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Michael Kersten is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with substantial contributions to both fields through numerous publications.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

Within these fields, Kersten has explored several subfields, including:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials

Kersten's work addresses diverse topics, particularly:

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Digital rock physics, chemistry, and biology: challenges and prospects of pore-scale modelling approach" (2021, Applied Geochemistry)
  • "Benchmarking conventional and machine learning segmentation techniques for digital rock physics analysis of fractured rocks" (2022, Environmental Earth Sciences)
  • "Competitive arsenate and phosphate adsorption on α-FeOOH, LaOOH, and nano-TiO2: Two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy study" (2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • "Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils of an industrial area in semi-arid Uzbekistan: spatial distribution, relationship with trace metals and risk assessment" (2021, Environmental Geochemistry and Health)
  • "Simulating permeability reduction by clay mineral nanopores in a tight sandstone by combining computer X-ray microtomography and focussed ion beam scanning electron microscopy imaging" (2021, Solid Earth)

Kersten frequently publishes in several scientific journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • Applied Geochemistry
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • Environmental Earth Sciences
  • Chemical Geology

Collaboration is an important aspect of this researcher's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Frieder Enzmann
  • Saeid Sadeghnejad
  • Arne Jacob
  • Thorsten Schäfer
  • Zhipeng Gao

Best Publications

  • Real-time 3D imaging of Haines jumps in porous media flow

    Steffen Berg;Holger Ott;Stephan A. Klapp;Alex Schwing

  • Chemical Fractionation of Heavy Metals in Anoxic Estuarine and Coastal Sediments

    M. Kersten;U. Förstner

  • Sediment Criteria Development

    Ulrich Förstner;Wolfgang Ahlf;Wolfgang Calmano;Michael Kersten

  • Microstructural evolution of gas hydrates in sedimentary matrices observed with synchrotron X-ray computed tomographic microscopy

    Marwen Chaouachi;Andrzej Falenty;Kathleen Sell;Frieder Enzmann

  • From connected pathway flow to ganglion dynamics

    M. Rücker;M. Rücker;S. Berg;R. T. Armstrong;A. Georgiadis

  • Three-dimensional trace element analysis by confocal X-ray microfluorescence imaging.

    Laszlo Vincze;Bart Vekemans;Frank E. Brenker;Gerald Falkenberg

  • Speciation of Trace Metals in Sediments

    M. Kersten

  • Normalization procedures for sediment contaminants in spatial and temporal trend monitoring

    Michael Kersten;Foppe Smedes

  • Aqueous Solubility Diagrams for Cementitious Waste Stabilization Systems: II, End-Member Stoichiometries of Ideal Calcium Silicate Hydrate Solid Solutions

    Dmitrii A. Kulik;Michael Kersten

  • Mn, Fe, Zn and As speciation in a fast-growing ferromanganese marine nodule

    Matthew A. Marcus;Alain Manceau;Michael Kersten

  • Effect of sample pretreatment on the reliability of solid speciation data of heavy metals — implications sesfor the study of early diagenetic processes☆

    M. Kersten;U. Förstner

  • Connected pathway relative permeability from pore-scale imaging of imbibition

    S. Berg;M. Rücker;M. Rücker;H. Ott;H. Ott;A. Georgiadis

  • Fast X-ray Micro-Tomography of Multiphase Flow in Berea Sandstone: A Sensitivity Study on Image Processing

    L. Leu;L. Leu;S. Berg;F. Enzmann;R. T. Armstrong;R. T. Armstrong

  • Presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments and surface water from Shadegan wetland – Iran: A focus on source apportionment, human and ecological risk assessment and Sediment-Water Exchange

    Nasrin Yavar Ashayeri;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore;Michael Kersten

  • Processing of rock core microtomography images

    Swarup Chauhan;Wolfram Rühaak;Faisal Khan;Frieder Enzmann

  • Detection of a Ca-rich lithology in the Earth's deep (>300 km) convecting mantle

    Frank E. Brenker;Laszlo Vincze;Bart Vekemans;Lutz Nasdala

  • Sediment criteria development : contributions from environmental geochemistry to water quality management

    Ulrich Förstner;Wolfgang Ahlf;Wolfgang Calmano;Michael Kersten

  • Early diagenetic processes during Mn-carbonate formation: evidence from the isotopic composition of authigenic Ca-rhodochrosites of the Baltic Sea

    Thomas Neumann;Uwe Heiser;Markus A Leosson;Michael Kersten

  • Artifacts in the Determination of Trace Metal Binding Forms in Anoxic Sediments by Sequential Extraction

    K. Wallmann;M. Kersten;J. Gruber;U. Förstner

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their oxygen-containing derivatives (OPAHs) in soils from the Angren industrial area, Uzbekistan

    Benjamin A. Musa Bandowe;Nosir Shukurov;Michael Kersten;Wolfgang Wilcke

  • Distribution and Fate of Heavy Metals in the North Sea

    M. Kersten;M. Dicke;M. Kriews;K. Naumann

  • 3D simulation of the permeability tensor in a soil aggregate on basis of nanotomographic imaging and LBE solver

    Faisal Khan;Frieder Enzmann;Michael Kersten;Andreas Wiegmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Förstner
Ulrich Förstner Hamburg University of Technology
Steffen Berg
Steffen Berg Shell (Netherlands)
Ryan T. Armstrong
Ryan T. Armstrong University of New South Wales
Werner F. Kuhs
Werner F. Kuhs University of Göttingen
Erik H. Saenger
Erik H. Saenger Ruhr University Bochum
Wolfgang Wilcke
Wolfgang Wilcke Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Alexander G. Schwing
Alexander G. Schwing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Markus Ammann
Markus Ammann Paul Scherrer Institute
Yosef Steinberger
Yosef Steinberger Bar-Ilan University
Stefan Weyer
Stefan Weyer University of Hannover

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