Doctoral Candidates
Here you can find all doctoral candidates of SICSS.

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- Joint preservation of ecological systems and farm livelihoods in the Galapagos Islands through improved food system resilience

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- Sensitivity of ocean heat uptake to changing atmospheric forcing in the context of climate variability

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- The modelling of mercury bioaccumulation in the marine ecosystem

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- Modeling and analyzing the effects and feedbacks of irrigation on regional climate - Case studies for Northern Italy using convection-permitting simulations

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- Towards an Integration of Global Warming-Induced Impacts in Cost Risk Analysis

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- Modelling and simulations of extreme events in the climate systems

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- Suitability of satellite-based precipitation products by using Flood Automatic Weather Stations (FAWS). Post-2010 flood monitoring in the Indus basin.

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- Impacts of Urban Emissions on Cloud and Precipitation Processes

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- System understanding of the impact of climatic and non-climatic drivers on the groundwater chemistry

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- Towards sustainable cropland management under climate change: insights from developing countries
- Assessment of climate and morphology induced changes in winter season within an urban area

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- Radiative transfer simulations for operational microwave satellite sensors

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- Uncertainty Analysis of a High-Resolution Precipitation Product Estimated from Weather Radar Observations

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- Parameterization of canopy processes for atmospheric models

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- Influence of social movements on company decarbonization strategies

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- Global Urban Climate Governance and the Global Carbon Neutrality Goal (Instruments and Practices)

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- Local and regional contestations of global climate governance norms and conflicts in sensitive regions

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- Drivers of Variability in Carbon Export in the Northwest European Shelf: Representations of Local Biogeochemical Processes

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- Evaluation of the impact of coastal protection measures on the recruitment success of key species in the estuarine environment of the German Wadden sea

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- Reconstruction of vertical motions on the island of Rhodes by using foraminifera

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- Modelling winter precipitation heterogeneities within an urban area

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- Modelling short-distance transport and transformation of aerosol particles from ship exhaust

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- The Effects of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on the Climate in South Asia and the Himalayan Region

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- Observe | Evaluate | Decide – Investigating practices of valuation in the context of social change

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- Warming effects on greenhouse gases in Wadden Sea salt marshes

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- The impact of permafrost thawing on carbon emissions and nutrients availability at the Lena River Delta, Siberia

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- Perceptions of climate policy instruments and their interaction

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- Entropy Production in Turbulence Parameterizations

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- Response of microfossil communities to the Permo-Triassic climate crisis

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- Warming effects on salt marsh fauna

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- Modeling Change in Organizational Field Networks

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- Reconstruction of deglacial N- and O- cycling in the intermediate Pacific

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- What are the potential ways of improving assessment of progress on adaptation?

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- Effects of early vascular vegetation on global climate in Earth’s History

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- Modeling changes in Baltic phytoplankton: From the past to the future

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- Modeling climate change and anthropogenic impacts on the Persian Gulf estuaries

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- Red Sea deep-water ventilation and climate variability during the past 200,000 years (REVENT)

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- Reconciling Agriculture and Forestry Systems for Food Security in Nigeria using Land Use Optimization Model

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- Mixing of Volcanic exhaust with ambient air: The importance of differential gas-particle dynamics

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- Risk Reduction of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods within Karakoram

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- Agricultural adaptation pathways for Namibia - An integrated assessment of multiple development goals under local, regional, and global changes

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- Understanding recent and future methane sink and source dynamics in permafrost-affected soils using Process-oriented Model

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- Interactions between Hamburg's Urban Green and ‘Water from Four Sides’

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- Shelf specific biogeochemical processes and their effect on carbon cycling

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- The contribution of basalt to global weathering
- Zukunftsimaginationen in Zeiten des Klimawandels - Perspektiven aus dem Vinschgau/Val Venosta, Südtirol

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- Predicting functional trait composition and biodiversity patterns of non-vascular vegetation and their response to climate change based on a process-based modeling approach

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- The impact of human activities and climate change on the ecological environment of the Pearl River Estuary

