The EMR Group forms part of the Department of Geosciences & Geography in the Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. The School of Geosciences with its stream in EMR, Eon ERC
/
Applied
Geophysics
,
Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology and Geomaterials (GeoMat) is the largest university-based Geoscience Group committed to Resources Research in Germany. The EMR Group is further integrated with the Network of Environmental Geochemistry Laboratories Aachen.
The EMR Group offers a wide range of applied research covering basin modeling, carbonate sedimentology, diagenesis, discontinuities (faults, fractures, veins), geomechanics, geochemistry, interface mineralogy, mineral deposits, petrology, petrophysics, salt, seismic interpretation, sequence stratigraphy as well as unconventionals & new technologies.
NEWS
20.3.2017
As part of the "Explain it to me, RWTH!" video series, researchers and students from the Institute of Geology present different types of rock and provide insight into their specific properties and their formation history. The videos are produced in collaboration with RWTH Aachen's Media for Teaching, MfL, service point and published weekly: LINK
20.03.2017
Tweets on the ABC-J Oman field trip 2017: LINK
Article on the ABC-J field trip in the "Aachener Nachrichten": Aachener Zeitung 04.03.2017.pdf
IODP Expedition 365, drillship JOIDES Resolution: IODP http://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/indonesian_throughflow.html
14.3.2016
Bianca Biehl and Alexej Merkel successfully defended their Ph.D. theses. Congratulations.
24.11.2016
Dietrich
Welte
received
at the annual meeting
of the
"American
Association of Petroleum
Geologists
'
(
AAPG
),
the
highest
scientific honor
,
the
"
Sidney
Powers
Award ".
AAPG
is with around
35,000
members worldwide
the largest and
most important international
geoscience
organizations. The
eulogy
says "
...
the
understanding of dynamic
earth processes
(
geoprocesses
)
,
and
not only
the detection of the
static
end result
was the main
research objective
of
Dietrich
Welte
.
His pioneering
scientific
publications
are
classics.
"
Congratulations!
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2012/10oct/awards1012.cfm
Prof. Dr. Ralf Littke was elected as member of the working group "resources" of the programme "Energy Systems of the Future". This programme is a joint initiative of the German Academies of Science.