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CRM-geothermal Database: Geoscientific and Geochemical Data on Geothermal Systems, with Emphasis on Fluids and Critical Raw Materials in Europe and Eastern Africa

The CRM-geothermal database was created within the Horizon Europe CRM-geothermal project (Grant Agreement No. 101058163) to support the assessment of geothermal systems as sources of both renewable energy and critical raw materials (CRMs). The primary purpose of data collection was to compile, harmonise, and make openly available geoscientific and geochemical data relevant to the occurrence, enrichment, and potential co-production of CRMs from geothermal environments in Europe and East Africa. The database integrates legacy data compiled from peer-reviewed literature, national geological and geothermal databases, and previous European research projects (notably REFLECT), together with new data generated by project partners through field sampling and laboratory analyses. Sampling campaigns targeted geothermal wells and surface manifestations in selected regions, including Türkiye, the East African Rift (Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi), Cornwall (UK), and Iceland. Laboratory analyses include major ion chemistry, trace and critical element concentrations, mineralogical composition, and gas data, determined using methods such as ICP-MS, XRF, and XRD. All records were harmonised using a unified metadata schema, standardised units, and consistent reporting formats. Quality control involved automated validation routines and manual expert review. Each record includes spatial coordinates, sampling context, analytical method, references, and a quality flag indicating data origin and traceability. The database is provided as a structured Excel file and contains interconnected datasets on geothermal wells, fluids, rocks, gases, and mineral precipitates. In total, the dataset comprises 9,773 records covering a wide range of geological settings, from volcanic and metamorphic systems to sedimentary basins. The CRM-geothermal database is FAIR-aligned, openly available, and intended for reuse in geothermal research, resource assessment, and studies on the sustainable co-production of geothermal energy and critical raw materials. Method: The CRM-geothermal database was compiled using a combined approach integrating literature-based data collection, database harmonisation, and new data generation through field sampling and laboratory analysis. Legacy data were collected from peer-reviewed scientific publications, national geological and geothermal databases, technical reports, and previous European research projects, with a particular emphasis on the REFLECT project. Relevant parameters were manually extracted, digitised where necessary, and cross-checked against original sources to ensure consistency and traceability. New data were generated within the CRM-geothermal project through targeted sampling campaigns at selected geothermal sites in Europe and Eastern Africa. Samples of geothermal fluids, rocks, gases, and mineral precipitates were collected from wells and surface manifestations following standard geochemical sampling protocols. Laboratory analyses were performed by project partner institutions using established analytical techniques, including inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) for trace and critical elements, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for bulk chemical composition, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) for mineralogical characterisation. Gas compositions were determined using gas chromatography and noble gas mass spectrometry where applicable. Detection limits and analytical uncertainties follow laboratory-specific standards and are documented where available. All data were harmonised using a unified metadata schema. Units, parameter names, and reporting formats were standardised, and spatial information was converted to WGS 84 decimal degrees. Quality control was applied through automated validation scripts checking metadata completeness, coordinate validity, and numerical plausibility, followed by manual expert review to ensure scientific coherence and correct sample attribution. The final dataset was organised into interconnected thematic tables (wells, fluids, rocks, gases, and scales) and exported as a structured Excel file for dissemination. Each record includes references, analytical method information, and a quality flag indicating data origin and traceability. Technical Info: The CRM-geothermal data publication is provided as a structured multi-sheet Excel (XLSX) file representing a curated snapshot of the CRM-geothermal database at the time of publication. The dataset was generated through controlled export workflows following data validation and harmonisation. The Excel file contains separate worksheets for thematic data tables (wells, fluids, rocks, gases, and mineral precipitates). Each worksheet preserves unique identifiers, standardised metadata fields, and cross-references between related records, allowing the dataset to be used independently of any external system or software platform.

