Robert Schwefel
Müggelseedamm 301, 12587 Berlin
Profile
- Physical limnology and numerical modeling
- Oxygen budget of lakes
- Impact of climate change and changes in land use on lakes
- Boundary layer physics and transport processes
Scientific career
- since 2020 Postdoc, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
- 2018-2020 Postdoc, Universtiy of California, Santa Barbara (Earth Research Institute, Sally MacIntyre Laboratory)
- 2013-2018 Scientific assistant, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Physics of Aquatic Systems Laboratory)
Education
- 2013-2017 PhD, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Thesis: Oxygen depletion in Lake Geneva)
- 2006-2012 Diploma in Physics, University of Heidelberg
Publications
Projects
Other Publications
Steinsberger, T., R. Schwefel, A. Wüest, B. Müller (2020): Hypolimnetic oxygen depletion in deep lakes: effects of trophic state and organic matter accumulation.Limnol. Oceanogr. 65: 3128–3138. doi: 10.1002/lno.11578
Müller, B., T. Steinsberger, R. Schwefel, R.Gächter, M. Sturm,and A. Wüest (2019): Oxygen consumption in seasonally stratified lakes decreases only below a marginal phosphorus treshold. Sci Rep 9: 18054. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54486-3
Schwefel, R., H. Boisgontier, B. Müller, and A. Wüest (2019): Global warming affects nutrient upwelling in deep lakes.Aquat. Sci. 81(3): 50 (11 pages). doi: 10.1007/s00027-019-0637-0
Schwefel, R., T. Steinsberger, D. Bouffard, L. Bryant, B. Müller, and A. Wüest(2018): Oxygen depletion in deep lakes: Using small-scale measurements to understand spatial variability of oxygen depletion in a large perialpine lake.Limnol. Oceanogr.63(S1): S54-S67. doi: 10.1002/lno.10723
Gaudard, A., R. Schwefel, L. Raman-Vinnå, D. Bouffard, and A. Wüest (2017): Optimizing the parameterization of deep mixing and internal seiches in one-dimensional hydrodynamic models. Geosci. Model Dev. 10(9): 3411-3423. doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-3411-2017
Steinsberger, T., M. Schmid, A. Wüest, R. Schwefel, B. Wehrli, and B. Müller (2017): Organic carbon mass accumulation rate regulates the flux of reduced substances from the sediments of deep lakes. Biogeosciences 14(13): 3275-3285. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-3275-2017
Schwefel, R., M. Hondzo, A. Wüest, and D. Bouffard (2017):Scaling oxygen microprofiles at the sediment interface of deep stratified waters. Geophys. Res. Lett.44(3): 1340–1349. doi:10.1002/2016GL072079
Schwefel, R., A. Gaudard, A. Wüest, and D. Bouffard (2016): Effects of climate change on deep-water oxygen and winter mixing in a deep lake (Lake Geneva) –Comparing observational findings and modeling. Water Resour. Res.52(12): 8811-8826. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019194