Staff Scientist
POF Topics 3, 6.4 & 8
Research Division 2: Marine Biogeochemistry
Research Unit: Marine Geosystems
Working Group: DeepSea Monitoring
Office:
Room: 8/A-216
Phone: +49 431 600-2136
Fax: +49 431 600-2924
E-Mail: tkwasnitschka(at)geomar.de
Postal address:
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
D-24148 Kiel
Research interests
- Physical volcanology and morphology of submarine volcanism
- Marine and terrestrial tephrostratigraphy
- Immersive data visualization in earth and environmental sciences: head of ARENA2 lab
- Close range, deep sea photogrammetry
- Deep sea robotics and camera technology: PI of LIGHTHOUSE and MOMO
- Acoustic mapping and bathymetry
Working areas
- Cape Verdean Archipelago
- Juan de Fuca Ridge
- NE Lau Basin
- Deeps of the Central Red Sea
- Central American Volcanic Arc
Projects
- 2022-2028 MUSE Project "Modular Mobility", 0.15 M €, PI
- 2023-2025 SPP2100 Project "ASDDSA", 0.29 M €, PI
- 2022-2025 BlueHealthTech Project "Hyperquant", 0.2 M €, Co-PI
- 2017-2022 Helmholtz Validation Fund Projekt 0068 „LIGHTHOUSE“, 2.37 M €, PI
- 2017-2020 Helmholtz IVF / Future Ocean Cluster Project „The Virtual Seafloor“, 0.65 M €, PI
- 2017-2021 VW Foundation Experiment! Project „Pyrotraces“, 0.12 M €, Co-PI
More information about my projects is available here!
Professional experience
- since 2025 Staff researcher in the DeepSea Monitoring group
- 2016 - 2024 Staff researcher at the Technology and Logistics Centre
- 2013 - 2016 Postdoc researcher at GEOMAR within the ROBEX Helmholtz Alliance
- 2010 - 2012 Researcher at GEOMAR within the Jeddah Transect Project
- since 2010 External lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Kiel
- 2008 - 2010 Research assistant at IFM-GEOMAR within the SFB 574 and other projects
- 2003 - 2023 Associate / owner of allsky.de (immersive media agency)
- since 1999 Freelance popular science lecturer
Committee work
- Vision 2020 Taskforce of the International Planetarium Society (scientific visualization coordinator)
- User committee of the Canadian Scientific Submergence Facility
Education
- 2010 - 2012: Doctorate at GEOMAR, thesis title: "Evolutionary Stages of Submarine Volcanism in the Cape Verdean Archipelago"
- 2002 - 2009: Studies of Geology/Paleontology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Thesis title: "Volcanic and Tectonic Development of the Ilopango Caldera, El Salvador: stratigraphic correlation and visualization of emplacement"
Academic recognition
- 2011 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award for OS11C-06, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Research cruises
- 2024: RV MS Merian, MSM132, Aegean (30 days): Test cruise MOMO
- 2021: RV Alkor AL 568, Sognefjord (7 days, PI): Test cruise LIGHTHOUSE
- 2021: RV Alkor AL 555, Baltic Sea (7 days, PI): Test cruise LIGHTHOUSE
- 2017: RV Poseidon P511, Aegean (12 days): Photogrammetric mapping
- 2016 RV Falkor FK160320, SW Pacific (13 days, chief scientist): Photogrammetric mapping, sampling
- 2016 RV Poseidon P520, Kolbinsey Ridge (19 days): Photogrammetric mapping, sampling
- 2015 RV Poseidon P483, Tyrrhenian Sea (20 days): Photogrammetry
- 2015 EV Nautilus N069-2, Endeavour Ridge (13 days): Photogrammetry
- 2014 Lake Constance (7 days, chief scientist): Sea trials AUV camera system
- 2013 RV Western Flyer, Monterey Canyon (3 days): Photogrammetric mapping
- 2013 RV Western Flyer Wfly 336, Axial Seamount (1 week): Photogrammetric mapping, sampling
- 2012 RV Pelagia Pe350/1, Red Sea (4 weeks): Submersible based photogrammetric surveying, bathymetric mapping
- 2011 RV Poseidon P408/2, Red Sea (3 weeks): Bathymetric mapping, dredging
- 2011 RV Poseidon P412, Tyrrhenian Sea (2 weeks) Bathymetric mapping, photogrammetric surveying
- 2010 RV Poseidon P405/1, Atlantic Ocean (1 week): Bathymetric mapping
- 2010 RV Meteor M80/3, Cape Verde Islands (5 weeks): Photogrammetric sturveying, dredging, gravity coring
- 2009 RV Meteor M79/3, Cape Verde Islands (4 weeks): bathymetric mapping, dredging
- 2006 MV Alkor, North Sea (5 days): seismic surveying
- 2005 RV Poseidon P320/2, Cape Verde Islands (2 weeks): dredging
- 2004 MV Alkor, Baltic Sea (2 weeks): water column sampling
