Current projects

Subject: Capacity building, West Africa, Climate change

Study site: West Africa

Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Duration: 01/01/2024 to 12/31/2025

Contact: Alexandra Bell

Project team at the JMU:  Michael Thiel, Alexandra Bell, Sabine Oppmann

Subject: Capacity Building, Wetlands ecosystems, Ecosystem Services

Study site: Central Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa

Funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)

Duration: 01.10.2023 until 30.04.2026

Contact: Insa Otte

• Subject: Past evolution of water-related activities near dams and the sensitivity of each hydropower plant to climate change and variability, LULCC near dams and propose trends scenarios of LULCC and drivers of water energy food nexus considering potential socio-economic development

• Study site: West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal)

• Funding: German Research Foundation, Germany through the Belmont Forum

• Duration: 18 months

• Homepage: belmontforum

• Contact: Michael Thiel, Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt

• Subject: land use, ecosystem services, agrobiodi

• Study site: Bavaria, Germany

• Funding: Bavarian Climate Research Network (bayklif) as part of the portfolio of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts

• Contact: Thorsten Dahms, Maninder Singh Dhillon

• Subject: Climate change and land use

• Study site: Africa

• Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

• Contact: Michael Thiel

• Subject: Environmental health, digital health, forest monitoring, forestry

• Study site: Bavaria

• Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care

• Contact: Michael Thiel, Insa Otte

• Subject: Urban climate

• Study site: Würzburg

• Funding: Research fund of the Faculty of Philosophy I of the University of Würzburg

• Contact: Thorsten Dahms

• Subject: DataCube, SDGs, big data

• Study site: Namibia

• Funding: 

• Contact: Insa Otte

• Subject: Land degradation, big data, DataCubes

• Study site: South Africa

• Homepage: https://www.saldi.uni-jena.de/

• Contact: Steven Hill, Insa Otte

• Subject: Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft, Klimawandel, Wasserressourcen

• Study site: Experimentierfeld DEMMIN

• Funding: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft

• Homepage: https://www.agrisens-demmin.de/

• Contact: Insa Otte

• Subject: Climate change, climate modeling, land use

• Study site: West Africa

• Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

• Contact: Insa Otte, Michael Thiel

• Subject: Interne und grenzüberschreitende Migration in Westafrika

• Study site: Westafrika (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria)

• Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

• Contact: Itohan-Osa Abu, Michael Thiel

• Subject: Push-Pull agriculture, Crop types classification

• Study site: East Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ruanda)

• Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

• Homepage: https://upscale-h2020.eu/

• Contact: Adomas Liepa, Michael Thiel