Ocean Research Technology Center (ORTC)
Data- and Sample Management
Office
Tel.: +49 431 600 - 2152
Office in the Core Repository (ZPL)
E-Mail: dmaicher(at)geomar.de
E-Mail for sample requests: geosamples(at)geomar.de
Address
GEOMAR
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
24148 Kiel, Germany
Career
Employment
- since 2015 curator at GEOMAR
- 2011-2012 Kimberlite Petrologist, De Beers Canada Inc, Canada
- 2008-2010 researcher at IFM-GEOMAR
- 2006-2007 Kimberlite Petrologist, De Beers Canada Inc & Shore Gold Inc, Canada
- 2001-2004 Project Assistant Universitätshautklinik Kiel
- 2000-2001 Postdoc GEOMAR
- 1999 Assistant Environmental Office Würzburg
- 1995-1998 Teaching Assistant for volcanology and sedimentology, University of Otago, New Zealand
Education
2003-2005 Master Coastal Geosciences and Engineering, CAU Kiel
1995-1999 doctorate studies, University of Otago, New Zealand, focus on physical volcanology
1989-1994 academic studies of geology
1991 Vordiplom (~B.Sc.), Freien Universität Berlin
1994 Diplom(~M.Sc.), Albert-Ludwigs-Universtät Freiburg
Ship expeditions & Fieldwork
- 2024 RV SONNE - SO307 Madagascar - Indian Ocean
- 2023 RV SONNE - SO299 Dynamet - West Pacific Ocean
- 2020 RV MARIA S. MERIAN - MSM96 Metal-ML – North Atlantic Ocean
- 2018 RV MARIA S. MERIAN - MSM78 PERMO 2 – North Sea
- 2017/18 RV METEOR - M144 EMPIRE – Mediterranean Sea
- 2017 RV SONNE - SO257 WACHEIO – Indian Ocean
- 2010 RV SONNE - SO208 PLUMEFLUX – Eastern Pacific Ocean
- 2010 RV METEOR - M81/2AB CLIP – Caribbean
- 2009 RV SONNE - SO201 Leg 2 KALMAR – Bering Sea
- 2008 RV SONNE - SO199 CHRISP – Indian Ocean
- 1995 RV ATLANTIS & DSV ALVIN – Eastern Pacific Ocean
- Since 1990 field campains of several weeks duration in Australia, Namibia, New Zealand and central Europe
Research Interests
- Physical volcanology with emphasis on submarine eruption and fragmentation processes
- Magma-water interaction and influence of volatiles
- Microtextural analysis
- Transport and depositional processes of sediment gravity flows, esp. of volcaniclastic provenance
Publications
Number of items: 22.
Articles in a Scientific Journal - peer-reviewed
Kipf, A., Hauff, F. , Werner, R., Gohl, K., van den Bogaard, P., Hoernle, K. A. , Maicher, D. and Klügel, A.
(2014)
Seamounts off the West Antarctic margin: A case for non-hotspot driven intraplate volcanism.
Gondwana Research, 25
.
pp. 1660-1679.
DOI 10.1016/j.gr.2013.06.013.
Seghedi, I., Maicher, D. and Kurzslaukis, S.
(2009)
Volcanology of Tuzo pipe (Gahcho Kué cluster) - root-diatreme processes re-interpreted.
Lithos, 112
(Suppl. 1).
pp. 553-565.
DOI 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.04.027.
Maicher, D. and White, J.
(2001)
The formation of deep-sea Limu o Pele.
Bulletin of Volcanology, 63
(7).
pp. 482-496.
DOI 10.1007/s004450100165.
Maicher, D. , White, J. D. L. and Batiza, R.
(2000)
Sheet hyaloclastite: density-current deposits of quench and bubble-burst fragments from thin, glassy sheet lava flows, Seamount Six, Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Marine Geology, 171
(1-4).
pp. 75-94.
DOI 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00109-2.
Books
Book chapters
Maicher, D.
(2003)
A cluster Of Surtseyan volcanoes at Lookout Bluff, North Otago, New Zealand: Aspects of edifice spacing and time.
In: Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism.
; 140
, ed. by
White, J. D. L., Smellie, J. L. and Clague, D. A..
AGU (American Geophysical Union), Washington, USA, pp. 167-178.
DOI 10.1029/140GM10.
Presentations
Hoernle, K. , Hauff, F. , Werner, R., Hanan, B., Christie, D., Herbrich, A., Maicher, D. and Garbe-Schönberg, D.
(2011)
SO208 Leg 2 (PLUMEFLUX) und SO158 (MEGAPRINT): Neue Erkenntnisse über Plume-Rücken-Wechselwirkungen zwischen dem Galápagposplume und dem Cocos- Nazca-Spreizungszentrum .
[Talk]
In: Statusseminar Meeresforschung mit FS Sonne 2011. , 09.-10.02.2011, Hannover . Tagungsband / Meeresforschung mit FS Sonne : Statusseminar 2011. ; pp. 80-84 .
Portnyagin, M. , Hoernle, K. , Werner, R., Hauff, F. and Maicher, D.
(2011)
Initial scientific results from the cruise SO201-KALMAR: volcanology and petrology.
