Suggested topics for Bachelor’s and Master’s theses
If you are interested, please contact Prof Gugliotta.
For Bachelor students:
- Outcrop- and core-based sedimentology of Lower Permian fluvial deposits of the Halle Formation.
- Grain-size analysis and sedimentological core logging of tidal-flat sediments from cores from the Wadden Sea.
- Mapping the distribution of plastics on the beach of northeastern Sicily using drone imagery and machine learning and linking it to sedimentological processes.
For Bachelor and Master students:
- Sedimentary petrography on samples from the Paleoarchean Moodies Group, South Africa.
- Petrography and microXRF analysis of mixed siliciclastic-carbonate rocks of the Lower Cretaceous, Agrio Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina.
For master students:
- Sedimentology and 3D outcrop modelling of Lower Pleistocene sub-marine canyon deposits (fieldwork in southern Italy)
Topics under the supervision of Dr Rozzi:
- Latitudinal patterns in the relationship between body size change and extinction risk in insular mammals.(Basic to intermediate knowledge of R or willingness to learn it is required).
- Late Pleistocene remains of Megatheriidae (Mammalia, Pilosa) and Glyptodontidae (Mammalia, Cingulata) from the Province of Córdoba, Argentina: taxonomy and biochronology.
- Late Miocene gazelles (Bovidae, Antilopini) from Maragheh (Northwestern Iran): taxonomy and palaeobiogeography.
- A reappraisal of the biochronology of the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat-Lagerstätte (Germany).
Current theses
Distribution and depositional significance of double mudstone drapes from the Paleoarchean Moodies Group
- Master student: Johannes Ulrich Plötner
- Supervisor: Gugliotta, Koch
Quantifying bioclastic versus siliciclastic components in Early Pleistocene mixed arenites from Calabria, southern Italy
Sedimentology and architecture of Carboniferous fluvial deposits (Rothenburg, Germany)
Comparing different digital outcrop modelling approaches for reconstructing fluvial depositional architecture
Completed Bachelor’s and Master’s theses
- 2025 – Sanway Mukhopadhyay (Uni Bremen): Sedimentology of fluvial to estuarine deposits of the Palaeoarchean (3.22 Ga) Moodies Group (Stolzburg Syncline, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa) (M.Sc.)
- 2024 – Fenja Schmidt: Anthropogenic litter in tidepools on rocky shores in Chile (B.Sc.)
- 2024 – Svea Franke (Uni Bremen): Sedimentary facies and architecture of Lower Pleistocene tidal-strait deposits from Calabria, Southern Italy (M.Sc.)
