Dr. Georg Veh
Dr. Georg Veh
Geohazards
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Campus Golm
Haus 1, Raum 1.20
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
CV
- as of 08/2022: Topical editor for Earth System Science Data
- 04/2022 - 06/2022: Associate professor (temporary) at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
- as of 10/2018: Research associate in the research group Geohazards
- 10/2015 - 08/2019: PhD student in the Research Training School NatRiskChange
- 2012 - 2015: Master of Science at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany
Major: Geography: Environmental processes and natural hazards - 2009 - 2012: Bachelor of Science at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany
Major: Physical geography
Research
- DFG-funded project (VE 1363/2-1): Glaciers, lakes, and outburst floods: Changing hazards in the NW Pacific Coastal Mountains (as PI, together with Anja Dufresne, Oliver Korup, Marten Geertsema, and John Clague)
Teaching
Summer term 2022
- Geoecological landscape practical exercise (Bachelor's program)
- Natural Hazards (Bachelor's program) and Natural Hazards for spatial planning (Master's program) at HVL Sogndal
Winter term 2021/2022
- GIS project using geo and environmental data (Master's program)
Summer term 2021
- Field practical exercise Rügen (Bachelor's program)
- Geoecological landscape practical exercise (Bachelor's program)
Winter term 2020/2021
- GIS project using geo and environmental data (Master's program)
Summer term 2020
- Field practical exercise Rügen (Bachelor's program)
- Geoecological landscape practical exercise (Organisation, Bachelor's program)
- Seminar of the working group Natural Hazards (Organisation)
Winter term 2019/2020
- Geographic Information Systems (Seminar - Bachelor's program)
- Group seminar of the working group Natural Hazards (Organisation)
Summer term 2019
- Advanced Geohazards (Lecture & Seminar - Master's program)
- Group seminar of the working group Natural Hazards (Organisation)
Winter term 2018/2019
- Basics of Quantifying Natural Hazards (Seminar - Master's program)
- Natural hazards (Seminar - Bachelor's program)
- Group seminar of the working group Natural Hazards (Organisation)
Winter term 2017/2018
- Regional geography of Germany (Half-term lecture - Bachelor's program)
Publications
Currently in revision, in review, or submitted
- Pfau, M., Veh, G., and W. Schwanghart. Cast shadows reveal changes in glacier thickness. The Cryosphere Discussions, https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-194/
- Andermann, C., Nepal, S., Maharjan, S.B., Schwanghart, W., Veh, G., Azam, M.F., Wagnon, P., and F. Brun. Glaciers and Glacier Lake Outburst Floods in the Himalayas.
- Lützow, N., Veh, G., and O. Korup. A global database of historic glacier lake outburst floods. Earth System Science Data Discussions, https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2022-449/
- Vogel, K., Sieg, T., Veh, G., Fiedler, B., Moran, T., Peter, M., Rottler, E., and A. Bronstert. Natural Hazards in a Changing World: Methods for Analysing Trends and Non-linear Changes.
- Zhang, G., Peng, M., Wang, X., Veh, G., Sattar, A., Chen, W., and S. Allen. Cascading hazards from two recent glacial lake outburst floods in the Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau.
Peer-reviewed publications
- Zhang, G., Bolch, T., Yao, T., Wang, M., Chen, W., Wang, W., Rounce, D.R., Veh, G., King, O., and S. Allen (2023). Underestimated glacier mass loss in the Himalayas. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01150-1
- Veh, G., Lützow, N., Tamm, J., Luna, L.V., Hugonnet, R., Vogel, K., Geertsema, M., Clague, J.J., and O. Korup (2023). Less extreme and earlier outbursts from ice-dammed lakes since 1900. Nature, 614, 701–707, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05642-9
- Fischer, M., Lehnigk, K., Lützow, N., Brettin, J., Veh, G., Larsen, I.J., Korup, O. & Walz, A. (2023). Himalayan hazard cascades – Modern and Medieval outburst floods in Pokhara, Nepal, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi.org/10.1002/esp.5539
- Veh, G., Lützow, N., Kharlamova, V., Petrakov, D., Hugonnet, R., & Korup, O. (2022). Trends, breaks, and biases in the frequency of reported glacier lake outburst floods. Earth's Future, 10, e2021EF002426. doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002426
