Forschungsprojekte

2025-2027 Geokulturelles Erbe im Harz: Hybride Montanlandschaften über- und untertage in Raum und Zeit - Quo Vadis? (GEHA-Projekt) (Förderprogramm Pro*Niedersachsen: Kulturelles Erbe: Sammlung und Objekte, zukunft.niedersachsen)
2023-2025 UNESCO-Welterbe Oberharzer Wasserwirtschaft: Landschaftswandel und Energienutzung im Harz im Anthropozän - Eine Reise des Wassers von der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft (LEHA-Projekt) (Förderprogramm Pro*Niedersachsen, Kulturelles Erbe: Forschung und Vermittlung in ganz Niedersachsen, zukunft.niedersachsen)
2020 Anthropogeomorphic Landscape Change in the Sankt Andreasberg Mining District, Harz Mountains (Part 1: Geomorphological Assessment, REMSA-Project, Part 2: Environmental Education, Oder and Sieber Valleys, Landscape Change from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene in the Harz, LAPAHA)
2019 Glacier surges and hazard management in the Karakoram Mountains (Pakistan)
2016-2019 Historical beacon fire-lines in natural hazard management for glacier lake outbursts in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram Himalayas
2016 Digital Manaslu Project, Digitalization project of the photographic archive of Prof. M. Kuhle, (Project Leader: Prof. Dr. C. Dittrich and the Göttingen State and University Library Dr. J. Mangei), financed by the Univ. of Göttingen and the Faculty of Geosciences and Geography
2014-2017 Glacial and paraglacial landform assemblages in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru)
2014 Small scale mining in high mountain environments in Northern Pakistan: Geological investigations in the context of livelihood strategies of gold-washers and gemstone miners, Alumni‐Sponsorship (Feodor Lynen‐Research Grant Program), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (post-poned)
2013 Artificial glaciers in the Hindukush / Karakoram (ongoing)
2013 Pre-Investigations in the Karakoram Mountains (Pakistan): Small scale mining in glacierized catchment areas in the men-environment context
2012-2013 Glacial geomorphology of the subtropical and tropical Andes, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship)
2012-2013 Quaternary geomorphology in the Cachapoal valley and glacial chronology with 10Be and 3He (34°S, Southern Andes, Chile) Cooperation Prof. Dr. Reynaldo Charrier, Universidad Nacional de Andres Bello, Chile
2010-2012 Recent and paraglacial landscape transformation in the subtropical and tropical Andes Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, cooperation Prof. Dr. Reynaldo Charrier, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile /Universidad, Nacional de Andres Bello
2007-2009 20th century glacier fluctuations in the Hindukush and Karakoram Mountains (Pakistan)
2005-2006 Formation of hummocky moraine landscapes in the Chapursan valley in regard to historical settlement devastations (Karakoram, Pakistan)
2006 Glacier lake outbursts in the Himalayas and Karakoram with respect to climate change and their hazard potential (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in cooperation with Hokkaido University Sapporo (Japan), Prof. Teiji Watanabe
2006-2007 Paraglacial landscape transformation in the Central Andes (Aconcagua-Massif), Partial financing German Research Foundation IT 14/18-1 (Oct 2006)
2003-2005 Glacial lake outbursts in the Karakoram and Hindukush Mountains: Karambar- /Chapursan valley (Karakoram): Geomorphological Investigations to the dilluvial sediment landscape, German Research Foundation DFG IT 14/11-1, 14/11-2
2003-2004 Post-sedimentary transformation of lateral moraines: The tributary tongue basins of the Kvíárjökull (Iceland) in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Russell (Keele University, Great Britain), German Research Foundation DFG IT 14/11-1, 14/11-2
1999 -2005 The lateroglacial valleys in the Karakoram Mountains: Distribution, genesis and morphodynamic of the lateroglacial sediment landscape
German Research Foundation DFG IT 14/2-1; IT 14/2-2 (1999-2001)
1997 Late and postglacial debris accumulations as settlement locations in the Karakoram Mountains, DAAD Grant (Pakistan) 1997
1993 -1998 The transglacial debris development in subtropical high mountain regions (Hindukusch, Karakorum and Himalayas), DAAD Grant (Nepal) 1994/1995
1992-1994 Natural Hazards for temporary and permanent settlements in the Karakoram Mountains