Karsten Rink


  Head of project group "Data Integration and Visualisation"

Contact

Department of Environmental Informatics
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstrasse 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: +49(0)-341-6025-1067


karsten.rink@ufz.de 		Karsten Rink

Research Interests

  • Visualisation of geoscientific and environmental data
  • Data management of geoscientific data
  • Software Design for OpenGeoSys simulation software
  • Software Development of the OpenGeoSys Data Explorer

Publications

2023

  • Anke Bucher, Rüdiger Grimm, Jakob Randow, Karsten Rink, et al: EASyQuart - Energieeffiziente Auslegung und Planung dezentraler Versorgungsnetze von Stadtquartieren. Heizen und Kühlen unter Nutzung oberflächennaher geologischer Ressourcen. Springer, Berlin, 2023. ISBN:978-3-662-67139-9. (in print)
  • Karsten Rink, Rüdiger Grimm, Nele Hastreiter, et al: Systemintegration. In "EASyQuart - Energieeffiziente Auslegung und Planung dezentraler Versorgungsnetze von Stadtquartieren", Springer, Cham. (in print)
  • Özgür Ozan Şen, Lars Backhaus, Siamak Farrokhzadeh, et al (2023): A Visual-Scenario-Based Environmental Analysis Approach to the Model-Based Management of Water Extremes in Urban Regions. In Proc of Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis), pp 51-60, The Eurographics Association. ISBN:978-3-03868-223-3. (in print)
  • Lars Backhaus, Karsten Rink, Diego Novoa: WetUrban – Modellbasiertes Management von Wasserextremen in urbanen Regionen. wwt Wasserwirtschaft Wassertechnik 72(5), 10-14, 2023. (download)
  • Eva Schill, Simon Waczowicz, Thomas Kohl, et al: Wärmenetz-gekoppelte Speicherung im tiefen Untergrund - Forschungsinfrastrukturen, Speicherpotenziale und Netzintegration. In "FVEE Jahrestagung 2022: Forschung für die Wärmewende - klimaneutral, effizient und flexibel", pp. 96-101. ForschungsVerbund Erneuerbare Energien (FVEE), 2023, Berlin. (download)
  • Olaf Kolditz, Diederik Jacques, Francis Claret, et al: Digitalisation for nuclear waste management: predisposal and disposal. Environ Earth Sci 82:42, 2023. DOI:10.1007/s12665-022-10675-4 (download)

2022

  • Ibrahim Demir, Yusuf Sermet, Karsten Rink: Editorial: Next Generation Visualization and Communication Systems for Earth Science Using Immersive Reality and Serious Gaming. Front Earth Sci 10, art. 1101538, 2022. DOI:10.3389/feart.2022.1101538 (download)
  • Judith Bremer, Thomas Kohl, Bastian Rudolph, et al: GeoLaB - das geowissenschaftliche Zukunftsprojekt für Deutschland. bbr - Leitungsbau Brunnenbau Geothermie 12-2022, 66-71, 2022.
  • Nico Graebling, Özgür Ozan Şen, Lars Bilke, et al: Prototype of a Virtual Experiment Information System for the Mont Terri Underground Research Laboratory. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 10, art. 946627, 2022. DOI:10.3389/feart.2022.946627 (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Kathrin Feige, Gerik Scheuermann: Editorial: Special Section on Visualization in Environmental Sciences. Comput Graph 104, A4 - A5, 2022. DOI:10.1016/j.cag.2022.04.011 (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Özgür Ozan Şen, Malte Schwanebeck, et al: An Environmental Information System for the Exploration of Energy Systems. Geotherm Energ 10, art. 4, 2022. DOI:10.1186/s40517-022-00215-5 (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Özgür Ozan Şen, Marco Hannemann, et al: An Environmental Exploration System for Visual Scenario Analysis of Regional Hydro-Meteorological Systems. Comput Graph 103, 192 - 200, 2022. DOI:10.1016/j.cag.2022.02.009 (download)
  • Gesa Ziefle, Tuanny Cajuhi, Nico Graebling, et al: Multi-disciplinary investigation of the hydraulic-mechanically driven convergence behavior: CD-A twin niches in the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory during the first year. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 2022. DOI:10.1016/j.gete.2022.100325 (download)
  • Jakob Randow, Shuang Chen, Katrin Lubashevsky, et al: Modeling Neighborhood-Scale Shallow Geothermal Energy Utilization - A Case Study in Berlin. Geotherm Energ 10, art. 1, 2022. DOI:10.1186/s40517-022-00211-9 (download)

2021

  • Wenqing Wang, Hua Shao, Karsten Rink, et al: Analysis of coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical processes in Callovo-Oxfordian clay rock: From full-scale experiments to the repository scale. Eng Geol 293, Art. 106265, 2021. DOI:10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106265 (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Ozgür Ozan Şen, Marco Hannemann, et al: A Virtual Geographic Environment for the Exploration of Hydro-Meteorological Extremes. Proc. of Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis), pp. 51–59. The Eurographics Association, 2021. ISBN:978-3-03868-148-9. DOI:10.2312/envirvis.20211084. (download)
  • Olaf Kolditz, Thomas Fischer, Thomas Frühwirth, et al: GeomInt: Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks ? experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities. Env Earth Sci 80, Art. 509, 2020. DOI:10.1007/s12665-021-09787-0 (download)
  • Lars Bilke, Thomas Fischer, Dmitri Naumov, et al: Code Descriptions. In: GeomInt – Mechanical Integrity of Host Rocks. Terrestrial Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham, pp. 243–254. ISBN:978-3-030-61908-4. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-61909-1_7. (download)

2020

  • Changqing Yan, Karsten Rink, Lars Bilke et al: A three-dimensional software framework for environmental system monitoring and decision support in Poyang lake basin. Earth Science Informatics, 2020. DOI:10.1007/s12145-020-00480-7 (download)
  • Felix Raith, Christian Blecha, Karsten Rink, et al: Visual Analysis of a Full-Scale-Emplacement Experiment in the Underground Rock Laboratory Mont Terri using Fiber Surfaces. In "Proceesinds of Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis)", The Euographics Association, 2020. DOI:10.2312/envirvis.20201093 (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Erik Nixdorf, Chengzi Zhou et al: A Virtual Geographic Environment for Multi-Compartment Water and Solute Dynamics in Large Catchments. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 582, art. 124507, 2020. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124507 (download)

2019

  • Gesa Ziefle, Paul Bossart, Stephan Costabel et al: Influence of Humidity on Cyclic and Longterm Deformations: CD-A Experiment, Mont Terri Rock Laboratory. In "Berichtsband zur 10. CMM Tagung - Innovative Feuchtemessung in Forschung und Praxis:: Material -- Prozesse -- Systeme", pages 65-78, Kompetenzzentrum für Materialfeuchte (CMM), Karlsruhe, 2019.
  • Olaf Kolditz, Karsten Rink, Erik Nixdorf et al: Environmental Information Systems: Paving the Path for Digitally Facilitated Water Management (Water 4.0). Engineering, Volume 5(5), 828-832, 2019. DOI:10.1016/j.eng.2019.08.002 (download)
  • Karsten Rink: Virtual Geographic Environment. In "Chinese Water Systems - Volume 2: Managing Water Resources for Urban Catchments: Chaohu". Springer, Cham, pages 214-229, 2019. ISBN:978-3-319-97567-2 (download)

2018

  • Martin Zinner, Karsten Rink René Jäkel et al.: Revision Control and Automatic Documentation for the Development Numerical Models for Scientific Applications. International Journal on Advances in Software, Volume 11(3/4), 214-226, 2018. (download)
  • Changqing Yan, Karsten Rink, Lars Bilke et al.: Virtual geographical environment-based environmental information system for Poyang Lake Basin. In "Chinese Water Systems - Volume3: Poyang Lake Basin". Springer, Cham, pages 293-308, 2018. ISBN:978-3-319-97724-9 (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Cui Chen, Lars Bilke, et al.: Virtual geographic environments for water pollution control. International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 11(4), 397-407, 2018. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2016.1265016 (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Carolin Helbig, Lars Bilke: Data Integration and Visualisation. In "Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Porous Media: Modelling and Benchmarking." Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, 277-281, 2018. ISBN:978-3-319-68224-2

2017

  • Martin Zinner, Karsten Rink, René Jäkel, et al.: Automatic Documentation of the Development of Numerical Models for Scientific Applications using Specific Revision Control. In Proc of the Twelfth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, pages 18-27. IARIA Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-61208-590-6 (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Lars Bilke, Olaf Kolditz: Setting up Virtual Geographic Environments in Unity. Proc. of EuroVis Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, pages 1-5, Barcelona, Spain, 2017. ISBN 978-3-03868-040-6. (download)
  • Carolin Helbig, Doris Dransch, Michael Böttinger, et al.: Challenges and strategies for the visual exploration of complex environmental data. International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 10(10), 1070-1076, 2017. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2017.1327618 (download)
  • Agnes Sachse, Erik Nixdorf, Eunseon Jang, et al.: OpenGeoSys Tutorial: Computational Hydrology II - Groundwater Quality Modeling SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, 2017. ISBN:978-3-319-52808-3 (download)

2016

  • Ute Wollschläger, Sabine Attinger, Dietrich Borchardt, et al.: The Bode hydrological observatory: a platform for integrated, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research within the TERENO. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 76:29, 2017. (download)
  • Zhenliang Liao, Guozheng Zhi, Yiwen Zhou, Zuxin Xu, Karsten Rink: To analyze the Urban Water Pollution Discharge System using the tracking and tracing approach. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 75:1080, 2016. (download)
  • Dmitri Naumov, Lars Bilke, Thomas Fischer, et al.: ogs6 Overview. In "Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Porous Media: Modelling and Benchmarking - Benchmarking Initiatives" Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, 2016. ISBN:978-3-319-29223-6

2015

  • Agnes Sachse, Karsten Rink, Wenkui He, Olaf Kolditz: OpenGeoSys-Tutorial: Computational Hydrology I - Groundwater Flow Modeling. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, 2015. ISBN:978-3-319-13334-8 (download)
  • Thomas Vienken, Sophie Schelenz, Karsten Rink, Peter Dietrich: Sustainable Intensive Thermal Use of the Shallow Subsurface -- A Critical View on the Status Quo. Groundwater, Volume 53(3), 356-361, 2015. (download)

2014

  • Karsten Rink: Data Processing and Model Setup in OGS. In "Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Porous Media: Modelling and Benchmarking". Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, 2014. ISBN:978-3-319-11893-2
  • Karsten Rink, Gerik Scheuermann, Olaf Kolditz: Visualisation in environmental sciences. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 72(10), 3749-3751, 2014. (download)
  • Lars Bilke, Thomas Fischer, Carolin Helbig, et al.: TESSIN VISLab -- Laboratory for Scientific Visualization. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 72(10), pages 3881-3899, 2014. (download)
  • Carolin Helbig, Hans-Stefan Bauer, Karsten Rink, et al.: Concept and workflow for 3D visualization of atmospheric data in a virtual reality environment for analytical approaches. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 72(10), pages 3767-3780, 2014. (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Lars Bilke, Olaf Kolditz: Visualisation Strategies for Environmental Modelling Data. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 72(10), pages 3857-3868, 2014. (download)

2013

  • Carolin Helbig, Karsten Rink, Hans-Stefan Bauer, et al.: 3D visualization of atmospheric data for analytical approaches. Proc. of EuroVis Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, pages 19-23, Leipzig, Germany, 2013. (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Lars Bilke, Olaf Kolditz: Visualisation Strategies for Modelling and Simulation Using Geoscientific Data. Proc. of EuroVis Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, pages 47-51, Leipzig, Germany, 2013. ISBN 978-3-905674-54-5. (download)
  • Ralf Kunkel, Jürgen Sorg, Olaf Kolditz, et al.: TEODOOR – a Spatial Data Infrastructure for terrestrial observation data. Proc of the 10th IEEE Int Conf on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2013), Paris, France, 2013. (download)
  • Agnes Gräbe, Tino Rödiger, Karsten Rink, et al.: Numerical analysis of the groundwater regime in the western Dead Sea escarpment, Israel + West Bank. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 69(2), pages 571-585, 2013. (download)
  • Karsten Rinke, Burkhard Kuehn, Serghei Bocaniov, et al.: Reservoirs as Sentinels of Catchments: The Rappbode Reservoir Observatory (Harz Mountains, Germany). Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 69(2), pages 523-536, 2013. (download)
  • Ralf Kunkel, Jürgen Sorg, Robert Eckardt, et al.: TEODOOR: a distributed geodata infrastructure for terrestrial observation data. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 69(2), pages 507-521, 2013. (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Thomas Fischer, Benny Selle, Olaf Kolditz: A Data Exploration Framework for Validation and Setup of Hydrological Models. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 69(2), pages 469-477, 2013. (download)
  • Benny Selle, Karsten Rink, Olaf Kolditz: Recharge and discharge controls on groundwater travel times and flow paths to production wells for the Ammer catchment in southwestern Germany. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 69(2), 443-452, 2013. (download)
  • Peter Grathwohl, Hermann Rügner, Thomas Wöhling, et al.: Catchments as reactors - A comprehensive approach for water fluxes and solute turn-over. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 69(2), 317-333, 2013. (download)

