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Andrea F ouml rster has been a staff scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam since 1992. She received her Dr. rer. nat. in geotectonics in 1985 and a Dr. habil. in geology in 1999, both from the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universit auml t in Greifswald, Germany. She worked 5 years in industry in the seismic exploration for hydrocarbons, before joining a basin analysis and modeling group at the Academy of Science of the German Democratic Republic in 1989. In 1996 and 1998, she was a visiting research scientist at the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas. Her current research involves the Earth's thermal field and related subjects, such as heat flow and applied geothermics. She is also involved in the investigation of geology for the storage of CO 2.

Ben Norden received a degree in geology (diploma) from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1999. Since 2000, he works at the …