Dr. FLORIAN SCHOLZ - Geomar

CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. FLORIAN SCHOLZ
Main area of expertise
Marine and Isotope Geochemistry
Office address Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
GEOMAR
Wischhofstraße 1 ‐ 3, D‐24148 Kiel
Phone +49 (0)431 600 2562
E‐mail
fscholz@geomar.de
www
www.geomar.de/~fscholz
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 08/2012
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow, College of Earth, Ocean
and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS), Oregon State University (OSU),
Corvallis, USA
02/2010 – 07/2012 Postdoctoral researcher within the Collaborative Research Centers
574 (Volatiles and Fluids in Subduction Zones) and 754 (Climate‐
Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean) at GEOMAR
04/2007 – 12/2009 Doctoral researcher at IFM‐GEOMAR (now GEOMAR) in the
Department for Biogeochemistry
03/2005 – 04/2005 Internship in the research group “Traceurs Géochimiques et
Mineralogiques“, University of Bordeaux 1, France; Performance of a
GIS‐based study on the spatial distribution of selected heavy metals
in the surficial sediments of the Gironde estuary
03/2003 – 07/2004
09/2005 – 03/2006
Research assistant at the Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry
at the University of Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
KIT)
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
01/2010 PhD in Marine Geochemistry (IFM‐GEOMAR and Kiel University);
Doctoral thesis: Pore water expulsion at submarine cold seeps:
geochemical evidence for short‐cuts between crust, sediments and
ocean (marked with distinction: summa cum laude)
09/2008 Participation at the ECORD/IODP Summer School “The Deep‐
Subseafloor Biosphere” at the MARUM Research Centre, Bremen

09/2004 – 06/2005 Visiting student, Département de l’Environnements et
Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux at the University
of Bordeaux 1
10/2000 – 12/2006 Diplom in Geoecology (comparable to MSc Environmental Science) at
the University of Karlsruhe; thesis: Early diagenesis of trace elements
in pyrite‐rich sediments of the Achterwasser lagoon, SW Baltic Sea
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Starting 08/2012
Marie Curie fellowship of the European Union, awarded to conduct
collaborative research at Oregon State University, USA and GEOMAR
(255,453 € over 3 years )
05/2011 Annette Barthelt‐Preis für Meeresforschung, German research award
for outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of marine research
donated by the Annette Barthelt‐Foundation and the German
Ministry for Education and Research (endowed with 3,000 €)
RESEARCH CRUISES
24.02. – 16.03.2012 RV Meteor Cruise M86‐5 to the Gulf of Cadiz; Principal investigator of
the pore water chemistry group
21.09. – 01.11.2010 RV Sonne cruise SO210 to the Chilean subduction zone; Principal
investigator of the pore water chemistry group
22.10. – 21.11.2008 RV Meteor cruise M77‐1 to the Chilean and Peruvian oxygen
minimum zones; Pore water chemistry group
09.02. – 25.02.2008
01.12. – 20.12.2007
RV Poseidon cruises POS362‐1 and POS362‐2 to the Nile deep‐sea
fan, Eastern Mediterranean Sea; Pore water chemistry group
03.04. – 24.04.2007 RV Meteor cruise M72‐3b to the Eastern Black Sea; Pore water
chemistry group
SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
Since 2009
Since 2010
Journal reviewer for Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, G‐cubed,
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Marine Chemistry, Marine
Geology, Nature
Co‐supervision of Master and PhD students

