Chromium (Cr) is introduced into the environment by several anthropogenic activities. A striking ex-ample is the area around Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where large amounts of Cr-containing wastes have been recently illegally deposited. Hexavalent Cr, a highly toxic and mobile contaminant, is present in significant amounts in these wastes, severely affecting the quality of sur-roundings soils, sediments, and ground waters. The first major goal of this study is to clarify the solid phase speciation of Cr in these wastes and to examine its leaching behavior. X-ray diffraction and synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy techniques will be employed for quantitative solid phase speciation of Cr. Its leaching behavior will be studied in column experiments performed at un-saturated moisture conditions with flow interruptions simulating monsoon rain events. Combined with geochemical modeling, the results will allow the evaluation of the leaching potential and release kinetics of Cr from the waste materials. The second major goal is to investigate the spatial distribution, speciation, and solubility of Cr in the rooting zone of chromate-contaminated soils surrounding the landfills, and to study the suitability of biochar as novel soil amendment for mitigating the deleterious effects of chromate pollution. Detailed field samplings and laboratory soil incubation studies will be carried out with two agricultural soils and biochar from the Kanpur region.
A sequence of three strong (MW 7.2–6.4) and several moderate (MW 4.4–5.7) earthquakes struck the Pamir Plateau and surrounding mountain ranges of Tajikistan, China, and Kyrgyzstan in 2015–2017. With a local seismic network in operation in the Xinjiang province of China since August 2015 (FDSN code 8H; Yuan et al., 2018a), an aftershock network on the Pamir Plateau of Tajikistan since February 2016 (FDSN code 9H; Yuan et al., 2018b), and additional permanent regional seismic stations (FDSN code TJ; PMP International, 2005; XJ network; SEISDMC, 2021), we were able to record the succession of the fore-, main-, and aftershock sequences at local distances with good azimuthal coverage. We here provide P and S body wave arrival times of the 11,784 relocated seismic events and additional arrival times of 18,011 seismic events that could not be located with precision. The ASCII QuakeML files (.xml; https://quake.ethz.ch/quakeml/QuakeML) consist of seismic arrival times, station and network codes, nominal arrival time uncertainties, localization residuals, and corresponding preliminary event locations. The ASCII NonLinLoc Hypocenter-Phase files (.hyp; http://alomax.free.fr/nlloc/ -> Formats -> NLLoc Hypocenter-Phase file) consist of seismic arrival times, station codes, nominal arrival time uncertainties, localization residuals, ray take-off angles and corresponding preliminary event locations.
Die nach dem Einbringen von gebirgsfremden Stoffen in offene, untertaegige Hohlraeume entstehenden Deponie-Koerper werden nach Einstellung der Bergbautaetigkeit (und damit der Wasserhebung) von Tiefenwaessern durchstroemt. Damit ist prinzipiell ein Schadstofftransport auf dem Wasserweg moeglich. Mit unseren laborativen Einrichtungen koennen mit Elutionsversuchen die Durchlaessigkeit und der Schadstoffaustrag verschiedener Rueckstaende unter den geogenen Bedingungen bestimmt werden. Durch Variation der geogenen Parameter und Vorbehandlung der Rueckstaende (Vorverdichtung, Zugabe von Binde mitteln) wird eine positive Beeinflussung des Schadstoffaustrages angestrebt. Durch die Untersuchungen ist eine Beurteilung des Langzeitverhaltens und eine Gefaehrdungsabschaetzung moeglich.
