Vorlesungen

• Einführung in die Statistisk (B.Sc.)
• EInführung in die Klima- und Hydrogeographie (B.Sc.)
• Geographische Informationssysteme (B.Sc.)
• Fernerkundung und digitale Bildverarbeitung (B. Sc.)
• Geostatistik (M. Sc.)

Seminare

• Statistik mit R (B.Sc.)
• Geostatistik mit R (M.Sc.)
• Geographische Informationssysteme (B.Sc.)
• Einführung in die Geomorphologie und Bodengeographie (B.Sc.)
• Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc.)
• Projektbezogenes Arbeiten (Limnologie und Geomorphologie, B.Sc. & M.Sc)
• Einführung in die Klima- und Hydrogeographie (B.Sc.)
• Fernerkundung und digitale Bildverarbeitung (B.Sc.)

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Statistische und geostatistische Modellierung
• Umweltmodellierung
• Paläohydrologie
• Strukturmorphologie und Morphodynamik
• Sedimentkaskaden von limnischen Systemen

am Wüstenrand von Afrika und Asien, auf dem Tibet Plateau und Europa

Forschungsprojekte

Aktuelle Projekte

• DFG Kalahari - Reconstruction of a paleo-lakesystem at UNESCO World Heritage Site Tsodilo Hills, Kalahari, Botswana: MIS3 and MIS2 ecosystem dynamics, climate, weather and environmental variations derived from
  sedimentation processes and bio-indicators (DFG-Gz. Ha 4368/3-2; PI K. Hartmann; run time 06/2015-07/2021 in cooperation with F. Riedel, FU Paleontology RI809/34-2 and E. Shemang, BIUST) (Further Informations: ZDF-TerraX-Documention (from ca. min. 36:30), Press release, Abstract,  Tagespiegel Artikel vom 16.4.2016, in german) Staff: M. Geppert
• DFG Lesotho - Testing climate simulations for the Highland of Lesotho (southern Africa) during the LGM using phylogeographic proxies, geomorphology and palaeobiological isotope geochemistry (with Frank Riedel (PI) FU Paleontology, Christian Albrecht (PI) Univ. Giessen and Ulrich Struck, Natural History Museum Berlin). Press-Release, Staff: V.S. Gummersbach

Abgeschlossene Projekte

• BMBF WTZ Zentralasien CAME II: Q-Tip - Q-TiP - Quaternary Tipping Points of Lake Systems in the Arid Zone of Central Asia -Gaxun Nur Basin- (Fö.-Kz.:03G0863D; PI K. Hartmann , B. Wünnemann; run time 10/2016-09/2019) Project bundel with Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum (V. Mosbrugger), AWI Potsdam (B. Diekmann), Universität Tübingen (E. Appel, T. Ehlers), RWTH Aachen (F. Lehmkuhl, K. Reicherter, G. Stauch), TU Berlin (D. Scherer), Universität Heidelberg (J. Pross) Staff: G. Schwamborn, Abstract
• BMBF-CAME TP QuaSi: Supra-regional signal pathways and long-time archives: Quaternary monsoon dynamics at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (BMBF FKZ 03G0814 B; PI Kai Hartmann, PI B. Wünnemann, Projektlaufzeit: 07/2011-12/2014) (Finden Sie hier: Abstract, BMBF-CAME QuaSi und den Abschlussbericht)

• DFG-SPP1372-TIP III – Landscape and lake system response to Late Quaternary monsoon dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau – Northern transect. (DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1372 "Tibetan Plateau: formation - climate - ecosystems"; DFG-GZ WU 290/10-3; PI B. Wünnemann, PI K. Hartmann Projektlaufzeit: 06/2012-06/2014)

• DFG-SPP1372-TIP II – Landscape and lake system response to Late Quaternary monsoon dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau – Northern transect. (DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1372 "Tibetan Plateau: formation - climate - ecosystems"; DFG-GZ WU 290/10-2; PI B. Wünnemann, PI K. Hartmann Projektlaufzeit: 06/2010-06/20112)

• DFG-SPP1372-TIP I – Landscape and lake system response to Late Quaternary monsoon dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau – Northern transect. (DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1372 "Tibetan Plateau: formation - climate - ecosystems"; DFG-GZ WU 290/10-1; PI B. Wünnemann, PI K. Hartmann Projektlaufzeit: 06/2010-06/20112)

• NSFC-HALA HU – Basin morphology and late Quaternary interrelations between geomorphic and sedimentary processes in the Hala Hu Basin, Qinghai Province, China (National Science Foundation of China); PI B. Wünnemann

• Landscape and lake system response to Late Quaternary monsoon dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau – Northern transect. (DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1372 "Tibetan Plateau: formation - climate - ecosystems" (TIP); PD Dr. B. Wünnemann, Dr. K. Hartmann) http://www.pgg.rwth-aachen.de/tip/index.php

