Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Geographie
Address
Wetterkreuz 15
91058 Erlangen
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
91058 Erlangen
Projects
Research Grants
Current projects
A modular and versatile open-source Unoccupied Aerial System for lower atmospheric soundings and photogrammetric surveys in glacierised high-mountain environments
(Applicant
Groos, Alexander Raphael
)
Growth-based resilience indices for drought responses of Persian oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) along humidity gradients in the Zagros Mountains, western Iran
(Applicant
Arsalani, Mohsen
)
Ice thickness, remote sensing and sensitivity experiments using ice-flow modelling for major outlet glaciers of the Southern Patagonian Icefield (ITERATE)
(Applicants
Braun, Matthias Holger
;
Fürst, Johannes
)
Implementing climate proxy data from coralline algae in climate model evaluation: a Southern Hemisphere case study of New Zealand
(Applicants
Mölg, Thomas
;
Teichert, Sebastian
)
Large-scale Automatic Calving Front Segmentation and Frontal Ablation Analysis of Arctic Glaciers using Synthetic-Aperture Radar Image Sequences
(Applicants
Christlein, Vincent
;
Seehaus, Thorsten
)
Networked through Sound: Listening to 20th Century Wildlife Sound Archives
(Applicant
Jasper, Sandra
)
Open geospatial data at the intersection of digital commoning, digital humanitarianism, and digital capitalism: Transformations and tensions in OpenStreetMap
(Applicants
Glasze, Georg
;
Michel, Boris
)
Reconstruction of past hydroclimate variability in Iran from a multi-centennial and multi-parameter juniper tree-ring network
(Applicants
Bräuning, Achim
;
Foroozan, Zeynab
)
Regional-scale ice-flow modelling in Patagonia since the Little Ice Age (RESPONSE)
(Applicant
Fürst, Johannes
)
Regional Value Creation in Border Regions - the Example of the Agri-Food Sector
(Applicant
Chilla, Tobias
)
The Mountain Glacier forecast framework
(Applicant
Fürst, Johannes
)
The Normalization of Right-wing Populist and New Right Discourses in Japan and Germany
(Applicants
Evert, Stephanie
;
Schäfer, Fabian
)
Completed projects
Analyses of wood density and stable isotopes in tree rings for the reconstruction of the climate history in High Asia
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Analysis of the discourses on security-related governance patterns in neighbourhoods in the US and Europe
(Applicant
Pütz, Robert
)
Balancing regulating and provisioning ecosystem services: Comprehensive land-use concepts for effective conservation
(Applicant
Knoke, Thomas
)
Business Improvement Districts: Globale Verbreitung und Kontextualisierung eines neuen Modells subkommunaler Steuerung
(Applicant
Glasze, Georg
)
Climate response of tree growth in Ethiopia along an altitudinal transect and implications on local climate and regional atmospheric circulation dynamics
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Climatic impact on functional wood anatomy, seasonal wood formation, and tree growth along altitudinal gradients on Corsica
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Configurations of Islam and Muslims in Germany on a local level
(Applicants
Glasze, Georg
;
Pott, Andreas
)
Cultures of Resilience and Adherence: Adaptation and Coping in the Context of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Botswana
(Applicant
Krüger, Fred
)
Dendrochronological studies on climate variability and glacier history in Southwest China (Gongga Shan, Minya Gonkar)
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Dendrochronologische und radiometrische Untersuchungen zur Bau- und Siedlungsgeschichte Nepals und Tibets
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Dendroklimatologische Untersuchungen zur Monsunvariabilität und Dendrochronologie historischer Bauwerke in Zentralnepal und Südtibet
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Detection and Attribution of climate change for the glaciers on Kilimanjaro: Targeting the processes at regional and local scales
(Applicant
Mölg, Thomas
)
Didactic and methodological analysis of textbooks for use in US High School Geography instruction.