- Emmer, A., Mergili, M., and Veh, G. (2021). Glacial lake outburst floods: geomorphological agents and hazardous phenomena, Treatise on Geomorphology, 18 p., doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00057-2
- Fischer, M., Korup, O., Veh, G., and A. Walz (2021).Controls of outbursts of Himalayan moraine-dammed lakes, The Cryosphere, 15, 4145–4163, doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4145-2021, 2021
- Veh, G., O. Korup, S., and A. Walz (2020). Hazard from Himalayan glacier lake outburst floods. PNAS, 117, 2, 907-912, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914898117
- Veh, G. (2019): Outburst floods from moraine-dammed lakes in the Himalayas: Detection, frequency, and hazard. Doctoral thesis, University of Potsdam, https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/43607
- Veh, G., O. Korup, S., von Specht, S. Roessner, and A. Walz (2019). Unchanged frequency of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya. Nature Climate Change, 9, 379-383, dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0437-5
- von Specht, S., Ozturk, U., Veh, G., Cotton, F., Korup, O., (2019). Effects of finite source rupture on landslide triggering: the 2016 Mw 7.1 Kumamoto earthquake. Solid Earth, 10, 463-486, doi.org/10.5194/se-10-463-2019
- Veh, G., O. Korup, S. Roessner, A. Walz (2018). Detecting Himalayan Glacial Lake Outburst Floods from Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 207: 84-97
- Dietze, E., Słowiński, M., Zawiska, I., Veh, G. & A. Brauer (2016). Multiple drivers of Holocene lake level changes at a lowland lake in northeastern Germany. BOREAS, 45 (4), 828-845
Orals
- Veh, G., Lützow, N., Kharlamova, V., Petrakov, D., Hugonnet, R., and O. Korup (2021). Limited rise of glacier lake outburst floods despite increased atmospheric warming since the 1970s. Annual meeting of the German Society of Geomorphology, Nov 05-09, 2021, Munich, Germany.
- Veh, G., Korup, O., and A. Walz (2019).Frequency and hazard from Himalayan glacier lake outburst floods. EGU Galileo Conference on Perturbations of earth surface dynamics caused by extreme events, Oct 13-19, 2019, Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Veh, G., O. Korup, S. Rössner and A. Walz (2018). How rare are Himalayan Glacial Lake Outburst Floods? EGU General Assembly April 08-13, 2018, Vienna, Austria.
- Specht, S., Ozturk U., Veh, G., Cotton, F. and O. Korup (2018). Rupture directivity of the Kumamoto 2016 Earthquake on landslide distribution. EGU General Assembly April 08-13, 2018, Vienna, Austria.
- Veh, G., Korup, O., Roessner, S. and A. Walz (2017). Automatically detecting Himalayan Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in LANDSAT time series. EGU General Assembly, April 23-28, 2017, Vienna, Austria.
- Veh, G., Morgenstern A. and F. Haas (2016). Thermal erosion on ice-rich permafrost in the Lena River Delta - Determining decisive factors using logistic regression. XI. International Conference on Permafrost, June 20-24, 2016, Potsdam, Germany.
Posters
- Veh, G., Korup, O. and A. Walz (2019). Hazard from Himalayan glacier lake outburst floods. AK Geomorphologie, Sep 28-29, 2019, Kiel, Germany.
- Veh, G., Korup, O. and A. Walz (2019). Increasing hazard from glacial lake outburst floods in ice-free Himalayas. EGU General Assembly April 07-12, 2019, Vienna, Austria.
- Veh, G., O. Korup, W. Schwanghart, S. Rössner and A. Walz (2018). Outburst hazard from glacial lakes in ice-free Himalayas. AK Geomorphologie, Sep 27-29, 2018, Gießen, Germany.
- Specht, S., Ozturk U., Veh, G., Cotton, F. and O. Korup (2018). Rupture directivity of strike-slip earthquakes on landslide distribution: A case study of the 2016 Kumamoto MW 7.0 Earthquake. EGU General Assembly April 08-13, 2018, Vienna, Austria.
- Veh, G., O. Korup, S. Rössner and A. Walz (2017). Detecting Himalayan Glacial Lake Outburst Floods from Landsat time series. AK Geomorphologie, Oct 09-10, 2017, Bayreuth, Germany. Winner of the poster award
- Veh, G., Walz, A., Korup, O. and S. Roessner (2016). Towards an improved inventory of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in the Himalayas. EGU General Assembly, April 18-22, 2016, Vienna, Austria.
- Neugirg, F., Kaiser, A., Haas, F., Veh, G., Schindewolf, M., Schmidt J. and M. Becht (2014). Micro relief parameters from high resolution DEMs as representative values for physical based soil erosion models. EGU General Assembly, April 27 - May 02, 2014, Vienna, Austria.