Abteilung Physische Geographie

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Dietze

Professur Landscape Geoscience


News

• Sep/Oct 2024: Expedition report of Ecuador fieldwork, scientific exchange about land use and landscape dynamics under climate change and sediment core sampling in andean lakes - DFG-project

• Mar 2023: Expedition report of Yakutia 2021 joint Russian-German expedition has just been published. Learn more about contributions by Elisabeth and a student from Göttingens Geography in Chapter 3 - DFG-project

• Feb 2023: Workshop on “Long-term fire-vegetation change: data-based challenges” saw many exciting contributions and discussions (thanks to all contributors)


Current study regions

Central Europe (burnt uplands), Eastern Siberia, Ecuador

Scientific interests and thematic background


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Response of regional landscape components to long-term environmental change
• Morphodynamics (erosion, transport, deposition)
• Fire regimes (intensity, frequency, biomass burnt)
• Hydrological change (lake and ground water)

Drivers of long-term environmental change across spatio-temporal scales
• Climatic change
• Internal geomorphic-ecological system behaviour
• Human land use and land cover change


Fire-Vegetation-Climate interactions in eastern Siberia

Ramesh Glückler defended his PhD thesis 8th Nov 2024 on "Long-term changes of wildfire regimes in eastern Siberia: An evaluation based on lake sediment indicators and individual-based modeling" at University of Potsdam, co-supervised by Elisabeth Dietze


Courses Taught:

Bachelor:
  • B.Geg 05: Relief und Boden - Geomorphologie (Vorlesung und Übung)

    • Master:
  • M.Geg.06 Quartäre Klima- und Landschaftsentwicklung
  • M.Geg.13 Masterseminar
  • M.Geg.18 Earth surface dynamics and associated hazards

    • Interested in a Bachelor thesis?

    Please contact me any time, ideally already with an idea on: which topic (generally) and type of method you would prefer.

    Interested in a Master thesis?

    Please contact me any time, ideally already with an idea on: which topic (generally) and type of method you would prefer.

    Past issues


    • Dec 2022: Feuer im Erdsystem - das Forschungsthema des Monats Dezember 2022 im REKLIM Helmholtz-Verbund Regionale Klimaänderungen
    • Nov 2022: Elisabeth became part of the Steering Committee of the German Society for Geomorphology">