Conference Agenda

Session

01.23+07.04 Fluvial anthropospheres - Challenges and legacies of Central European Floodplain Transformations

Time:

Thursday, 18/Sept/2025:

12:45pm - 2:15pm

Session Chair: Johannes Schmidt, Leipzig University
Session Chair: Charlotte Eline Engelmann
Session Chair: Johannes Keßels, RWTH Aachen University
Session Chair: Thomas Hofmann, GeoSphere Austria
Session Chair: Elisabeth Dietze, University Göttingen

Location: ZHG 004

85 PAX

Description

Conveners Session 01.23:

Charlotte Engelmann (Freiburg University, DE)

Johannes Keßels (RWTH Aachen University, DE)

Martin Offermann (Leipzig University, DE)

Ella Quante (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Leipzig University, DE)

Johannes Schmidt (Leipzig University, DE)

Conveners Session 07.04:

Thomas Hoffmann (Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, DE)

Elisabeth Dietze (University Göttingen, DE)

Presentations

12:45pm - 1:15pm
Invited Session Keynote
Topics: 07.04 Challenges in geoscientific applications

Mainstreaming and Upscaling Fluvial Nature-Based Solutions in Europe: Bridging Science, Society, and Policy

Ralph Schielen

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management/Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

1:15pm - 1:30pm
Topics: 01.23 Fluvial Anthropospheres – Exploring Central European Floodplain Transformations

Ecohydrological changes and potential Salmon habitat suitability since pre-industrial times at the Mulde River (Germany)

Martin Offermann^1,2, Michael Hein^1,2,3, Ronja Hegemann¹, Kay Gödecke¹, Lucas Hegner¹, Yamuna Henke¹, Nele Schäfer¹, Hanna Shelukhina¹, Erik Liebscher⁴, Severin Opel⁵, Johannes Rabiger-Völlmer¹, Lukas Werther⁶, Christoph Zielhofer^1,2

¹Institute for Geography, Physical Geography unit, Leipzig University, Germany; ²Leipzig Lab, Historical Anthropospheres working group, Leipzig University, Germany; ³Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany; ⁴Department of History, Chair of Early Modern History, Leipzig University, Germany; ⁵Digital Humanities Center, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany; ⁶German Archaeological Institute – DAI, Romano-Germanic Commission – RGK, Frankfurt (Main), Germany

1:30pm - 1:45pm
Topics: 01.23 Fluvial Anthropospheres – Exploring Central European Floodplain Transformations

Ostracoda as proxies of anthropogenic impacts in fluvial systems – new actualistic studies and perspectives from Central Germany

Ella Quante^1,2, Julia Franke¹, Magdalena Kreuzheck¹, Anna Pint¹, Qianwei Wang¹, Jana Wollmeiner¹, Peter Frenzel¹

¹Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany; ²Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

1:45pm - 2:00pm
Topics: 01.23 Fluvial Anthropospheres – Exploring Central European Floodplain Transformations

Late Holocene sediment dynamics in a human-dominated fluvial landscape: The Wiesent River catchment in Bavaria, Germany

Bastian Grimm¹, Alexander Voigt^2,3, Andreas Dix², Rainer Schreg³, Thomas Kolb¹, Niklas Pauly¹, Fuchs Markus¹

¹Institut für Geographie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany; ²Institut für Geographie, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, Deutschland; ³Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Denkmalwissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, Deutschland

2:00pm - 2:15pm
Topics: 01.23 Fluvial Anthropospheres – Exploring Central European Floodplain Transformations

From Fishpond to Farmland - The Transformation of Lake Lorsch

Barbara Sabrina Jäger

Universität Heidelberg, Germany