• DFG-Project: Late pleistocene palaeohydrography of Gaxun Nur Basin, Inner Mongolia, NW China (DFG Pa 131/16-1, leader: Prof. Dr. H.-J. Pachur & Dr. B. Wuennemann, 2000-2004)

• BMF-Project: DEKLIM - Paleoclimate: The very end of a warm stage in the old world desert belt (leader: Prof. Dr. F. Siroko, subproject: Prof. Dr. H.-J. Pachur, 2002-2003)

• Teaching- and Researchproject "Rangsdorfer See, southern Brandenburg" (Co-PI with Dr. B. Wünnemann, Freie Universitaet Berlin)

online-Resources

Hartmann, K., Krois, J., Waske, B. (2018): E-Learning Project SOGA: Statistics and Geospatial Data Analysis. Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universitaet Berlin.

peer-reviewed articles (Scopus Author ID: 16679273900)

• Geppert, M., Hartmann, K., Riedel, F., Struck, U. (2022). Stable water isotopes of precipitation and different surface waters in southern Africa, sampled from 2016 to 2021. PANGEA. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944811
• Geppert, M., Hartmann, K., Kirchner, I., Pfahl, S., Struck, U., Riedel, F. (2022). Precipitation over southern Africa: Moisture sources and isotopic composition. JGR-Atmosphere, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037005. 
• Hethke, M., Hartmann, K., Alberti, M., Kutzner, T., Schwentner, M. (2022). Testing the success of palaeontological methods in the delimitation of clam shrimp (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) on extant species. Palaeontology. Accepted for publication.
• Hülscher, J., Sobel, e. R., Kallnik, N., Hoffmann, J. E., Millar, I. L., Hartmann, K., Bernhardt (2022) Apatites Record Sedimentary Provenance Change 4-5 Myrs Before Clay in the Oligocene/Miocene Alpine Molasse. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.914409
• Wiese, R., Harrington, K., Hartmann, K., Hethke, M., von Rintelen, T., Zhang, H., Zhang, L.-J., &  Riedel, F. (2022). Can fractal dimensions objectivize gastropod shell morphometrics? A case study from Lake Lugu (SW China). Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8622. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8622
• Yan, D., Wünnemann, B., Zhang,Y., Hartmann, K., Diekmann, B., & Andersen, N., 2021. Neotectonic subsidence along the Cenozoic Kunlun fault (Tibetan Plateau). Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094571., https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094571
• Slotta, F., Wacker, L.,Riedel, F., Heußner, K.-U., Hartmann, K., Helle, G.,2021. High-resolution 14C bomb peak dating and climate response analyses of subseasonal stable isotope signals in wood of the African baobab – a case study from Oman. Biogeoscience, 18, 3539-3564, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3539-2021
• Geppert, M., Riedel, F., Gummersbach, V.S., Gutjahr, S., Hoelzmann, P., Reyes Garzón, M.D., Shemang, E.M. & Hartmann, K. Late Pleistocene hydrological settings at world heritage Tsodilo Hills (NW Kalahari, Botswana), a site of ancient human occupation. Quaternary Science Advances 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2021.100022.
• Wiese, R., Hartmann, K., Gummersbach, V.S., Shemang, E.M., Struck,U., Riedel,F., 2020. Lake highstands in the northern Kalahari, Botswana, during MIS 3b and LGM. Quaternary Interntional, 558,10-18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.016.
• Schwamborn, G., Hartmann,K., Wünnemann,B., Rösler, W., Wefer-Roehl,A.,Pross,J., Schlöffel, M., Kobe, K., Tarasov, P.E., Berke, M. A., and Diekmann,B., 2020. Sediment history mirrors Pleistocene aridification in theGobi Desert (Ejina Basin, NW China). Solid Earth, 11, 1375-1398. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1375-2020
• Ramisch, A., Tjallingii, R., Hartmann, K., Diekmann, B., & Brauer, A. (2018). Echo of the Younger Dryas in Holocene lake sediments on the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080225
• Hollert,H., Crawford, S., Brack, W., Brinkmann, M., Fischer, E., Hartmann, K., Keiter, S., Ottermanns, R., Ouellet, J.-D., Rinke ,K. , Rösch, M., Roß-Nickoll, M., Schäffer, A., Schüth, C., Schulze, T., Schwarz, A., Seiler, T.-B., Wessels, M., Hinderer, M., Schwalb, A., 2018. Looking back - looking forward: A novel multi-time slice weight-of-evidence approach for defining reference conditions to assess the impact of human activities on lake systems. Science of The Total Environment 626: 1036-1046.
