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Dr. Birgit Plessen

Birgit Plessen

Dr. Birgit Plessen

Group Leader

Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution

Telegrafenberg

Building C, Room 327

14473 Potsdam

+49 331 288-1482

+49 331 288-1302

birgit.plessen@gfz-potsdam.de

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4807-6357

Function and Responsibilities:

Group leader stable isotopes (sediments and water)

Research Interests:

Elementgeochemistry
Light stable isotopes in sediments
Stable isotopes and trace element geochemistry in speleothems
Nitrogen cycle
Paleoclimate Central Asia

Career:

2017 - Group leader stable isotopes (sediments and water)
since 2015 - lecture "Stable Isotopes" UNI Potsdam
2015 - Set up of a laboratory for water isotopes
2005 - Methods development
2004 - Extension of the stable isotope laboratory
2003 - Change to section Paleoclimatology
2000 - 2003 Configuration of a stable isotope laboratory (Inorganic/Organic Geochemistry)
1996 - 1999 PostDoc, section Inorganic Geochemistry
1992 - 1995 PhD at the GFZ, section Inorganic Geochemistry
1986 - 1991 Scientist at the ZIPE, Geochemistry

Education:

12/1995 Ph.D, University Gießen "Geochemische Signaturen der Metasedimente des erzgebirgischen Krustenstapels"
11/1986 Diplom in Geology, Bergakademie Freiberg
06/1979 Technical assistant, Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde

Projects:

CLEAR

Central Asian Global Change Observatory GCO-CA

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