Dr. Mark Zindorf

Project title: 1D Reactive Transport Modelling on Sediments of the Zambezi Deep Sea Fan. # Geochemical analyses and reactive transport modelling to unravel the development of early diagenetic signatures along the Mozambique Margin. # Quantification of Methane production in the past.

ChAOS 2019 Expedition on to Barents Sea # Drilled multi cores and gravity cores in the Framework of the ChAOS project (UK) to assess the effect of climate change on the Arctic Ocean Seafloor # Took sediment and pore-water samples from cores for geochemical analysis

Project title: Reconstructing carbon and nutrient cycling in the northeast Pacific Ocean over the past 15 million years. Analyzed sediments and pore-waters from three IODP sites in the Gulf of Alaska for paleoclimate and early diagenesis with geochemical methods

Nansen Legacy 2018 Expedition to Barents Sea # Drilled piston cores, gravity cores and multi cores for paleoclimate work and to assess the effect of climate change on the Arctic Ocean Seafloor in the Framework of the ChAOS project (UK) # Took sediment and pore-water samples from cores for geochemical analysis

Expedition to Canadian Arctic # Drilled piston cores, gravity cores and box cores to assess preparedness of arctic seafloor for potential oil spill as the initial stage of an international collaboration (GENICE project, University of Calgary) # Took sediment and pore-water samples from the cores for geochemical and microbiological analysis

Expedition to Magallanes region/Chilean Patagonia # Drilled piston cores and gravity cores to attain paleoclimate records # Built a weather station to record annual variations in southern hemispheric westerlies # Analysed CTD and Eh-pH in fjords and lakes # Conducted echo sounding of marine sediments to find drill sites

# Conducted fieldwork at groundwater extraction sites and landfill sites, both drilling and soil sampling # Wrote official meeting reports for clients and internal review # Assessed public procurement offers

# Conducted fieldwork at groundwater extraction sites and landfill sites, both drilling and soil sampling # Wrote official meeting reports for clients and internal review # Assessed public procurement offers

# Evaluated sediment movement in multiple rivers # Tested scientific software for river-dune movement modelling to assist in the software development # Worked collaboratively developing a method to determine grain size of sediments using image processing software

Reconstructing carbon and nutrient cycling in the northeast Pacific Ocean over the past 15 million years

Thesis subject: Paleoreconstruction of coastline evolvement and climate at the southernmost South American Pacific coast

Thesis subject: Clay mineralogy as proxy for changes in paleoclimate of southern Patagonia over the last 60 000 years