Flood Reconstruction

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Herget studied geography with geology and hydrology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 1986-1992. In his dissertation in 1996 he investigated the terraces of the River Lippe and in his habilitation in 2003 he reconstructed the Pleistocene ice-dammed lake outburst floods in the Altai Mountains, Siberia. Since 2004 he is professor of physical geography at Bonn University, Germany. In his scientific work, he focusses on palaeohydrology, flood reconstruction and geomorphology.

• You can learn from bad experience – reasons and background for palaeohydrological investigations.- Methods of parameter estimation.- Floods in historic times.- Another process pattern: outburst floods.- Megafloods in Pleistocene times.- Refill of oceanic basins in Earth’s history.- Conclusion and perspectives.