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Geography Department
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Geography Department at the Ruhr University Bochum currently (winter semester 2007/2008) employs 13 professors, one university lecturer, 16 academic staff and 17 non-academic staff. There are 1250 registered students. Prof. Dr. Otto is Acting Head of the department.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- DFG Trilateral collaboration Deutschland-Israel-Palestine: Irrigation with municipal effluents: effects on physical soil properties, contaminant transport, soil carbon dynamics, soil microbial activity and crop quality
- GlobE: UrbanFoodPlus - African-German partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities, partner B
- Interactions of cation-modified soil organic matter with minerals during aging and formation of phenanthrene bound residues
- Sorption and mineralization of hormones in different soils
- SPP 1090 AG 2: Effects of water-soluble organic substances on the stabilization and mineralisation of soil organic matter
- SPP 1315: Effects of soil organic matter molecular conformation and substrate additions on the formation and release of xenobiotics bound residues
- The Acceptance of Precision Agriculture among farmers, advisers, instructors and agritechnological industries in Germany
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
Contact
Geography Department
Universitätsstr. 150
44780 Bochum
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49 (+23 4) 32 - 24790
Fax: +49 (+23 4) 32 - 14180
Email: thomas.held(@)rub.de