Congratulations!
Posted by Dr. Wenyan Zhang, Department Sediment Transport and Morphodynamics
On November 30, Lucas Porz successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Morphodynamics and Morphological Development of Shelf Mud Depocenters”.
Lucas did his research project at the Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling, supervised by Prof. Corinna Schrum and Dr. Wenyan Zhang.
Coastal and continental shelf mud depocenters represent an important sink for continent-derived material during modern sea level highstand conditions. They serve as habitat for benthic life and store large quantities of organic carbon, nutrients, and contaminants. Despite of their important role in the global source-to-sink connection and ecosystem functioning, their formation dynamics as well as the particular natural and anthropogenic drivers that shape their morphology remain poorly understood. In the PhD thesis, Lucas investigated physical processes involved in shelf mud sedimentation, and presented a modeling methodology to bridge the knowledge gap in understanding morphological evolution of mud depocenters from events to longer time scale.
After his PhD defense, Lucas will continue to work in the Department of Sediment Transport and Morphodynamics as a postdoc to further his investigation on the capacity of mud depocenters (case study North Sea) in carbon sequestration supported by the BMBF project APOC (Anthropogenic impacts on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea). Some more information about the importance of mud.
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