Completed projects

Historical land use and landscape change in the Decapolis region

Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Management: PD Dr. B. Lucke (Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Staff: Dr. Jago Birk

Interrelation of dust deposition and land use during the Holocene in the southern Levant

Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Management: PD Dr. B. Lucke
Staff: Dr. Jago Birk

Strategies for securing supplies in the Balkan region of the 6th century an interdisciplinary study of the granary of Caričin Grad

Funding: Thyssen-Stiftung
Management: Prof. Dr. R. Schreg (Roman-Germanic Research Center Mainz)
Staff: Kevin Horn and Dr. Jago Birk

The short life of an imperial city everyday life, environment, and decline of Early Byzantine Caričin Grad (Iustiniana Prima?)

Funding: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Management: Prof. Dr. R. Schreg
Staff: Kevin Horn and Dr. Jago Birk

Wetlands in East-Africa – Reconciling future food production with environmental protection

Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Management: Prof. Dr. Mathias Becker (INRES, University of Bonn)
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Sabine Fiedler
Staff: Björn Glasner

Representative recording of emissions of climate-relevant gases from peatlands in Baden-Württemberg (EmMo)

Funding: Landesamt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg
Management: Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck (Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, University of Hohenheim)
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Sabine Fiedler
Staff: Martin Ebli

Changes in the mineral assemblage of paddy soils upon redox cycles

Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Management
: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Jahn (Soil Science, University of Halle-Wittenberg) and Prof. Dr. Sabine Fiedler
Staff: Vanessa Vogelsang

Dissolved organic matter driven changes in minerals and organic-mineral interactions during paddy soil development

Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Management
: Dr. Klaus Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Jahn, Prof. Dr. Sabine Fiedler
Staff: Pauline Geier (Soil Science, University of Halle-Wittenberg)
Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Karsten Kalbitz (Earth Surface Sciences, University of Amsterdam)