RESEARCH GROUPs

 

Daniel Ariztegui

Professor

rue des Maraîchers 13, office 405

+41 (0)22 379 66 18

ONGOING PROJECTS

• The Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)
• Multiproxy record of Lake Transimeno (Italy)
• Paleoenvironmental record of Lake Chad sediments
• The Potrok-Aike Maar Lake Sediments Archive Drilling Project (PASADO)
• The Lake Petén-Itza (Guatemala)
• Microbial role in freshwater carbonate ooid precipitation
• Microbial carbonates in Northern Patagonian lakes
• BANBU: Holocene climate change in the Mediterranean Basin across an East to West gradient

TUTORING

CURRENT THESIS SUPERVISION

• From Satellites to Molecules (SAM): Strategies and tools for reconstructing Late Pleistocene climate in northeastern Patagonia. PhD student: Inès Eymard
• Climate History of the Indo-Pacific region and subsurface biosphere of Lake Towuti: The Swiss contribution to the ICDP Towuti Drilling Project. PhD. student: Luis Ordonez Rendon
• Multiproxy record of Lake Transimeno (Italy). PhD. student: Marta Marchegiano
• Alkaline-earth metal precipitates in lacustrine environment: characterization, spatio-temporal distribution and origin. PhD. student: Agathe Martignier

CURRENT AND FORMER DOCTORAL STUDENTS

• Agathe Martignier
• Inès Eymard
• Luis Ordonez Rendon
• Marta Marchegiano


• Dr. Camille Thomas
• Dr. Thomas Jaccard
• Dr. Karine Plee
• Dr. Cristina Recasens
• Dr. Aurèle Vuillemin
• Dr. Nicolas Waldmann

TEACHING

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

• President ISC 2014
• President COL
• Swiss representative to CIESM
• Associated Editor Sedimentology
• Associated Editor Swiss Journal of Geosciences

MY RESEARCH

I use marine and lacustrine sediments as archives of (paleo) environmental changes as well as of present and former anthropogenic impact on the environment.

I am particularly interested in understanding biogeochemical cycles in lakes.

 

More recently my research has focused on the study of the lacustrine subsurface biosphere, microbe-mineral interactions and organomineralization.

I apply a geomicrobiological approach to modern environments and develop microbial proxies that can be used to identify microbial processes in the past.

 

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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