Department Surface Waters - Research and Management
Main Focus
Our main research topics are:
- Elemental cycles in natural waters such as rivers and lakes, sediments and ice
- Physical, biogeochemical and microbial processes and their driving forces
- Anthropogenic forcing and climate change
- Aquatic ecosystem analysis and modelling
- Concepts for sustainable management of natural waters.
Our research covers many different disciplines:
- Applied System Analysis
- Aquatic Geochemistry
- Aquatic Physics
- Biogeochemistry
- Microbial Ecology
- Remote Sensing
- River Restoration
- Sedimentology