Prof. Dr. Matthias Bücker

Projects

• Maximierung der Kohlenstoffsequestrierung in Stadtbäumen (CliMax): Entwicklung eines Verfahrens für die klimawirksame Gestaltung der multifunktionalen, urbanen grünen Infrastruktur (Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Vorhaben zur Umsetzung des Klimaschutz-Sofortprogramms 2022)

• FROZEN - High-Frequency Spectral Induced Polarization Monitoring of Atmosphere-Cryosphere-Interactions (ATMO-ACCESS Transnational Access)

• BELIGI - Broadband Electromagnetic Investigation of Glacier Ice using Spectral Induced Polarization, Time-Domain Electromagnetics, and Ground-Penetrating Radar (INTERACT Transnational Access), press release
• Sudden drying of large karst lakes in the Lacandon Maya region of southern Mexico (DFG - project number 439783529)

Peer-reviewed Publications

2023

• Buckel, J., Mudler, J., Gardeweg, R., Hauck, C., Hilbich, C., Frauenfelder, R., Kneisel, C., Buchelt, S., Blöthe, J. H., Hördt, A., & Bücker, M. (2023). Identifying mountain permafrost degradation by repeating historical electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements. The Cryosphere, 17(7), 2919-2940, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2919-2023.

2022

• Martínez-Abarca, R., Bücker, M., Hoppenbrock, J. et al. (2022). Evidence of large water-level variations found in deltaic sediments of a tropical deep lake in the karst mountains of the Lacandon forest, Mexico. Journal of Paleolimnology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-022-00264-7.
• Buckel, J., Reinosch, E., Voigtländer, A., Dietze, M., Bücker, M., Krebs, N., Schoeck, R., Mäusbacher, R., & Hördt, A. (2022). Rock glacier characteristics under semiarid climate conditions in the Western Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, e2021JF006256, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006256.

2021

• Hoppenbrock, J., Bücker, M., Gallistl, J., Flores Orozco, A., de la Paz, C.P., García García, C.E.; Razo Pérez, J.A., Buckel, J., Pérez, L. (2021). Evaluation of Lake Sediment Thickness from Water-Borne Electrical Resistivity Tomography Data. Sensors, 21, 8053, https://doi.org/10.3390/s21238053.
• Aigner, L., Högenauer, P., Bücker, M., and Flores Orozco, A. (2021). A Flexible Single Loop Setup for Water-Borne Transient Electromagnetic Sounding Applications. Sensors, 21, 6624, https://doi.org/10.3390/s21196624.
• Katona, T., Gilfedder, B. S., Frei, S., Bücker, M., Flores Orozco, A. (2021). High-resolution induced polarization imaging of biogeochemical carbon turnover hotspots in a peatland, Biogeosciences, 18, 4039–4058, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4039-2021.
• Bücker, M., Flores Orozco, A., Gallistl, J., Steiner, M., Aigner, L., Hoppenbrock, J., Glebe, R., Morales Barrera, W., Pita de la Paz, C., García García, C. E., Razo Pérez, J. A., Buckel, J., Hördt, A., Schwalb, A., Pérez, L. (2021): Integrated land and water-borne geophysical surveys shed light on the sudden drying of large karst lakes in southern Mexico, Solid Earth, 12, 439–461, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-439-2021.

