Welcome to the Aquatic Geomicrobiology/Limnology working group at Friedrich Schiller Univeristy Jena, the laboratory of Kirsten Küsel.
Limnology (greek, limne: lake) is the study of freshwater as ecosystems and examines their structure, energy budgets and biogeochemical cycles. Our working group is focussed on aquatic geomicrobiology that interfaces the disciplines of microbial ecology with biogeochemistry.
Our ongoing projects are investigating in particular:
- (i) the interaction of microorganisms with minerals in freshwater habitats,
- (ii) microbial processes in the terrestrial subsurface.