PUBLICATIONS
Submitted
Scholz F., Hensen C., Schmidt M. and Geersen J., Submarine weathering of silicate minerals
and the extent of pore water freshening at active continental margins, submitted for
publication.
Neumann T., Scholz F., Kramar U., Ostermaier M., Rausch N. and Berner Z., Arsenic in
framboidal pyrite from recent sediments of a shallow water lagoon of the Baltic Sea,
submitted for publication.
Haffert L., Haeckel M., Liebetrau V., Berndt C., Nuzzo M., Reitz A., Scholz F., Schönfeld J.,
Perez‐Garcia C. and Weise S. M., Fluid evolution and authigenic mineral paragenesis related
to salt diapirism ‐ the Mercator mud volcano in the Gulf of Cadiz, submitted for publication.
Published and in press
Nuzzo M., Elvert M., Schmidt M., Scholz F., Reitz A., Ferreira A., Hinrichs K.‐U. and Hensen C.,
Impact of hot fluid advection on hydrocarbon gas production and seepage in mud volcano
sediments of thick Cenozoic deltas, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 341‐344, 139‐157.
Noffke A., Hensen C., Sommer F., Scholz F., Bohlen L., Mosch T., Graco M. and Wallmann K.
(2012), Benthic iron and phosphorus fluxes across the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone,
Limnology and Oceanography 57, 851‐867.
Scholz F., Hensen C., Noffke A., Rohde A., Liebetrau V. and Wallmann K. (2011), Early
diagenesis of redox‐sensitive metals in the Peru upwelling area: response to ENSO‐related
oxygen fluctuations in the water column, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 7257‐7276.
Bohlen L., Sommer S., Dale A., Mosch T., Hensen C., Noffke A., Scholz F. and Wallmann K.
(2011) Benthic nitrogen cycling traversing the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone, Geochimica
et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 6094‐6111.
Völker D., Scholz F. and Geersen J. (2011), Recent submarine slide in the rupture area of the
27 February 2010 Maule earthquake offshore Chile, Marine Geology 28, 879‐89.
Reitz A., Pape T., Haeckel M., Schmidt M., Berner U., Scholz F., Liebetrau V., Aloisi G., Weise
S.M. and Wallmann K. (2011), Sources of fluids and gases expelled at cold seeps offshore
Georgia, eastern Black Sea, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 3250‐3268.
Scholz F., Hensen C., De Lange G.J., Haeckel M., Liebetrau V., Meixner A., Reitz A. and Romer
R.L. (2010), Lithium isotope geochemistry of marine pore waters: Insights from cold seep
fluids, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74, 3459‐3475
Scholz F., Hensen C., Lu Z. and Fehn U. (2010), Controls on the 129 I/I ratio of deep‐seated
marine interstitial fluids: 'old' organic versus fissiogenic 129‐iodine, Earth and Planetary
Science Letters 294, 27‐36
Feseker T., Brown K.R., Blanchet C., Scholz F., Nuzzo M., Reitz A., Schmidt M. and Hensen C.
(2010), Active mud volcanoes on the upper slope of the western Nile deep‐sea fan – first
results from the P362/cruise of R/V Poseidon, Geo‐Marine Letters, DOI 10.1007/s00367‐010‐
0192‐0
Nuzzo M., Hornibrook E.R.C., Gill F., Hensen C., Pancost R.D., Haeckel M., Reitz A., Scholz F.,
Magalhães V.H., Brückmann W. and Pinheiro L.M. (2009), Origin of light volatile hydrocarbon

gases in mud volcano fluids, Gulf of Cadiz – Evidence for multiple sources and transport
mechanisms in active sedimentary wedges, Chemical Geology 266, 359‐372
Scholz F., Hensen C., Reitz A., Romer R.L., Liebetrau V., Meixner A., Weise S.M. and Haeckel
M. (2009), Isotopic evidence ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr, δ 7 Li) for alteration of the oceanic crust at
deep‐rooted mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic Ocean, Geochimica et
Cosmochimica Acta 73, 5444‐5459
Scholz F. and Neumann T. (2007), Trace element diagenesis in pyrite‐rich sediments of the
Achterwasser lagoon, SW Baltic Sea, Marine Chemistry 107, 516‐532
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS (FIRST‐AUTHORED ONLY)
Scholz F., Hensen C., Severmann S., Noffke A., Haley B., McManus J., Schneider R. and
Wallmann K. (2012), Spatial and temporal trends of iron and iron isotope cycling in the
Peruvian oxygen minimum zone, Goldschmidt Conference 2012 (Talk).
Scholz F., Hensen C., Noffke A., Rohde A. and Wallmann K. (2011), Early diagenesis of trace
metals (V, Mo, U) in sediments of the Peruvian upwelling area: response to oxygen dynamics
in the water column, Geophysical Research Abstracts 10, EGU2011‐10680 (Talk).
Scholz F., Hensen C., De Lange G.J., Haeckel M., Liebetrau V., Meixner A., Reitz A. and Romer
R.L. (2010), Lithium isotope systematics of deep‐sourced pore fluids at continental
margins.,Geophysical Research Abstracts 10, EGU2010‐4251 (Talk).
Scholz F., Hensen C., Lu Z. and Fehn U. (2009), Tracing organic and inorganic sources to
deep‐seated marine interstitial fluids: evidence from iodine and 129 I/I systematics, Eos Trans.
AGU 90(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract DI41A‐1771 (Poster).
Scholz F., Hensen C., Meixner A., Reitz A., Haeckel M., Romer R.L., De Lange G.J. and
Wallmann K. (2009), Lithium isotopes as a tracer for diagenetic processes in deep subsurface
sediments, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(13), Goldschmidt Conference Supplement
1, A1183 (Poster).
Scholz F., Hensen C., Haeckel M., Liebetrau V., Reitz A. and Romer R.L. (2008), Origin and
geochemical history of fluids in Gulf of Cadiz mud volcanoes: A multi‐isotopic approach,
Geophysical Research Abstracts 10, EGU2008‐A‐06658 (Poster).
Scholz F. and Neumann T. (2007), Trace element behavior in sulfidic porewaters of the Oder
estuary, SW Baltic Sea, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71(15), Goldschmidt Conference
Supplement 1, A903 (Poster).
July 23 rd , 2012