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Research Group Paleooceanography and climate


Dr. Thomas Blanz


Institute of Geosciences,
Dep. Geology
University of Kiel

Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 10
D-24118 Kiel, Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)431 880 2095
Fax.: +49 (0)431 880 1912
E-mail: tbl[@]gpi.uni-kiel.de

Room #16


Research interests

  • organic geochemistry
  • biomarker research
  • anthropogenic pollutants

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Study areas

  • Baltic Sea /Skagerrak
  • North Atlantic
  • Pacific
  • Indian Ocean

POET (within SPP 1266)

Spatial Variations of the Phaseshift between Ocean Surface Warming, Evaporation and Changes of Continental Ice Volume at Terminations I and II.

Institute of Geosciences (Kiel University) and IfM-Geomar.

2007-2010

  • 2000-2003:   BMBF-Projekt "Stratigraphie und Geochemie holozäner Sedimentserien aus dem Skagerrak als Klimaindikatoren im Ostseeraum", Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde
  • 1996-2000:   BMBF-Projekt "JGOFS - Joint Global Ocean Flux Studies", Institut für Meereskunde Kiel
  • 1996:    DFG-Projekt "Rekonstruktion der Bildungsbedingungen an Sapropelen im Mittelmeer", Ocean Drilling Project (ODP), Institut für Ost­seeforschung Warnemünde
  • 1993-1995: EU-Projektes "ODER" (Oder-Dis­charge-Environmental-Response), Geo­logisch-Paläontologisches Institut an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
  • 1992: BMFT-Projekt "Bodenwirksamkeit des Overflow und Konturit-Sedimentation am Island-Faröer-Rücken", Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

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Curriculum vitae

seit 2005

Scientist

at Kiel University, Germany


2000-2004Scientist

at the Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde, Germany

1996-2000

Scientist

at the Institute for Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany

1996

Scientist

at the Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde, Germany

15/11/1995

PhD

at Kiel University, Germany

1993-1995

PhD student 

at Kiel University, Germany

1985-1992

Studies of Geology/ Paleontology

at Kiel University, Germany

1980-1985

Studies of Chemistry

at Hamburg University, Germany


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Mentoring

  • Johan Etourneau: "Nitrogen cycling in lower-latitude upwelling systems related to Plio-Pleistocene climate change", Dissertation
  • Elfi Mollier-Vogel: "Centennial to millennial scale climate change and low-latitude oxygen minimum condition", Dissertation
2009
  • Etourneau, J., Martinez, P., Blanz, T., and Schneider, R. 2009. Pliocene–Pleistocene variability of upwelling activity, productivity, and nutrient cycling in the Benguela region. Geology 37; no. 10; p. 871–874; doi: 10.1130/G25733A.
  • Khélifi, N., Sarnthein, M., Andersen, N., Blanz, T., Frank, M., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Haley, B.A., Stumpf, R., and Weinelt, M. 2009. A major and long-term Pliocene intensification of the Mediterranean outflow, 3.5–3.3 Ma ago.  Geology 37; no. 9; p. 811–814; doi: 10.1130/G30058A.
2008
  • Dähnke, K., Serna A., Blanz, T., and Emeis, K.-C. 2008. Sub-recent nitrogen-isotope trends in sediments from Skagerrak (North Sea) and Kattegat: Changes in N-budgets and N-sources? Mar. Geol. 253, 92-98. 
until 2007
  • Antia A.N., Koeve W., Fischer G., Blanz T., Schulz-Bull D., Scholten J., Neuer S., Kremling K., Kuss J., Peinert R., Hebbeln D., Bathmann U., Conte M., Fehner U. and Zeitzschel B. (2001): Basin-wide particulate carbon flux in the Atlantic Ocean: Regional export patterns and potential for atmospheric CO2 sequestration. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 15: No. 4, 845-862.
  • Blanz T. (1992): Sedimentologische und sedimentphysikalische Eigenschaften holozäner Sediment­kerne aus der Alkor- und der Littorina-Tiefe / nördliches Kattegat. Meyniana 44: 77-95.
  • Blanz T., Moros M. and Trebstein U. (1993): Physical properties of the sediments. Meeresw. Berichte Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde, 5: 52-55.
  • Blanz T. (1994): Fluxes and rates of organochlorine compounds and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in the river outflow and the transport into the southern Baltic Sea.- Dynamik globaler Kreis­läufe im System Erde, Bericht Nr. 1 des Graduiertenkollegs der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: S. 43-46.
  • Blanz T. (1995): Dokumentation und Massenbilanz des Chlorbiphenyl-Eintrags der Oder in die Süd­pommersche Bucht. Berichte Institut für Meereskunde Kiel 277, 101 S.
  • Blanz T., Emeis K.-C., Petrick G. and Schulz-Bull D. (1997): Bilanzierung und Quantifizierung des Chlorbiphenyl-Eintrages in das Oderhaff. Meyniana 49: 47-58.
  • Blanz T., Schulz-Bull D., Emeis K.-C., Petrick G. and Duinker J.C. (1999): Chlorobiphenyls in suspension and sediment of the southern Baltic Sea: a mass balance calculation since the onset of PCB-production. Continental Shelf Research 19: 891-910.
  • Blanz T., Emeis K.-C. and Siegel H. (2005): Controls on alkenone unsaturation ratios along the salinity gradient between the open ocean and the Baltic Sea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69 (14): 3589-3600.
  • Conte M.H., Sicre A., Rühlemann C., Weber J.C.,. Schulz-Bull D. and Blanz T. (2006): Global temperature calibration of the alkenone unsaturation index (UK´37) in surface waters and comparison with surface sediments. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,. 7(2): 1-22. Paper number 2005GC001054.
  • Emeis K.-C. and Blanz T. (1995): Sedimentology and organic geochemistry.- Interim report in EC Environment Programme: Area 1, Topic I. 6: Biogeochemical Cycles and Ecosystem Dynamics PL 910398: 69-100.
  • Emeis K.-C., Struck U., Blanz T., Kohly A. and Voss M. (2003): Salinity changes in the central Baltic Sea (NW Europe) over the last 10.000 years. The Holocene 13, 3: 413-423.
  • Rosell-Melé A., Bard E., Emeis K.-C., Grimalt J.O., Müller P., Schneider R., Bouloubassi I., Epstein B., Fahl K., Fluegge A., Freeman K., Goñi M., Güntner U., Hartz D., Hellebust S.. Herbert T., Ikehara M., Ishiwatari R., Kawamura K., Kenig F., de Leeuw J., Lehman S., Ohkouchi N., Pancost R.D., Pelejero C., Prahl F., Quinn J., Rontani J.-F., Rostek F., Rullkötter J., Sachs J., Blanz T., Sawada K., Schulz-Bull D., Sikes E., Sonzogni C., Ternois Y., Versteegh G., Volkman J. and S. Wakeham (2001): Precision of the current methods to measure alkenone relative (Uk´37) and absolute abundance in sediments: results of an inter-laboratory comparison study (2001). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2, Paper number 2000GC000141.
  • Scholten J.C., Scott S.D., Garbe-Schönberg D., Fietzke J., Blanz T. and Kennedy C.B. (2004): Hydrothermal iron and manganese crusts from the Pitcairn hot spot region. In: R. Hekinian, P. Stoffers, J.L. Cheminée (Eds.): Oceanic Hot Spots. S. 373-404. Springer Verlag.
  • Scholten J.C., Fietzke J., Mangini A., Stoffers P., Rixen T., Gaye-Haake B., Blanz T., Ramaswamy V., Sirocko F., Schulz H. and Ittekkot V. (2005): Radionuclide fluxes in the Arabian Sea: the role of particle composition. Earth Planetary Sciences Letters 230: 319-337.
  • Waniek J.J., Schulz-Bull D., Blanz T., Prien R.D., Oschlies A. and Müller T. (2005): Interannual variability of deep water particle flux in relation to production and lateral sources in the northeast Atlantic. Deep Sea Research I 52: 33-50.
  • Waniek J.J., Schulz-Bull D., Kuss J. and Blanz T. (2005): Long-time series of deep water particle flux in three biogeochemical provinces of the northeast Atlantic. Journal of Marine systems, 56: 391-415.

