Recent Publications

• A comparison of flood protective decision-making between German households and businesses

  Hudson, P., Thieken, A.H., Bubeck, P. (2022): Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 27(1): 5.

• Compound inland flood events: different pathways, different impacts and different coping options

  Thieken, A. H., Samprogna Mohor, G., Kreibich, H., and Müller, M. (2022), Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 165–185.

• An improved groundwater model framework for aquifer structures of the Quaternary-formed sediment body in the southernmost parts of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

  Hoan, T.V., Richter K.-G., Börsig, N., Bauer, J., Ha, N.T., Norra, S., 2022. Hydrology 9, 61, 10.3390, hydrology 9040061.

• Automatic element and mineral detection in thin sections using hyperspectral transmittance imaging microscopy (HyperTIM)

  Dämpfling, H.L.C., Mielke, C., Köllner, N.,  Lorenz, M., Christian Rogass, C., Altenberger, U., Harlov, D.E., Knoper, M. (2022), Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 275–284.

• Geochemistry and evolution of groundwater resources in the context of salinization and freshening in the southernmost Mekong Delta, Vietnam

  Bauer, J., Börsig, N., Pham, V.C., Hoan, T.V., Ha, N.T.,Norra, S. 2022, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 40, 101010.

• Investigating the role of differential biotic production on carbonate geometries through stratigraphic forward modelling and sensitivity analysis: the Llucmajor example

  Tella, T. O., Winterleitner, G., Mutti, M. (2022), Petroleum Geoscience, Vol. 28.

• Trends, breaks, and biases in the frequency of reported glacier lake outburst floods

  Veh, G., Lützow, N., Kharlamova, V., Petrakov, D., Hugonnet, R., & Korup, O., 2022, Earth's Future, 10, e2021EF002426.

• The chemical and B-isotope composition of tourmaline from intra-granitic pegmatites in the Las Chacras-Potrerillos Batholith, Argentina

  Ribacki, E., Trumbull, R.B., López de Luchi, M.G., Altenberger, U. (2022). The Canadian Mineralogist, 60, 1-18

• Large landslides cluster at the margin of a deglaciated mountain belt

  Pánek, T., Břežný, M., Harrison, S., Schönfeldt, E., Winocur, D., 2022, Scientific Reports, 12, 5658.

• Mid-Pleistocene to Recent Crustal Extension in the Inner Graben of the Northern Kenya Rift

  Riedl, S., Melnick, D., Njue, L., Sudo, M., Strecker, M.R., 2022, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23, e2021GC010123.

• An Alternative Incoming Correction for Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing Observations Using Local Muon Measurement

  Stevanato, L., G. Baroni, S. E. Oswald, M. Lunardon, V. Mares, F. Marinello, S. Moretto, M. Polo, P. Sartori, P. Schattan, W. Ruehm, 2022. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(6), e2021GL095383.

• Effects of catchment characteristics and hydro-meteorological scenarios on sediment connectivity in glacierised catchments

  Buter A., Heckmann T., Filisetti L., Savi S., Mao L., Gems B., Comiti F. (2022), Geomorphology 402, 108128

• Assessing the feasibility of a directional CRNS-sensor for estimating soil moisture

  Francke, Till, Maik Heistermann, Markus Köhli, Christian Budach, Martin Schrön, and Sascha E. Oswald, 2022. Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 11, 75–92.

• Machine learning identifies ecological selectivity patterns across the end-Permian mass extinction

  Foster, W. J., Ayzel, G., Münchmeyer, J., Rettelbach, T., Kitzmann, N. H., Isson, T. T., Mutti, M., Aberhan, M (2022), Cambridge University Press

• A European Network of Cosmic-Ray Neutron Soil Moisture Sensors

  Bogena, H., Schrön, M., et al., 2022, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 1125–1151.

• The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa

  Gosling, W.D., Scerri, E.M.L., Kaboth-Bahr, S. (2022), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

• A satellite-based approach to estimating spatially distributed groundwater recharge rates in a tropical wet sedimentary region despite cloudy conditions

  Barbosa, Luís Romero, Victor Hugo R. Coelho, Ana Claudia V.L. Gusmão, Lucila A. Fernandes, Bernardo B. da Silva, Carlos de O. Galvão, Nelson O.L. Caicedo, Adriano R. da Paz, Yunqing Xuan, Guillaume F. Bertrand, Davi de C. D. Melo, Suzana M.G.L. Montenegro, Sascha E. Oswald, Cristiano das N. Almeida, 2022. 607, 127503, Journal of Hydrology.

