Department Physical Geography

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Dietze

News

  • Dec 2025: Our project “Transboundary approaches to sustainable forest management for enhancing climate resilience and reducing disaster risk in the Himalaya (TRANSMIT)” was funded by BLE, a joint consortium project of CBL Göttingen, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) UNU-EHS, ICIMOD, ICFRE, GFMC and others
  • Dec 2025: ENLIGHT BIP "Limnogeology Summer School: Environmental change, natural hazards and human impact in Central Switzerland" funded (main applicant: U. Bern, partner universities: U. Ghent and U. Göttingen)
  • Oct 2025: Welcome to our new group member Lea V. Deutsch, co-affiliated with Physical Geography RWTH Aachen, who will support the Harz project.
  • Sep/Oct 2025: Field trip to Quito and surrounding region successful including a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN) Ibarra and our Faculty of Geoscience and Geography
  • May 2025: New DFG project funded on "Deglacial and postglacial vegetation and fire history of the Lake Melville region, Canada (MELPOLL)", a collaborative project with Dr. Catalina Gebhardt, AWI Bremerhaven, under the ICDP priority program. If you are interested in a Bsc or MSc thesis, let me know!
  • Jan 2025: We are happy to organise a university-wide research symposium on "Land use under climate change – co-learning with Latin America by combining natural and social science perspectives across spatio-temporal scales" in August 2025 together with Prof. Marcela Ibanez and the CBL. Watch out: registration will start soon!
  • Nov 2024: Visit of Ecuadorian delegation in frame of DAAD Fact Finding Mission from 11-15th Nov discussed academic exchange between GAU-Gö and ecuadorian partner Universities
  • Nov 2024: 01-Nov 2024 COST Action PaleoOpen has started - First steps in COST Action
  • Nov 2024: Fire-Vegetation-Climate interactions in eastern Siberia Ramesh Glückler defended his PhD thesis 8th Nov 2024 on "Long-term changes of wildfire regimes in eastern Siberia: An evaluation based on lake sediment indicators and individual-based modeling" at University of Potsdam, co-supervised by Elisabeth Dietze
  • Sep/Oct 2024: Expedition report of Ecuador fieldwork, scientific exchange about land use and landscape dynamics under climate change and sediment core sampling in andean lakes - DFG-project
  • 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 - DFG-project
  • Feb 2023: Workshop on “Long-term fire-vegetation change: data-based challenges” saw many exciting contributions and discussions (thanks to all contributors)

Current study regions

Central Europe (burnt uplands), Eastern Siberia, Ecuador

Scientific interests and thematic background

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

Courses Taught:

Bachelor:

  • B.Geg 02.2: Regionale Geographie - Praxis "Müritz"
  • B.Geg 05: Relief und Boden - Geomorphologie (Vorlesung und Übung)
  • B.Geg 09: Angewandte Geographie: Mansfelder Land und Müritz

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?

don't hesitate to get in touch with 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.


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