Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Dietze

Professur Landscape Geoscience

News

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

Scientific interests and thematic background

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

Current study regions

Central Europe (burnt uplands), Eastern Siberia, Ecuador

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">