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Fakultät für Bauingenieur-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Fakultät für Bauingenieur-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
D-76128 Karlsruhe
Telephone: +49 721 608-43483
https://www.kit.edu

Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

90

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Research

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Wide range of courses in all areas of Geography; specialisation opportunities through the neighbouring course Geo-ecology in ecological fields (e.g. Floodplain Ecology); wide range of practical and research-related teaching, such as the one-year method-oriented project seminar with close links to local and regional topics, advanced study in methods of empirical social research.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Universität Bologna

Special features regarding the equipment

Soil physics and chemistry laboratory (kf, pF, thin sections, MC-ICP-MS, IR-MS, GC-MS, GC-IR-MS, EA); aerosol collectors and counters, semi-automatic microscopic particle analysis, various climate stations, mobile climate multisensor systems, remote sensing sensors (partly drone-capable), lysimeter stations (Campus Alpin), greenhouse (Campus Alpin).

Special features regarding research activities

Key research areas in Vegetation Ecology, Remote Sensing, Climate-Environment Interaction, Soil Chemistry, Water Chemistry, Floodplain and Limnoecology, Urban Ecology, Urban and Population Geography, Cultural Geography, Educational Geography, Methods of Empirical Social Research (survey research), Multi-Locality and Time Geography. Close cooperation with the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, KIT Alpine Campus, via joint professorships.

Support for founders

KIT central support via information and relation management.

Other special features

Close cooperation with the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, KIT Alpine Campus; close cooperation and professional exchange between geography and geoecology.

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Last Update 2021: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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