Finished Projects
The development of ecosystems within the artificial catchment Chicken Creek is investigated by scientific projects since 2005. An overview of already finished research projects is available here.
10 Years Hühnerwasser / Chicken Creek Catchment
Symposium at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
28 - 29 September 2015
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Hühnerwasser catchment in September 2015 the Symposium "Observing ecosystem transition - 10 years Hühnerwasser / Chicken Creek catchment" provided a good opportunity to discuss concepts and models of ecosystem state transitions as well as on importance and potentials of landscape or critical zone observatories. During this symposium outstanding keynote speakers presented ideas from very different perspectives.
The symposium was completed by selective papers dealing with highlights from the ongoing research in the Hühnerwasser landscape observatory. The very dynamic development of this very young system makes ecosystem transitions clearly visible within a very short period of time. Thus, a number of different developmental phases could be distinguished until now with regard to geomorphological, hydrological as well as biological patterns and processes.
Projektleitung:
- PD Dr. Michael Mutz
BTU CS, Lehrstuhl Gewässerschutz
Dr. Katrin Premke
IGB Berlin, Abteilung für Chemische Analytik und Biogeochemie
Förderung:
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Projektbeginn:
- 2013
Head:
- Dr. Thomas Maurer
BTU CS, Lehrstuhl Hydrologie und Wasserressourcenbewirtschaftung
PD Dr. Horst H. Gerke
ZALF Müncheberg, Institut für Bodenlandschaftsforschung
Funding:
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Start:
- 2014
Head:
- Prof. Dr. Michael Sommer
ZALF Müncheberg, Institute of Soil Landscape Research
Apl.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Wanner
BTU Cottbus, Chair General Ecology
Förderung:
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Projektbeginn:
- 2012
Sens4U
Head:
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Nolte
BTU Cottbus, Chair of Distributed Systems / Operating Systems
Funding:
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Start:
- 2012
Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 38 (SFB/TR 38)
The Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 38 (SFB/TR 38) investigated the initial development of ecosystems between 2007 and 2012 in the artificial catchment Chicken Creek. Cooperating partners were BTU Cottbus (coordination), TU München, ETH Zurich, ZALF Müncheberg, IGB Berlin, WSL Birmensdorf (CH), and EAWAG Dübendorf (CH). In addition to the Chicken Creek catchment other reference sites were investigated. Examples were the the forefield of the Damma glacier in Switzerland (cooperation with BigLink project), or inland dunes at Lieberose (nearby Cottbus).