Thesis: Climate change Impacts and Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector of Pakistan - Socioeconomic and Geographical Dimensions

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran

Thesis: Role of nitrification, denitrification and nitrous oxide production (N₂O) in aquatic nitrogen cycling

Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Dr. Kirstin Dähnke

Thesis: From Cancun to Paris: an era of policymaking on the migration and climate change nexus

Research Group Climate Change and Security/Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran

Thesis: Food Security,  Climate Change Adaptation and Land Use Options for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi : A Biophysical-Economic Modeling Approach.

Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)
Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change (FNU), Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneider

Thesis: Mechanisms of sea-level variability in the Baltic Sea region for the period 1850-2100

Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Dr. Eduardo Zorita

Thesis:Klimawandel und Sturmfluten – Mentale Modelle von Experten und Bürgern der Stadt Hamburg

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter

Thesis:Impact of large scale climate variability on the Arabian Sea coastal upwelling system

Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Dr. Eduardo Zorita

Thesis: Der Klimawandeldiskurs zwischen globaler Produktion und lokaler Rezeption am Fallbeispiel Puerto Princesa, Palawan (Philippinnen)

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg

Thesis: Future Climate Change and Urbanization Impact on Coastal Storm Surge Risk in the Pearl River Delta Region, China

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Böhner

Thesis: Chaotic Advection by Submesoscale Processes in the Ocean

Institute of Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gualtiero Badin

Thesis: High-Resolution Wind Climate Evaluation and Analysis over the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea Region

Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research (HZG)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch

Thesis: The impact of sea salt emissions on the air quality in the North Sea and Baltic Sea regions

Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research (HZG)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kay Emeis

Thesis: Nachhaltige Erinnerung im Journalismus

Institute for Journalism and Communication Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla

Thesis: Interorganisational Situated Learning in Brazil: An Analysis of the Diffusion of the Brazilian Flex-Fuel Vehicle Mitigation Technology

Centre for Globalisation and Governance, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anita Engels

Thesis: People-powered Local Energy Transition: Mitigating Climate Change with Community-based Renewable Energy in North Frisia

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter

Thesis: Nutrient availability and limitation within soils of polygonal tundra in the Sakha Republic, Russian Federation

Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Kutzbach

Thesis: Social Capital, Resilience and Adaptation on Small Islands: Climate Change on the Isles of Scilly

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter

Thesis: Decadal to centennial variability of daily wind over Northern Europe and its application to migrating dunes in the Baltic Sea region

Institute of Cosatal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch

Thesis: Changes in the predictability of the North Atlantic ocean under global warming

Institute of Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr

Thesis: Effect of charred digestate (biochar) and digestate on soil organic carbon and nutrients in temperate bioenergy crop production systems 

Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer

Thesis: Fidelity of simulated hydrological cycle over Himalayan watersheds: peculiarities of the (upper) Indus basin at monsoon margins

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Valerio Lucarini

Thesis: Influence of large-scale climate variability on upwelling regimes off the Namibian coast : implications for past and future climates

Institute of Cosatal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Dr. Eduardo Zorita

Thesis: Transport variability-driving mechanisms in Flemish Pass at the western boundary of the Subpolar North Atlantic

Institute of Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Detlef Quadfasel

Thesis: Entwicklung eines aggregierten Modellsystems zur szenariobasierten Simulation der Wasserhaushalte von Flusseinzugsgebieten, unter Berücksichtigung klimatischer und sozioökonomischer Einflüsse

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran

Thesis: Assessment of High Resolution Climate Data for the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan Arc - New Approaches in Statistical Downscaling

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Böhner

Thesis: Short-range sea ice forecast with a regional coupled sea-ice-atmosphere-ocean model Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heinke Schlünzen

Thesis: Towards Methodological Pluralism : an Empirical Evaluation of Research Methods for Assessing the Link between Climate Change and Violent Conflict

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran

Thesis: Transnationalisierung von Öffentlichkeit am Beispiel des Klimawandels. Eine länder- und zeitvergleichende Analyse der Berichterstattung in  Printmedien (hard copy available here)