2019

• Kessouri, P., Furman, A., Huisman, J.A., Martin, T., Mellage, A., Ntarlagiannis, D., Bücker, M., Ehosioke, S., Fernandez, P., Flores Orozco, A., Kemna, A., Nguyen, F., Pilawski, T., Saneiyan, S., Schmutz, M., Schwartz, N., Weigand, M., Wu, Y., Zhang, C., Placencia Gomez, E. (2019). Induced polarization applied to biogeophysics: recent advances and future prospects. Near Surface Geophysics., 17(6), 595-621, https://doi.org/10.1002/nsg.12072 .
• Leroy, P., Hördt, A., Gaboreau, S., Zimmermann, E., Claret, F., Bücker, M., Stebner, H., Huisman, J. A. (2019). Spectral induced polarization of low-pH cement and concrete. Cement and Concrete Composites, 104, 103397, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2019.103397 .
• Flores Orozco, A., Micić, V., Bücker, M., Gallistl, J., Hofmann, T., Nguyen, F. (2019). Complex-conductivity monitoring to delineate aquifer pore clogging during nanoparticles injection. Geophysical Journal International, 218(3), 1838–1852, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz255 .
• Bücker, M., Flores Orozco, A., Undorf, S., Kemna, A. (2019). On the Role of Stern- and Diffuse-Layer Polarization Mechanisms in Porous Media. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(6), 5656-5677, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017679 .
• Bücker, M., Undorf, S., Flores Orozco, A., Kemna, A. (2019). Electro-chemical polarization around metallic particles – Part 2: The role of diffuse surface charge. Geophysics, 84(2), E57-E73, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2018-0150.1 .

2018

• Bücker, M., Flores Orozco, A., Kemna, A. (2018). Electro-chemical polarization around metallic particles – Part 1: The role of diffuse-layer and volume-diffusion relaxation. Geophysics, 83(4), E203-E217, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2017-0401.1 .
• Flores Orozco, A., Bücker, M., Steiner, M., Malet, J. P. (2018). Complex-conductivity imaging for the understanding of landslide architecture. Engineering geology, 243, 241-252, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2018.07.009 .

2017

• Bücker, M., Lozano-Garcia. S., Ortega-Guerrero, B., Caballero-Miranda, M., Pérez, L., Caballero, L., Pita de la Paz, C., Sánchez-Galindo, A., Jesús Villegas, F., Flores Orozco, A., Brown, E., Werne, J., Valero Garcés, B., Schwalb, A., Kemna, A., Sánchez-Alvaro, E., Launizar-Martínez, N., Valverde-Placencia, A., Garay-Jiménez, F. (2017). Geoelectrical and Electromagnetic Methods Applied to Paleolimnological Studies: Two Examples from Desiccated Lakes in the Basin of Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 69(2), 279-298, http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/bsgm2017v69n2a1 .
• Bücker, M., Orozco, A.F., Hördt, A., Kemna, A. (2017). An analytical membrane-polarization model to predict the complex conductivity signature of immiscible liquid hydrocarbon contaminants. Near Surface Geophysics, 15(6), pp.547-562, https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2017051 .
• Flores Orozco, A., Gallistl, J., Bücker, M., and Williams, K.H. (2017). Decay curve analysis for data error quantification in time-domain induced polarization imaging. Geophysics, 83(2), pp.1-48, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2016-0714.1 .
• Hördt, A., Bairlein, K., Bücker, M., Stebner, H. (2017). Geometrical constraints for membrane polarization. Near Surface Geophysics, 15(6), pp.579-592, https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2017053 .
• Lozano-García, S., Brown, E.T., Ortega, B., Caballero, M., Werne, J., Fawcett, P.J., Schwalb, A., Valero-Garcés, B., Schnurrenberger, D., O´Grady, R., Stockhecke, M., Steinman, B., Cabral-Cano, E., Caballero, C., Sosa-Nájera, S., Soler, A.M., Pérez, L., Noren, A., Myrbo, A., Bücker, M., Wattrus, N., Arciniega, A., Wonik, T., Watt, S., Kumar, D., Acosta, C., Martínez, I., Cossio, R., Ferland, T., Vergara-Huerta, F. (2017). Perforación profunda en el lago de Chalco: reporte técnico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 69(2), 299-311, http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/bsgm2017v69n2a2 .

2016

• Hördt, A., Bairlein, K., Bielefeld, A., Bücker, M., Kuhn, E., Nordsiek, S., Stebner, H. (2016). The dependence of induced polarization on fluid salinity and pH, studied with an extended model of membrane polarization. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 135, 408-417, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2016.02.007 .
• Bairlein, K., Bücker, M., Hördt, A., Hinze, B., 2016. Temperature dependence of spectral induced polarization data: experimental results and membrane polarization theory. Geophysical Journal International, 205(1), 440-453, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw027 .