Carbon, water and nutrient dynamics in vascular plant- vs. Sphagnum-dominated bog ecosystems in southern Patagonia

In bog ecosystems, vegetation controls key processes such as the retention of carbon, water and nutrients. In northern hemispherical bogs, a shift from Sphagnum- to vascular plant-dominated vegetation is often traced back to Climate Change and increased anthropogenic nitrogen deposition and coincides with substantially reduced capacities in carbon, water and nutrient retention. In southern Patagonia, bogs dominated by Sphagnum and vascular plants coexist since millennia under similar environmental settings. Thus, South Patagonian bogs may serve as ideal examples for the long-term effect of vascular plant invasion on carbon, water and nutrient balances of bog ecosystems. The contemporary balances of carbon and water of both a bog dominated by Sphagnum and vascular plants are determined by CO2- H2O and CH4 flux measurements and an estimation of lateral water losses as well as losses via dissolved organic and inorganic carbon compounds. The high time resolution of simultaneous eddy covariance measurements of CO2 and H2O in both bog types and the strong interaction between climatic variables and the physiology of bog plants allow for direct comparisons of carbon and water fluxes during cold, warm, dry, wet, cloudy or sunny periods. By the combination with leaf-scale measurements of gas exchange and fluorescence, plant-physiological controls of photosynthesis and transpiration can be identified. Long-term peat accumulation rates will be determined by carbon density and age-depth profiles including a characterization of peat humification characteristics. A reciprocal transplantation experiment with incorporated shading, liming and labeled N addition treatments is conducted to explore driving factors affecting competition between Sphagnum and vascular plants as well as the interactions between CO2-, CH4-, and water fluxes and decisive plant functional traits affecting key processes for carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling. Decomposition rates and driving below ground processes are analyzed with a litter bag field experiment and an incubation experiment in the laboratory.

Wasserbuch Flächengebiet Festsetzung

Bei den Wasserbucheinträgen zur Flächengebietsfestsetzung handelt es sich u.a. um folgende wasserrechtliche Tatbestände: Wasserschutzgebiete gemäß § 51 WHG i.V.m. § 46 SächsWG; Heilquellenschutzgebiete gemäß § 53 WHG i.V.m. § 47 SächsWG; Überschwemmungsgebiete an oberirdischen Gewässern sowie vorläufig gesicherte Überschwemmungsgebiete gemäß § 76 WHG i.V.m. § 72 SächsWG; Risikogebiete gemäß § 74 WHG bzw. überschwemmungsgefährdeter Gebiete gemäß § 75 SächsWG; Hochwasserentstehungsgebiete gemäß § 78d WHG i.V.m. § 76 SächsWG; Festsetzung von Gewässerrandstreifen nach § 38 Abs. 3 WHG i.V.m. § 24 Abs. 4 SächsWG

Wasserbuch Sachsen - WMS-Dienst

Über die Gewässer sind gemäß § 87 WHG - mit Ausnahme von Fällen untergeordneter wasserwirtschaftlicher Bedeutung - Wasserbücher zu führen. In den Wasserbüchern werden auf der Grundlage des Wasserhaushaltsgesetzes in Verbindung mit dem Sächsischen Wassergesetz anlagenbezogene Tatbestände sowie Tatbestände zu Festsetzung von Flächengebieten erfasst. Der Dienst umfasst alle aktuell gültigen Wasserbucheintragungen im Sachsen (Anlagen mit besonderem Schutzbedarf sind nicht enthalten). Er stellt ein reines Informationsmedium für die Öffentlichkeit zu den gemäß § 88 Abs. 2 Sächsisches Wassergesetz eintragungspflichtigen Rechtsverhältnissen dar. Die Eintragungen in das Wasserbuch besitzen keine rechtsbegründende oder rechtsändernde Wirkung, sodass diese für den Bestand und Nachweis von Rechtsverhältnissen nicht maßgebend sind. Im Sinne des § 88 Abs. 5 SächsWG ist die Möglichkeit einer Suche nach personenbezogenen Daten ausgeschlossen. Auskünfte zu bestehenden wasserrechtlichen Bescheiden werden bei Vorliegen eines berechtigten Interesses durch die jeweils zuständige Wasserbehörde erteilt. Die bei den zuständigen Wasserbehörden vorliegenden originären Urkunden (wasserrechtlichen Bescheide) beinhalten die vollumfassenden Informationen zum rechtlichen Tatbestand.

Wasserversorgungsnetz Stadtwerke Winsen (Luhe) GmbH

Das Wasserversorgungsnetz umfasst alle Versorgungs- und Hausanschlussleitungen sowie die Brunnen und das Wasserwerk. Die Daten werden stets aktuell gehalten und können in Form von pdf- oder dxf/dwg-Dateien angefordert werden.

