Helbig, Carolin - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Carolin Helbig Photo: Burkhard Peter

Carolin Helbig

Dr.-Ing.

Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstrasse 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Tel.: +49 341 235 - 1032
Email: carolin.helbig@ufz.de

Working Groups

Urban Climate and Personal Exposure
Head of WG Geomatik

Analysis and visualisation of the trajectories of mobile sensor data

Research Interests

Scientific 3D visualization, analysis, and modelling of multifaceted environmental data
Mobile measurement of environmental data with wearables / sensors
Data management

Visualization centre of the UFZ (Photo: Karsten Rink)

Projects

UmweltTracker (personal exposure and perception of environmental pollution)
uVITAL (User-Valued Innovations for Social Housing Upgrading through Trans-Atlantic Living Labs)
GeomInt (Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities)
Urban Catchments (Managing Water Resources for Urban Catchments)
ESKP (Earth System Knowledge Platform)

Publications

2022

Helbig, C., Becker, A., Masson, T., Mohamdeen, A., Sen, Ö.O., Schlink, U. (2022): A Game Engine based Application for Visualising and Analysing environmental spatiotemporal mobile Sensor Data in an urban Context, Front. Environ. Sci. Sec. Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.952725.

2021

Becker, A.M., Marquart, H., Masson, T., Helbig, C., Schlink, U. (2021): Impacts of Personalized Sensor Feedback Regarding Exposure to Environmental Stressors. Curr Pollution Rep 7, 579–593 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-021-00209-0
Helbig, C., Ueberham, M., Becker, A.M., Marquart, H., Schlink, U. (2021): "Wearable Sensors for Human Environmental Exposure in Urban Settings". In Current Pollution Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-021-00186-4
Kolditz, O., Fischer, T., Frühwirth, T., Görke, U.-J., Helbig, C. et al. (2021) “GeomInt - Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities”. In: preparation for the Geo:N Topical Collection in Environmental Earth Sciences. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-021-09787-0

2020

Helbig, C., Görke, U.-J., et al. (2020): “Data Management”. In: GeomInt - Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities. Ed. by O. Kolditz, U.-J. Görke, H. Konietzky, J. Maßmann, M. Nest, H. Steeb, F. Wuttke, and T. Nagel. Vol. 4. Heidelberg: Springer, 2020, pp. 271–281. Link

2019

Koch, F., Schlink, U., Bilke, L., Helbig, C., (2019): How to reconcile the ecosystem service of regulating the microclimate with urban planning projects on brownfields? The case study Bayerischer Bahnhof in Leipzig, Germany In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C., (eds.) Atlas of ecosystem services: drivers, risks, and societal responses Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 147 - 156

2018

Karsten Rink, Lars Bilke, Carolin Helbig (2018): Data Integration and Visualisation; In: O. Kolditz, H. Shao, and U.-J. Görke, W. Wang and S. Bauer, (eds.), Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Porous Media: Modelling and Benchmarking. Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, 298-302, in print.

2017

Carolin Helbig, Doris Dransch, Michael Böttinger, Colin Devey, Antonie Haas, Mario Hlawitschka, Claudia Kuenzer, Karsten Rink, Christian Schäfer-Neth, Gerik Scheuermann, Tom Kwasnitschka, Andrea Unger. Challenges and strategies for the visual exploration of complex environmental data. International Journal of Digital Earth. (DOI:10.1080/17538947.2017.1327618) Link
Florian Koch, Lars Bilke, Carolin Helbig, Uwe Schlink. Compact or cool? The impact of brownfield redevelopment on inner-city micro climate, Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 38, April 2018, Pages 31-41, ISSN 2210-6707, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2017.11.021.

2015

Carolin Helbig, Lars Bilke, Hans-Stefan Bauer, Michael Böttinger, Olaf Kolditz. MEVA - An interactive visualization application for validation of multifaceted meteorological data with multiple 3D devices. PLoS ONE10(4): e0123811. (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0123811) Download
Carolin Helbig, Lars Bilke (2015): Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality; In: Kolditz, O., Shao, H., Wang, W., Bauer, S., (eds.), Thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in fractured porous media: Modelling and benchmarking. Closed-form solutions, Terrestrial Environmental Sciences, Springer, p. 301 - 305 Link
Uwe Schlink, Florian Koch, Carolin Helbig, Lars Bilke, (2015): Visualisierung des Stadtklimas, Leipzigs Wandel im Spiegel der Stadtforschung am UFZ, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, S. 10 - 11 Download
Carolin Helbig (2015): Concept and Workflow for 3D Visualization of Multifaceted Meteorological Data. Dissertation. Download

2014

Carolin Helbig, Karsten Rink, Hans-Stefan Bauer, Volker Wulfmeyer, Michael Frank, Olaf Kolditz: Concept and workflow for 3D visualization of atmospheric data in a virtual reality environment for analytical approaches, Environmental Earth Sciences, 2014. (DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3136-6) Download
Lars Bilke, Thomas Fischer, Carolin Helbig, Charlotte Krawczyk, Thomas Nagel, Dmitri Naumov, Sebastian Paulick, et al. TESSIN VISLab - Laboratory for Scientific Visualization. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2014. (10.1007/s12665-014-3785-5) Download

2013

Carolin Helbig, Karsten Rink, Hans-Stefan Bauer, Volker Wulfmeyer, Michael Frank, Olaf Kolditz: 3D visualization of atmospheric data for analytical approaches. EuroVis Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, 2013. (DOI: 10.2312/PE.EnvirVis.EnvirVis13.019-023) Download

