Karl-Ernst Behre
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
Retired but still active
Tel.: +49 4421 915-145
Publications
List of Publications (PDF-Download)
Curriculum vitae
| 2000 | Retirement as head of the Institute NIhK and Emeritus Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam |
| 1994 | Appointment as Full Professor (part time) of Quaternary Vegetation History at the Faculty of Geology of the Free University of Amsterdam |
| 1991 | Appointment as executive director of the NIhK |
| 1978 | Appointment as scientific director of NIhK |
| 1974 | Appointment as Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Göttingen (external) |
| 1971 | Election as president of the „Marschenrat zur Förderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee“ (reelections until 1995) |
| 1969 | Habilitation for Botany at the University of Göttingen (external) |
| 1962 | Research associate at the Lower Saxony State Institute for Marsh- and Terp Research, now Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (NIhK) |
| 1961 | PhD graduation in Botany at the Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| 1954 - 1961 | Study of biology, geography and chemistry at the Universities of Marburg, Innsbruck and Göttingen |
| 13.02.1935 | born in Bremen |
Research priorities
| • | Holocene vegetation and climate history |
| • | Archaeobotany and palaeoecology |
| • | Biostratigraphy of the Quaternary |
Current research topics
| • | Re-Editing of the volume by G. Lang: Quaternary Vegetation History of Europe, together with B. Ammann, P. van der Knaap and W. Tinner |
Memberships, honorary offices, awards
| • | Full member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut |
| • | Member of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (1992-2002) |
| • | Full member of the Subcommission of Quaternary Stratigraphy of the German Stratigraphic Commission |
| • | Corresponding member of the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft |
| • | Corresponding Member der Societas Zoologica Botanica VANAMO, Finnland |
| • | Honorary president of the Marschenrat zur Förderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee (since 1995) |
| • | Founder of the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany and Editor-in-Chief 1992-2001, since then member of the Editorial Board |
| • | Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Acta Palaeobotanica (Poland) |
| • | Mitglied im Editorial Board der Fachzeitschrift Studia Quaternaria (Polen) |
| • | Member of the Editorial Board of the journal DROSERA, Naturkundliche Mitteilungen aus Nordwestdeutschland |
| • | Member of the Steering Committee of the Polish Research Project Migration Period between Odra and Vistula since 2012 |
| • | Mitglied im Steering Committee des polnischen Forschungsprojekts Migration Period between Odra and Vistula seit 2012 |
| • | Member of the Advisory Board of the Oldenburgische Landschaft |
| • | Member of the Advisory Board of the Oldenburgischer Landesverein |
| • | 2000 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| • | 2004 Award of the Albrecht Penck-Medal of the Deutsche Quartärvereinigung |
| • | 2010 Bestowal of the Landschaftsmedaille of the Oldenburgische Landschaft |
| • | 2010 Nomination as honorary member of the Natural Scientific Society of Bremen |
| • | 2012 Bestowal of the 7. Wilhelmshaven-Award for Maritime and Coastal Research |