Forest vegetation development in the Bavarian Forest National Park following the 1983 windfall event

In the Bavarian Forest National Park a brief, but intense storm event on 1 August 1983 created large windfall areas. The windfall ecosystems within the protection zone of the park were left develop without interference; outside this zone windfall areas were cleared of dead wood but not afforested. A set of permanent plots (transect design with 10 to 10 m plots) was established in 1988 in spruce forests of wet and cool valley bottoms in order to document vegetation development. Resampling shall take place every five years; up to now it was done in 1993 and 1998. On cleared areas an initial raspberry (Rubus idaeus) shrub community was followed by pioneer birch (Betula pubescens, B. pendula) woodland, a sequence well known from managed forest stands. In contrast to this, these two stages were restricted to root plates of fallen trees in uncleared windfalls; here shade-tolerant tree species of the terminal forest stages established rather quickly from saplings that had already been present in the preceeding forest stand. Soil surface disturbances are identified to be causal to the management pathway of forest development, wereas the untouched pathway is caused by relatively low disturbance levels. The simulation model FORSKA-M is used to analyse different options of further stand development with a simulation time period of one hundred years.

Transformation of organic carbon in the terrestrial-aquatic interface

The overarching goal of our proposal is to understand the regulation of organic carbon (OC) transfor-mation across terrestrial-aquatic interfaces from soil, to lotic and lentic waters, with emphasis on ephemeral streams. These systems considerably expand the terrestrial-aquatic interface and are thus potential sites for intensive OC-transformation. Despite the different environmental conditions of ter-restrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic sites, likely major factors for the transformation of OC at all sites are the quality of the organic matter, the supply with oxygen and nutrients and the water regime. We will target the effects of (1) OC quality and priming, (2) stream sediment properties that control the advective supply of hyporheic sediments with oxygen and nutrients, and (3) the water regime. The responses of sediment associated metabolic activities, C turn-over, C-flow in the microbial food web, and the combined transformations of terrestrial and aquatic OC will be quantified and characterized in complementary laboratory and field experiments. Analogous mesocosm experiments in terrestrial soil, ephemeral and perennial streams and pond shore will be conducted in the experimental Chicken Creek catchment. This research site is ideal due to a wide but well-defined terrestrial-aquatic transition zone and due to low background concentrations of labile organic carbon. The studies will benefit from new methodologies and techniques, including development of hyporheic flow path tubes and comparative assessment of soil and stream sediment respiration with methods from soil and aquatic sciences. We will combine tracer techniques to assess advective supply of sediments, respiration measurements, greenhouse gas flux measurements, isotope labeling, and isotope natural abundance studies. Our studies will contribute to the understanding of OC mineralization and thus CO2 emissions across terrestrial and aquatic systems. A deeper knowledge of OC-transformation in the terrestrial-aquatic interface is of high relevance for the modelling of carbon flow through landscapes and for the understanding of the global C cycle.

The iron-snow regime in Fe-FeS cores: a numerical and experimental approach

In the Earth, the dynamo action is strongly linked to core freezing. There is a solid inner core, the growth of which provides a buoyancy flux that drives the dynamo. The buoyancy in this case derives from a difference in composition between the solid inner core and the fluid outer core. In planetary bodies smaller than the Earth, however, this core differentiation process may differ - Fe may precipitate at the core-mantle boundary (CMB) rather than in the center and may fall as iron snow and initially remelt with greater depth. A chemical stable sedimentation zone develops that comprises with time the entire core - at that time a solid inner core starts to grow. The dynamics of this system is not well understood and also whether it can generate a magnetic field or not. The Jovian moon Ganymede, which shows a present-day magnetic dipole field, is a candidate for which such a scenario has been suggested. We plan to study this Fe-snow regime with both a numerical and experimental approach. In the numerical study, we use a 2D/3D thermo-chemical convection model that considers crystallization and sinking of iron crystals together with the dynamics of the liquid core phase (for the 3D case the influence of the rotation of the Fe snow process is further studied).The numerical calculations will be complemented by two series of experiments: (1) investigations in metal alloys by means of X-ray radioscopy, and (2) measurements in transparent analogues by optical techniques. The experiments will examine typical features of the iron snow regime. On the one hand they will serve as a tool to validate the numerical approach and on the other hand they will yield important insight into sub-processes of the iron snow regime, which cannot be accessed within the numerical approach due to their complexity.

