Hydrologie

Dipl. Geographer Linda Adam

Research associate and doctoral candidate 

                                                                                

 

Research Projects and Areas of Interest

  • REGHYDRO
  • Global hydrological modeling
  • Model development and application
  • Geoinformatic
  • Spatial and temporal dynamics of floodplains and wetlands

 

Academic CV

since 04/2009
Research assistant (PhD Student) at the Department of Physical Geography (working group Hydrology), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main

01/2009 - 03/2009
Internship at theUniversity ofAberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences:GIS,species distribution modeling

10/2003 - 11/2008
Studies of Geography(Diplom) at the University of Leipzig,
majors: physical Geography, Geoinformatic, minors: Biology and Meteorology

DiplomaThesis: »Biogeography of amphibians in Saxony: present and projection distributions under climate and land-use change«

04/2007 - 05/2008
Student assistant in the geochemical laboratory in the University of Leipzig: employment of geochemical methods for analysing soil and water samples

02/2007 - 03/2007
Internship in the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology: sourcing, preparation and analysis of special environmental data

03/2006 - 10/2006
Study abroad, Universidad de la República Uruguay, Montevideo

Internship in the Institute of Colonization, Montevideo: study of land use in the stateof Florida, Uruguay

 

Conferences and Publications

Annette Eicker, Enrico Kurtenbach, Torsten Mayer-Gürr, Jürgen Kusche, Petra Döll, Heike Hoffmann-Dobrev, Linda Adam, Matthias Holschneider and Marcel Fuhrmann (2011): Mutual benefits of GRACE gravity field analysis and global hydrological modeling, EGU general assembly, 4 – 8. April 2011, Vienna, Austria.

Adam, L., Döll, P., Prigent, C. and Papa, F. (2010): Global-scale analysis of satellite-derived time series of naturally inundated areas as a basis for floodplain modeling,Adv. Geosci., 27, 45-50, doi:10.5194/adgeo-27-45-2010, 2010.

Linda Adam, Petra Döll (2009): Bestimmung und Analyse von Überflutungsflächen auf globalem Maßstab basierend auf satellitenbeobachteten Zeitreihen, 13. Workshop zu Großskaligen Hydrologischen Modellierung, 25.-27. November 2009, Dresden.

Linda Adam & Carsten F. Dormann (2008): Cross-scale prediction of climate and land-use change effects on amphibian distribution,EURECO-GfÖ Conference, 15 – 19 September 2008, Leipzig.