Prof. Dr. Brigitte Urban

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C13.022
Fon +49.4131.677-2816, brigitte.urban@leuphana.de

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Vita

Academic Qualifications

1978                              Doctorate at University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Department of Botany, Faculty of Natural Sciences; Thesis: "Environmental history of the Lower Rhine Basin during the Early Pleistocene"

1975                              Diploma (MSc) degree in Biology (Botany, Biochemistry, Environmental Geology, Soil Science and Prehistory) at Albertus- Magnus-University Cologne

Professional Career

Since 2013                    Chair of PhD Commission for Natural Science (Dr. rer. nat.) and Speaker of ´Promotionskolleg` of Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University LÜneburg

Since 2009                    University Professor for Ecology, Head of working group Landscape Change, Leuphana University Lüneburg

2005-2006                     Vice President of University of Lüneburg, International Affairs

2005-2009                     Professor of Soil Science and Biology at University of Lüneburg

Since 2005                    Honorary Professor of University of Tübingen, Faculty of Geosciences

2003-2004                     Dean of Faculty of Civil Engineering (Water Management & Engineering, Applied Computing)

2001-2002                     Vice President of University of Applied Sciences, NE Lower Saxony. Research, Science & Technology Transfer, International Affairs, 2nd period

1996-1998                     Vice President of University of Applied Sciences, NE Lower Saxony. Research, Science & Technology Transfer, International Affairs, 1st period

1985-2005                     Professor of Soil Science and Biology at University of Applied Sciences, NE Lower Saxony, since 2005 amalgamated with University Lüneburg

Since 1983                    Assistant Professor/lecturer at the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Tübingen

1979-1983                     Scientific assistant and postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Soil Science, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Bonn. Research project: "Vegetation and Soil Development on loess in Central Europe" (DFG). Set up of the Laboratory for Soil Biology and Palynology of the Institute of soil Science

1975-1978                     Research fellow at the Geological Institute, University of Cologne, Quaternary and Environmental Geology, Holocene and Pleistocene environmental history

Honors and Functions

Awards:

Award of Knowledge Transfer Prize 2014 of Leuphana University Lüneburg for outstanding and innovative accomplishments in the category ´Transfer of Scientific Research beyond the University and Application oriented Research with a Practical Relevance`.

 

Functions:

Member of the Board of Trustees of Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, LIAG, Hannover (Since 2008)

Chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Board of Leibniz Institute for Applied Geosciences, (LIAG, former GGA) Hannover (2005- 2008)

Member of the Scientific Board of Acta Palaeobotanica, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland

Projects

  1. Climate Change & Early Humans in the North
    Brigitte Urban (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  2. Climate and Environmental Variability during the late Middle Pleistocene at the Paleolithic Sites of Schöningen, Northern Germany
    Brigitte Urban (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  3. DAS: Klimaanpassung managen! Weiterbildung für Bildungsakteure, Naturschutzexpert_Innen, Umwelt-, Nachhaltigkeits- und Klimaschutzbeauftragte in Kommunen sowie Multiplikator_innen zu regionalen Klimaanpassungsmanager_Innen
    Brigitte Urban (Project manager, academic) , Karin Fischer (Project staff) , Christine Katz (Coordination)
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    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  4. Paläoumwelt und das Alter der Schöninger Speere und der quartären Abfolge im Tagebau Schöningen. Chronometrische und relative Datierung mittels Lumineszenz und Palynologie
    Brigitte Urban (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  5. Aktivierte Pflanzenkohle aus Elbauen - neue Wertschöpfungen durch die Entwicklung einer neuen Stoffstromstrategie für das Auengrünland der Elbe
    Brigitte Urban (Project manager, academic) , Frank Krüger (Project staff)
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    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

