Eine Studierendengruppe des IAG konnte den Baufortschritt an den Tunnelbauwerken besuchen.

Während der Ahrtalflut 2021 wurde ein mehrere Kilometer langer Abschnitt der Ahrtalbahn weitgehend zerstört. Im Rahmen des Wiederaufbaus werden die fünf existierenden Tunnelbauwerke aufgeweitet bzw. saniert. Eine Studierendengruppe des IAG konnte den Baufortschritt an den Tunnelbauwerken besuchen.

Im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung Ingenieurgeologie V wurden die untertägigen Bauarbeiten am Wasserkraftwerk Forbach besucht. Dabei konnten wir sowohl den Bau des Kavernenkraftwerkes als auch des Kavernenspeichers besichtigen.

“Legacy pollution of floodplain soils with quaternary ammonium compounds”

A paper on ‘Legacy pollution of floodplain soils with quaternary ammonium compounds’ was published in collaboration between the Soil Mineralogy and Soil Chemistry Group and researchers from Justus Liebig University Giessen, Aarhus University and Ruhr University Bochum

Welcome: Professor Denise Degen heads the new working group of “Modelling of Geosystems” at the IAG.

TU Darmstadt’s Institute of Applied Geosciences welcomed the participants for the meeting

On April 3, 2025, the three geoscience institutes of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) – TU Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt, and JGU Mainz – came together for their first joint meeting.

Research on tire particles and associated pollutants in Swiss cantonal road soils

The institute congratulates the two award winners

Award given on the TU's annual Teaching Day on November 20, 2024, for the 'Project Seminar' in the international master's program TropHEE – Innovative teaching format for technical and interdisciplinary skills.

* 25.08.1956 † 04.10.2024

The Institute of Applied Geosciences welcomes Dr. Ashsih Rajyaguru!

Piloting underground storage of heat in geothermal reservoirs

The annual meeting of the Push-It project (Piloting underground storage of heat in geothermal reservoirs) took place in Darmstadt on 19 and 20 September.

Implementation of Raman spectroscopy on micro- and nano-plastic analysis in the SMSC lab – Collaborative mission at the CNR-ICPF NanoSoftLab

Alexandra Foetisch, a researcher at TU Darmstadt’s Soil Mineralogy and Soil Chemistry (SMSC) Lab, has returned from a productive Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the NanoSoftLab of Italy’s CNR-ICPF, where she learned the application of Raman spectroscopy techniques for micro- and nanoplastic analysis. This collaborative mission, made possible through the PRIORITY COST Action, aimed to add state-of-the-art Raman scattering methods to TU Darmstadt’s tools allowing to identify and analyze environmental micro- and nanoplastics.

New method developed for identifying tire wear particles in soil using optical microscopy and machine learning