Watch the trailer to The Grand Challenger Podcast in which I am interviewed by Peter M. Bach.
Watch the video of my Landscape Talk at the Global Landscapes Forum 2018 in Bonn: How spatial videos allow us to explore and communicate complex links in the Water-Energy-Food nexus of the DAFNE project.
An overview video of the DAFNE project: Decision Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food Nexus in complex transboundary water resource systems of fast developing countries. I coordinated the field activities and drone-based data collection.
In the trees of my old shared house near Montpellier, France
Time-lapses from 30 years of satellite imagery
Time-lapse videos of human land-uses and vegetation cover changes based on details from LANDSAT images, covering intervals between 1984 and 2016. Pause the video and use the slider to move between the images more slowly:
Ethiopia: The Kuraz Sugar Development Project has recently created large fields to grow sugar cane, irrigated with water from the Omo river and it's tributaries.
Zambia: The upper Lunsemfwa catchment was traditionally dominated by rain-fed agriculture. The creation of small dams has allowed the development of center pivot irrigation, creating these typical circles in the landscape.
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Zambia: Between 1997 and 2001 the reservoir of the Kafue gorge was dominated by floating plants such as water hyacinths.
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Zambia: Expansion of irrigation agriculture in the eastern Kafue flats
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Ethiopia/Kenya: Dynamics in the Omo delta in lake Turkana due to erosion and sedimentation
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Zambia: Reduction of open water in the Lukanga wetlands (potentially linked with a drought in 1995)
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Land art on an urban brownfield
Footprints as a symbol for human impacts on the environment were the inspiration for this art project on the area of a former railway station in the center of Berlin.
On this brownfield we created a giant footprint made of vegetable peels obtained from a soup kitchen. A time lapse camera then documented its decay but also the spring revival of vegetation and the creation of community gardens.
The short persistence of the footprint can be seen as representative for the short time in which vegetation cover can establish spontaneously on formerly human dominated habitats. Thus creating novel ecosystems with a high value for climate, conservation, recreation and education in an urban context.
The result can be seen in two videos below, with their varying pace both transporting a very distinct atmosphere.
On this brownfield we created a giant footprint made of vegetable peels obtained from a soup kitchen. A time lapse camera then documented its decay but also the spring revival of vegetation and the creation of community gardens.
The short persistence of the footprint can be seen as representative for the short time in which vegetation cover can establish spontaneously on formerly human dominated habitats. Thus creating novel ecosystems with a high value for climate, conservation, recreation and education in an urban context.
The result can be seen in two videos below, with their varying pace both transporting a very distinct atmosphere.
Short version of the time lapse video, running over two months
brachfuß from Fritz Kleinschroth on Vimeo.
Long version of the time lapse video, running over 18 days