Institute for Journalism and Communication Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla

Thesis: Tall Wind Profiles in Heterogeneous Terrain

Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament

Thesis: Impact of Consistency between the Climate Model and its Initial Conditions on Decadal Climate Prediction (hard copy available here)

Institute of Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer

Thesis: Climate Change and Tourism: Sustainable Rebional Tourism Adaptation with a case study of Mombasa, Kenya

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ossenbrügge

Thesis: Sustainable Bioenergy Use and Climate Change in China - A Spatial Agent Model for the Case of Jiangsu Province

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran

Thesis: Nitrogen cycling in the northern Benguela Upwelling System (BUS) based on the δ15N of chlorophyll pigment

Institute of Geology, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kay-Christian Emeis

Thesis: Content, distribution and translocation of trace elements in permafrost affected environments (soils, sediments, plants) in Siberian Arctic (impact of climate change)

Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer

Thesis: High-Order Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Inundation Modeling 

Institute of Oceanography (IfM), Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörn Behrens

Thesis: Uncertainties of a near 90 GHz sea ice concentration retrieval algorithm (hard copy available here)

Institute of Oceanography (IfM), Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Kaleschke

Thesis: Reconstruction of the Holocene monsoon climate variability in the Arabian Sea based on alkenone sea surface temperature, primary productivity and denitrification proxies (hard copy available here)

Institute of Geology, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Birgit Gaye

Thesis: Ageostrophic effects on large scale circulation, eddy mixing and dissipation in the ocean (hard copy available here)

Institute of Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carsten Eden

Thesis: Urbanization and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle : Pools, Processes and Implications for Ecosystem Services in the City of Hamburg

Biocenter Klein Flottbek, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai Jensen

Thesis: A model-based reconstruction of recent Siberian climate : focusing on snow cover 

Institute of Cosatal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Dr. Burkhardt Rockel

Thesis: Reconstruction of the Holocene Indian monsoon climate variability based on biogeochemical analyses of lake sediments

Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kay Emeis

Thesis: Impact of initialization procedures on the predictive skill of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model and related mechanisms for predictability (hard copy available here)

Institute of Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer

Thesis: Public Communication about Climate Change and Climate Governance in Comparative Perspective

Institute for Journalism and Communication Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mike Schäfer

Thesis: Plants in urban environments in relation to global change drivers at different scales

Biocenter Klein Flottbek, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai Jansen

Thesis: Dynamical System Approach to the Potential Intensity of Tropical Cyclones (hard copy available here)

Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Frisius

Thesis: Not seeing the Forest for the Carbon in the Trees? : The role of fighting tropical deforestation in global climate governance 

Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG), Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anita Engels

Thesis: Impact of summer drought on greenhouse gas fluxes and nitrogen availability in a restored bog ecosystem with differing plant communities

Institute for Soil Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer

Thesis: Climate governance, rural livelihoods and social networks :Using the ecosystem service governance approach to analyse climate adaptation and resource conflict resolution in Kenya.

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran

Thesis: Pine Island Glacier : a 3D full-Stokes model study (hard copy available here)

Institute of Geophysics, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Angelika Humbert

Thesis: Climate Change, Water Risks and Urban Responses in the Pearl River Delta, China

Institute for Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran

Thesis: Spatio-temporal variability of carbon and silica fluxes through the inner Elbe estuary, Germany (hard copy available here)

Institute for Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Hartmann

Thesis: Spatial variability and seasonal dynamics of dissolved organic matter in surface and soil pore waters in mire-forest landscapes in the Komi Republic, Northwest-Russia

Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Kutzbach

Thesis: Variability and trend of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific for the last decades (hard copy available here)

Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch

Thesis: On dynamical causes of eddy variability in the ocean

Institute for Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer

Thesis: Climate Archive Dunes

Mineralogical-Petrographical Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Betzler

Thesis: Climate related urban land use modelling for the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg

Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Oßenbrügge

Thesis: Extream value theory of geophysical flows

Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Valerio Lucarini

Thesis: Modulation of ash iron solubility in volcanic eruption plumes

Institute of Geophysics, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Hort

