Dierk Blomeier

Research scientist, geology
Dierk Blomeier
E-mail
Phone+47 77 75 06 52
Cellphone+47 92 48 20 08
Work placeTromsø
Affiliation

Current activities

  • Geological research program GEOVENT (Geological Events in Norwegian Polar Areas): Focus on Late Palaeozoic sedimentary bedrocks
  • Extinction history and depositional environments at the Permian-Triassic boundary (Kapp Starostin Formation, Vikinghøgda Formation)
  • Stratigraphy, geochemical signature and environmental variability of Permian temperate, marine bedrocks on Svalbard (Kapp Starostin Formation)
  • Stratigraphy and platform morphology of Late Carboniferous to Early Permian warm-water platforms (Gipshuken Formation, Wordiekammen Formation)
  • Middle Triassic marine reptiles: Systematic palaeontology of Ichthyosaurs from Svalbard (Botneheia Formation)
  • Devonian Old Red Sandstone: Reconstruction of depositional processes and sedimentary environments of fluvial & marginal marine systems (Dicksonfjorden Formation)
  • Geological mapping programme GEOKART: Mapping of Late Palaeozoic bedrocks on Svalbard

Career

  • 2007 - currently: Permanent position as senior researcher at the Norwegian Polar Institute (Tromsø, Norway)
  • 2005 - 2007: Temporary working stay at the NPI in Longyearbyen (Svalbard Science Centre, Spitsbergen)
  • 2002 - 2005: Permanent position as junior researcher at the Norwegian Polar Institute (Tromsø, Norway)
  • 1999 - 2002: Post-doc position at the Norwegian Polar Institute (Tromsø, Norway)
  • 1998 - 1999: Self-employed geologist at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany)
  • 1994 - 1997: Ph.D. student at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany)

Areas of interest and expertise

  • Development of sedimentary basins: Morphology, palaeogeography, depositional environments and life conditions
  • Facies & microfacies analysis of sedimentary bedrocks, carbonate & clastic sedimentology, palaeontology & micropalaeontology, geochemistry, sequence and cyclo-stratigraphy
  • Development and management of international, multidisciplinary research projects
  • Organization, conduction and accomplishment of fieldwork under arctic conditions
  • Project-related supervision of undergraduate and graduate students

References/Bibliography

Peer-reviewed journals

  • Blomeier, D., Carmohn, D., Forke, H. & Scheibner, C. (2011): Environmental change in the Early Permian of Spitsbergen: from a warm-water carbonate platform (Gipshuken Formation) to a temperate, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp (Kapp Starostin Formation).- Facies, 57 (3), 493-523.
  • Maisch, M.W. & Blomeier, D. (2009): Filling the gap – an ichthyosaur (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic Botneheia Formation of Svalbard.- Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 254(3): 379-384.
  • Blomeier, D., Scheibner, C. & Forke, H. (2009): Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group).- Facies, 55 (2), 291-324.
  • Volohonsky, E., Wisshak, M., Blomeier, D., Seilacher, A., Snigirevsky, S. & Freiwald, A. (2008): A new helical trace fossil from the Lower Devonian of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) and its palaeoenvironmental significance.-. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 267, 17–20.
  • Wisshak, M., Volohonsky, E. & Blomeier, D. (2004): Acanthodian fish trace fossils from the Early Devonian of Spitsbergen.- Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 49, 4, 629-634.
  • Blomeier, D., Wisshak, M., Joachimski, M., Freiwald, A. & Volohonsky, E. (2003): Carbonate accumulation in the siliciclastic Old Red Sandstone of central N Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation, Early Devonian).- Norwegian Journal of Geology, 83, 281-298.
  • Blomeier, D., Wisshak, M., Dallmann, W., Volohonsky, E. & Freiwald, A. (2003): Facies analysis of the Old Red Sandstone of Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation): Reconstruction of the depositional environments and implications of basin development.- Facies 49, 151-174.
     

Maps

  • Dallmann, W.K., Elvevold, S., Piepjohn, K., Tebenkov, A.M. & Blomeier, D. (2010): Geological map of Svalbard 1:100,000, sheet C5G Åsgardfonna, Temakart No. 46.- Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • Dallmann, W.K., Piepjohn, K., Blomeier, D. & Elvevold, S. (2009): Geological map of Svalbard 1:100,000, sheet C8G Billefjorden, revised edition, Temakart No. 43.- Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • Dallmann, W.K., Piepjohn, K., Elvevold, S. & Blomeier, D. (2009): Geological map of Svalbard 1:100,000, sheet D5G Lomfjordhalvøya, Temakart No. 44.- Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • Dallmann, W.K., Piepjohn, K. & Blomeier, D. (2007): Geological map of Svalbard 1:100.000, sheet C8G Billefjorden, Temakart No. 43.- Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • Dallmann, W.K., Piepjohn, K. & Blomeier, D. (2004): Geological map of Billefjorden 1:50.000 with excursion guide, Temakart No. 36.- Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • Dallmann, W.K., Otha, Y., Elvevold, S., & Blomeier, D. (2002): Bedrock map of Svalbard and Jan Mayen 1:750.000, Temakart No. 33.- Norwegian Polar Institute.

Popular Science

  • Blomeier, D., & Maisch, M. (2009): Fiskeøglen “Øgli”: Et enormt rovdyr fra trias-havet på Svalbard.- Ottar, 22-29.
  • Elvevold, S., Dallmann, W. & Blomeier, D. (2007): Geology of Svalbard.- Norwegian Polar Institute, popular scientific booklet, pp. 36.