Landscape Ecology & Management
Field
Regional Planning: Sustainability Atlas / Landscape Ecology Assessment
Date:
2004 (3 month), 2005 (3 month)
Location:
China
Company:
EU - Environmental Cooperation Programme (for INTEGRATION E&E))
Position:
Senior advisor
Description:
  • Review European practice in environmental and SD atlas preparation and use in different fields and for different purposes. He shall prepare an commented inventory of such atlases including methodologies employed, result display and use and employment of such tools for policy making, planning and decision making;
  • Design and suggest an appropriate approach and method for the atlas for the study area; this has to be based on the sustainability thrust and objectives in the province and study area;
  • Suggest in particular the natural and ecological themes relevant, including the potential natural vegetation, existing vegetation cover and ecological disturbances and the like;
  • Identify the data in particular the spatial data requirements in close collaboration with his EU colleague and the study team and advise on mapping and geographical result representation
  • Advise the study team in appropriate information dissemination
Field
Nature Protection: Dry Grassland Management and Habitat Linkage Concept
Date:
1988/90  2002-2005
Location:
Nuremberg
Company:
City of Nuremberg
Position:
Project manager - Expert
Description:
Inventory of potential and existing grasslands for the development of management strategies and concepts for a Municipal Habitat Linkage System for dry grasslands.
Management Plan and concept for dry grassland, Conservation and Rehabilitation, in the City of Nuremberg.
Field
Nature Protection: Monitoring of Grassland Management and Flight Safety (birds)
Date:
1970/71, 2001 - 2010
Location:
Nuremberg, Bavaria
Company:
Airport of Nuremberg Security and Environmental Department
Position:
Project manager and senior advisor
Description:
Grassland management plans and monitoring to harmonise flight safety and nature conservation requirements. Advisory service for management and Monitoring of the whole airfield, control of the effectiveness of the change of management and evaluation of the contribution to the Airports “Eco-Account” and environmental stewardship.
Apart from management vegetation and fauna is part of the assignment. Incl. an inventory of the Avi-Fauna on the Airport of Nuremberg
Field
Nature Protection: Inventory and Grassland Management Concepts
Date:
2001
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
City of Fürth
Position:
Project manager and expert
Description:
Expertise habitat network planning for dry grasslands within the city limits of Fürth. Preferential areas for management and purchase were detected and management plans developed.
Field
Nature Protection: Inventory and Grassland Management Concepts
Date:
2001
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Werkgemeinschaft Freiraum Nürnberg
Position:
Expert
Description:
Expertise for the Airport Nürnberg LTD about the potential of mitigation and compensation planning and future grassland management in accordance with light safety measures
Field
Date:
2000/2002
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
City of Wuerzburg
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Biotop mapping in the urban areas: Wuerzburg (vegetation, fauna and aerial photography interpretation of the vegetation and land utilisation types, promotion of the results)
Field
Nature Protection: Dry Grassland Management and habitat Linkage Concept
Date:
1998-1999
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
German Association of Landscape Management /Bund Naturschutz
Position:
2nd Project manager
Description:
Concept development of a Habitat Linkage System for dry grasslands in Northern Bavaria (the concept and calculation and the project which includes 12 district Governments and 3 NGO´s is implemented with a total amount of 2.5 Million EUR)
Field
Nature Protection: Inventory and District Habitat Mapping
Date:
1998-1999
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Environmental Protection Agency
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Biotop (habitat) mapping of the district of Amberg-Sulzbach (vegetation types, structural types)
Field
Nature Protection: Habitat Mapping Concept Development
Date:
1997
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Environmental Protection Agency - ARGE BIO
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Design of sampling sheets for the new Biotop mapping programme of Bavaria
Field
Nature Protection: Habitat Mapping Concept Development
Date:
1997
Location:
Jena/Thuringia
Company:
Thuringian State Agency for Environment
Position:
expert
Description:
Design of an evaluation code and weighting criteria for the Habitat-Types for the federal state of Thuringia
Field
Nature Protection: Biodiversity Monitoring
Date:
1991-1996
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Federal Railway Management Office
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Installation and documentation of monitoring areas concerning the "Transplantation of Astragalus arenarius" within the urban district of Nuremberg
Field
Nature Protection: Concept Development
Date:
1996
Location:
Spain
Company:
Government of Navarra, Spain, for and with the Lab. de Botánica, Dept. de Biología Vegetal y Ecología - Universidad del País Vasco
Position:
expert
Description:
Scientific Consultant of the "Proyecto de evaluación y propuestas de gestión para la conservación de los bosques de Urbasa y Andína".