2012

Carolin Helbig, Karsten Rink, Andreas Marx, Jörg Priess, Michael Frank, Olaf Kolditz: Visual integration of diverse environmental data : A case study in Central Germany. In R. Seppelt, A. A. Voinov, S. Lange, & D. Bankamp (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty (pp. 2350-2357). Leipzig, Germany: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs). ISBN: 978-88-9035-742-8. Download

Press

2015

Neuer Blick auf komplexe Umweltdaten (Wissensplattform „Erde und Umwelt“
Earth System Knowledge Platform - ESKP) Link

2014

UFZ Nachwuchswissenschaftlerin: Die Augen der Wissenschaft (UFZ junior scientist: The eyes of science) in the UFZ-Newsletter of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Link
Für das Leben in einer sauberen Umwelt: Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung Leipzig (For the life in a clean environment) in the photo book 25 Jahre Freiheit und Einheit of the Federal Press Office of the Federal Goverment of Germany Link

2013

Forschung (be)greifbar machen (Making research tangible and understandable) in the best practise borchure ÖKO? LOGISCH! SACHSEN FORSCHT NACHHALTIG of the Ministry of State of Science and Arts of the Free State of Saxony (SMWK) and the European Social Fund (ESF) Link
HTWK Nachwuchswissenschaftler: In komplexen Datenwolken (HTWK junior scientist: In complex data clouds) in the research newsletter EINBLICKE (with a focus on developing information) of the University of applied Sciences (HTWK) Leipzig Link

Education

2004-2007 - Bachelor of Science: Media Informatics, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany
2007-2010 - Master of Science: Media Informatics, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany
2011-2015 - PhD student: Environmental Informatics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

ESF The doctoral scholarship was funded by the European Union and the federal state of Saxony by the European Social Fund (ESF) as part of the project "Knowledge and know-how transfer".

Integration plattform

Societal Transformations
towards Sustainability

News

JURSE 2023 - Heraklion Crete

16 May - 19 May 2023
As a member of the JURSE Scientific Committee, Ellen Banzhaf is participating in the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event in Greece. There she will present central work of the platform project 6.4, Resilient Cities. They mainly deal with questions of blue-green transformations in cities and urban environmental risks. In this context, the monitoring of different ecosystem services in fast-growing cities plays an important role as well as the exposure to environmental risks in relation to different residential structures. In addition to methodological topics of urban remote sensing, the event will focus on the application of urban remote sensing to social sciences, urban planning and environmental protection as well as urban ecology. Further training offers of this event include technical tutorials, e.g. for fast online EO processing of geohazards in order to be able to quickly detect hazard-prone areas in an urban context.
For further details see here.

Daniel Hertel completed his PhD project

With the defence of his dissertation in September 2022 on the topic of "Optimisation of urban heat adaptation measures" and its publication in the Leipzig University Library in November 2022, Daniel Hertel has successfully completed his PhD project. This research work was largely supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) as part of a doctoral scholarship. In addition to Prof. Dr Johannes Quaas (University of Leipzig, Institute of Meteorology), Prof. Dr Uwe Schlink (UFZ, Leipzig) was the main supervisor.

Daniel Hertel's work focused on assigning causes to urban overheating. Based on micrometeorological simulations, the developed algorithm generates maps to identify the biophysical factors responsible for local overheating. As a result of the new attribution algorithm, recommendations for more effective and targeted adaptation measures could be developed.

Link to the dissertation

Risk Communication to support property level adaptation

In January 2023, the final report of the project "PIVO - Private Eigenvorsorge" was published. The project was funded by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Christian Kuhlicke, PIVO investigated how different communication formats (a serious game on flood protection, a simulation and a precautionary information campaign) affect the motivation of citizens to take precautions against the consequences of climate change. This report provides a detailed and illustrative overview of the developed communication formats and the results of an extensive evaluation. A longitudinal survey was conducted in 11 municipalities, with six cities serving as control municipalities in order to draw controlled conclusions on the effectiveness of the communication formats. You can find the report under the following link (it’s in German and includes a English summary).

New project on resilience planning in German municipalities

In December, the one-year project “Resilience in municipal practice – How about resilience?” started with the collaboration of Prof. Dr. Christian Kuhlicke, Prof. Dr. Dieter Rink, Janine Pößneck und Anika Schmidt. Financed by and in close exchange with the German federal association on housing and urban development, called vhw, the team will elaborate a survey of debate, knowledge and planning related to urban resilience in German municipalities. Based on literature analysis and interviews a synthesis report will be published at the end of the project. The overall goal is to further refine the concept of urban resilience and elaborate suggestions for municipal planning. The project is part of the platform project „Transformations towards resilient cities".

Uwe Schlink as a fellow at Durham University (UK)

At the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), he presents his current research and establish academic connections during his research stay from October - December 2022.

Uwe Schlink as a fellow at Durham University (UK)

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Publications

URBIO 2022 Book of Abstracts

The 7^th Conference of the International Network Urban Biodiversity and Design (URBIO) with the theme “Integrating Biodiversity in Urban Planning and Design Processes” took place on 28-30 Nov. 2022 at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig. The book of abstracts has now been published.

Information and download

Fully revised new edition:

Groß, M.; McGoey, L.: Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. 2nd edition 2022.

New article online:

Banzhaf, E.; Anderson, S.; Grandin, G.; Hardiman, R.; Jensen, A.; Jones, L.; Knopp, J.; Levin, G.; Russel, D.; Wu, W.; Yang, J.; Zandersen, M. Urban-Rural Dependencies and Opportunities to Design Nature-Based Solutions for Resilience in Europe and China. Land 2022, 11, 480.

Current publications