• Stauch, G., Schulte, P., Ramisch, A., Hartmann, K., Hülle, D., Lockot, G., Diekmann,B., Nottebaum,V., Müller,C., Wünnemann, B., Yan, D., Lehmkuhl,F. , 2017. Landscape and climate on the northern Tibetan Plateau during the late Quaternary. Geomorphology, 286, 78-92.
• Rudersdorf, A, Havenith, K., Hölz, S., Hartmann, K., Reicherter, K., 2015. Fault geometry and neotectonic fault activity of the Ejina Basin using integrated geological and geophysical data. Geotectonic Research 09/2015; 97(1):77-79. DOI:10.1127/1864-5658/2015-30
• Borchers, A., Dietze, E., Kuhn,G., EspeR, O., Voigt, I., Hartmann, K., Diekmann, B., 2015. Holocene ice dynamics and bottom-water formation associated with Cape Darnley Polynya activity recorded in Burton Basin, East Antarctica. Marine Geophysical Research  37: 49-70
• Ramisch, A., Lockot, G., Haberzettl, T., Hartmann, K., Kuhn, G., Lehmkuhl, F., Schimpf, S., Schulte, P., Stauch, G., Wang, R., Wünnemann, B., Yan, D., Zhang, Y.,  Diekmann,B., 2016. A persistent northern boundary of Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation over Central Asia during the Holocene. Nature Sci. Rep. 6, 25791; doi: 10.1038/srep25791
• Rudersdorf, A, Havenith, K., Hölz, S., Hartmann, K., Reicherter, K., 2015. Fault geometry and neotectonic fault activity of the Ejina Basin using integrated geological and geophysical data. Geotectonic Research 09/2015; 97(1):77-79. https://doi.org/10.1127/1864-5658/2015-30
• Borchers, A., Dietze, E., Kuhn,G., EspeR, O., Voigt, I., Hartmann, K., Diekmann, B., 2015. Holocene ice dynamics and bottom-water formation associated with Cape Darnley Polynya activity recorded in Burton Basin, East Antarctica. Marine Geophysical Research  37: 49-70
• Rudersdorf, A., Hartmann, K., Yu, K., Stauch, G., Reicherter, K.,2015. Seismites as indicators for Holocene seismicity in the northeastern Ejina Basin, Inner Mongolia. Accepted for Geological Society London, Special Publications: Seismicity, Fault Rupture and Earthquake Hazards in Slowly Deforming Regions. Geological Society London Special Publications 432:1-19. DOI:10.1144/SP432.6
• Lockot, G., Ramisch, A., Wünnemann, B., Hartmann,K., Haberzettl, T., Chen, H., Diekmann, B., 2015. A process- and provenance-based attempt to unravel inconsistent radiocarbon chronologies in lake sediments – an example from Lake Heihai, North Tibetan Plateau (China). Radiocarbon 57, 1-17.
• Nottebaum, V., Stauch, G., Hartmann, K., Zhang, J., Lehmkuhl, F., 2015. Unmixed loess grain size populations along the northern Qilian Shan (China): Relationships between geomorphologic, sedimentologic and climatic controls. Quaternary International 372: 151-166.
• Nottebaum, V., F. Lehmkuhl, G. Stauch, K. Hartmann, B. Wünnemann, S. Schimpf, H. Lu, 2014. Regional grain size variations in aeolian sediments along the transition between Tibetan highlands and northwestern Chinese deserts – The influence of geomorphological settings on aeolian transport pathways. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 04/2014; https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3590.
• Dietze E., F. Maussion, M. Ahlborn, B. Diekmann, K. Hartmann, K. Henkel, T. Kasper, G. Lockot, S. Opitz, and T. Haberzettl, 2014. Sediment transport processes across the Tibetan Plateau inferred from robust grain size end-members in lake sediments. Clim. Past Discuss., 9, 4855-4892, 2013 www.clim-past-discuss.net/9/4855/2013/doi:10.5194/cpd-9-4855-2013
• Dietze, E.; Wünnemann, B.; Hartmann, K.; Diekmann, B.; Jin, H.; Stauch, G.; Yang, S.; Lehmkuhl, F..2013: Early to mid-Holocene lake high-stand sediments at Lake Donggi Cona, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Quaternary Research 79: 325 - 336.
• Stauch, G., IJmker, J., Pötsch, S., Zhao, H., Hilgers, A., Diekmann, B., Dietze, E., Hartmann, K., Opitz, S., Wünnemann, B., Lehmkuhl, F. 2012: Aeolian sediments on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews. 57. 71-84
• IJmker, J., Stauch, G., Hartmann, K., Diekmann, B., Dietze, E., Opitz, S., Wünnemann, B., Lehmkuhl, F. 2012. Environmental conditions in the Donggi Cona lake catchment, NE Tibetan Plateau, based on factor analysis of geochemical data. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (44):176–188.