(Applicant
Böhn, Dieter
)
Die HIV/Aids-Krise in Botswana - Soziale und ökonomische Auswirkungen und gesellschaftliche Handlungsoptionen
(Applicant
Krüger, Fred
)
Environmental and climatic variability during the Middle Würmian in the northern Alps
(Applicant
Mayr, Christoph
)
Exclusions in volunteered geographic information (VGI) - renewal proposal: Geodata from local experts? An examination of the assumption of localness in VGI by analysing the example of OpenStreetMap (OSM)
(Applicant
Glasze, Georg
)
Extreme Niederschlagsereignisse als Ursache katastrophaler Massenbewegungen im Süden von Chiapas / Mexiko
(Applicant
Richter, Michael
)
Gegenhegemoniale Raumdiskurse am Beispiel benachteiligter Stadtteile in Deutschland und Frankreich
(Applicant
Pütz, Robert
)
Geomorphologische und dendroklimatologische Untersuchungen zur jungquartären Klima- und Landschaftsgeschichte Zentraltibets
(Applicant
Lehmkuhl, Frank
)
Historical land use and landscape change in the Decapolis region
(Applicants
Bäumler, Rupert
;
Walker, Bethany J.
)
Holocene landscape change in the southern Levant in the context of dust deposition and land use
(Applicant
Lucke, Bernhard
)
Improved geodetic glacier mass balance measurements by integrating remote sensing, surface mass balance and firn compaction modelling - a case study from James Ross Island, Antarctica
(Applicant
Braun, Matthias Holger
)
Interactions of land use, climate and soil development in the context of settlement history in the Decapolis-Region (Northern Jordan)
(Applicants
Bäumler, Rupert
;
Schmidt, Michael
)
In the Mirror of the European Neighbourhood (Policy): Mapping Macro-Regional Imaginations
(Applicants
Bachmann, Veit
;
Glasze, Georg
)
Klimaveränderungen im Holozän und Spätglazial Neuseelands: Stabile Isotope lakustriner Sedimente des Lake Pupuke (Auckland-Vulkanfeld)
(Applicants
Lücke, Andreas
;
Mayr, Christoph
)
Modellierung der Verbreitung der wichtigsten Futter- und Brennholzpflanzen im Ostpamir (Tadschikistan)
(Applicant
Vanselow, Kim André
)
Modelling present glacier dynamics on Svalbard - from inferring surface velocities to computing a flow-consistent bedrock map
(Applicant
Fürst, Johannes
)
Möglichkeiten der Phytoindikation zur Beurteilung der hygrothermischen Verhältnisse in den Hochgebirgen der südwestlichen USA
(Applicant
Richter, Michael
)
Ökosystem-Monitoring in der El Nino-Kernregion und Impakt von Klimaschwankungen - Sechura-Wüste / NW-Peru
(Applicants
Richter, Michael
;
Rollenbeck, Rütger
)
Pedogeochemical studies in central and western Bhutan with regard to the landscape history and past enviromental fluctuations
(Applicant
Bäumler, Rupert
)
Plant knowledge and plant utilization among the Shuar, Saraguros and "Colonos" living in the tropical mountain forests of southern Ecuador
(Applicant
Pohle, Perdita
)
Revealing the footprint of ENSO in the mass balance of mountain glaciers
(Applicant
Mölg, Thomas
)
Snow Cover Dynamics and Mass Balance on Mountain Glaciers
(Applicant
Sauter, Tobias
)
Spatio-linguistic practices in a transnational context: Social differentiation and agency in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic
(Applicants
Jansen, Silke
;
Kordel, Stefan
)
Spatiotemporal high resolution reconstruction of climatic variation over the eastern Tibetan Plateau during the last 2000 years
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
The impact of the dynamic and thermodynamic flow conditions on the spatio-temporal distribution of precipitation in southern Patagonia
(Applicant
Sauter, Tobias
)
The Western Pamirs (Tajikistan) under environmental change - Assessing vegetation change and associated ecosystem functions and services in the Rushan Range
(Applicant
Vanselow, Kim André
)
Tree-ring based high-resolution temporal climate and environmental change in Corsica in the Late Holocene
(Applicants
Bräuning, Achim
;
Joachimski, Michael M.
