditions for regions all over the world.
The key for decryption of climate forcing mechanisms is the reconstruction of the climate of the past. In this context paleoclimate research with stable isotopes (Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon) plays a leading role.
In my current research I am doing a high-resolution analysis on stable Hydrogen isotopes ratios (H/D) of n-alkanes to reconstruct the paleoclimate conditions for certain periodes of the lateglacial and Holocene in Europe based on lake sediments.
Publications
Abstracts
Rach, O., Brauer, A., Wilkes, H., Sachse, D., 2011. A high-resolution paleohydrological record of the Younger Dryas episode from Western Europe – using lipid biomarker D/H ratios. Mineralogical Magazine, Volume 75, Number 3, 1685, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2011. (Talk/Abstract)