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Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Bork, Academic staff

Academic staff | Institute for Ecosystem Research

Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Bork (Germany, 1955)

founding member

PhD Technical University (TU) of Braunschweig
Research area Ecotechnology and ecosystem development
Scientific Education

1988
Venia legendi ‘Physical Geography and Geoecology – Physische Geographie und Geoökologie’, PD at TU Braunschweig 1974–1976

1982
PhD, TU Braunschweig. Title of dissertation: ‘Die holozäne Relief- und Bodenentwicklung im Untereichsfeld und im südwestlichen Harzvorland’

1978–1982
PhD student of Prof. Dr. Heinrich Rohdenburg, TU Braunschweig

1978
Graduate diploma of TU Braunschweig

1976–1978
Study of Geography, Soil Science, Rural Water Engineering, and Geology at the Technical University (TU) of Braunschweig

1974–1976
Study of Geography, Soil Science, Geology at the Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen

Scientific experience

Since 2000
Full professor (C4) for Ecosystem Research and head of the Ecology Centre of the Christian- Albrechts-University, Kiel

Since 1994
Nomination as honorary professor of the Humboldt-University, Berlin

2008-2009
President of the German Society of Geography

2006–2009
Chair of the Geographical Association at German universities (VGDH)

1996–2000
Full professor (C4) for Landscape Ecology and Soil Science at the University of Potsdam (Institute of Geoecology)

1992–1999
Scientific head of the Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research – Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V. Müncheberg (1996–1999 as additional office)

1991–1992
Dean of the faculty Landscape Development, TU Berlin

1989–1992
Full professor (C3) for Regional Soil Science at the Institute of Ecology, Technical University Berlin

1988–1989
Associate professor (C2) for Geoecology at the Institute of Geography, TU Braunschweig

1987–1988
Assistant professor (C1), TU Braunschweig

1980–1987
Research fellow, TU Braunschweig

Selected publications

2011
Lubos, C.C.M., Dreibrodt, S., Nelle, O., Klamm, M., Friederich, S., Meller, H., Nadeau, M.J., Grootes, P.M., Fuchs, M., Bork, H.-R.,: A multi-layered prehistoric settlement structure (tell?) at Niederröblingen, Germany and its implications. J. of Archaeological Science 38, 1101-1110.

2010
Dreibrodt, S., Lubos, C., Terhorst, B., Damm, B., Bork, H.-R.: Historical soil erosion by water in Germany: Scales and archives, chronology, research perspectives. Quaternary International 222, 80-95

2010
Dreibrodt, S., Lomax, J., Nelle, O., Lubos, C., Fischer, P., Mitusov, A., Reiss, S., Radtke, U., Nadeau, M., Grootes, P.M., Bork, H.-R.: Are mid-latitude slopes sensitive to climatic oscillation? Implications from an Early Holocene sequence of slope deposits and buried soils from eastern Germany. Geomorphology 122, 352-369

2010
Mieth, A., Bork, H.-R.: Humans, climate or introduced rats – which is to blame for the woodland destruction on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)? J. of Archaeological Science 37: 417-426.

2009
Mieth, A., Bork, H.-R.: Inseln der Erde. Darmstadt.

2009
Mitusov, A., Mitusova, O., Pustovoytov, K., Lubos, C., Bork, H.-R.: Palaeoclimatic indicators in soils buried under archaeological monuments in the Eurasian steppe: A review. The Holocene 19: 1153-1160.

2009
Reiss, S., Dreibrodt, S., Lubos, C., Bork, H.-R.: Land use history and historical soil erosion at Albersdorf (northern Germany) – Ceased agricultural land use after the pre-historical period. Catena 77: 107-118.

2009
Bork, H.-R., Dahlke, C., Dreibrodt, S., Kranz, A.: Soil and human impact. In: Elements – continents. Approaches to determinants of environmental history and their reflections. Nova Acta Leopoldina NF Bd. 98, Nr. 360: 63-78.

2007
Bork, H.-R.: Geomorphologische Auswirkungen anthropogener Umweltveränderungen. Zeitschrift f. Geomorphologie N.F. Suppl. Bd. 148: 64-70.

2007
Vanwalleghem, T., Poesen, J., Vitse, I., Bork, H.-R., Dotterweich, M., Schmidtchen, G., Deckers, J., Lang, A., Mauz, B.: Origin and evolution of closed depressions in central Belgium, European loess belt. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32: 574-586.

2006
Bork, H.-R.: Landschaften der Erde unter dem Einfluss des Menschen. Darmstadt.

2006
Stevenson, C. M., Jackson, T. L., Mieth, A., Bork, H.-R., Ladefoged, T. N.: Prehistoric and early historic agriculture at Maunga Orito, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile. Antiquity 80: 919-936.

2006
Mieth, A. and H.-R. Bork: The dynamics of soil, landscape and culture on Easter Island (Chile). In: J. R. McNeill and V. Winiwarter (eds), Soils and societies: Perspectives from environmental history (Isle of Harris), 273–321

2003
Bork, H.-R., Lang, A.: Quantification of past soil erosion and land use / land cover changes in Germany. In: A. Lang, K. Hennrich and R. Dikau (eds), Long term hillslope and fluvial system modelling. Concepts and case studies from the Rhine river catchment. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (Berlin et al.) 101, 231–239.

