Master's Theses

Research Topics of TropHEE Master's Theses

List of topics of recent master's theses, to give an idea on the research topics that our students work on.

Overview

  • Provenance of Quaternary deposits in the Upper Rhine Graben: Insights from detrital garnet geochemistry in the Viernheim drill core
  • Analysis of the wastewater management concept of an industrial park and development of an online visualization tool for its optimization
  • Temporal and spatial trends of C and O isotopes in loess deposits of South Germany
  • Determination and statistical analysis of PAH in soils of the Canary Islands
  • Analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in groundwater samples from a tar oil contaminated site – Determination of source areas and degradation potential
  • Geochemical and petrophysical logging of the well “Kraichgau 1002” across the Permic Triassic boundary
  • Evaluation of methods for the characterization of different groundwater contamination sources in an existing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamininant plume
  • Immobilization of lead in contaminated soils in Matehuala, San Luis Potosi, Mexico to reduce environmental risk
  • Modeling the potential of green infrastructure to reduce runoff at the micro-watershed level in Costa Rica
  • Provenance of Quaternary deposits in the upper Rhine graben: Insights from detrital garnet geochemistry in the drill core 'Pfungstadt GWM 1.3
  • Development of an Interactive WebGIS Platform for the Visualization of a 3D Hydrogeological Model, Bandung Basin, Indonesia
  • Sorption isotherms of BTEX compounds on biochars derived from different feedstocks
  • High resolution determination of stable isotopes and inorganic parameters in rainfall samples from the darmstadt area
  • Determination of Arsenic and Uranium concentrations in Surface and Groundwater system from the Cox`s Bazar area, Bangladesh
  • Gadolinium anomalies in river waters influenced by discharge of waste water treatment plants, south Hesse, Germany
  • Sinkholes in the Eastern Part of Hessen (Germany) – GIS based mapping and interpretation
  • Water Flow and Reactive Nitrate Transport Modeling in the Unsaturated Zone at a reference site in the Hessian Ried
  • Development of a low cost and socially accepted in situ solution of an ecological greywater treatment in Flores, Costa Rica
  • Sinkhole detection and analysis using GIS and Python – a case study from Eastern Hesse
  • Upscaling of Geomechanical properties in layered rock
  • Global analysis of the relationship between vegetation and transit times of water in the subsurface using literature date on stable water isotopes
  • Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Soils of Samos (Greece) and Iceland
  • Hydrochemical investigation of River Lahn and its tributaries to analyse spatial variability of water quality with respect to natural background and anthropogenic impacts
  • Sinkholes Detection in the Eastern part of Hessen (Germany), GIS-based mapping and Interpretation
  • Analysis of the spatial and temporal distribution of stable isotopes and their driving factors in the Upper Claro River Basin, Colombian Andes
  • Isotopic Fractionation During Degradation of Chlorination Byproducts in Water-Laboratory Experiments
  • Hydrological Investigation of a Thermal Anomaly on the Groundwater of Tarail Upazila, Kishoreganj, Bangladesh
  • Petrophysical analysis of the drill cores TB1 and TB2 in the Rotliegend Group (Lower Langen Formation), Sprendlinger Horst
  • Analyse und Bewertung von Abfall- und nebenprodukten der chemischen Industrie – Sustainable Waste Management
  • Sorption of Carbamazepine, Ibuprofen & Sulfamethoxazole on soil and isolated biomass in column experiment
  • Erstellen eines Konditionierungskonzepts und Durchführung von Vorversuchen zur Auswahl der geeigneten Mittel für einen maschinellen Vortrieb mittels EPB Schildmaschine in Frankfurt
  • Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using Statistical Analysis and GIS-Case study: Steinau an der Strasse, Germany
  • Erstellen eines Excel-basierten Werkzeugs zur Abschätzung der wahrscheinlichen Sanierungsdauer bei Pump-and-Treat Sanierungen
  • Preparation of an Excel-based tool for the estimation of the probable remediation time applying ISCO technologies
  • Hydrogeological framework and hydrochemistry of the groundwater in the Wa Municipality, Ghana
  • Petrophysical and hydraulical properties of andesitic geothermal reservoir rocks of Los Humeros and Acoculco, Mexico
  • Geochemical and isotopic characterics of groundwater in the hard rock terrain of Yanoya Basin in Sri Lanka – implications to occurrence of chronic kidney disease
  • Geochemical and stable water isotope characterization of bottled mineral waters for water source evaluation
  • Naturally Occurring Radioactivity in Paleozoic Enticho Sandstone Aquifer, Adigrat area, North Ethiopia
  • Determination of bicarbonate concentration in water samples based on major ions and electrical conductivity in comparison to bicarbonate titration
  • GIS based landslide susceptibility and hazard assesment in Schlüchtern Hesse, Germany
  • Determining Geotechnical Properties of Soil amd Rocks by Surface Measurements, Methods and Case Studies
  • Biodiversity assessment of an abandoned agricultural land for future biomass production in Poland, using remote sensing derived data and a spatially explicit approach
  • Assessment of water management and investigation of water optimization techniques for Toyota European manufacturing plants
  • Development of MODFLOW based tools to estimate the required remediation time in ISCO: Modeling the influence of heterogeneity
  • Development of a Green Roof / Green Façade model to estimate related energy savings for buildings – Data acquisition at a reference building for model calibration
  • Isotope chemistry of calcretes in sediment cores of well WW203302 in the Cubango megafan, Northern Namibia