Field
Nature Protection: Habitat Mapping Concept Development
Date:
1996
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Environmental Protection Agency
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Mapping and evaluation of faunistic relevant habitats and structures parallel to Biotop Mapping (pilot project)
Field
Nature Protection: Impact and Effect Assessment
Date:
1995/96
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Bavarian State Ministry for Regional Development and Environmental Affairs – State Environmental Agency
Position:
expert
Description:
Analysis and Evaluation of Programs in Nature Protection for Wetlands in Bavaria; Statistical and Multivariate Tests of Vegetation and soil Parameters to Evaluate the Efficiency of Mowing Regimes
Field
Nature Protection: Habitat Mapping and Assessment for Regional Planning
Date:
1995
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Bavarian State Ministry for Regional Development and Environmental Affairs – State Environmental Agency
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Ecological Inventory, Evaluation and Survey of  “Preferential Areas” for Sand- Mining; Contribution to the Preparation of the Regional Plan of Middle Franconia
Field
Nature Protection: Evaluation and Assessment Concept Development
Date:
1995
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Akademie für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege
Position:
expert
Description:
Concept for the analysis and evaluation of permanent plots
Field
Nature Protection: Habitat Mapping Concept Development
Date:
1991-1995
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Institute for Vegetation Science
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Bio-monitoring programme: sampling of permanent plots on the Hainberg - Nuremberg (dry grassland) and Installation and documentation of permanent survey areas on sandy-dry grasslands and within lichen-covered pine woods in Middle Franconia
Field
Nature Protection: Vegetation Mapping for Impact Studies
Date:
1992
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Regional Government of Oberpfalz
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Vegetation mapping of the planned nature protection area "Vilsecker Mulde"
Field
Nature Protection: Habitat Mapping
Date:
1992
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
City of Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Biotop mapping in the urban areas: Sulzbach-Rosenberg (vegetation, fauna and aerial photography interpretation of the vegetation and land utilisation types)
Field
Nature Protection: Regional Planning
Date:
1992/93
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Government of Middle Franconia
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Habitat Linkage System; Contribution to the Improvement of the Regional Structures
Field
Nature Protection: Vegetation Mapping for Impact Studies
Date:
1991/92
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Academy of Natural Protection and Landscape Management
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Vegetation change of Northern Bavarian dry grasslands – survey, research and analysis of changes over the past 30 years
Field
Nature Protection: Vegetation Mapping for Impact Studies
Date:
1991
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Regional Government of Middle Franconia
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Installation and documentation of permanent survey areas in coppice forests timber utilisation (Natural Protection Area 500.27 "Gräfholz und Dachsberge")
Field
Nature Protection: Management Plan for Nature Reserve
Date:
1991
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Government of Middle Franconia
Position:
expert
Description:
Management Plan of the nature protection area NSG 500.10 "Rammelsee und Kleiner Schimmelsteig" – Conservation and improvement of sustainable, traditional forestry and Management Plan of the nature protection area NSG 500.27 "Gräfholz und Dachsberge
Field
Nature Protection: Planning of Compensation Measures
Date:
1990
Location:
Bavaria
Company:
Federal Railway Management Office
Position:
Project manager
Description:
Establishment of a dry grassland habitat; Mitigation measures for the construction of a high voltage power line (Neumarkt to Nuremberg/Stein)