Nadine Bernhard
Address:
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Soil Science and Geomorphology
Rümelinstraße 19-23
D-72070 Tübingen
Office: Westbau W503
Consulting hours:
by arrangement
Function: Doctoral student
Research Topics:
- Soil Geography and Soil Properties
- Soil Erosion
PhD Project:
Earth Shape - Earth Surface Shaping by Biota
Subproject 13b: Understanding of microbial-mediated soil structure formation processes and pedogenesis and how they are interrelated to soil erosion processes in Chilean soil ecosystems under different climate conditions.
CV:
*8th of June 1987 in Friedberg, Germany
Education:
since 01/2016 | PhD student at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen |
10/2011 - 3/2015 | Environmental Geography (M.Sc.) at the Philipps-University Marburg. Subsidiary subject: Environmental Management at the Justus-Liebig University Gießen Final thesis: "Analyse des Wasserretentionspotentials von Lockerbraunerden und dessen Variabilität in Abhängigkeit vom Relief im Hohen Vogelsberg" |
10/2007 - 9/2011 | Geography (B.Sc.) at the Philipps-University Marburg Final thesis: "Einfluss der Landnutzung auf ausgewählte Stoffgehalte von Böden - anhand einer Fallstudie in der Wetterau in Hessen" |
Internships:
08/2013 - 09/2013 | Helmholtz-Center for Environmental Research, Department of Nature Conservation, Leipzig |
05/2011 - 06/2011 | Authority for Nature Conservation in the Wetterau-district, Friedberg |
09/2010 | Authority for Environment and Geology of Hessen (HLUG), Department for Hydrogeology, Wiesbaden |
Field Experience:
02/2017 - 04/2017 | Nahuelbuta, La Campana, Santa Gracia, Pan de Azúcar (Chile), rainfall simulation experiment |
02/2016 - 05/2016 | Nahuelbuta, La Campana, Santa Gracia, Pan de Azúcar (Chile), soil sampling and description |
2014 | Vogelsberg (Germany), soil sampling and analysis of soil hydraulic conductivity, pore volume, density and other physical parameters |
2011 | Wetterau (Germany), soil sampling and analysis of grain size and chemical parameters |
Teaching:
B.Sc. | B.Sc. Excursion "Ammertal/Schwäbische Alb" (GEO 21) |
Publications
2018 | Bernhard, N., Moskwa, L.-M., Schmidt, K., Oeser, R.A., Aburto, F., Bader, M.Y., Baumann, K., Blanckenburg, F. von, Boy, J., van den Brink, L., Brucker, E., Büdel, B., Canessa, R., Dippold, M.A., Ehlers, T.A., Fuentes, J.P., Godoy, R., Jung, P., Karsten, U., Köster, M., Kuzyakov, Y., Leinweber, P., Neidhardt, H., Matus, F., Mueller, C.W., Oelmann, Y., Oses, R., Osses, P., Paulino, L., Samolov, E., Schaller, M., Schmid, M., Spielvogel, S., Spohn, M., Stock, S., Stroncik, N., Tielbörger, K., Übernickel, K., Scholten, T., Seguel, O., Wagner, D., Kühn, P. (2018). Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: new insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile. Catena 170, 335-355. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.018 |
Oeser, R.A., Stroncik, N., Moskwa, L.M., Bernhard, N., Schaller, M., Canessa, R., van den Brink, L., Köster, M., Brucker, E., Stock, S., Fuentes, J.P., Godoy, R., Matus, F.J., Pedraza, R.O., McIntyre, P.O., Paulino, L., Seguel, O., Bader, M.Y., Boy, J., Dippold, M.A., Ehlers, T.A., Kühn, P., Kuzyakov, Y., Leinweber, P., Scholten, T., Spielvogel, S., Spohn, M., Übernickel, K., Tielbörger, K., Wagner, D., von Blanckenburg, F. (2018): Chemistry and Microbiology of the Critical Zone along a steep climate and vegetation gradient in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera. Catena 170, 183-203. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.002 |
Conference Contributions:
2017 | Bernhard et al. 2017. Microbial mediated soil structure formation under wetting and drying cycles along a climate gradient (arid to humid) on hillslopes in Chile. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 19, EGU2017-5449 (2017). [Poster] |
Bernhard et al. 2017. Microbial mediated soil structure formation along a climate gradient (arid to humid) in Chile. Workshop on Formation, Properties and Function of Soil Microaggregates. Munich. [Talk] |