Projects
Previous Projects
CRC 1070/ Phase 1 Resource Cultures: Subproject S - Service project geoscientific and geoarchaeological expertise
S develops and implements information systems to provide and analyze environmental and spatial datasets of natural systems, serving as Furthermore, S serves as a geoscientific and geoarchaeological helpdesk for all sub-projects within the collaborative research centre ResourcesCultures (SFB 1070). Furthermore, S offers hands-on training courses and summer schools on GIS and handling environmental data.
Keywords: GIS, Environmental and Spatial Data Sets, (Geo-)Statistics
Contact: Karsten Schmidt, Peter Kühn, Thomas Scholten
CRC 1070/ Phase 1 Resource Cultures: Subproject B02 - Favor – disfavor? Development of resources in marginal areas
The project investigates the causes of development processes of resources and related movements into unfavourable or marginal areas by means of two integrated case studies. With respect to the resource soil and landscape-related location factors, the case studies aim on archeological and pedological analyses to work out movements.
Keywords: Colluvial Deposits, Land Use and Resources, Settlement History
Contact: Jessica Henkner, Thomas Knopf, Peter Kühn, Thomas Scholten
Permafrost, Pedogenesis and Ecosystem Functioning: Feedbacks and Interactions across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Keywords: Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen, Permafrost, Ecosystem Functioning, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Contact: Frank Baumann, Thomas Scholten, Peter Kühn
Collaborative Research Centre SFB299
The main objective of the SFB 299 is the development of an integrated methodology towards the achievement and appraisal of economically and ecologically sustainable options for regional land use which are site-specific and economic differentiated. In cooperation with the Institute of Soil Science and Soil Conservation of the Justus-Liebig-University we are developing different regionalization approaches of soil properties and Pleistcene periglacial slope deposits, based on Ground Penetrating Radar surveys, Data Mining and techniques to derive representative sample and study sites.
Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping, Landuse Concepts, Representativity
Contact: Karsten Schmidt, Thorsten Behrens, Thomas Scholten
Pedon
The Pedon project is part of the interdisciplinary research programme Biolog / Diva. Diva focusses on the relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Grassland Ecosystems. In PEDON the heterogeneity of site properties and water balance parameters within natural grassland stands is recorded and quantified.
Keywords: Pedodiversity, Ecosystem functioning
Contact: Ralf Gründling, Thomas Scholten
Stoff
The project STOFF project is also part of the interdisciplinary research programme Biolog / Diva focussing on processes controling interdependences between biodiversity, plant productivity, historical land use, and carbon storage as well as nitrogen mineralization.
Keywords: Pedodiversity, carbon stroage
Contact: Ralf Gründling, Thomas Scholten
Digital Soil Mapping of the Elbe river
In cooperation with the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at the University in Halle and the Geological Survey of Saxony-Anhalt we are developing a soil map of the Elbe river for flood-risk-management and environmental protection, based on special terrain analysis approaches, the German soil assesment and Data Mining approaches.
Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping
Contact: Thorsten Behrens, Karsten Schmidt
Digital Soil Mapping of the Schwarze Elster river
A first test case for digitally mapping soils in flooding areas based on Learning Vector Quantization in the Data Mining approach. In cooperation with the Geological Survey of Saxony-Anhalt.
Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping
Contact: Thorsten Behrens
Digital Soil Mapping of the L5031 in Thuringia
A digital soil mapping project we recently finished in Thuringia comprising different soilscapes. In cooperation with the State Office of Environment and Geology of Thuringia.
Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping
Contact: Thorsten Behrens, Karsten Schmidt
Environmental Reconstruction in Marocco
Environment and Prehistory in NE Morocco. A geoarchaeological Reconstruction.
Keywords: Geoarchaeology and Micromorphology
Organisation: J. Linstädter, C. Zielhofer (University of Osnabrück)
Contact: Peter Kühn
Landscape Reconstruction in Neolithic Southwest Germany
Pastures, Chert Sources, and Upland-Lowland Mobility in Neolithic Southwest Germany .
Keywords: Landscape Reconstruction
Organisation: L. Fisher (University of Illinois), C. Knipper (University of Tübingen).
Contact: Thomas Scholten, Peter Kühn
Station Truso, Poland
Pedology, geomorphology, and micromorphology at the station Truso.
Keywords: Pedoarchaeology
Organisation: Prof. Dr. S. Brather (University of Freiburg).
Contact: Peter Kühn
Geoarchaeology in Hesse
Geoarchaeology of the late middle-palaeolithic station Buhlen (Hesse). Micromorphology of sediments and soils.
Keywords: Geoarchaeology and Micromorphology
Organisation: Doris Walther (Frankfurt).
Contact: Peter Kühn
Settlement Strategies in the Midle Ages and the Modern Times
Multicausal patterns of explanation and settlement strategies in the Middle Ages and Modern Times in the Hessian Mountains. Geoarchaeological (geomorphology and soil science) investigations in the surrounding of the "Wüstung Baumkirchen" (Vogelsberg).
Keywords: Geoarchaeology and Micromorphology
Organisation: Dr. Udo Recker (LA Denkmalpflege Hessen).
Contact: Peter Kühn
The Roman Limes
Geoarchaeology in the surroundings of the Roman Limes wall at Holzheim (northern Wetterau) Comparison of both Roman and modern stages of soil development; potential of environmental inferences of Roman time soil data particularly micromorphology, heavy metals, and clay minerals.
Keywords: Geoarchaeology
Contact: Peter Kühn
A soil map for the Murtensee catchment
In cooperation with the EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) we are digitally mapping the Murtensee catchment in the Swiss Mittelland.
Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping
Contact: Thorsten Behrens, Karsten Schmidt