;
Leuschner, Hanns Hubert
)
TRENCH (Tree-Ring Environmental Network for Climate Change Monitoring): Entwicklung eines Jahrring-basierten Indikatorsystems für Auswirkungen von Umweltveränderungen auf Waldökosysteme in Südecuador
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Vegetation auf Gletschern - Ökosystemanalyse auf einem mobilen Standort
(Applicant
Richter, Michael
)
YunForest: Growth and physiological responses of forests to climate change along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients in Southwest China (Yunnan Province)
(Applicants
Bräuning, Achim
;
Grießinger, Jussi
)
Publication Grants
Completed projects
Die fragmentierte Stadt - Ursachen und Folgen bewachter Wohnkomplexe im Libanon
(Applicant
Glasze, Georg
)
Die orientalische Stadt im islamischen Vorderasien und Nordafrika
(Applicant
Wirth, Eugen
)
Diskurs - Hegemonie - Raum: Die Konstitution der Frankophonie als "internationale Gemeinschaft" und "geokultureller Raum"
(Applicant
Glasze, Georg
)
Jenseits vom 'Kampf der Kulturen'. Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung imaginativer Geographien von Eigenem und Anderem in transnationalen arabischen Printmedien
(Applicant
Husseini de Araújo, Shadia
)
Research Units
Current projects
FOR 2730: Environmental changes in biodiversity hotspot ecosystems of South Ecuador: RESPonse and feedback effECTs (RESPECT)
(Spokesperson
Farwig, Nina
)
Tree physiological and structural properties as response and effect traits of biotic-atmospheric interactions in natural and anthropogenic eco-systems in South Ecuador
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Completed projects
Ethnoökologische Untersuchungen in den tropischen Bergwaldregionen Südecuadors - ein Beitrag zum Erhalt und zur nachhaltigen Nutzung von Biodiversität
(Applicant
Pohle, Perdita
)
Human ecological parameters and their relevance in preserving biodiversity and improving livelihoods in the Biosphere Reserve Podocarpus - El Cóndor
(Applicant
Pohle, Perdita
)
Impact of land use, natural disturbances and climate change on vascular plant diversity
(Applicant
Richter, Michael
)
Jahrringökologische Untersuchungen zur Klimageschichte der letzten Jahrhunderte in der Umgebung von Loja (Provinz Loja/Ecuador)
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Klima- und Geoökologie der Waldgrenzökotone in der Cordillera Real/Südecuador
(Applicant
Richter, Michael
)
Tree growth and wood anatomy along elevational and nutritional gradients in tropical forests in southern Ecuador
(Applicant
Bräuning, Achim
)
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Climate sensitivity of western Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves (CSAPIS)
(Applicants
Braun, Matthias Holger
;
Rückamp, Martin
)
Unlocking the glaciological information of historical aerial imagery to obtain long-term glacier mass balance information and to identify drivers of glacier changes on the Antarctic Peninsula.
(Applicant
Seehaus, Thorsten
)
Completed projects
Bündelantrag PASADO-Support 2: Qualitative environmental and climatic reconstruction for the last glacial interglacial cycles in southern Patagonia - the stable isotope record of the ICDP site Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina (PASADO-Isotope)
(Applicants
Lücke, Andreas
;
Mayr, Christoph
)
Determination of glacier volume changes, glacier velocities fields and estimation of ice mass fluxes on the Antarctic Peninsula by means of InSAR, digital photogrammetry and field measurements
(Applicant
Braun, Matthias Holger
)
Study of the dynamic state of ice shelves on the south-western Antarctic Peninsula by an interdisciplinary approach of remote sensing, fracture mechanics and modelling of ice dynamics
(Applicants
Braun, Matthias Holger
;
Müller, Ralf
)
Velocities, elevation changes and mass budgets of Antarctic Peninsula glaciers
(Applicant
Braun, Matthias Holger
)
Scientific Networks
Completed projects
Konzepte, Methodologie und empirische Instrumente der Diskursforschung in der Humangeographie
(Applicant
Glasze, Georg
)
Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups
Current projects
Past, present, and future glacier evolution in the Tropical Andes
(Applicant
Seehaus, Thorsten
)
Major Research Instrumentation
Completed projects
Isotopen-Massenspektrometer
Priority Programmes
Completed projects
Elevation and mass change measurements for glaciers and ice caps outside the large ice sheets from TanDEM-X (SATELLITE-2)
(Applicant
Braun, Matthias Holger
)
"Festivalisation" of Urban Governance: The Production of Socio-Spatial Control in the Context of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa
(Applicant
Haferburg, Christoph
)
Monsoonal variations and climate change during the late Holocene derived from tree rings and glacier fluctuations
(Applicants
Bräuning, Achim
;
Lehmkuhl, Frank
)
