Carolin Winter

Department Hydrogeology


Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany


Phone: +49 341 235 1996

Carolin Winter
Carolin Winter

Research topics

  • Nitrate transport and storage at catchment scale
  • Concentration-discharge relationships
  • Isotope hydrology
  • Water quality modeling

Curriculum Vitae

Since 04/2020

PhD student at the Department of Hydrogeology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig

11/2018 - 12/2019

Researcher at the Department of Hydrogeology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig

08/2018

M. Sc. Hydrology, University of Freiburg

08/2017 - 12/2017

Internship at Mahila SEWA Housing Trust (MHT) in Jaipur, India, integrated into an internship at the Federal Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover.

04/2017 -  07/2017

Exchange semester (via Eucor) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

07/2015

B. Sc. Environmental Sciences & B. Sc. Environmental Hydrology, University of Freiburg

08/2014 -  10/2014

Internship at 'Centro Andino por la Gestion y el Uso del Agua' (Centro AGUA), Cochabamba, Bolivia

03/2014 - 06/2014

Internship at 'Agrupación de Ingenieros Forestales por el Bosque Nativo' (AIFBN), Valdivia, Chile

08/2013 - 07/2014

Exchange year at Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh)

Publications

Winter, C., Tarasova, L., Lutz, S. R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J. H. (2022). Explaining the variability in high-frequency nitrate export patterns using long-term hydrological event classification. Water Resources Research 58(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030938

Winter, C., Lutz, S. R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Weber, M., Fleckenstein, J. H. (2021). Disentangling the impact of catchment heterogeneity on nitrate export dynamics from event to long‐term time scales. Water Resources Research 57(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027992

Schnabel, F., Donoso, P. J., Winter, C. (2017). Short-term effects of single-tree selection cutting on stand structure and tree species composition in Valdivian rainforests of Chile. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 47(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40490-017-0103-5

Conference Contributions

Winter, C., Nguyen T. V., Musolff, A., Lutz, S. R., Rode, M., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J. H., A multi-year drought can alter the nitrate retention capacity of a catchment. Oral presentation at EGU General Assembly 2022

Winter, C., Tarasova, L., Lutz, S. R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J. H., Disentangling the variability in high-frequency nitrate export patterns using long-term hydrological event classification. Poster presentation at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

Winter, C., Tarasova, L., Lutz, S. R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J. H., Making a short story long – the impact of long-term runoff event characteristics on high frequency nutrient transport patterns. Oral presentation at AGU Fall Meeting 2020

Winter, C., Lutz, S., Musolff, A., Weber, M., Fleckenstein, J. H., Disentangling the impact of catchment heterogeneity in a mesoscale catchment on nitrate export dynamics across time scales. Oral presentation at EGU General Assembly 2020

Frommen, T., Königer, P., Gröschke, M., Winter, C., Schneider, M., Nitrate contamination in hard rock aquifers – Applying isotope techniques to differentiate between anthropogenic and geogenic sources. Oral presentation on TEC4WATER 2019, Chennai, India.

Koeniger, P., Frommen, T., Groeschke, M., Stange, C. F., Winter, C., Soil and nitrate isotope studies on groundwater contamination sources at an agriculturally dominated site in Jaipur, India. 45th IAH Congress, Groundwater and Life: Science and Technology into Action. 9-14 September, 2018, Daejeon, Korea