 

 

2009

F.S. Meteor, M-78/1

Colon-Port of Spain

Karibik, OPOKA

2008

F.S. Meteor, M-77/2

Lima-Guayaquil

Pazifik, SFB 754

2008

F.S. Meteor, M-75/1

Durban-Kapstadt

Indik, WINOCS

2006

F.S. Sonne, SO-188/1

Singapore-Cittagong

Indik, Bengal Sea Level

2004

F.S. Penck, 40/04/13

 Warnemünde

Skagerrak 

2003

F.S. Poseidon, POS-297

Las Palmas-Portimao

Atlantik, Kiel 276

2002

F.S. Poseidon, POS-283

Ponta Delgada-Las Palmas

Atlantik

2002

F.S. Poseidon, POS-282

Kiel

Skagerrak

2001

F.S. Poseidon, POS-268

Las Palmas

Atlantik

2000

F.S. Alkor, Alk-159

Kiel

Skagerrak

1999

F.S. Poseidon, POS-255-2/3

Halifax-Bermuda-Brest

Atlantik

1998

F.S. Sonne, SO-134

Fidschi-Auckland

Pazifik

1997

F.S. Poseidon

Reykjavik-Galway

Atlantik

1996

F.S. Bornhöft

Ueckermünde

Oderhaff

1996

F.S. Poseidon

Warnemünde

Gotland See

1995

F.K. Littorina

Kiel

Ostsee

1994

F.S. Penk, 40/94/23

Warnemünde

Oderhaff, ODER

1994

F.S. Alkor, Alk-63

Kiel

Ostsee, ODER 

1993

F.S. Alkor, Alk-55

Kiel

Ostsee, ODER

1993

F.K. Littorina

Kiel

Greiswalder Bodden, ODER 

1993

F.S. Bornhöft

Ueckermünde

Oderhaff, ODER

1993

F.S. Poseidon, POS-199

Kiel

Ostsee, ODER

1992

F.S. Sonne, SO-82

Reykjavik-Bremerhaven

Nordatlantik

1990

F.S. Poseidon, POS-179/180

Kiel

Kattegat

1989

F.S. Poseidon, POS-170

Kiel

Ostsee

1988

F.S. Poseidon, POS-144

Kiel

Kattegat

1988

F.S. Meteor, M-7/2

Tromsö

Barent See

1987

F.S. Sonne, SO-52

Singapore-Mauritius

Indik

1987

W.F.S. Planet

Kiel-Bergen

Nordatlantik

 

 

 

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Teaching

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