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Dipl.-Chem. Dr. Silke Merchel

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Wintersemester 2025

260045 LP Laboratory: Nuclear and Isotope Physics - Isotope detection and application

260074 LP Laborpraktikum: Kernphysik

260114 SE Seminar Applied isotope physics

Sommersemester 2025

260045 LP Laboratory: Nuclear and Isotope Physics - Isotope detection and application

260074 LP Laborpraktikum: Kernphysik

Wintersemester 2024

260045 LP Laboratory: Nuclear and Isotope Physics - Isotope detection and application

260074 LP Laborpraktikum: Kernphysik

260080 SE Bachelorseminar

267128 PR Praktikum Radioaktivität und Kernphysik - 14C-Datierung mittels Beschleunigermassenspektrometrie - für Lehramtsstudierende

Mizerit, I., Morabito, E. G., Bechis, F., Terrizzano, C. M., Groos, A. R., Rugel, G., Merchel, S., & Zech, R. (2025). Pleistocene glacial geomorphology and chronology of the Nahuel Huapi-Limay and Traful catchments, northern Patagonia. Geomorphology, 485, Artikel 109836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109836

Koll, D., Fichter, S., Hotchkis, M., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Pavetich, S., Rolofs, A., Tims, S., Zwickel, S., & Wallner, A. (2025). Recent progress on interstellar radionuclides on Earth and the Moon. European Physical Journal A, 61(5), Artikel 101. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01554-0

Koll , D., Lachner, J., Beutner, S., Fichter, S., Merchel, S., Rugel, G., Slavkovská, Z., Vivo Vilches, C., Winkler, S., & Wallner, A. (2025). A cosmogenic ¹⁰Be anomaly during the late Miocene as independent time marker for marine archives. Nature Communications, 16, Artikel 866. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55662-4

Siebert, C., Ionescu, D., Mallast, U., Merchel, S., Merkel, B., Möller, P., Pavetich, S., Pohl, T., Rödinger, T., & Yechieli, Y. (2024). A new type of submarine chimneys built of halite. Science of the Total Environment, 955, 1-15. Artikel 176752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176752

Jeanneret, P., Moreiras, S. M., Merchel, S., Preusser, F., May, JH., Gärtner, A., & Orgeira, M. J. (2024). Chronology of Late Pleistocene glacial advances in a Mount Mercedario catchment, Subtropical Andes of Argentina (32° S). Journal of Quaternary Science. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3671

Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., Barrat, J. A., Berndt, J., Busemann, H., Degering, D., Di Rocco, T., Ek, M., Harries, D., Godinho, J. R. A., Heinlein, D., Kriele, A., Krietsch, D., Maden, C., Marchhart, O., Marshal, R. M., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Möller, A., ... Wimmer, K. (2024). Cosmic pears from the Havelland (Germany): Ribbeck, the twelfth recorded aubrite fall in history. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 59(10), 2660-2694. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14245

Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., Alosius, R. M. L., Barrat, J. A., Berndt, J., Busemann, H., Degering, D., Di Rocco, T., Ek, M., Gattacceca, J., Godinho, J. R. A., Heinlein, D., Krietsch, D., Maden, C., Marchhart, O., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Pack, A., Peters, S., ... Zielke, R. (2024). The anomalous polymict ordinary chondrite breccia of Elmshorn (H3-6)—Late reaccretion after collision between two ordinary chondrite parent bodies, complete disruption, and mixing possibly about 2.8 Gyr ago. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 59(9), 2321-2356. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14193

Feige, J., Airo, A., Berger, D., Brückner, D., Gärtner, A., Genge, M., Leya, I., Habibi Marekani, F., Hecht, L., Klingner, N., Lachner, J., Li, X., Merchel, S., Nissen, J., Patzer, A. B. C., Peterson, S., Schropp, A., Sager, C., Suttle, M. D., ... Weinhold, J. (2024). Transport of dust across the Solar System: Constraints on the spatial origin of individual micrometeorites from cosmic-ray exposure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 382(2273), Artikel 20230197. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0197

