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Dr. David Uhlig

David Uhlig

DEVENDRA Group

Research Scientist

Address
Malteserstr. 74-100
Room Building C
12249 Berlin
Email
d.uhlig[at]fu-berlin.de
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FUNCTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geochemistry for DEVENDRA

Isotope geochemical and mineralogical characterization of weathering profiles and Critical Zone compartments

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Biogeochemical processes in the Critical Zone

Interaction of organic and geogenic nutrient cycles

Silicate weathering

Geochemistry of ‘non-traditional’ stable metal isotopes (Mg, Li, K)

Provenance studies using radiogenic isotopes ratios (87Sr/ 86Sr)

Development of analytical procedures for element and stable metal(oid) isotope analysis

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Education and work experience
Since 2023 Postdoc in the Geochemistry department at the Institute of Geological Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, ERC-Project (DEVENDRA) “Deciphering the Effect of Vegetation and Erosion on basalt and carbonate weathering by Novel Denudation Rate Approaches”
2019 – 2023 Postdoc in the Agrosphere Group at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, BMBF-Project “Sustainable Subsoil Management ̶ Soil3”
2013 – 2018 PhD Student in the Earth Surface Geochemistry Group at GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, DFG-Project (SPP 1685) “Ecosystem Nutrition: Forest Strategies for Limited Phosphorus Resources“
2011 – 2013 Master of Sciences at the Institute of Geological Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, Thesis: “Magnesium und seine Isotope in der Sierra Nevada (Kalifornien) - Isotopenfraktionierung in der Verwitterungszone”
2007 – 2011 Bachelor of Sciences at the Institute of Geological Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, Thesis: “Lithiumisotope im Oberflächen- und Grundwasser des Panketals im NE von Berlin”
Awards
09/2022  Hans-Cloos Preis of DGGV
11/2020  14. Potsdamer Nachwuchswissenschaftler-Preis
09/2017

 Best Poster, GeoBremen 2017, Annual Conference of DGGV and DMG in Bremen

 

Publications in peer-review journals

Uhlig, D., Sohrt, J., von Blanckenburg F. 2024. Imbalances in dissolved elemental export fluxes disclose “hidden” Critical Zone compartments. Water Resources Research. 60.
e2023WR035517. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035517

Cai, D., Henehan, M. J., Uhlig, D., von Blanckenburg, F. 2024. Lithium isotopes in water and regolith in a deep weathering profile reveal imbalances in Critical Zone fluxes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 369, 213-226. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.01.012 

Bauke, S. L., Seidel, S. J., Athmann, M., Berns, A. E., Braun, M., Gocke, M. I., Guigue, J., Kautz, T., Kögel-Knabner, I., Ohan, J., Rillig, M., Schloter, M., Schmittmann, O., Schulz, S., Uhlig, D., Schnepf, A., Amelung, W. 2024. Short-term effects of subsoil management by strip-wise loosening and incorporation of organic material. Soil and Tillage Research 236, 105936. doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2023.105936

Uhlig, D., Berns, A. E., Wu, B., Amelung, W. 2023. Mean nutrient uptake depths of cereal crops change with compost incorporation into subsoil–evidence from 87Sr/86Sr ratios. Plant and Soil, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-06047-x

Uhlig, D., Wu, B., Berns, A. E., & Amelung, W. 2022. Magnesium stable isotopes as a potential geochemical tool in agronomy–Constraints and opportunities. Chemical Geology, 611, doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121114

Cai, D., Henehan, M., Uhlig, D., von Blanckenburg, F. 2022. Mg isotope composition of runoff is buffered by the regolith exchangeable pool. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 321, 99-114, doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.01.011

von Blanckenburg, F., Schuessler, J. A., Oelze, M., Bouchez, J., Uhlig, D., Frings, P. J., Hewawasam, T., Dixon, J. L., Norton, K. 2021. Rock weathering and nutrient cycling along an erodosequence. American Journal of Science, 321, 8, 1111-1163, doi.org/10.2475/08.2021.01

Rodionov, A., Bauke, S. L., von Sperber, C., Hoeschen, C., Kandeler, E., Kruse, J., Lewandowski, H., Marhan, S., Mueller, C. W., Simon, M., Tamburini, F., Uhlig, D., von Blanckenburg, F., Lang, F., Amelung, W. 2020. Biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus in subsoils of temperate forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, 150, 3, 313-328, doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00700-8