To understand impacts of climate and land use changes on biodiversity and accompanying ecosystem stability and services at the Mt. Kilimanjaro, detailed understanding and description of the current biotic and abiotic controls on ecosystem C and nutrient fluxes are needed. Therefore, cycles of main nutrients and typomorph elements (C, N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, Si) will be quantitatively described on pedon and stand level scale depending on climate (altitude gradient) and land use (natural vs. agricultural ecosystems). Total and available pools of the elements will be quantified in litter and soils for 6 dominant (agro)ecosystems and related to soil greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, N2O, CH4). 13C and 15N tracers will be used at small plots for exact quantification of C and N fluxes by decomposition of plant residues (SP7), mineralization, nitrification, denitrification and incorporation into soil organic matter pools with various stability. 13C compound-specific isotope analyses in microbial biomarkers (13C-PLFA) will evaluate the changes of key biota as dependent on climate and land use. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and leaching losses of nutrients from the (agro)ecosystems and the increase of the losses by conversion of natural ecosystems to agriculture will be evaluated and linked with changing vegetation diversity (SP4), vegetation biomass (SP2), decomposers community (SP7) and plant functional traits (SP5). Nutrient pools, turnover and fluxes will be linked with water cycle (SP2), CO2 and H2O vegetation exchange (SP2) allowing to describe ecosystem specific nutrient and water characteristics including the derivation of full GHG balances. Based on 60 plots screening stand level scale biogeochemical models will be tested, adapted and applied for simulation of key ecosystem processes along climate (SP1) and land use gradients.
Verwertung und schadlose Beseitigung von Sonderabfaellen durch thermische Verfahren. Betrieb von Labor- und Technikumsanlagen zur Abfallverbrennung mit reinem Sauerstoff. Entwicklung einer zweistufigen Wirbelschichtanlage zur Verbrennung fluidisierbarer Produktionsrueckstaende. Entwicklung und praxisnahe Erprobung von on-line- und in-situ-Sensoren zur Emissionskontrolle von polyzyklischen aromatischen Kohlenwasserstoffen (PAH) in Aerosolform. Untersuchungen zum Verhalten von Schadstoffen an Aktivkohlen und Zeolithen bei der trockenen Rauchgasreinigung. Verfestigung von Rueckstaenden aus der Rauchgasreinigung. Pyrolyse von Klaerschlamm und Einsatz des Pyrolysekokses bei der Abwasserreinigung und Behandlung frischer Klaerschlaemme.
Geochemische Fixierung von Schadstoffen in Speichermineralen. Untersuchung der Bildungsbedingungen und Struktur von Erdalkalisilikaten, die als Speichermineral geeignet sein koennen: Synthese und Strukturmodell, das die Ableitung thermodynamischer Daten erlaubt. Ermittlung der Mineralneubildungen bei Verwitterung schadstoffhaltiger Rueckstaende zur Identifikation potentieller Speicherminerale fuer Schadstoffe: Zeitrafferexperimente der Verwitterung von Hochtemperatur-Muellverbrennungsschlacken und Untersuchung der Mineralneubildungen aus schwefelhaltigen Rueckstaenden. Untersuchung der Verwendung von Natriumkarbonatsodalith als technische Base zur Inertisierung.
In structured soils, the interaction of percolating water and reactive solutes with the soil matrix is mostly restricted to the surfaces of preferential flow paths. Flow paths, i.e., macropores, are formed by worm burrows, decayed root channels, cracks, and inter-aggregate spaces. While biopores are covered by earthworm casts and mucilage or by root residues, aggregates and cracks are often coated by soil organic matter (SOM), oxides, and clay minerals especially in the clay illuviation horizons of Luvisols. The SOM as well as the clay mineral composition and concentration strongly determine the wettability and sorption capacity of the coatings and thus control water and solute movement as well as the mass exchange between the preferential flow paths and the soil matrix. The objective of this proposal is the quantitative description of the small-scale distribution of physicochemical properties of intact structural surfaces and flow path surfaces and of their distribution in the soil volume. Samples of Bt horizons of Luvisols from Loess will be compared with those from glacial till. At intact structural surfaces prepared from soil clods, the spatial distribution (mm-scale) of SOM and clay mineral composition will be characterized with DRIFT (Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform) spectroscopy using a self-developed mapping technique. For samples manually separated from coated surfaces and biopore walls, the contents of organic carbon (Corg) and the cation exchange capacity (CEC) will be analyzed and related to the intensities of specific signals in DRIFT spectra using Partial Least Square Regression (PLSR) analysis. The signal intensities of the DRIFT mapping spectra will be used to quantify the spatial distribution of Corg and CEC at these structural surfaces. The DRIFT mapping data will also be used for qualitatively characterizing the small scale distribution of the recalcitrance, humification, and microbial activity of the SOM from structural surfaces. The clay mineral composition of defined surface regions will be characterized by combining DRIFT spectroscopic with X-ray diffractometric analysis of manually separated samples. Subsequently, the spatial distribution of the clay mineral composition at structural surfaces will be determined from the intensities of clay mineral-specific signals in the DRIFT mapping spectra and exemplarily compared to scanning electron microscopic and infrared microscopic analysis of thin sections and thin polished micro-sections. The three-dimensional spatial distribution of the total structural surfaces in the volume of the Bt horizons will be quantified using X-ray computed tomography (CT) analysis of soil cores. The active preferential flow paths will be visualized and quantified by field tracer experiments. These CT and tracer data will be used to transfer the properties of the structural surfaces characterized by DRIFT mapping onto the active preferential flow paths in the Bt horizons.