• IJmker, J., Stauch, G., Dietze, E., Hartmann, K., Diekmann,B., Lockot, G., Opitz, S., Wünnemann, B., Lehmkuhl, F. 2012. Characterization of transport processes and sedimentary deposits by statistical end-member mixing analysis of terrestrial sediments in the Donggi Cona lake catchment, NE Tibetan Plateau. Sedimentary Geology 281: 166-179.
• Opitz, S., Wünnemann, B., Aichner, B., Dietze, E., Hartmann, K., Herzschuh, U., IJmker, J., Lehmkuhl, F., Li, S., Mischke, S., Plotzki, A., Stauch, G., Diekmann, B.,2012. Late Glacial and Holocene development of Lake Donggi Cona, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from sedimentological analysis. PalPalPal 337-338:159 – 176.
• Dietze, E., Hartmann, K., Diekmann, B., IJmker, J., Lehmkuhl, F., Opitz, S., Stauch, G., Wünnemann, B., Borchers, A. 2012.
An end-member algorithm for deciphering modern detrital processes from lake sediments of Lake Donggi Cona, NE Tibetan Plateau, China
 Sedimentary Geology
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• Ramisch, A., W. Bebermeier, K. Hartmann, B. Schütt, N. Alexanian, 2012. Fractals in topography: Application to geoarchaeological studies in the surroundings of the necropolis of Dahshur, Egypt. Quaternary International 266, 34-46.
• Hartmann, K.; Wünnemann, B.; Hölz, S.; Kraetschell, A.; Zhang, H. 2011. Neotectonic constraints on the Gaxun Nur inland basin in north-central China, derived from remote sensing, geomorphology and geophysical analyses. - In: Gloaguen, R. & Ratschbacher, L. (eds.): Growth and Collapse of the Tibetan Plateau. – Geological Society of London Special Publications 353: 221-233.
• Dietze, E., Wünnemann, B., Diekmann, B., Aichner, B., Hartmann, K., Herzschuh, U., IJmker, J., Jin, H., Kopsch, C., Lehmkuhl, F., Li, S., Mischke, S., Niessen, F., Opitz, S., Stauch, G., Yang, S.2010. Basin morphology and seismic stratigraphy of Lake Donggi Cona, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, China. –Quaternary International 218 (1-2): 131-142.
• Wünnemann, B; Demske, D. Tarasov, P.; Kotlia, B.; Reinhardt, Ch.; Bloemendal, J.; Diekmann, B.; Hartmann, K.; Krois, J.; Riedel, F.; Arya, N. 2010. Hydrological evolution during the last 15 kyr in the Tso Kar lake basin (Ladakh, India), derived from geomorphological, sedimentological and palynological records. – Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 1138-1155.
• Hartmann, K., Wünnemann, B., Zhang, H. 2009. Evidences of neotectonic impact on a large sedimentary basin between Tibetan Plateau and Gobi Altay, NW China. – Quaternary Science 29/4: 687-695.
• Hartmann, K. & Wünnemann, B. 2009. Hydrological changes and Holocene climate variations in NW China, inferred from lake sediments of Juyanze palaeolake by factor analyses. Quaternary International 194: 28–44.
• Becken, M., Hölz, S., Fiedler-Volmer, R., Hartmann, K., Wünnemann, B., Burkhardt, H., 2007Electrical resistivity image of the Jingsutu Graben at the NE margin of the Ejina Basin (NW China) and implications for the basin development. Geophysical Research Letters 34.
• Hölz, S., Polag, D., Becken, M. Fiedler-Volmer, R., Zhang, HC., Hartmann, K., Burkhardt, H. 2007. Electromagnetic and Geoelectric Investigation of the Gurinai Structure, Inner Mongolia, NW China. Tectonophysics 445, (Issues 1-2): 26-48.
• Wünnemann, B., Hartmann, K., Altmann, N., Hambach, U., Pachur, H.-J., Hucai Zhang 2007. Interglacial and glacial fingerprints from lake deposits in the Gobi Desert, NW China. In: Sirocko,F., Claussen, M., Sánchez-Goñi, M.F. (Eds.): The Climates of the Past Interglacials. Developments in Quaternary Science Vol. 7:323-347, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• Wünnemann, B., Hartmann, K., Janssen, M., Zhang, H.C 2007. Responses of Chinese desert lakes to climate instability during the past 45,000 years In: Madsen, D.B., Chen, F.H., and Gao, X. (Eds.), Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, Developments in Quaternary Science Vol. 9:11-24, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• Zhang, W.X., Fan, H.F., Chang, F.Q., Wünnemann, B., Hartmann, K. 2006. Dilemma of dating on lacustrine deposits in an hyperarid inland basin of NW China. Radiocarbon 48,2,219-226.
• Herzschuh, U., Tarasov, P., Wünnemann, B., Hartmann, K. 2004. Holocene vegetation and climate of the Alashan Plateau, NW China, reconstructed from pollen data. Palaeo3 211: 1-17.