Thesis: Determination of methyl halide emissions from the measurements and mesoscale atmospheric model simulations

Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heinke Schlünzen

Thesis: The Informational Value of Pressure-Based Proxies for Past Storm Activity (hard copy available here)

Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch

Thesis: Contributions towards a downscaling scheme for urban climate modeling integrating mobile measurements and improved roughness representation for Hamburg (Germany)

Institute for Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Böhner

Thesis: The Carbon Pump of the Northwest-European Shelf : Variability due to Phytoplankton Dynamics and Climate Change

Institute for Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carsten Eden

Thesis: The Arctic hydrologic cycle and its variability in a regional coupled climate model

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Supervisor: Dr. Uwe Mikolajewics

Thesis: In situ studies of Microbial CH₄ Oxidation Efficiency in Arctic Wetland Soils. Application of Stable Carbon Isotopes

Institute for Soil Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer

Thesis: The Strategic Relevance of Adaptation in International Climate Change Policy

Department of Socioeconomics, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anke Gerber

Thesis: Stochastic parameterization of atmospheric convection : stochastic lattice models of cloud systems in PlaSim

Institute of Oceanography (IfM), Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich

Thesis: Response of plankton dynamics to inter-annual climatic variations and trends

Biocenter Klein Flottbek, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: PD Dr. Dörthe Müller-Navarra

Thesis: Nonlinear Dynamics and Predictability in a Global Circulation Model of the Atmosphere

Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich

Thesis: The analog-method as statistical upscaling tool for meteorological field reconstructions over Northern Europe since 1850 

Institute of Cosatal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch

Thesis: Drivers of the carbonate system variability in the southern North Sea : River input, anaerobic alkalinity generation in the Wadden Sea and internal processes

Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kay Emeis

Thesis: Modeling biological-physical feedback mechanisms in marine systems

Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Inga Hense

Thesis: Potential predictability of meridional heat and volume transports in the North Atlantic ocean

Institute for Oceanography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr

Thesis: Modeling the life cycle of coastal and shelf sea phytoplankton: Dynamics on seasonal and interannual time scales

Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Inga Hense

Thesis: Observing the impact of soils on local urban climate

Meteorological Institute (MI)/ Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Annette Eschenbach

Thesis: Long-term variability of storm tracks characteristics

Institute for Costal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch

Thesis: Modelling the life cycle dynamics of Acartia clausi : a key copepod species in the North Sea

Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Inga Hense

Thesis: Extreme rainfall events in simulations, theory and related large-scale dynamic processes 

Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich

Thesis: Organic Carbon Pools in Permafrost-Affected Soils of Siberian Arctic Regions

Institute for Soil Science, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer

Thesis: Detection of anthropogenic influence on climate change over the Mediterranean area (hard copy available here)

Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch

Thesis: Analysis of multistability and abrupt transitions - method studies with a global atmosphere-vegetation model simulating the end of the African Humid Period

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Claußen

Thesis: Remote sensing of urban canopy parameters for enhanced modeling and climate related classification of urban structures (hard copy available here)

Institute for Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Böhner

Thesis: On Rains, Raids and Relations: A Multimethod Approach to Climate Change, Vulnerability, Adaptation and Violent Conflict in Northern Africa and Kenya

Institute for Geography, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran

Thesis: Voting Power in Environmental Policy Making

Department of Socioeconomics, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Manfred J. Holler

Thesis: Climate variability in East Asia in simulations and reconstructions in the last 1200 years

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich

Thesis: Arctic cyclones and sea ice drift during the buoy experiments 2007 and 2008 - 2010

Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Burghard Brümmer

Thesis: Impact of cyclones on Arctic sea ice: model studies and observations

Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Burghard Brümmer

Thesis: Rivers in the silicon and carbon cycles – A quantitative analysis for North America

Institute for Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Hartmann

Thesis: Characterization of ammonia oxidizing microorganisms in soils of cold and moderate climates and their impact on the global nitrogen cycle

Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer

Thesis: Chemical rock weathering as source of dissolved silica and sink of atmospheric CO₂

Institute for Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Universität Hamburg

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Hartmann