2015

• Wainwright, H.M., Orozco, A.F., Bücker, M., Dafflon, B., Chen, J., Hubbard, S.S., Williams, K.H. (2015). Hierarchical Bayesian method for mapping biogeochemical hot spots using induced polarization imaging. Water Resources Research, 52(1), 533-551, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017763 .

2013

• Bücker, M., Hördt, A. (2013). Analytical modeling of membrane polarization with explicit parameterization of pore radii and the electrical double layer. Geophysical Journal International, 194 (2), 804-813, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt136 .
• Bücker, M., Hördt, A. (2013). Long and short narrow pore models for membrane polarization. Geophysics, 78(6), E299-E314, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2012-0548.1 .

Book Chapters

• Flores-Orozco, A., Bücker, M. (2022). Spectral Induced Polarization (SIP) Imaging for the Characterization of Hydrocarbon Contaminant Plumes. In: Di Mauro, A., Scozzari, A., Soldovieri, F. (eds) Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies for Water Cycle Management. Springer Water. Springer, Cham., 363-386, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08262-7_15.

Patents and Patent Applications

• Mudler, J., Buckel, J., Bücker, M., Hördt, A. (2021). Elektrode mit leitfähigem Textilmaterial zur elektrischen Widerstandsmessung des Untergrundes. Patent Application, DE 10 2021 110 721.
• Bücker, M., Hördt, A. and Fulda, C., Baker Hughes Incorporated (2016). Pore parameters and hydraulic parameters from electric impedance spectra. U.S. Patent 9,377,554.
• Hördt, A., Bücker, M., Fulda, C. (2011). Pore parameters and hydraulic parameters from electric impedance spectra. U.S. Patent Application 61.532.908, September 2011.

Theses

• Bücker, M. (2018). Pore-Scale Modelling of Induced-Polarization Mechanisms in Geologic Materials. Dissertation thesis, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 214 pp., http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/7886.
• Bücker, M. (2011). Die Membranpolarisation als Ursache des IP-Effekts in porösen Medien. M.Sc. thesis, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, 119 pp., https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30181.96486 .
• Bücker, M. (2008). Numerische Simulation des Einflusses von Bathymetrie auf marine transient elektromagnetische Messungen in der Kohlenwasserstoffexploration. B.Sc. thesis, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, 51 pp., https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16760.19204 .

Data Sets

• Hoppenbrock, J., Bücker, M., Gallistl, J., Flores Orozco, A., Pita de la Paz, C., García García, C.E., Razo Pérez, J.A., Buckel, J., Pérez, L. (2021). Data set | Evaluation of Lake Sediment Thickness from Water-Borne Electrical Resistivity Tomography Data (v1.0). Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5708447 .

• Buckel, J., Reinosch, E., Voigtländer, A., Dietze, M., Bücker, M., Krebs, N., Schroeckh, R., Mäusbacher, R., Hördt, A. (2021). Supplementary files: Rock glacier characteristics and origin under semiarid climate in the Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4739084 .

• Bücker, M., Flores Orozco, A., Gallistl, J., Steiner, M., Aigner, L., Hoppenbrock, J., Glebe, R., Morales Barrera, W., Pita de la Paz, C., García García, E., Razo Pérez, J.A., Buckel, J., Hördt, A., and Schwalb, A., Perez, L. (2020). Data set | Water- and land-borne geophysical surveys before and after the sudden water-level decrease of two large karst lakes in southern Mexico. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3782402 .
• Bücker, M., Gómez Peña, Y., Placencia Gómez, L.A., Pita de la Paz, C. Flores Orozco, A. (2020). Data set | Geoelectrical and transient electromagnetic surveys at Viveros de Netzahualcóyotl in Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3765209 .
• Bücker, M., Flores Orozco, A., Undorf, S., Kemna, A. (2019). Scripts, models, and data for manuscript "On the Role of Stern- and Diffuse-Layer Polarization Mechanisms in Porous Media". Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3067277 .

Outreach Publications

• Pérez, L., Bücker, M. (2022). Rapid drying of large, deep lakes in the karst mountains of the Lacandon Forest, southern Mexico. Past Global Changes Horizons, 2, 12-15, https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.horiz.2.12.