Carina Becker
Address:
Department of Distributed and Data Intensive Computing
Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH)
TU Dresden
01062 Dresden
Contact:
+49(0)351-463-42338
carina.becker@uni-tuebingen.de
Consulting hours:
By arrangement
Function: Doctoral student
ResearchGate: 
Research Topics:
- Digital Soil Mapping
- Soil properties of the organic layer
- Data Mining
- Big Data Analysis
- Predictive Modelling
- Machine Learning
- Statistics
- Research Data Management
PhD Project:
- Spatial prediction of characteristics of the organic layer
CV:
*15.07.1984
Work Experience:
| Since 10/2022 | Research Associate at Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), TU Dresden: Research Data Management, Data Management Plans |
| 04/2018 - 10/2021 | Research consultant at Public Enterprise Sachsenforst, Unit site survey/soil monitoring/laboratory, Pirna: Spatial prediction of characteristics of the organic layer |
| 07/2017 - 08/2018 | Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ: Quantification of pesticide effects on species abundance in mesocosms and parametrization of mesocosm community model using R and Python |
| 02/2017 - 06/2017 | Saxon State Agency of Environment, Agriculture and Geology, Freiberg: restructuring of the Saxon Natura 2000 database model using R and Oracle SQL, methodical development of an extension and standardization of measures for FFH natural resources within the framework of the technical information system for conservation |
Education:
| Since 11/2018 | external PhD student at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen |
| 10/2006 - 06/2016 | Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Diplom in Geography with minor subjects Meteorology and Geology. Diplom thesis: Climate variability of the Tharandt forest taking account of the land use |
Publications
| 2022 | Wernicke, J., Seltmann, C. T., Wenzel, R., Becker, C., Körner, M. (2022): Forest canopy stratification based on fused, imbalanced and collinear LiDAR and Sentinel-2 metrics. Remote Sensing of Environment, 279, 113134. |
| Thomas, F., Petzold, R., Landmark, S., Mollenhauer, H., Becker, C., Werban, U. (2022): Estimating Forest Soil Properties for Humus Assessment—Is Vis-NIR the Way to Go? Remote Sensing, 14(6), 1368. | |
2021 | Thomas, F., Petzold, R., Becker, C., Werban, U. (2021): Application of Low-Cost MEMS Spectrometers for Forest Topsoil Properties Prediction. Sensors, 21(11), 3927. |
Conference Contributions
| 2023 | Becker, C., Hundt, C., Engelhardt, C., Sperling, J., Kurzweil, M., Müller-Pfefferkorn, R. (2023): SaxFDM-DMP: Developing a Data Management Plan Service for Research Institutions in Saxony. HELIPORT Workshop, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany, 13.06.2023. [talk] |
| Becker, C., Hundt, C. (2023): Fokusprojekt SaxFDM DMP auf der Love Data Week. Love Data Week, Open Science Lab, Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), Dresden, Germany, 15.02.2023. [talk] | |
| 2021 | Becker, C., Schmidt, K., Petzold, R., Werban, U., Hochschild, V., Scholten, T. (2021): Spatial uncertainty assessment of prediction maps of the organic layer in forest soils using fused Sentinel 2 data. First OZCAR - TERENO International Conference, Strasbourg, France, 4-8 October 2021. [talk] |
| 2020 | Becker, C., Frantz, D., Petzold, R., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Scholten, T. (2020): Using multi-temporal Sentinel-2 data to predict chemical properties of the organic surface layer of forest soils. EGU General Assembly 2020, Digital Conference. [talk] |
| 2019 | Becker, C., Petzold, R., Schmidt, K., Behrens, T., Thomas, F., Werban, U., Scholten, T. (2019): Räumliche Prognose der Humuseigenschaften von Waldböden. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2019, AG Digital Soil Mapping, 26. August 2019, Bern, Switzerland. [talk] |
| 2018 | Becker, C., Petzold, R. (2018): Räumliche Prognose von Humuseigenschaften. Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung 2018, Göttingen, Germany. [talk] |
Internships:
| 10/2014 - 04/2015 | Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Dresden: examination of selected meteorological measurements of the Pirin Mountains (Bulgaria), regarding plausibility, data cleaning, gap filling methods for time series with R |
| 12/2012 - 06/2013 | Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden: analysis of the variability of fur colours and patterns of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) in the Harz region using statistical frequency and cluster analysis, development of a research design especially for comparability of taken photos of each examination object and generation of a system for classifying coat coloration |
| 08/2012 - 10/2012 | GT-Pro Geotechnology Berlin: evaluation of the influence of climatic and hydrological factors on groundwater levels in the Templin area |
| 08/2011 - 09/2011 | Seal Centre Friedrichskoog |
| 04/2011 - 06/2011 | Department of Physics (Geology), Faculty of Marine Science, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |