Director Project A7

E-mail

michael.zierdt@geo.uni-halle.de

Address

Institut für Geographie
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Von Seckendorff-Platz 3-4
D-06120 Halle
Germany

 

Staff - 1st / 2nd phase of research

Dr. Michael Zierdt

Main fields of research:

Urban ecology • environmental chemistry • soil science.

Since 2004 started a project within SFB 586 "Differenz und Integration" on "Mobile life-strategies in dependence on ecological resources in the North-Western coastal zone of Egypt from antiquity to islamic times" • since 1993 head of the laboratory of physical and geoecological Geography at the Department of Geography, University Halle, Germany • 1989–1993 assignment as a research assistant for geography at the Department of Geography, University Halle, Germany • 1989 Ph. D.-thesis on air pollution in cities, indicated with lichens, soil samples and tree bark • 1986 MSc-thesis on air pollution in Tallinn, Second Diploma in Geography • 1981–1986 studied geography, soil science, geology and cartography at Moscow State University

Selected Publications:

with B. Cyffka: Tourismus auf der Halbinsel Kola – Vision oder Entwicklungschance. Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss. R.A, angenommen für 2004-01-14.

Proxel, Top an Layer – like the tool GIS influences the geographical kind of thinking. Proceedings of the International Conference GIS for Sustainable Development of Territories. 2003, 541–548.

with B. Cyffka: Die Auswirkungen klimaindizierter Veränderungen auf die Wald- und Bodentypengrenzen im Chibiny-Gebirge (Halbinsel Kola) – Inventarisierung und erste Ergebnisse. Norden, Bd. 15, 67–82, 2003.

with B. Cyffka: Auswirkungen von industrieller Tätigkeit und Stadtplanung auf die Landschaft der Halbinsel Kola im Raum Kirowsk/Apatity. Norden, Bd. 14, 2001.

with B. Cyffka: Determination of the spreading borderline of airborne pollutants on damaged landscape units in the Monchegorsk area (Kola peninsula) using remote sensing, digital terrain modelling and GIS. Intercarto 6, Apatity (Russia), 2000.

mit B. Cyffka/ K.-H. Rauchhaus:Modelling GIS-Application to plan stable landscapes. Intercarto 6, Apatity (Russia), 2000.

Zierdt, M. et al.:Ekologitsheskoe i fisgeografitsheskoe znatshenie sidimentof i wsweshennych weshtshewsrv: metody ich izutshenija. In: Tshetyrnazatoe plenarnoe meshwusowskoe coweshtshanie po probleme erosionnych, ruslowych i ustjewych prozessow. Ufa, 2000, 246–248.