Profile

The research focus of the “Environmental Hydrology and Resource Management” group is on the effects of global change on the landscape water and matter balance and the development of management strategies. This includes, in particular, the interactions between land use and hydrology in catchment areas, the investigation of hydrological processes at different time and spatial scales and the analysis of extreme hydrological situations (floods, low flows, droughts).

On the basis of these investigations appropriate management strategies are developed to mitigate potential damage in case of extreme hydrological situations (e.g. decentralized, integrated flood protection) and concepts for integrated water resources management (IWRM).

Another focus lies on palaeo-hydrological studies for the reconstruction of ecosystem dynamics as well as climate and other environmental changes derived from sedimentation processes and bioindicators.

The methodological spectrum ranges from field and laboratory investigations and the development of comprehensive monitoring concepts up to process-oriented modeling of water bodies and their corresponding catchment areas.

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Contact

Freie Universität Berlin
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geographical Sciences
Applied Physical Geography, Environmental Hydrology and Resource Management

Campus Lankwitz, Building H
Malteserstraße 74 - 100
12249 Berlin

Office Prof. Dr. Wagner:

Ms. Maria von Bodecker
Phone: (+49 30) 838 70252
Fax: (+49 30) 838 458705
Email: bodecker@zedat.fu-berlin.de