Horst Sterr

Horst Sterr (born March 2, 1948 ) is a German geographer and worked at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Career

From 1969 to 1972 Sterr studied geography and English at the University of Regensburg and at Colorado College , USA. In September 1975 he passed the first teaching qualification and then taught at the adult education center and vocational school. From August 1976 he completed a graduate study (with a scholarship ) at the University of Colorado , Boulder, USA in the subjects of geography and geology and was research assistant at the US Geological Survey in Denver , USA for 11 months from 1977-78 . In December 1980 the doctorate in the subjects geography / geology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA took place with the topic: earthquake hazard in SW-Utah . Starting in September 1980, he did a traineeship at the Gregor Mendel School in Amberg in Bavaria, and in June 82 the second teacher training exam.

From September 1982 to August 1989, Sterr worked at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel as a university assistant for scientific research and teaching. In 1989, after completing his habilitation , he became senior assistant at the Institute of Geography. Between November 1991 and October 1992 he was given leave of absence in Kiel to take on the role of head of the scientific coordination secretariat at the University of Oldenburg . Until 1997 he was the scientific director of the joint project Climate Change & Coast and the secretariat established for the coordination of climate impact research in Oldenburg. On October 1, 1998, he was appointed to the chair for physical geography and coastal geography at the Institute of Geography at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel.

Research and interests

The focus of Sterr's work is climate and coastal geography .

Other activities

• 1991–1996 representative of coastal climate impact research (federal-state program K&K) to universities, authorities and the public.
• 1992 responsible organizer of the interdisciplinary International Coastal Congress in Kiel.
• 1992 Scientific representative for Germany in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group Coastal Areas-Coastal Management (IPCC-Subgroup B).
• 1993 Scientific delegate of Germany at the WORLD COAST CONFERENCE (The Hague, NL), the first UN / IPCC conference to solve global problems in coastal regions.
• 1994–1997 German representative of (climate-oriented) coastal research in the core program LOICZ (Land-Ocean-Interactions in the Coastal Zone) of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program.
• 1997–1998 project manager (on the German side) of the EU research project WISE (= Weather Impacts on Social and Economic Systems) in cooperation with the University of East Anglia, GB, the Vrije Universitaet Amsterdam, NL and the institute FEEM (Milan, I. ).

Web links

• Horst Sterr's homepage at Kiel University .
• Literature by and about Horst Sterr in the catalog of the German National Library