Dr. PD Bertram Boehrer

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department Lake Research
Brueckstrasse 3a

39114 Magdeburg
Germany

office 340 (main building)

Dr. Bertram Boehrer

phone: +49 391 - 810 9441

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Fields of interest

  • stratification and transport in lakes
  • properties of limnic waters
  • meromixis, thermobaricity
  • gases and gas pressures in lakes
  • internal waves
  • mine pit lakes, volcanic lakes
  • management of lakes and reservoirs

Publication topics

publications
  • stratification and deep circulation of lakes
  • gases and gas pressure
  • internal waves
  • development of mine lakes

Current teaching

spring break


summer

Block course on Physical Limnology at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the Heidelberg University

practical limnophsics excursion

for details

Environmental consultant

- member of Lake Kivu scientific expert team - Lake Kivu consultant to the Rwandan government - Gas pressure risk abatement in Guadiana pit lake (Xunta de Andalucia) - expertises for natural lakes - evolution of mine pit lakes

Curriculum Vitae:

since 1998  heading the limnophysics work group, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department Lake Research 

since 2010  teaching staff at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University 

2009 Professor substitute for physics at Heidelberg University

1996 - 1998 Postdoc in UFZ-section Inland Waters

1991 - 1996  Ph.D. (doctorate) at The University of Western Australia, Centre for Water Research

1989 - 1990  Masters thesis at Inst. for Environmental Physics of the Univ. of Heidelberg and Limnological Inst. Konstanz

1984 - 1990  tertiary physics education at Heidelberg University

Other:

  • member of DPG (env. physics); AGU SIL DGL JSPS-club
  • Reviews for scientific journals, gov. funds
  • commitee member and spokesperson (2017-2025) of http://www.ppnw.info (Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters);
  • Co-chair of "Physical Limnology" of SIL - International Society for Limnology