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Prof. Dr. Karl-Ernst Behre

Karl-Ernst Behre

Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

Retired but still active

Tel.: +49 4421 915-145

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Publications

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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)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