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Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Summer temperatures from the Middle Pleistocene site Schöningen 13 II, northern Germany, determined from subfossil chironomid assemblages
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , Sonja Rigterink (Author) , Kim J. Krahn (Author) , Bartosz Kotrys (Author) , Oliver Heiri (Author) , Falko Turner (Author) , Andre Pannes (Author) , Antje Schwalb (Author) , 01.10.2024 , in: Boreas, 53, 4 , p. 525-542 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Temperature and palaeolake evolution during a Middle Pleistocene interglacial–glacial transition at the Palaeolithic locality of Schöningen, Germany
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , Kim J. Krahn (Author) , Sylvia Pinkerneil (Author) , David J. Horne (Author) , Mario Tucci (Author) , Andreas Koutsodendris (Author) , Antje Schwalb (Author) , 01.10.2024 , in: Boreas, 53, 4 , p. 504-524 , 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Dating the Neanderthal environment: Detailed luminescence chronology of a palaeochannel sediment core at the Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg in the Lower Saxony, northern Germany
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , Neda Rahimzadeh (Author) , Michael Hein (Author) , Marcel Weiss (Author) , David Colin Tanner (Author) , Azra Khosravichenar (Author) , Sumiko Tsukamoto (Author) , Tobias Lauer (Author) , 01.08.2024 , in: Quaternary Geochronology, 83 , 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. First automatic size measurements for the separation of dwarf birch and tree birch pollen in MIS 6 to MIS 1 records from Northern Germany
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , Martin Theuerkauf (Author) , Elias Nehring (Author) , Alexander Gillert (Author) , Philipp Morten Bodien (Author) , Michael Hein (Author) , 01.06.2024 , in: Ecology and Evolution, 14, 6 , 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , Elena A. Pearce (Author) , Florence Mazier (Author) , Signe Normand (Author) , Ralph Fyfe (Author) , Valérie Andrieu (Author) , Corrie Bakels (Author) , Zofia Balwierz (Author) , Krzysztof Bińka (Author) , Steve Boreham (Author) , Olga K. Borisova (Author) , Anna Brostrom (Author) , Jacques Louis de Beaulieu (Author) , Cunhai Gao (Author) , Penélope González-Sampériz (Author) , Wojciech Granoszewski (Author) , Anna Hrynowiecka (Author) , Piotr Kołaczek (Author) , Petr Kuneš (Author) , Donatella Magri (Author) , Małgorzata Malkiewicz (Author) , Tim Mighall (Author) , Alice M. Milner (Author) , Per Möller (Author) , Małgorzata Nita (Author) , Bożena Noryśkiewicz (Author) , Irena Agnieszka Pidek (Author) , Maurice Reille (Author) , Ann Marie Robertsson (Author) , J. Sakari Salonen (Author) , Patrick Schläfli (Author) , Jeroen Schokker (Author) , Paolo Scussolini (Author) , Vaida Šeirienė (Author) , Jaqueline Strahl (Author) , Hanna Winter (Author) , Jens Christian Svenning (Author) , 10.11.2023 , in: Science Advances, 9, 45 , 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Pollen und Sporen – Schlüssel zur Vegetation des Eiszeitalters
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , 01.01.2018 Darmstadt , p. 48-52 , 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  2. Hydrologische Auswirkungen des Klimawandels: Fallbeispiel Wasserbauliche Maßnahmen zur Sicherung des ökologisch notwendigen Mindestabflusses kleiner Fließgewässer.
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , Herbert Reusch (Author) , Helmut Heuer-Jungemann (Author) , 01.01.2015 München , p. 355-376 , 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  3. Contaminated sediment in Ramsar wetlands; A challenge towards sustainable management of sensitive ecosystems
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , S.F. Materu (Author) , S. Heise (Author) , 01.01.2015 , p. 37 , 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

  4. Erdsystem, Klima und globale Stoffkreisläufe
    Wolf-Ulrich Palm (Author) , Brigitte Urban (Author) , 01.03.2014 Berlin , p. 213-257 , 45 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education

  5. LAND: Klimaangepasste Kulturlandschaft - Leistungsfähiger Naturhaushalt und umweltschonende Landbewirtschaftung.
    Brigitte Urban (Author) , Diana Rechid (Author) , Imke Mersch (Author) , 01.01.2014 Hamburg , p. 52-55 , 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to scientific reports › Research

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Activities

  1. The Implementation of Urban Nature-Based Solutions for Water Retention in the Delta Cities Hamburg and Rotterdam
    Teresa Spantzel (Speaker) , Hendrike Clouting (Speaker) , Brigitte Urban (Coauthor)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Sedimentological and high-resolution pollen and aquatic microfossil analysis of Middle Pleistocene lakeshore deposits of paleolithic site Schöningen 13 II-4, Germany
    Mario Tucci (Speaker) , Kim J. Krahn (Coauthor) , Brigitte Urban (Speaker) , Antje Schwalb (Coauthor)

    Activity: Presentations (poster etc.) › Research

  3. A radical reassessment of the stratigraphy, palaeoenvironmental processes and dating of the Middle Pleistocene deposits at Schöningen, northern Germany
    Charles Turner (Coauthor) , Brigitte Urban (Speaker) , Thijs van Kolfschoten (Coauthor)
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    Activity: Presentations (poster etc.) › Research

  4. Middle Pleistocene interglacial environmental changes inferred from aquatic microfossils at the paleolithic site of Schöningen, Germany
    Kim Jasmin Krahn (Coauthor) , Julien Pilgrim (Coauthor) , Brigitte Urban (Speaker) , Mario Tucci (Speaker) , Antje Schwalb (Coauthor)
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    Activity: Presentations (poster etc.) › Research

  5. Differentiating forest types using Terrasar-X spotlight images based on factor analysis
    Dalia Mostafa Amer Farghaly (Speaker) , Emad Elba (Coauthor) , Brigitte Urban (Coauthor)

    Activity: Presentations (poster etc.) › Research

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Teaching