• Geomorphic expression of a tectonically active rift-transfer zone in southern Ethiopia

  Erbello, A., Melnick, D., Zeilinger, G., Bookhagen, B., Pingel, H., Strecker, M.R., (2022), Geomorphology, Vol 403

• Hochwasser und Sturzfluten an Flüssen in Deutschland

  Bronstert, A., Apel, H., Bormann, H., Bürger, G., et al. (2022), Kapitel 10 in: Brasseur G.; Jacob, D. (Hrsg., 2. Auflage):  Klimawandel in Deutschland. Heidelberg, Springer/Spektrum, (völlig neu bearbeitete 2. Auflage, in Druck).

• Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia

  Li, D., Lu, X., Overeem, I., Walling, D. E., Syvitski, J., Kettner, A. J., Bookhagen, B., Zhou, Y., Zhang, T., 2021. Science 374 (6567), 599–603.

• The trisulfur radical ion S3•− controls platinum transport by hydrothermal fluids

  Pokrovski, G. S., Kokh, M. A., Desmaele, E., Laskar, C., Bazarkina, E. F., Borisova, et al., 2021. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(34). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109768118

• A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

  Shugar, D. H., Jacquemart, M., Shean, D., Bhushan, S., Upadhyay, K., Sattar, A., Schwanghart, W., et al., 2021. Science, eabh4455. doi: 10.1126/science.abh4455.

• Projected changes in Rhine River flood seasonality under global warming

  Rottler, E., Bronstert, A., Bürger, G., and Rakovec, O., 2021. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2353–2371. doi: 10.5194/hess-25-2353-2021.

• Non-invasive detection and localization of microplastic particles in sediments by complementary neutron and X-ray tomography

  Tötzke, C., Oswald, S.E., Hilger, A., Kardjilov, N., 2021. , Journal of Soils and Sediments, doi:10.1007/s11368-021-02882-6

• Temperature and precipitation in the southern Central Andes during the Last Glacial Maximum, Heinrich Stadial 1 and the Younger Dryas

  Mey, J., D’Arcy, M., Taylor, F. S., Egholm, D. L., Wittmann, H., & Strecker, M. R., 2020. Quaternary Science Reviews, 248. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106592

• Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transistion in hominin evolution

  Potts R., Dommain R., Riedl S., et al., 2020 Science Advances Vol. 6, no. 43,DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc8975

• Illuminating subduction zone rheological properties in the wake of a giant earthquake

  Weiss, J. R., Qiu Q., Barbot S., Wright T. J., Foster J. H., Saunders A., Brooks B. A., Bevis M., Kendrick E., Ericksen T. L., Avery J., Smalley R., Cimbaro S. R., Lenzon L. E., Báron J., Báez J. C., Wechalar A.. 2019.  Science Advances Vol. 5, no. 12, eaax6720, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax6720

• Impact of canal reconstruction on groundwater flow during bank filtration assessed by transient 3-D modelling of flow and heat transport

  Wang, W., S.E. Oswald, T. Gräff, H.-J. Lensing, T. Liu, D. Strasser, M. Munz, 2020. Hydrogeology J., 28, 723–743, doi: 10.1007/s10040-019-02063-3.

• Victoria continental microplate dynamics controlled by the lithospheric strength distribution of the East African Rift

  Glerum, A., Brune, S., Stamps, D. S., Strecker, M., 2020. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16176-x

• A portable on-axis laser-heating system for near-90° X-ray spectroscopy: application to ferropericlase and iron silicide.

  G. Spiekermann, Kupenko I., Petitgirard S., Harder M., Nyrow A., Weis C., Albers C., Biedermann N., Libon L., Sahle C. J., Cerantola V., Glazyrin K., Konôpková Z., Sinmyo R., Morgenroth W.,  Sergueev I., Yavaş H., Dubrovinsky L., Tolan M., Sternemann C. and  Wilke M..  Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. Vol.27, 414-424. DOI: 10.1107/S1600577519017041

• Exploring the efficiency of stepwise dissolution in removal of stubborn non-radiogenic Pb Condrule U-Pb dating

  Merle, R., Amelin, Y., Yin, Q.-Z., Huyskens, M. H., Sanborn, M. E., Nagashima, K., Yamashita, K., Ireland, T., Krot, A., and Sieber, M.J..2020. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta. DOI:/10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.010

• Nature's contributions to people in mountains: A review

  Martín-López B, I. Leister , P. Lorenzo Cruz, I. Palomo, A. Grêt-Regamey, P.A. Harrison, S. Lavorel, B. Locatelli, S. Luque and A. Walz. 2019. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0217847. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217847

• Surface erosion events controlled the evolution of plate tectonics on Earth

  Sobolev, S, Brown, M. (2019). Nature volume 570, pages 52-57 (2019). doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1258-4