The GKSS Lead (Pb) Project

Project Coordinator: Hans von Storch
Staff: Mariza Costa-Cabral, Frauke Feser, and Charlotte Hagner.
Former Staff: Heike Langenberg
Former Interns: Sigrid Schulz and Annika Wallaschek and Daniel Sahonero Rodrigues.
Collaborators: Jozef and Elisabeth Pacyna (emission estimates); Michael Goodsite (Pb measurements in cores); Steffen Kolb (European media studies)

Address: Institute for Coastal Research; GKSS Research Center ; Max-Planck-Str. 1; D-21502 Geesthacht; Germany.
E-mail contacts: hvonstorch(at)web.de, frauke.feser(at)hzg.de.
This project was financed by the HGF .


  • Lead Project Summary
  • Publications of the Lead Project
  • Article on the lead project in the German newspaper "DIE ZEIT", 02/05/2002.
  • Overview on the lead project in the Swiss journal "NZZ", 11/2001.
  • Grafik des Monats in Bild der Wissenschaft 03/2002
  • Literature list assembled by the workshop participants of the Heavy Metals workshop in Hamburg that took place in February 2001:
    Integrated assessment for policy analysis of transboundary pollutant control: -The case study of petrol lead in Europe-
  • History of tetraethyl-lead usage in gasoline
  • Preliminary results of geogenic Rn222 and Pb210 production, transport and deposition in Europe.