Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Dietze

Professur Landscape Geoscience

News

• 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

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.

Past issues

• Apr 2024: Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation and lake changes in SW Yakutia, Siberia, inferred from sedaDNA, pollen, and XRF data, Frontiers in Earth Science
• 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">