Hofmann, F. M., Groos, A. R., Morabito, E. G., Struck, J., Gnägi, C., Scharf, A., Rugel, G., Merchel, S., & Zech, R. (2024). A regional assessment of the deglaciation history of the Swiss Plateau based on newly obtained and re-evaluated Be-10 cosmic-ray exposure ages. Quaternary Science Advances, 13, Artikel 100124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100124

Fichter, S., Child, D., Froehlich, M., Hotchkis, M. A. C., Koeberl, C., Koll , D., Merchel, S., & Wallner, A. (2024). Search for r-process Pu-244 in the K-Pg boundary layer. Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics XI Conference, Dresden , Deutschland.

Koeberl, C., Fichter, S., Hotchkis, M. A. C., Child, C., Froehlich, M. B., Koll , D., Merchel, S., & Wallner, A. (2024). Search for r-process ²⁴⁴Pu in the K-Pg boundary layer. #1952. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC2024), USA / Vereinigte Staaten. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/1952.pdf

Kudriavtseva, A., Codilean, A. T., Sobel, E. R., Landgraf, A., Fülöp, R.-H., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., Wilcken, K. M., Schildgen, T., Fink, D., Fujioka, T., Gong, L., Rosenwinkel, S., Merchel, S., & Rugel, G. (2023). Impact of Quaternary Glaciations on Denudation Rates in North Pamir—Tian Shan Inferred From Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and Low-Temperature Thermochronology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(12), Artikel e2023JF007193. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007193

Pittarello, L., Chernonozhkin, S., Downes, H., Marchhart, O., Merchel, S., Wieser, A., Vanhacke, F., Villeneuve, J., & Goderis, S. (2023). An uncommon terrestrial rock that was believed to be a meteorite. Beitrag in MinWien2023, Wien, Österreich.

Koll, D., Wallner, A., Battisson, S., Fichter, S., Fifield, L. K., Froehlich, M. B., Lachner, J., Merchel, S., Pavetich, S., Rugel, G., Slavkovská, Z., Tims, S. G., & Ziegenrücker, R. (2022). Element separation chemistry and cosmogenic ¹⁰Be dating of a ferromanganese crust. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 530, 53-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.08.017

Froehlich, M. B., Slavkovska, Z., Koll, D., Pavetich, S., Dastgiri, F., Fifield, L. K., Hotchkis, M. A. C., Merchel, S., Tims, S. G., & Wallner, A. (2022). Scavenger hunt: Searching for the optimal target material for low-level Pb-210 accelerator mass spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section B. Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 529, 18-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.08.015

Koll , D., Faestermann, T., Korschinek, G., Leya, I., Merchel, S., & Wallner, A. (2022). The Dyadic Radionuclide System ⁶⁰Fe / ⁵³Mn to Distinguish Interstellar from Interplanetary ⁶⁰Fe. EPJ Web of Conferences, 260, Artikel 11022. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226011022

Bischoff, A., Storz, J., Barrat, J.-A., Heinlein, D., Jull, A. J. T., Merchel, S., Pack, A., & Rugel, G. (2022). Blaubeuren, Cloppenburg, and Machtenstein—Three recently recognized H-group chondrite finds in Germany with distinct terrestrial ages and weathering effects. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 57(1), 136-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13779

Merchel, S., Rugel, G., Lachner, J., Wallner, A., Walther, D., & Ziegenrucker, R. (2021). Evaluation of a sensitive, reasonable, and fast detection method for Fe-55 in steel. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 330(3), 727-735. Artikel L081701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-08000-7

Merchel, S., Braucher, R., Lachner, J., & Rugel, G. (2021). Which is the best ⁹Be carrier for ¹⁰Be/⁹Be accelerator mass spectrometry? MethodsX, 8, Artikel 101486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101486

Stübner, K., Bookhagen, B., Merchel, S., Lachner, J., & Gadoev, M. (2021). Unravelling the Pleistocene glacial history of the Pamir mountains, Central Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 257, Artikel 106857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106857