Hydrologie

Dr. Felix Portmann

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Post-Doc)

Research Associate (Post-Doc)

 

Arbeitsschwerpunkte innerhalb der AG Hydrologie
Work at Working Group Hydrology

Current

Former

  • Quantitative discharge characteristics for ecological modeling and statistical species distribution modeling
  • Development of data set of sector-specific groundwater withdrawals
  • Development of land use data set MIRCA2000


Short CV
 

since 2005

Working Group Hydrology at Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main/Germany (GU)
Global hydrological modeling (topics mentioned above)
Dissertation "Global estimation of monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas on a 5 arc-minute grid" (MIRCA2000 data set)

2011-2014

Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt am Main/Germany (Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, LOEWE BiK-F):
(1) Coupled atmosphere - ocean modeling in the Cenozoic, comparison to palaeovegetation data
(DFG grant MI926/8-1, Project DM-1.11 - FINGER PRINTS OF THE GULF STREAM INTENSITY IN THE CENOZOIC.
(2) Generating hydrological data for stream ecology and statistical species distribution modeling (within Working Group Hydrology at GU, BiK-F phase 2, Project 7-2.13 - ECOWATER: GLOBAL-SCALE ASSESSMENT OF EFFECTS OF CHANGED DISCHARGE REGIMES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES IN RIVERS

1993 - 2004

German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG):
Applied research in hydrological modeling with GIS and remote sensing
(context of groundwater recharge, floods, soil moisture; various projects, e.g. EUMETSAT Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility / LSA SAF, data analysis for Global Runoff Data Centre / GRDC)

1983 - 1992

Study of Physical Geography/Hydrology (special emphasis on remote sensing, statistics, geobotany, soil sciences, chemistry) at the Universities of Freiburg, München, Trier


Publications
 

Felix Portmann at Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)