Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Emil Dister
- Reseach, Teaching, Direction
- Group: Auen-Institut
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- Phone: +49 7222 3807-0
- Fax: +49 7222 3807-99
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- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
Bereich WWF-Auen-Institut
Josefstraße 1
D-76437 Rastatt
Emil Dister
Research on floodplains in Europe, Southamerica, Westafrica of different rivers like Rhine, Loire, Elbe, Oder, Rio Magdalena, March and Dona.
Topics
- floodplain ecology
- restoration of rivers and their floodplains
- ecologically oriented flood protection
Curriculum vitae
| 1985 - 2014 |
Director of the WWF-Auen-Institut, from April 2004 part of KIT, Institute for Floodplains Ecology |
| 1980 - 1985 |
Academical staff at the Departemenr of Biogeography at Saarland University in Saarbrücken |
| 1979 - 1980 |
Freelancer at Gesellschaft für Landeskultur (GfL) in Bad Homburg |
| 1975 - 1980 |
Scientist and freelancer at Hessische Gesellschaft für Ornithologie und Naturschutz (HGON) e.V. in Frankfurt/M, PhD in 1980 with a topic concerning floodplain ecology at Göttingen University, degree in biology (geobotany) and geography in Mainz and Göttingen |
Furthermore: project evaluations for the GTZ (1990, 1982, 1981), project search in Gambia for the foundation "Walderhaltung in Afrika e.V."
Teaching
Lectureships at Universities: Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken, Marburg, Basel.
Presentations
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