Claudia Herbert (née Riedel)


Postgraduate Research Assistant

 

Contact

Mail: c.herbert@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Tel: 069/798 40226
Room: Geozentrum, 3.219

Research foci

  • Global hydrological modeling
  • Water stress indicators, drought indicators

Projects

Global-scale tool for characterization of droughts and for quantifying their impact on water resources, crop productivity, food trade and the need for international food relief (GlobeDrought)

Global-scale modeling and quantification of indicators for assessing transboundary aquifers (TWAP: Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme) (completed in 2015)

Teaching

Winter semester 2013/14 – WS 2016/17: Hydrogeographie für Lehramtsstudierende

2018: Certificate for academic teaching, “Interdisziplinäres Kolleg Hochschuldidaktik” (IKH), Goethe University of Frankfurt

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2013
Postgraduate research assistant (PhD) at Goethe University Frankfurt

2008 - 2013
Project manager and project engineer, URS Deutschland GmbH, Neu-Isenburg, Germany

04/2007 – 12/2007
Assistant Remediation Engineer, URS Corporation Ltd., Birmingham, UK

Academic Education

2010 – 2013
MSc. Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Thesis: „Assessing water stress at the global scale: Development and analysis of new water stress indicators using the global water model WaterGAP”

2001-2006
Diplom (FH) Civil Engineering, University of Lüneburg, Germany
Thesis: „Gefährdungsabschätzung und Machbarkeitsstudie für die Sanierung von Mineralölkontaminationen im Bereich des Konjushennaja Ploshad’ St. Petersburg“

07 – 09/2003
Internship in the field of waste management with the initiative of KIWODET (Kisutu Women Development Trust Fund), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Publications

Herbert, C. & Döll, P. (2018): Global assessment of current and future groundwater stress with a focus on transboundary aquifers (submitted).

Döll, P. & Herbert, C. (2018): Wasserressourcen und Wasserknappheit: Visualisierung mit anamorphen Weltkarten. Geographische Rundschau, 1/2-2018, 44-50.

Riedel, C. & Döll, P. (2016): Global-scale modeling and quantification of indicators for assessing transboundary aquifers: a contribution to the GEF Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme (TWAP). Frankfurt Hydrology Paper 14. Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Müller Schmied, H., L. Adam, S. Eisner, G. Fink, M. Flörke, H. Kim, T. Oki, F. T. Portmann, R. Reinecke, C. Riedel, Q. Song, J. Zhang & P. Döll (2016): Variations of global and continental water balance components as impacted by climate forcing uncertainty and human water use. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20, 2877-2898. doi: 10.5194/hess-20-2877-2016.

Müller Schmied, H., L. Adam, S. Eisner, G. Fink, M. Flörke, H. Kim, T. Oki, F. T. Portmann, R. Reinecke, C. Riedel, Q. Song, J. Zhang & P. Döll (2016): Impact of climate forcing uncertainty and human water use on global and continental water balance components. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences PIAHS 374, 53-62. doi: 10.5194/piahs-93-1-2016.

Conferences

Herbert, C., Döll, P., Siebert, S. & Kusche, J. (2018): Stakeholder-unterstützte Entwicklung eines web-basierten globalen Dürre-Informationssystems durch Kombination von Satellitendaten und Modellierung. Tag der Hydrologie 2018, 21 - 23 March 2018, Dresden, Germany.

Popat, E., Herbert, C., Döll, P., Siebert, S. & Kusche, J. (2018): GlobeDrought: Towards a stakeholder-supported global drought information system. EGU General Assembly 2018, 8 - 13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Riedel, C. & Döll, P. (2016): Global-scale assessment of groundwater stress in transboundary aquifers under climate and water use change. 43rd IAH Congress, 25 - 29 September 2016, Montpellier, France.

Müller Schmied, H., L. Adam, P. Döll, S. Eisner, M. Flörke, A. Güntner, E. Kynast, F. T. Portmann, C. Riedel, C. Schneider, Q. Song, M. Wattenbach & J. Zhang (2014): Modelling global freshwater resources using WaterGAP 2.2 - model overview, selected results and applications. EGU general assembly, 27 April - 2 May 2014, Vienna, Austria.