Projects overview

Doctoral & Postdoctoral Projects

Sediment fluxes

S1 Quantification and modeling of solute matter transport during the annual cycle Laura Keys
S2 Assessment of sedimentary budgets and permafrost content with capacitive resistivity Johannes Buckel
S3 Catchment wide remote sensing of sediment source dynamics Eike Reinosch
S4 High resolution remote sensing of sediment source dynamics  
S5 Sediment flux analysis based on cosmogenic nuclides Lianqing Zhang
S6 Geophysical methods to constrain sediment and water transport models at Alpine Catchments Madhuri Sugand
S7 Estimation of soil moisture using advanced remote sensing methods Aida Taghavi Bayat

Carbon fluxes

C1 Carbon translocation from glacial and terres-trial to aqueous systems Philipp Maurischat
C2 Sensitivity of soil OC storage to changes in climate and land use on the Tibetan Plateau Mina Azizi Rad
C3 Assessing Land-atmosphere heat and CO2 exchange with Eddy covariance Felix Nieberding
C4 Resilience of grassland ecosystem services to abiotic stress depending on biodiversity: soil structure and carbon cycling Carolina Urbina
C5 Soil warming and timescales of carbon cycling in high elevation peatlands Andres Tangarife
C6 Spatial scaling of carbon fluxes at the NAMORS station Nithin Pillai
C7 Understanding microbial community dynamics in high-altitude soils of the Tibetan Plateau Dongmei Wu

Water fluxes & water quality

W1 Modeling climate change impact on water budgets using an integrated surface-subsurface approach Tuong Vi Tran
W2 Diatoms as water quality indicators Wengang Kang
W3 Invertebrates and their stable isotope composition as paleohydrological proxies Paula Echeverria Galindo
W4 Modelling data-driven impact of atmospheric and hydrogeophysical variables on water fluxes Radhakrishna Bangalore Lakshmiprasad
W5 The deep biosphere in lake sediments: distinguishing deeply buried microbial life and paleolimnological records Petra Steffen
W6 Population structure and dynamics in freshwater ecosystems under climate change - A combined ecological-molecular approach Mauricio Bonilla Flores
W7 Lipid biomarkers and compound-specific isotope analyses – calibration and 2k Sudip Acharya

Human dimensions of climate change

H1 Human-environment relations through time - an anthropological approach Siran Liang
H2 The world of Tibetan nomads: local knowledge and environmental conservation Thupten Wodzer
H3 Historical changes in the regional flora related to increasing grazing pressures as based on sedimentary ancient DNA

Biogeography

P1 Development of aquatic endemism and biodi-versity on the Tibetan Plateau detected by modern and ancient DNA Sten Anslan
P2 Molecular ecology of modern and ancient freshwater (micro-) organisms in Lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau Katharina Dulias