Research
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
since 2008:
acatech-project "Georessource Wasser - Herausforderung Globaler
Wandel"
since 2008:
Palaeopedology of the Late Palaeolithic (Alleroed) Weitsche site,
Wendland region, NW Germany
Keywords: Jeetzel-Elbe Valley, floodplain, Federmesser Culture,
fluvial, Fluvisol, wetland catena
since 2006:
Holocene geomorphodynamics in the Kyichu River catchment, Lhasa area, southern Tibet (China): reconstruction of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes
Keywords: relief formation, sedimentation, soil formation, fluvial, aeolian, colluvial, buried palaeosol, human impact, prehistory, environmental history, Late Quaternary
since 2003:
Soils as indicators of Holocene environmental changes on the
Tibetan Plateau (China)
since 1998:
Late Weichselian buried palaeosols in Northern Central
Europe
PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS
1995-2003:
Late Quaternary evolution of lake basins and river valleys in Northeast Germany
Keywords: young morainic landscape, glaciolacustrine basin, lake, kettle hole, dead ice, lake level fluctuation, lacustrine sedimentation, peat, aeolian sand, buried soil, Lateglacial, Early Holocene, stratigraphy, geomorphology, geochronology, geoarchaeology, Northeast Germany.
1994-2001:
Geoarchaeology of Late Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic sites in Northeast Germany
Keywords: wetland, lake, dune, geoarchaeology, sedimentology, geochronology, palaeobotany, landscape evolution, Lateglacial, Early Holocene, earliest settlement, Northeast Germany.
1996-1998:
Colluvial sediments and (pre-) historic soil erosion in Northeast Germany
Keywords: colluvial sediment, erosion, hillwash, buried soil, settlement history, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Medieval Time, pedology, geomorphology, archaeology, Northeast Germany.
1989-1997:
Late Quaternary landscape evolution in the Lake Mueritz area, Northeast Germany
Keywords: lake evolution, lake level fluctuation, lake shore, (pre-) historic soil erosion, palaeohydrology, geomorphology, palaeobotany, palaeolimnology, settlement history, Northeast Germany.
MEMBERSHIPS
Arbeitskreis Geomorphologie der DGfG (German Working Group of Geomorphology)
Deutsche Quartärvereinigung (German Society of Quaternary Research)
Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen (Organisation of German University Geographers)
Deutscher Alpenverein (German Society of the Alps)
Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Hochgebirge (German Working Group of High Mountain areas)
