Scientific assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute of Geoecology, Department of Soil Science and Soil Physics, working group of Prof. Wolfgang Durner (since November 2013).
Research assistant at the University of Stuttgart (2005 to 2013), Institute for Water and Environmental System Modelling, Chair of Hydrology and Geohydrology (Prof. András Bárdossy) and experimental facility for groundwater and contaminated site remediation VEGAS (Jürgen Braun, Ph.D). Subproject manager.
Hohenbrink, T. L., Jackisch, C., Durner, W., Germer, K., Iden, S. C., Kreiselmeier, J., Leuther, F., Metzger, J. C., Naseri, M., and Peters, A.: Soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity measured in a wide saturation range, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-74, in review, 2023. Jackisch, C., K. Germer, T. Graeff, I. Andrä, [...], S. Schittenhelm, and W. Durner (2020): Soil moisture and matric potential – An open field comparison of sensor systems, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 683–697, 2020 doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-683-2020 (open access).
Sarkar, S., Germer, K., Maity, R., and Durner, W. (2019). Measuring near‐saturated hydraulic conductivity of soils by quasi unit‐gradient percolation—2. Application of the methodology. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 182(4), 535-540.
Sarkar, S., Germer, K., Maity, R., and Durner, W. (2019). Measuring near‐saturated hydraulic conductivity of soils by quasi unit‐gradient percolation—1. Theory and numerical analysis. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 182(4), 524-534.
Poeplau, C., Germer, K., and Schwarz, K. U. (2019). Seasonal dynamics and depth distribution of belowground biomass carbon and nitrogen of extensive grassland and a Miscanthus plantation. Plant and Soil, 440(1-2), 119-133.
Germer, K., and Braun, J. (2019). Multi-step outflow and evaporation experiments–Gaining large undisturbed samples and comparison of the two methods. Journal of Hydrology, 577, 123914.
Germer, K. and J. Braun (2015). Determination of anisotropic saturated hydraulic conductivity of a macroporous slope soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal.
Germer, K. and J. Braun (2015). Macropore–Matrix Water Flow Interaction around a Vertical Macropore Embedded in Fine Sand—Laboratory Investigations. Vadose Zone Journal 14 (7).
Germer, K. and J. Braun (2011). Effects of Saturation on Slope Stability: Laboratory Experiments Utilizing External Load. Vadose Zone Journal 10 (2): 477-486.
Wienhöfer, J.,Germer,K., F. Lindenmaier, A. Färber and E. Zehe (2009). Applied tracers for the observation of subsurface stormflow at the hillslope scale. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 13:1145-1161.
Germer, K. and Braun, J. (2009). Slope failure processes in a laboratory flume. p. 115–118. In J.-P. Malet et al. (ed.) Landslide processes: From geomorphological mapping to dynamic modelling. CERG Ed., Strasbourg, France.
Peters, A., Germer,K., and Durner, W. (2005). Sickerwassererfassung – Ein Vergleich von Geräten unterschiedlicher Bauart, In: Bundesanstalt für Alpenländische Landwirtschaft (BAL), Bericht über die 11. Lysimetertagung am 5. und 6. April 2005, S. 61-66.