2012

  • Karsten Rink, Lars Bilke, Benny Selle, Olaf Kolditz: User Guided Generation of Hydrological Models: Interface Design, Workflows and Concepts for an Extensible Software Framework. Proc of 6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), Leipzig, Germany, 01.-05. July 2012. (download)
  • Carolin Helbig, Karsten Rink, Andreas Marx, Jörg Priess, Lars Bernhard, Michael Frank, Olaf Kolditz: Visual integration of diverse environmental data: A case study in Central Germany. Proc of 6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), Leipzig, Germany, 01.-05. July 2012. (download)
  • Agnes Gräbe, Karsten Rink, Thomas Fischer, et al.: Development of a 3D groundwater flow model with scarce data in semi-arid to arid region: the western drainage basin of the Dead Sea (Israel and West Bank). Geophysical Research Abstracts 14 , EGU2012-8086, 2012.
  • Karsten Rink, Thomas Fischer: Data Processing. In "Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Media". Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, 2012. ISBN:978-3-642-27176-2
  • Olaf Kolditz, Sebastian Bauer, et al: OpenGeoSys: An open source initiative for numerical simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical/chemical (THM/C) processes in porous media. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 67(2), pages 589-599, 2012. (download)
  • Olaf Kolditz, Karsten Rink, Haibing Shao, Thomas Kalbacher, Ralf Kunkel, Steffen Zacharias, Peter Dietrich: International viewpoint and news: data and modelling platforms in environmental Earth sciences Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 66(4), pages 1279-1284, 2012. (download)
  • Agnes Gräbe, Tino Rödiger, Karsten Rink, Thomas Fischer, Olaf Kolditz: Regional groundwater flow model along the western Dead Sea Escarpment. In Models -- Repositories of Knowledge, IAHS Redbook #355, 2012. (abstract)
  • Björn Zehner, Lars Bilke, Thomas Kalbacher, Edda Kalbus, Karsten Rink, Randolf Rausch, Olaf Kolditz: Mixed 2D/3D Visualization of a Large Scale Groundwater Study in a Virtual Reality Centre. In Models -- Repositories of Knowledge, IAHS Redbook #355, 2012. (abstract)
  • Karsten Rink, Thomas Fischer, Agnes Gräbe, Olaf Kolditz: Visual Preparation of Hydrological Models. In Models -- Repositories of Knowledge, IAHS Redbook #355, 2012. (abstract)
  • Karsten Rink, Thomas Kalbacher, Olaf Kolditz: Visual Data Exploration for Hydrological Analysis. Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 65(5), pages 1395-1403, 2012. (download)
  • Agnes Gräbe, Tino Rödiger, Olaf Kolditz, Karsten Rink, Thomas Fischer, Feng Sun, Wenqing Wang: Development of a 3D Groundwater Flow Model in Semi-Arid to Arid Region: The Western Drainage Basin of the Dead Sea (Israel and West Bank). In Hydrogeology of Arid Environments, Schweizerbart Science Publishing, Stuttgart, 2012. ISBN:978-3-443-01070-6.

2011 and before

  • Karsten Rink, Thomas Fischer, Olaf Kolditz: Data Visualisation and Validation for Hydrological Models. International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP), pages 169-176, Rome, Italy, 24.-26. July 2011. (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Klaus Tönnies: Locally Adaptive Speed Functions for Level Sets in Image Segmentation. 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), pages 963-970, Münster, Germany, 02.-04. September 2009. (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Klaus Tönnies: Distance-based Speed Functions for Level Set Methods in Image Segmentation. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pages 283-292, Leeds, UK, 01.-04. September 2008. (download)
  • Stefan Sokoll, Karsten Rink, Klaus Tönnies; and André Brechmann: Dynamic Segmentation of the Cerebral Cortex in MR Data using Implicit Active Contours. Medical Image Unterstanding and Analysis (MIUA), pages 184-188, Dundee, UK, 02.-03. July 2008. (download)
  • Christian Wasserthal, Karin Engel, Karsten Rink, and André Brechmann: Automatic segmentation of the cortical grey and white matter in MRI using a Region-Growing approach based on anatomical knowledge. Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM), pages 437-441, Berlin, Germany, 06.-08. April 2008. (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Klaus Tönnies: A Level Set Briding Force for the Segmentation of Dendritic Spines. 12th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), pages 571-578, Vienna, Austria, 27.-29. August 2007. (download)
  • Karsten Rink; Klaus Tönnies: A modification of the level set speed function to bridge gaps in data. 28th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), pages 152-161, Berlin, Germany, 12.-14. September 2006. (download)
  • Karsten Rink, Arne-Michael Törsel, Klaus Tönnies: Segmentation of the Vascular Tree in CT Data using Implicit Active Contours. Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM), pages 136-140, Hamburg, Germany, 19.-21. March 2006. (download)
  • Regina Pohle, Melanie Wegner, Karsten Rink, Klaus Tönnies, Anna Celler, Stephan Blinder: Segmentation of the left ventricle in 4d-dSPECT data using free form deformation of super quadrics. Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, Volume 5370 of Proceedings of the SPIE, International Symposium on Medical Imaging, pages 1388-1394, San Diego, CA, USA, 16.-19. February 2004. (download)