Asja Bernd started her MSc on ” A Global Analysis of Grassland Fragmentation” supervised by Neil Burgess (UNEP) and Martin Wegmann. She will use globally available land cover data sets and compute a variety of spatial metrics to derive the fragmentation pattern of grasslands. Methods available in R and GRASS will be applied to allow a semi-automatic global analysis. Asja is a student in the Global Change Ecology MSc program and well trained in journalism as well as natural sciences.
New PhD student Lukas Block
We are pleased to welcome Lukas Block as a new PhD student. Lukas holds a Master's degree in Geological Sciences from the Free University of Berlin, where he investigated the stratigraphic record of the Anthropocene in lacustrine sediments. He has gained...