Projects
| Current Projects | |
|---|---|
 | SPP 2361 – On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere. Project: Local pathways to the Fluvial Anthroposphere at Echaz (Rhine) and Eger (Danube). A comparative analysis from c. AD 1100 to 1800 Keywords: Fluvial Anthroposphere, Middle Ages, Preindustrial Modern Period, Floodplains, Southern Germany Contact: Snježana Pejdanović, Peter Kühn |
 | FNR Waldklimafonds: Adaptations to climate change - increasing water retention, soil stability and CO2 sequestration in forest soils by mosses Keywords: Forest ecosystem, forest soil, bryophytes, water retention, drought Contact: Corinna Gall, Steffen Seitz |
| MultiTroph (subproject 3): Multi-Trophic Interactions in a Forest Biodiversity Experiment in China |
| MLTRANS: Transferability of machine learning models in digital soil mapping |
| EXC 2064: Interpretable Spatial Machine Learning for Environmental Modelling Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping, Soil Formation, Uncertainty Quantification, Interpretable Models, Sampling Design, Topography, Differential Equations, Gaussian Processes Contact: Kerstin Rau, Thomas Gläßle, Thomas Scholten, Philipp Hennig |
 | Soil and vegetation feedbacks on climate change in high mountain ranges of the Tibetan Plateau Keywords: Soil, soil quality, alpine grassland ecosystem, climate change, FT-NMIR, machine learning, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Contact: Zuonan Cao |
| Antarctic Research: Microbial-mediated soil formation in maritime Antarctica under simulated environmental conditions Keywords: Microbial communities, Permafrost-affected soils, Pedogenesis, Micromorphology, Maritime Antarctica Contact: Lars Arne Meier, Thomas Scholten, Peter Kühn |
| CRC 1070/ Phase 3 Resource Cultures: Subproject B02 - Resource Use in Favourable/Disfavourable Areas Keywords: Colluvial Deposits, Land Use and Resources, Settlement History Contact: Thomas Knopf, Thomas Scholten, Peter Kühn, Judith Koschorke |
| CRC 1070/ Phase 3 Resource Cultures: Subproject S - Service project geoscientific and geoarchaeological expertise and research data management Keywords: GIS, Environmental and Spatial Data Sets, (Geo-)Statistics, Research data management (RDM) Contact: Tobias Rentschler, Ruhollah Taghizadeh, Martin Bartelheim, Karsten Schmidt, Thomas Scholten, Judith Koschorke |
Previous Projects
EarthShape (Phase II, subproject 3): Microbial Engineers - Drivers of Earth Surface Development and Stabilization
| Keywords: Microorganisms, Sediments, Pedogenesis, Stabilization, Chile Contact: Nicolas Riveras Munoz, Peter Kühn, Steffen Seitz, Thomas Scholten |
MesiCrust: Mechanisms of Soil Erosion under Forest – The Role of Biological Soil Crusts
| Keywords: Soil Erosion, Biological Soil Crusts, Skid Trails, Schönbuch Nature Park Contact: Corinna Gall, Steffen Seitz |
CRC 1070/ Phase 2 Resource Cultures: Subproject B02 - Favor – disfavor? Development of resources in marginal areas
| Keywords: Colluvial Deposits, Land Use and Resources, Settlement History Contact: Sascha Scherer, Thomas Knopf, Thomas Scholten, Peter Kühn |
CRC 1070/ Phase 2 Resource Cultures: Subproject S - Service project geoscientific and geoarchaeological expertise
Keywords: GIS, Environmental and Spatial Data Sets, (Geo-)Statistics
Contact: Tobias Rentschler, Karsten Schmidt, Peter Kühn, Thomas Scholten
Spatial analysis and modelling of soil organic carbon using data mining and digital soil mapping along a climatic gradient in West Greenland
Keywords: data mining, digital soil mappin, climate gradient, Greenland
Contact: Philipp Gries, Karsten Schmidt, Peter Kühn, Thomas Scholten
UMD-UT Cooperation Program: Soil and Human Culture Dynamics
Keywords: Holocene, Anthropology, Archaeology, Soil Science
Contact: Peter Kühn
CRC 1070 Resource Cultures - PhD School "Networks and Resource Complexes": Subproject "Perception of Soils in Society"
Keywords: Soil knowledge, Soil perception
Contact: Sandra Teuber, Thomas Knopf, Thomas Scholten
Paleosols from King George Island, Maritime Antarctica – indicators of paleoenvironmental change during the Eocene/Oligocene transition
Keywords: Antarctica, Tertiary, Paleosols, Paleoclimate, Pedogenesis, Micromorphology, Geochemistry
Contact: Diogo Noses Spinola, Peter Kühn
Quantification of Soil CO2 Emissions under the Influence of Climate Change on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau based on Freely Accessible Data
Keywords: Soil CO2 Emissions, Permafrost, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Contact: Anna Bosch, Karsten Schmidt, Thomas Scholten
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
Sensitivity and Response of the Treeline Ecotone in Rolwaling Himal, Nepal, to Climate Warming
Keywords: Treeline, Soil properties, Climate change, Rolwaling Himal
Contact: Michael Müller, Thomas Scholten
PedoScale - Hyper-scale digital soil mapping and soil formation analysis
Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping, Digital Relief Analysis, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery
Contact: Thorsten Behrens
YANGTZE-GEO: Subproject Soil Erosion
Keywords: Soil Erosion, Terrace Condition, TerraCE, Soil Erosion Modeling, Erosion Risk Assessment, Yangtze River, YANGTZE-GEO
Contact: Felix Stumpf, Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt, Karsten Schmidt, Thomas Scholten
CAME: Subproject Permatrans
Keywords: Soil Organic Carbon, Permafrost, Ecosystem Functioning, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Contact: Corina Dörfer, Peter Kühn, Thomas Scholten
PALEOENVI: The late Quaternary palaeoenvironment of the Pannonian Basin (SE Europe)
Keywords: Palaeoenvironment, Loess, Geochronology, Provenance, Geochemistry
Contact: Ann-Kathrin Schatz
BEF China: Subproject 6 Soil Properties and Soil Erosion
Keywords: Soil Erosion, Soil Properties, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning
Contact: Steffen Seitz, Peter Kühn, Thomas Scholten
iSOIL - Interactions between soil related sciences: WP4 Pedometrics
Keywords: Soil Functions and Threats, Soil-Landscape-Modeling, Digital Soil Property Mapping, Spatial Data Analysis, Geophysics
Contact: Karsten Schmidt, Thorsten Behrens
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
Upper Palaeolithic Environment of Kostiёnki and Borshchevo, Middle Russian Plain
Keywords: Upper Palaeolithic, Paleosols, Krotovina
Contact: Dana Pietsch
Pre-Aksumite environment of Northern Tigray, Ethiopia
Keywords: Pre-Aksumite Environment
Contact: Dana Pietsch
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