Uhlig, D., Amelung, W., von Blanckenburg, F. 2020. Mineral nutrients sourced in deep regolith sustain long‐term nutrition of mountainous temperate forest ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34, 9, doi.org/10.1029/2019GB006513

Uhlig, D., Goldberg, T., Frick, D. A., von Blanckenburg, F. 2020. Quantifying beryllium concentrations in plant shoots from forest ecosystems using cation‐exchange chromatography and quadrupole ICP‐MS. Analytical Science Advances, 1, 1-14, doi.org/10.1002/ansa.202000036

Uhlig, D., & von Blanckenburg, F. 2019. How slow rock weathering balances nutrient loss during fast forest floor turnover in montane, temperate forest ecosystems. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 159, doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00159

Sohrt, J., Uhlig, D., Kaiser, K., von Blanckenburg, F., Siemens, J., Seeger, S., Frick, D. A., Krüger, J., Lang, F., Weiler, M. 2019. Phosphorus Fluxes in a Temperate Forested Watershed: Canopy Leaching, Runoff Sources, and In-Stream Transformation. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2, 85, doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00085

Gottselig, N., Sohrt, J., Uhlig, D., Nischwitz, V., Weiler, M., Amelung, W. 2019. Groundwater controls on colloidal transport in forest stream waters. Science of The Total Environment, 717, 134638, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134638

Schuessler, J. A., von Blanckenburg, F., Bouchez, J., Uhlig, D., Hewawasam, T. 2018. Nutrient cycling in a tropical montane rainforest under a supply-limited weathering regime traced by elemental mass balances and Mg stable isotopes. Chemical Geology, 497, 74-87, doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.08.024

Uhlig, D., Schuessler, J. A., Bouchez, J., Dixon J. L., von Blanckenburg, F. 2017. Quantifying nutrient uptake as driver of rock weathering in forest ecosystems by magnesium stable isotopes. Biogeosciences, 14, 3111–3128, doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3111-2017

Bol, R., Julich, D., Brödlin, D., Siemens, J., Kaiser, K., Dippold, M. A., Spielvogel, S., Zilla, T., Mewes, D., von Blanckenburg, F., Puhlmann, H., Holzmann, S., Weiler, M., Amelung, W., Lang, F., Kuzyakov, Y., Feger, K.-H., Gottselig, N., Klumpp, E., Missong, A., Winkelmann, C., Uhlig, D., Sohrt, J., von Wilpert, K., Wu, B., Hagedorn, F. 2016. Dissolved and colloidal phosphorus fluxes in forest ecosystems-an almost blind spot in ecosystem research. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 179, 4, 425-438, doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201600079

 

Data publications

Uhlig, D., Sohrt, J., von Blanckenburg F. 2024. Major and trace element concentrations in Critical Zone water compartments in the Conventwald. GFZ Data Services. doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2023.020

Uhlig, D. 2022. Isotope geochemical dataset on subsoil management experiments at Campus Klein-Altendorf. GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2022.003

Cai, D., Henehan, M., Uhlig, D., von Blanckenburg, F. 2022. Dataset on Biogeochemical cycling of Mg and Li isotopes in the Conventwald (the Black Forest, Germany). GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.3.3.2021.005

von Blanckenburg, F., Schuessler, J. A., Oelze, M., Bouchez, J., Uhlig, D., Frings, P. J., Hewawasam, T., Dixon, J. L., Norton, K. 2021. Geochemical data on rock weathering along an erodosequence. GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.3.3.2021.001

Uhlig, D., Amelung, W., & von Blanckenburg, F. 2020. Chemical and isotope data on the deep regolith’s source of mineral nutrients in mountainous temperate forest ecosystems. GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.3.3.2020.002

Uhlig, D., von Blanckenburg, F. 2019. Geochemical and isotope data on rock weathering, and nutrient balances during fast forest floor turnover in montane, temperate forest ecosystems. GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.3.3.2019.004

Schuessler, J. A., von Blanckenburg, F., Bouchez, J., Hewawasam, T., Uhlig, D. 2018. Supplementary data to: Nutrient cycling in a tropical montane rainforest under a supply-limited weathering regime traced by elemental mass balances and Mg stable isotopes. V. 1.0. GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/gfz.3.3.2017.002

Uhlig, D.,Schuessler, J. A., Bouchez, J., Dixon, J.L., von Blanckenburg, F. 2017. Supplementary dataset for: Quantifying nutrient uptake as driver of rock weathering in forest ecosystems by magnesium stable isotopes. GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.3.3.2017.001