News
Beamtime at Samba
20.02.2025
Last week, Mareike, Leo and Laurel were at the SAMBA beamline (Soleil synchrotron) to measure solid-phase speciation of As, Fe, and Mn. The data collected will help us better understand As redox chemistry in the presence of Fe and Mn minerals.
Welcome Louisa!
27.01.2025
We welcome Louisa Wolpert to the group! Louisa already joined Yi-Ho and Laurel last summer for 3 weeks of field work at the palsa field site in the Icelandic highlands. Now, she will continue to process the soil cores and porewater samples she collected as part of her MSc thesis. Her focus is on quantifying and characterizing iron and carbon in the thawing permafrost landscapes as part of the Swiss Polar Institute Exploratory Grant ‘Assessing the role of iron minerals as drivers of carbon release during permafrost thaw in the Icelandic highlands‘.
Welcome Neomi!
01.12.2024
We are happy to welcome our newest group member, Neomi Widmer! Neomi completed her MSc at ETH Zurich in Engineering Geology where she studied soil moisture dynamics in a reforestation initiative through geophyiscal monitoring. At UniNE, she will work with co-supervision of Prof. Daniel Hunkeler (Hydrochemistry and Contaminants) to study the impact of managed water table fluctuations on carbon dynamics in mineral-amended agricultural soils in the Seeland.
Laurel recieves a SNSF Starting Grant
22.11.2024
Congratulations to Laurel for success with a SNSF Starting Grant! The project ‘MiMOC: Mineral-Mediated Organic Carbon dynamics in soils and sediments: Advancing understanding from the lab to the field‘ will investigate iron mineral transformations and their impact on carbon dynamics in soils and sediments in both the lab and the field. Read more about it in the links below:
Laurel, Yi-Ho and Mareike attended the 2024 SGM in Basel
09.11.2024
Yi-Ho and Mareike presented their most recent research at the 2024 Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Basel and Laurel gave an invited keynote presentation.
Group hike to Chaumont
19.10.2024
The Environmental Chemistry group and friends hiked to Chaumont; Neuchâtel’s ‘house mountain’. After lunch at the top, the group took the funicular back down to the city to enjoy views over lake Neuchâtel.