Gemengeanbau von Ackerbohnen und Ölfrüchten

Der Anbau von Ölpflanzen zur Gewinnung von Speiseöl und Energie ist bislang im Organischen Landbau wenig entwickelt. Zum einen mindern Probleme bei der Regulierung von Schaderregern und Unkraut die Wirtschaftlichkeit, zum anderen konkurriert der Anbau von Energiepflanzen um Fläche für die Erzeugung von Lebensmitteln. Der Gemengeanbau leistet einen Beitrag zur Diversifizierung im Ackerbau und lässt Synergie-Effekte zwischen den Gemengepartnern wirksam werden. Eine effizientere Ressourcennutzung, geringere Anfälligkeit gegenüber Schaderregern und reduziertes Unkrautaufkommen können zu höheren Gesamterträgen bzw. Gewinnen je Flächeneinheit führen. Im Hinblick auf diese Aspekte wird untersucht, inwieweit die Ölsaaten Öllein (Linum usitatissimum L.), Saflor (Carthamus tinctorius L.) bzw. Senf (Sinapis alba L.) für den jeweils zeitgleichen Anbau mit Ackerbohnen (Vicia faba L.) geeignet sind. In Abhängigkeit von verschiedenen Standraumzumessungen werden die Erträge und die Konkurrenzverhältnisse um Stickstoff und Wasser bei den jeweiligen Gemengepartnern untersucht,sowie die Ölsaaten hinsichtlich Ölgehalt und Fettsäurezusammensetzung analysiert. Arbeitshypothesen: - Der zeitgleiche Anbau von Ackerbohnen und Ölfrüchten führt zu höheren Gesamterträgen bei nur unwesentlich verminderten Ackerbohnen-Erträgen. - Die hauptsächlich im Bodenraum zwischen den Ackerbohnenreihen freigesetzten Stickstoffmengen werden zur Ertragsbildung der Ölfrüchte effizient genutzt. - Ein weiterer Abstand zwischen Ölfrucht- und Ackerbohnenreihe führt zu geringerer interspezifischer Konkurrenz und durch gleichmäßigere Durchwurzelung des Bodenraumes zur effizienteren Nutzung von bodenbürtig freigesetztem Stickstoff und Wasser. Die Folge sind, verglichen mit engerem Reihenabstand, höhere Ölfruchterträge und nur unwesentlich geringere Ackerbohnen-Kornerträge. - Die Ölfrüchte Saflor, Öllein und Senf nehmen aufgrund ihres Pfahlwurzelsystems Stickstoff auch aus tieferen Bodenschichten auf und senken so das Austragungspotential von bodenbürtig freigesetztem Stickstoff bzw. Stickstoff-Restmengen.

Trophic interactions in the soil of rice-rice and rice-maize cropping systems

Subproject 3 will investigate the effect of shifting from continuously flooded rice cropping to crop rotation (including non-flooded systems) and diversified crops on the soil fauna communities and associated ecosystem functions. In both flooded and non-flooded systems, functional groups with a major impact on soil functions will be identified and their response to changing management regimes as well as their re-colonization capability after crop rotation will be quantified. Soil functions corresponding to specific functional groups, i.e. biogenic structural damage of the puddle layer, water loss and nutrient leaching, will be determined by correlating soil fauna data with soil service data of SP4, SP5 and SP7 and with data collected within this subproject (SP3). In addition to the field data acquired directly at the IRRI, microcosm experiments covering the broader range of environmental conditions expected under future climate conditions will be set up to determine the compositional and functional robustness of major components of the local soil fauna. Food webs will be modeled based on the soil animal data available to gain a thorough understanding of i) the factors shaping biological communities in rice cropping systems, and ii) C- and N-flow mediated by soil communities in rice fields. Advanced statistical modeling for quantification of species - environment relationships integrating all data subsets will specify the impact of crop diversification in rice agro-ecosystems on soil biota and on the related ecosystem services.

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