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Mineralogy, Hamburg

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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Contact person

Dr. Stefan Peters

  • Management Museum of Nature Hamburg - Mineralogy

Phone: +49 40 238317 808
E-Mail: s.peters@leibniz-lib.de

Projects

There are currently no projects available

Publications

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    2025

  • 2025/04

    Decher, J., Schlitter, D., Adu-Tutu, P., Gazzard, A.

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    Baers’s Wood Mouse - Hylomyscus baeri

  • 2025/04

    Ahissa, L., Decher, J., Gazzard, A.

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    Wimmer’s Shrew - Crocidura wimmeri

  • 2025/02

    Stefen, C., Jentke, T., Birkwald, T., Chmieleski, J., Decher, J., Kaus-Thiel, A., Morkel, C., Thielen, J., Goldberg, R., Jakobitz, J., Atzig, H., Müller, A., Krause, R., Fichter, E., Wolfram, E., Twietmeyer, S., Stuckas, H.

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    Large scale monitoring of terrestrial small mammals using noninvasive sampling and COI barcoding

    Mammal Research

  • 2024

  • 2024/12

    Fischer, M., Peters, S.T.M., Herwartz, D., Hartogh, P., Di Rocco, T., Pack, A.

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    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

    Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., Alosius, R.M.L., Barrat, J., 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., Rüfenacht, M., Schlüter, J., Schönbächler, M., Stojic, A., Storz, J., Tillmann, W., Wieser, A., Wimmer, K., Zielke, R.

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    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

    Vogel, J., Forshage, M., Bartsch, S.B., Ankermann, A., Mayer, C., Falkenhausen, P.v., Rduch, V., Müller, B., Braun, C., Krammer, H., Peters, R.S.

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    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

    Rduch, V., Dey, L., Ghazaryan, A., Husemann, M., Iankoshvili, G., Krammer, H., Lambrecht, M., Marabuto, E., Mengual, X., Müller, B., Peters, R., Rulik, B., Salden, T., Silva-Brandao, K.L., Espeland, M., Thormann, J., Töpfer, T., Weiss, C., Zyla, D., Hein, N.

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    Exkursion in den Kaukasus: Der CaBOL BioBlitz 2022 in Armenien und Georgien

  • 2024/06

    Jaume-Schinkel, S., Müller, B., Avila-Calero, S., Kukowka, S., Rduch, V., Mengual, X.

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    Preserving morphology while extracting DNA: a non-destructive field-to-museum protocol for slide-mounted specimens

    Biodiversity Data Journal, 12

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