Ongoing projects

• EXDIMUM – Extreme weather management with digital multiscale methods (Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), in Cooperation with Kiel University)

• Modeling the impacts of water stress and forest management on the water balance in the Soonwald in Rhineland-Palatinate (Funding: Forschungsanstalt für Waldökologie und Forstwirtschaft Rheinland-Pfalz, in Cooperation with Kiel University)

• BMBF - SASSCAL Call 2.0 - Collaborative project WIRE: Water Storage in the Angolan-Namibian Iishana System: Resource Management and Adaptation to Climate Change (Project management: FU Berlin, Project partners: TU Kaiserslautern, UNAM Namibia, ISPT Angola)

• DFG Forschungsgruppe 5288 "Fast and Invisible: Conquering Subsurface Stormflow through an Interdisciplinary Multi-Site Approach“, Subproject G "SSF MODEL BENCHMARKING - Towards a robust parameterization of SSF in hydrological models at the catchment scale" (Direction: Dr. Christian Reinhardt-Imjela in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Andreas Hartmann (TU Dresden), project no. 453746323)

• Water Demand and Water Planning in Kabul City/ Afghanistan (DAAD)

• 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

Finished projects

• Hydrological investigation and evaluation of surface waters of Cuvelai basin, North Namibia

• BMBF - Science Year 2022 "Nachgefragt" - GeoLand - Geosciences Go Rural; Water, Soil, People - what is happening in rural areas? (BMBF, Fö.-Kz.: 01WJ2222B, Project duration: 02/2022 - 12/2022) together with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• 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

• Scientific Network "Subsurface Stormflow – A well-recognized but still challenging process in catchment hydrology research" (Spokesmen: Prof. Dr. P. Chifflard, Philipps-Universität Marburg)

• WTZ Central Asia CAME II: Q-Tip - Tipping points of lake systems in arid central Asia - water budget in the Gaxun Nur Basin - in cooperation with AWI Potsdam

• Flow and morphodynamic processes in oxbow lakes of the Middle Elbe with special consideration of reconnection and restoration

• AGENT - Potentials of woody biomass on agricultural sites on the North German Plain, taking into account water supply and the competitiveness of short rotation coppice

• Tachia Hsi - Sediment dynamics in the Tachia Hsi channel reconstructed in the hydraulic flume at the Geocampus Lankwitz, FU Berlin

• RuBus - Accounting and physicochemical characterization of the current sediment dynamics in the Rummelsburg bay

• Erstellung eines übertragbaren Schutzkonzeptes zur Schadensminimierung an Gully-Systemen mittels geo-, bio- und ingenieurtechnischer Maßnahmen verbunden mit regenerativer Energiegewinnung – Beispielgebiet Voi, Kenia

• VEGA -The Influence of floodplain Vegetation on Sedimentation, Erosion and flow characteristics during flood events

• Rainwater harvesting N - Namibia - Improving research infrastructure by installing rainwater harvesting tanks, attached greenhouses, and small gardens at UNAM Ongwediva Campus 2014

• AguaGestión II - Development of a centre of exellence for innovative and sustainable water management in urban and rural areas of Peru - Centro de Competenzia del Agua

• CASCUS II - Implementation-oriented water and soil resources management in the northern Andes of Peru, taking into account climatic uncertainties

• AguaGestión I - Development of a centre of exellence for innovative and sustainable water management in urban and rural areas of Peru

• CASCUS I – Conservation of Water and Soil Resources in the Catchments of Chetillano and Ronquillo in the Northern Sierra of Peru

• BMBF- CAME TP QuaSi: Supra-regional signal pathways and long-time archives: Quaternary monsoon dynamics at the Northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

• TIP III – Landscape and lake system response to Late Quaternary monsoon dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau – Northern transect. DFG Priority Program 1372 "Tibetan Plateau: formation - climate - ecosystems";  Prof. Dr. B. Wünnemann, Dr. K. Hartmann

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

• „Integrated international Dual-Master“ – M.Sc. Environmental Earth Sciences in cooperation with Nanjing University, China 2012-2014 (DAAD, Department of Earth Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin and Nanjing University)

• TIP II – Landscape and lake system response to Late Quaternary monsoon dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau – Northern transect. (DFG Priority Program 1372 "Tibetan Plateau: formation - climate - ecosystems";  Prof. Dr. B. Wünnemann, Dr. K. Hartmann

• TIP I - Landscape and lake system response to Late Quaternary monsoon dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau – Northern transect. (DFG Priority Program 1372 "Tibetan Plateau: formation - climate - ecosystems"; PD Dr. B. Wünnemann, Dr. K. Hartmann)

• MOWARES – Modelling of the risk oriented and integrative management of water resources under changing climatic conditions in the coastal catchment of the Muzhu River, Weihai, China

• IAS - Interaction between Floodplain Vegetation and Sediment Transport at the Upper Rhine in the Hartheim and Chalampé investigation areas

• DINGHO – Decentralised, integrated and trans-boundary flood protection in the German-Czech river basins near the mountain ridge of the Central Ore Mountains (Project report, in German)

• Optimization of decentralized, integrated flood protection for the city of Bad Oeynhausen

• Impact of pre- to post-communist landscape change on sediment dynamics in the catchment of Lake Mladotice in the western Czech Republic

• Early diagenetic precipitation processes in lakes, Willersinnweiher

• Investigation of colluvial and fluvial sediments for the reconstruction of the Neolithic environmental change in the Hegau region, south-west Germany

• Sediment deposits from slush torrents in north-west Spitsbergen as a Holocene archive of extreme snowmelt events

• GIS-based modelling of the Quaternary process dynamics between the Neckar basin and the Neckar alluvial fan

• Linking colluvial and fluvial sediments of different scale ranges for the reconstruction of the landscape change at the time of the land seizure

• 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)

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