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- Predicting dynamics in forest carbon and the carbon economy for a changing climate

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- Urban Water Infrastructures: An Analysis of Water Sensitive Urban Practices in Hamburg
- Socioeconomic analysis of the effects of climate change in ecosystem services in the livelihoods of vulnerable rural communities in post-conflict zones

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- Interactive Visualization of the Impacts of Climate/Land Use Change and Response Measures using Augmented Reality

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- Estimating the global fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in different compartments

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- Multi-scale analysis of climate variability in South Cameroon: impacts on vegetation cover, water resources and adaptation strategies of riparian populations
- Modeling the fate of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in marine environment

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- On the behavioral foundation of decision-making under uncertainty and variability

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- Belowground responses to a throughfall exclusion experiment in a tropical forest of Puerto Rico

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- Impacts of climate change on the Indus water conflict between Punjab and Sindh province, Pakistan

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- The role of seagrass and salt marshes in carbon turnover and sequestration

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- Exploration of long-term observational datasets to examine ocean-atmosphere exchange processes of Hg

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- Adaptive governance in German fisheries management under climate change conditions

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- Urban Acupuncture for Peri-Urban Flood Resilience

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- On the variability and predictability of coastal extreme in the coupled model system

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- The response patterns of varied treeline ecotone types to climate change in Nepal Himalaya

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- Projection of the influence of anthropogenic and climatic factors on groundwater recharge rates

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- Forest Change and Climate Futures / case study Flagstaff, Arizona

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- Warming effects on plants in Wadden Sea salt marshes

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- Multiscale methods application to Canopies in Earth System

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- Re-Politicizing the Climate by Narrating the Future? - Socio-Political Visions in Civil Society and Science and their Influence on Climate Politics in Germany and the US
- Accelerated Mineral Weathering as a New Climate Risk Hedging Reactor Technology

Photo: Emily Quiroga-Gómez
- Towards a tipping point management approach for fisheries in the North Sea

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- Climate change, supply chains, and conflict

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- Exploring the Synergistic Relationships between Organics, Biota and Minerals for Advancing Enhanced Weathering Applications

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- Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Extreme Precipitation using Convection-Permitting Models

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- On the path towards deep decarbonization?! An examination of corporate responses to climate change
- Adaptive potential of marine microbes in a changing world

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- Effective institutions for international climate governance

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- Konfliktlagen und Kooperationsprozesse im Bereich von Ästuaren im Kontext ihrer nachhaltigen Raumentwicklung: Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel des Forums Tideelbe

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- Land management adaptation to climate change - A multi-scale assessment using agent-based modeling

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- Understanding aerobic soil organic C decomposition dynamics in permafrost-affected soils by improving the representation of microbial processes in process-oriented models

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- Influence of the combination of biochar and rock powder on soil properties and soil organic carbon dynamics

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- Land-use and land-management effects on soil water balances for the sandy soils of the Kavango region, northern Namibia

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- Approaches to modelling complex urban dynamics in coastal cities affected by climate change

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- The dynamical behavior of atmospheric oxidants in the region of Beijing, China

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- The pelagic phosphate cycle and CO2 - emissions in the northern and southern Benguela Upwelling System

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- “Der Wald überlebt uns“ – Klima- und Waldzukünfte im Harz
- Conflict and cooperation in climate-security hot spots, with a focus on South Asia

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- Essays on Regulations and Institutions for Environmental and Climate Change policymaking

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- Sustainable Land-Use Scenarios: Soil, Biodiversity, Water, Food and Energy Security

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- Temporal variations in carbon fluxes in rivers

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- Impact of Legumes on soil nutrient distribution, carbon and nitrogen cycling with regard to soil restoration in the Kavango region, Namibia

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- Assessing the representativeness of obstacle resolving model data

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- China's bio-fuel policy: Life-Cycle Analysis of Biofuel production and consumption in agriculture and energy sector

Photo: Chathurika Wickramage
- Sensitivity of RCP 8.5 sea level projections to ocean model resolution in the MPI-ESM climate model

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- Multiscale methods application to Canopies in Earth System