What made Earth a habitable planet?
Our research group focuses on studying the interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere with the biosphere over geological timescales, as interpreted from rocks, minerals, and meteorites. Using advanced analytical techniques in isotope geochemistry, we explore a range of topics, from the formation of terrestrial planets in the early Solar System to the evolution of Earth's earliest surface environments where life may have originated and evolved. Furthermore, we investigate the mineralisation processes of minerals crucial for a sustainable future. Central to our work is our collection of over 90,000 specimens, which, along with our developing analytical infrastructure for geochemical methods, forms the heart of our work.
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- Management Museum of Nature Hamburg - Mineralogy
Phone: +49 40 238317 808
E-Mail: s.peters@leibniz-lib.de
Projects
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Publications
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2025/04
Baers’s Wood Mouse - Hylomyscus baeri
2025/04
Wimmer’s Shrew - Crocidura wimmeri
2025/02
Large scale monitoring of terrestrial small mammals using noninvasive sampling and COI barcoding
Mammal Research
2024/12
Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 52, 121
2024/09
The anomalous polymict ordinary chondrite breccia of Elmshorn (‐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, 9, 59
2024/08
Integrative characterisation of the Northwestern European species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae) with the description of three new species
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97
2024/08
Exkursion in den Kaukasus: Der CaBOL BioBlitz 2022 in Armenien und Georgien
2024/06
Preserving morphology while extracting DNA: a non-destructive field-to-museum protocol for slide-mounted specimens
Biodiversity Data Journal, 12