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Dr. Tomas Feseker

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This web page has not been updated since the former colleague left MARUM.

Research interests

  • Analysis and modeling of complex dynamic transpot processes in geosystems
  • Fluid flow, heat transfer and solute transport in biogeochemical processes
  • Heat flow measurements at cold seeps, mud volcanoes, and gas hydrate occurrences
  • Design of new tools for in situ measurements and sea floor observatories
  • Monitoring and interpretation of sea floor deformation

Research experience

Since 12/2010Member of the MARUM
Since 11/2010Research scientist and lecturer at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen
06/2007 - 10/2010Research scientist at IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
05/2010Research scientist at the MPI for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany
11/2005 - 05/2007Research scientist at the IFREMER in Brest, France
05/2004 - 11/2005Research scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany
08/2000 - 01/2001Guest scientist at the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) in Lisbon, Portugal
2000 - 2004PhD student at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen

Teaching interests

  • Geology and hydrogeology
  • Scientific programming and numerical modeling

Teaching experience

  • Gas hydrates: formation, detection, relevance
  • Introduction to scientific programming
  • Introduction to modeling in geosciences
  • Methods of geophysical exploration: gravimetry
  • Fluid flow at mud volcanoes (ECORD Summer School 2011)
  • Marine heat flow measurements (ECORD Summer School 2011)

Current projects

  • MARUM CCP4: Episodicity of mud volcanic activity
  • Formation and dissociation of gas hydrate in relation to tectonic processes and climate change in the accretionary prism off SW Taiwan
  • Heat flow, mud volcanism and gas hydrates in the Kumano Basin, Nankai Trough