[Talk]
In: Statusseminar Meeresforschung mit FS Sonne 2011. , 09.-10.02.2011, Hannover . Tagungsband / Meeresforschung mit FS Sonne : Statusseminar 2011. ; pp. 157-160 .
Portnyagin, M. , Hoernle, K. , Werner, R., Hauff, F. , Meicher, D. , Yogodzinski, G., Baranov, B., Silantiev, S., Wanke, M. and Krasnova, E.
(2011)
Marine volcanological and petrological studies with R/V SONNE in the NW Pacific and Bering Sea: SO201 KALMAR cruise results.
[Talk]
In: 7. Biennial Workshop on Japan-Kamchatka-Alaska Subduction Processes: Mitigating Risk through International Volcano, Earthquake, and Tsunami Science (JKASP-2011). , 25.-30.08.2011, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia .
Werner, R., Maicher, D. , Hauff, F. , Hoernle, K. and Herbrich, A.
and SO208 Leg 1 Fahrtteilnehmer
(2011)
Hintergrund und erste (unerwartete) Ergebnisse von SO208 Leg 1 (PLUMEFLUX): Ausbreitung von Galápagosplumematerial im äquatorialen Ostpazifik.
[Talk]
In: Statusseminar Meeresforschung mit FS Sonne 2011. , 09.-10.02.2011, Hannover . Tagungsband / Meeresforschung mit FS Sonne : Statusseminar 2011. ; pp. 76-79 .
Conference posters
Maicher, D. , Petersen, T. , Mehrtens, H. and Springer, P.
(2023)
Leveraging IGSN to Enhance Data Management in Research Institutions.
[Poster]
In: EGU General Assembly 2023. , 24.-28.4.2023, Vienna, Austria .
Mehrtens, H. , Springer, P. , Schirnick, C. , Faber, C. , Maicher, D. , Paglialonga, L. and Lorenz, S.
(2021)
Interoperability of institutional data management systems.
[Poster]
In: IMDIS 2021 - International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems. , 12.-14.04.2021, Online .
Maicher, D. , Mittermayer, F. , Springer, P. and Süling, J.
(2019)
How to curate and exhibit various types of physical samples using FAIR principles.
[Poster]
In: EGU General Assembly 2019. , 08.-13.04.2019, Vienna, Austria .
Maicher, D. , Fleischer, D. and Czerniak, A.
(2016)
Rock and Core Repository Coming Digital.
[Poster]
In: EGU General Assembly 2016. , 17.-22.04.2016, Vienna, Austria .
Theses - not published by a publisher
Reports - Cruise Reports
Brandl, P. A. , Beier, C., Abegg, F., Acuna Avendano, O., Baxter, A. T., Cuno, P., Falkenberg, J., Galerne, C. , Gautreau, L. M., Genz, J., Hagedorn, D., Hannington, M. D., Hansteen, T. H. , Heyde, I., Kaufmann, M., Klein, J., Konabe, S., Lange, S., Maicher, D. , Matthiessen, T., McInnes, B. I. A., Panachi, E., Petersen, S. , Pieper, M., Reeck, K., Riemer, E., Ruth, W., Schenk, J., Striewski, P., Suck, I., Taylor, J., Vahrenkamp, S., Waßmund, L., Wenske, J., Zimmer, H. and Zitoun, R.
(2023)
Arc rifting, metallogeny and microplate evolution: An integrated geodynamic, magmatic and hydrothermal study of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, Cruise No. SO299, DYNAMET, 6 JUNE - 29 JULY 2023, Townsville (Australia) - Singapore.
.
SONNE-Berichte, SO299
.
UNSPECIFIED, 257 pp.
DOI 10.48433/cr_so299.
Karstens, J. , Böttner, C. , Edwards, M., Falcon-Suarez, I., Flohr, A., James, R., Lichtschlag, A., Maicher, D. , Pheasant, I., Roche, B., Schramm, B. and Wilson, M.
(2019)
RV MARIA S. MERIAN Fahrtbericht / Cruise Report MSM78 - PERMO 2, Edinburgh – Edinburgh (U.K.), 16.10. – 25.10.2018
.
.
GEOMAR Report, N. Ser. 048
.
GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 60 pp.
DOI 10.3289/geomar_rep_ns_48_2019.
Kuhnt, W., Holbourn, A., Schönfeld, J., Lindhorst, K., Gallagher, S., Keep, M., Sadekov, A., Dunlea, A., Clemens, S., Wilkens, R., Sarnthein, M., Leutert, T., Zhang, P., Maicher, D. , Manceau, R., Dillon, A., Gonzalez, J. L., Fabian, S., McCaffrey, J., Kochhann, K., Lübbers, J., Jöhnck, J., Hingst, J., Parplies, K., Koppe, M., Steffen, S., Schultz, J., Heinrich, S., Averes, T. and Evers, F.
and Averes, Tanita / Evers, Florian
(2018)
Cruise report Sonne 257 [SO257], WACHEIO - Western Australian Climate History from Eastern Indian Ocean Sediment Archives, Darwin - Fremantle, May 12, 2017 - June 04, 2017.
.
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, 260 pp.
DOI 10.2312/cr_so257.