The dataset contains mean masses of butterfly species and different noctuid moth size classes collected between end of May and beginning of September 2020 using different Malaise traps in three low mountain range regions in Germany: Hunsrueck (National Park Hunsrueck-Hochwald), Spessart (Rhine-Main-Observatory) and Steigerwald. The butterflies were stored in alcohol after their capture and were weighed with a precision scale (0.001 g) after shaking them briefly to remove residual alcohol. Part of the specimen collected was used for DNA-metabarcoding. The other part was deposited in the specimen collection of the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (Trier University of Applied Sciences).
This ocean-bottom seismometer deployment is part of an interdisciplinary project examining the Aurora hydrothermal vent field in an attempt to understand its fluid circulation. A total of 8 ocean bottom seismometers modified for the operation in sea ice covered oceans was deployed around Aurora vent field at the intersection of Gakkel Ridge and Lena Trough in the Fram Strait. The aim of the experiment was to monitor seismicity related to the hydrothermal circulation system and to reveal potentially heat reservoirs devoid of seismicity. The network consisted of 8 DEPAS Lobster type broadband OBS. Instruments were free-fall deployed and spaced by about 5-8 km. Their position at the seafloor is known to within few meters from ultrashort baseline positioning system Posidonia. The OBS recorded continuously at 100 Hz for up to 12 months between end of July 2022 and mid July 2023. One instrument (AUR02) had an unreliable seismometer records due to levelling problems. Skew values were obtained for all stations and ranged between -18 s and 12.3 s. Clock drift in this experiment was partially nonlinear. After the skew correction, a nonlinear time drift for stations AUR02, AUR04, AUR06, AUR08 was determined using noise cross-correlation. A best-fit correction was obtained by using skew-corrected station AUR01 as reference station for stations AUR04 and AUR08, while skew-corrected station AUR03 served as reference for stations AUR02 and AUR06. Station specific phase residuals obtained from a manually picked catalog of 492 events were used to further validate the clock drift corrections. For AUR04 a nonlinear phase residual drift was observed and, subsequently, the applied drift polynomial was manually adjusted to minimize resulting residuals. Waveform data are available from the GEOFON data centre under network code 4V.
GRACE/GRACE-FO Level-3 product based on COST-G RL02 Level-2B products (Dahle & Murböck, 2025) representing Ocean Bottom Pressure (OBP) variations provided at 1° latitude-longitude grids as defined over ocean areas. The OBP grids are provided in NetCDF format containing seven different variables: 1) 'barslv': gravity-based barystatic sea-level pressure 2) 'std_barslv': gravity-based barystatic sea-level pressure standard deviations 3) 'resobp': gravity-based residual ocean circulation bottom pressure 4) 'std_resobp': gravity-based residual ocean circulation bottom pressure standard deviations 5) 'leakage': apparent gravity-based bottom pressure due to continental leakage contained in 'resobp' 6) 'model_ocean': background-model ocean circulation pressure 7) 'model_atmosphere': background-model atmospheric surface pressure These Level-3 products are visualized at GFZ's web portal GravIS (https://gravis.gfz.de). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version History: 14 August 2025: Initial release of the data (Version 0001).
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