PD Dr. Peter Houben

Research foci

• Coupled human-natural systems: Environmental impact of human activities and their interactions with earth surface systems;

• Applied fluvial morphology, river restoration;

• Fluxes of sediment and energy in earth surface systems;

• Stratigraphies of the near-subsurface, soils, and fluvial environments;

• Theory and methodology of geomorphology.

Approaches and methods

• Systems-based, quantitative methodologies from fluvial morphology, sedimentology and soil geomorphology (e.g., sediment budget concepts);

• Blend of field-oriented data recording and GIS applications.

Publications

Current research projects

Educational activities

Other activities, awards

• Member of professional associations: AAG, AGU, German Geomorphology Research Group, Geoarcheology Research Group;

• Peer reviews (Geomorph., ESPL, QI, Geoarchaeology, IAHS Red Books, Comptes Rendus, Catena, ZfGeom., J. Env. Informatics), guest editor for international journals;

• Invited speaker: Univ. Tours (2006); DFG - Univ. of Sapporo (2007); 39^th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Austin (TX), 2008; DFG German-Japanese Workshop Schneefernerhaus (2009); Dt. Geographentag (2009); Grad. School Univ. of Kiel (2011).

• Convener of 2^nd international Open LUCIFS Workshop 2006: "New trends in Geomorphology – systems-based understanding of long term man-landscape interactions"; (see PAGES Newsletter 2006, 14/2; Geomorphology 108); Co-covener Jahrestagung 2010 des AK Geomorphologie

• Secretary of the PAGES - LUCIFS initiative (2003-2008);

• Guest lecturer at the Dept. of Geography, University of Bonn, Geomorph. and Env. Res. Group; University of Cologne;

• Doctoral thesis awarded by the VGDH (biennial award in Physical Geography); poster award 2000 (German Geomorph. Res. Group).