Dr. Hermann Achenbach

Curriculum Vitae

born on 20.9.1981

10.2002 -12.2006:
Student at the University of Goettingen; subjects: Geography, Environment- and Ressource- Economy, Geology and Bioclimatology

since 01.2007:
PhD Student at the University of Goettingen; doctoral thesis: “Historical and recent glacier fluctuations in the Inner Himalaya”


Priorities of research

Glacial-geomorphology, Ice Age Research, historical glacier fluctuations, High Asia


Scientific expeditions

2008: Glacial-geomorphological and climatological researchs in the Inner Himalaya (north of Dhaulagiri- and Annapurna-Himalaya).

2007: Glacial-geomorphological and climatological researchs in the Inner Himalaya (north of Dhaulagiri- and Annapurna-Himalaya).

2005: Expedition in the Ladakh Range (Karakoram) and the Zanskar Himalaya.


Teachings

summer term 2007: Geomorphologische und bodenkundliche Arbeitsmethoden mit Exkursionen

summer term 2011: Geomorphologische und bodenkundliche Arbeitsmethoden mit Exkursionen


Talks/Presentations

Talk: Historical (<1700 B.P.) to neoglacial (5500-1700 B.P.) glacier stages in the Inner Himalaya (north of the Annapurna- and Dhaulagiri-Himalaya) (28°39'-58’N/83°28’-58’E); INQUA Bern, 21-27.7.2011.

Posterpresentation: Recent fluctuations of subtropical glaciers in the Inner Himalaya (28°39'-58’N/83°28’-58’E); INQUA Bern, 21-27.7.2011.

Talk: Historische und rezente Gletscherstandsschwankungen in den Einzugsgebieten des Cha Lungpa (Mukut-, Hongde- und Tongu-Himalaja sowie Tach Garbo Lungpa), des Khangsar Khola (Annapurna N-Abdachung) und des Kone Khola (Muktinath-, Purkhung- und Chulu-Himalaja); Geographisches Kolloquium der Universität Göttingen, 5.7.2011.

Talk: Historical and recent glacier fluctuations in the Inner Himalayas; 4. Symposium Biodiversität Himalaja, Naturkundemuseum Erfurt, 14.-17.4.2011.

Talk: Historische und rezente Gletscherschwankungen im Inneren Himalaja; Geographisches Kolloquium an der Universität Erlangen; 27.01.2010

Talk: Synchronisation of historical and recent glacier fluctuations in the Inner Himalaya; 99th annual meeting of the GV; Göttingen; 5-7 Oktober 2009

Posterpresentation: New Findings concerning the Pleistocene glaciation of the Leh Basin; EGU 2009; Wien.

Talk: Neue Befunde zur pleistozänen Vergletscherung des Beckens von Leh; 18. Sitzung des Arbeitskreis Hochgebirge at Heidelberg (23. - 25.01.2009)

Posterpresentation: "Zur pleistozänen Vergletscherung des Beckens von Leh" at the 3. mitteleuropäischen Geomorphologietagung in Salzburg (23.-28.09.2008)