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Dr.
Birgit Plessen
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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
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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