1998
Bork, H.-R., Bork, H., Dalchow, C., Faust, B., Piorr, H.-P., Schatz, T.: Landschaftsentwicklung in Mitteleuropa. Gotha.

Dreibrodt, S., Lomax, J., Nelle, O., Lubos, C., Fischer, P., Mitusov, A., Reiss, S., Radtke, U., Nadeau, M., Grootes, P.M., Bork, H.-R.: Are mid-latitude slopes sensitive to climatic oscillation? Implications from an Early Holocene sequence of slope deposits and buried soils from eastern Germany. Geomorphology 122, 352-369
Memberships

Since 2003
Member of ‘Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle’

Since 2003
Theses 
(co-)supervised

In progress
Şafak Nergiz: Settlement patterns in Eastern Thrace (Turkey) during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Period.

In progress
Andrey Vladimirovich Mitusov: Soils and relief development during Holocene in northern Germany (with focus on Neolithic Age)

In progress
Kinga Reul: Entrepreneurship within the Maori Culture – A case study regarding the implications for social change in terms of resource use and work society.

In progress
David Bergeman: Analysis and evaluation of Germanic settlements patterns and spatial structures from 1st century BC to 3rd century AD in North and North-Western Germany.

In progress
Uta Lungershausen: Reconstruction of spatiotemporal man-nature interactions. Modeling and quatification of dune development in sandur plain landscapes in Northern Germany by using GIS and 3D visualization-techniques.

In progress
Sadovnik, Mykola: History reconstruction of the forest and land use from the Neolithic Period in Westensee Area, Northern Germany.

In progress
Michael Teichmann: Landscape archaeology in Central Italy.

In progress
Sophia Dazert: Long-term experiments in small streams.

In progress
Assefa Engdawork: Landscape Dynamics and Implication for Integrated Natural Resource Management in south Ethiopia

2011
Annekret Larsen: Past Natural and Anthropological Altered Sediment Flux in the Spessart Mountains - a Central European Landscape

2011
Carolin Clara Maria Lubos: Geomorphologisch-umweltarchäologische Untersuchungen der Genese eines urgeschichtlichen Siedlungshügels bei Niederröblingen (Sachsen-Anhalt) und seiner Umgebung.

2008
Anro Beyer: Mittelalterlich-neuzeitliche Landschaftsentwicklung im Südsolling – die Wüstung Winnefeld, cum laude

2008
Iraj Emadodin: Impacts of land management on soil formation and soil degradation during middle and late Holocene in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany), cum laude

2008
Caroline Schleier: Die Folgeböden landwirtschaftlich genutzter nordostdeutscher Niedermoore, magna cum laude

2006
Christine Dahlke: Kultur- und Naturraumentwicklung im nordchinesischen Lössplateau; magna cum laude

2006
Rüdiger Kelm: Die frühe Kulturlandschaft der Region Albersdorf (Kreis Dithmarschen, Schleswig- Holstein). Grundlagen, Erfassung und Vermittlung der Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen in einer urgeschichtlichen Geestlandschaft; cum laude

2006
Christian Russok: Prozessspuren in der Landschaft – Aspekte des fluviatilen und litoralen Responssystems am Beispiel eines weichselzeitlich geprägten Landschaftsausschnittes in Schleswig- Holstein; magna cum laude

2006
Anne Schmitt: Auswirkungen der langfristigen Landnutzungsdynamik auf die Ökosysteme Südost-Polens; cum laude

2005
Stefan Dreibrodt: Integrative Analyse von Kolluvien und Seesedimenten zur Rekonstruktion der Bodenerosionsgeschichte im Einzugsgebiet des Belauer Sees (Schleswig-Holstein); summa cum laude

2005
Stefan Reiß: Langfristige Wirkungen der Landnutzung auf den Stoffhaushalt in der Dithmarscher Geest seit dem Neolithikum; magna cum laude

2005
Günther Winkler: Luftgestützte Geofernerkundung mit leichten Messflugzeugen im 21. Jahrhundert; cum laude

2004
Katrin Schwarz: Untersuchungen zum Einsatz biogener Ligninklebstoffe bei Massivholzverklebungen; cum laude

2003
Rainer Sodtke: Ein Entscheidungsunterstützungssystem für den Zwischenfruchtanbau – Konzeption, Entwicklung, Validierung; magna cum laude

2003
Andreas Barsch: Zum Einfluss von Witterung und Klima auf den Landschaftszustand und die Landschaftsentwicklung im Uvs-Nuur-Becken (NW-Mongolei); magna cum laude

2003
Benjamin Burkhard: Ecological Assessment of the Reindeer Husbandry System in Northern Finland; magna cum laude

2003
Gabriele Schmidtchen: Anthropogen beeinflusste langfristige Ökosystementwicklung in Norddeutschland; magna cum laude

2003
Markus Dotterweich: Langfristige landnutzungsbedingte Landschaftsentwicklung in Oberfranken; magna cum laude

2003
Franka Woithe: Holozäne Landschaftsentwicklung in der Niederlausitz; magna cum laude

2003
Andreas Mieth: Mensch-Natur-Beziehungen im Südost-Pazifik; magna cum laude

2002
Karl Geldmacher: Landschaftsentwicklung und Landschaftswandel im Pazifischen Nordwesten der USA seit 1850; magna cum laude

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