Sedimentary Systems

Student projects

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Ongoing research projects

• Metals for life – tracking bioessential metal exchange between cells and their environment. Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation NERD programme from 2025 to 2031 (Prof. T. W. Dahl).
• Natural Carbon Dioxide Removal from a high-CO₂ atmosphere. Funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) Project 2 from 2024 to 2028 (Prof. T. W. Dahl).
• Constraining rates in Earth’s sedimentary archives from their genetic history. Funded by the VILLUM Data Synergy[TWD1]  Programme from 2024 to 2028. (Prof. T. W. Dahl and K. Mosegaard, NBI University of Copenhagen).
• LOCRETA – consortium for Lower Cretaceous reservoir analysis (funded by DHRTC, in collaboration with DTU, Århus University and GEUS)
• Paleoceanographic modelling - a source rock play mapping tool in frontier basins. DONG Energy, 5 MDKK
• JET - Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale. International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), 10.5 MDKK. In collaboration with Exeter, UK, and many international institutions.

Recent research projects

• C3 – Centre for Cross-disciplinary Chalk Research – Maersk Oil & IGN, 15 MDKK (with SNM)
• Deep Geothermal energy in Denmark (L.O. Boldreel)
• Source rocks in time and space with emphasis on ocean modeling of event intervals in the Cretaceous at high northern latitudes.  DONG Energy, 2 MDKK.
• Nordic Center for Earth System Science. Danish National Research Foundation, 50 MDKK. (with SDU, Co-PI C. J. Bjerrum)
• Cycling in the Plastisphere: the biogeochemical fate of marine (micro)plastics (VILLUM Young Investigator Group)

Non-academic

• DHRTC
• GEUS
• SNM
• INEOS (formerly DONG)
• Ørsted, Jardfengi (Geological Survey of Faroe Islands)
• Vietnames Petroleum Institute

Academic

• Prof. A. Dickson, Royal Holloway University London
• Prof. C. Junium, University of Syracuse
• Prof. F. Zhang, Nanjing University
• Prof. B. Cramer, Univ Iowa
• Prof. K. Kvashnina, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR)
• NordCEE
• JET - Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale.
• International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
• Many universities around the world: AU, SDU, DTU, Lund, Frankfurt, Lausanne, Bourgogne, Paris 6, Lisboa, Oxford, Exeter, Kingston, Portsmouth, Princeton, Texas, Nebraska-Lincoln, Rutgers, AMNH, Ben Gurion, Haifa, Sfax