Rainer Lehmann

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Rainer Lehmann (born April 11, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German geographer and biologist with a focus on geomorphology and geoecology .

He works as a scientist and educator at the interface between research and school teaching in the field of science communication . From 1998 to 2020 he worked as an upper level teacher for geography and biology with a focus on polar regions , high mountains and the Mediterranean region .

Scientific career

Lehmann studied at the University of Heidelberg , the subjects geography , geology and biology . In 1983 he lived in Alaska , the Yukon and the Canadian Northwest Territories and got to know the culture of the locals and the subarctic habitat. Contacts with Lorenz King took him to Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian high Arctic in 1988 with scientific questions . In 1990 he was a member of the Spitsbergen expedition SPE90.

For his dissertation he carried out research in Greece from 1989 to 1993 . As a student of Dietrich Barsch and Hartmut Leser , he received his doctorate in 1993 at the University of Basel with his thesis "Landscape degradation , soil erosion and conservation on the Cycladic island of Naxos , Greece". After three years of work as an expert in the contaminated site industry , he switched to school service and carried out numerous projects with scientific cooperation for schoolchildren on the topics of polar regions and climate change . As a teacher, he took part in the ANDRILL geoscientific expedition to Antarctica in 2007.

Act

In the mid-1980s he worked at the Geographical Institute of the University of Heidelberg in the priority program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Geomorphological Detail Survey in the Federal Republic of Germany in the survey and mapping of the GMK100 sheet Mannheim . He applied the mapping instructions and legend developed in the priority program in 1988 during the Canarctic 2 expedition to high Arctic areas and mapped the geomorphology of Ward Hunt Island (GMK12.5 Ward Hunt Island, Canadian High Arctic ). Further research foci were compression moraines on Axel Heiberg Island and Ellesmere Island as well as on Spitzbergen. In addition, geo-ecological issues were followed up on bird cliffs. In the contaminated site branch, Lehmann was the clerk for historical surveys of suspected contaminated sites and project manager for technical contaminated sites and multitemporal map and aerial photo evaluations.

From 1998 on, pedagogical work in a general school in the subjects of geography and biology was added. Several extracurricular, geo-ecological projects with 12th grade students ran a total of 16 years in the field of water monitoring , water quality determination and renaturation . These projects introduced students to scientific questions and working methods, the graphic implementation of the results and their interpretation. Lehmann initiated the innovative project Coole Klassen in 2006 , which allowed him to cooperate again with polar research on a national and international level in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007/08. As a polar teacher of the ANDRILL project (Antarctic Geologic Drilling Project) in 2007 in McMurdo Station , Antarctica , he worked in the sedimentology , biostratigraphy and XRF -core scanning research groups and published teaching material for this. From the nationwide project “Cool Classes”, the working group for polar teachers of the German Society for Polar Research developed in 2008 , which Lehmann has coordinated since then. Since the founding of the international polar teachers' association Polar Educators International (PEI) in 2013, he has been involved in the advisory board and in 2015 organized the international workshop Education meets science - Bringing Polar Research into the Classrooms in Germany.

Publications (selection)

  • with M. Kallfelz: Die Polarlehrer - Cool classes at the poles of the earth. In: Biology in Our Time. Volume 49, No. 4, 2019, pp. 277–281, doi: 10.1002 / biuz.201910682 .
  • with K. Pound, L. Huffman, J. Hubbard, M. Cattadori, L. Dahlman, J. Dooley, R. Frisch-Gleason, B. Trummel: ANDRILL ARISE: A model for team-based field research immersion for educators. In: Polar Record. Tape. 55, No. 4, 2019. pp. 251-273, doi: 10.1017 / S0032247419000056 .
  • with M. Kallfelz: Diatoms in the service of climate research. In: Biology 5–10. No. 12, 2015, pp. 28–31 (with material package).
  • with I. May: Polar regions (= geography thematic issues: discovering landscape zones of the earth. ) Verlag an der Ruhr, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8346-2403-1 .
  • Geoecological investigation of a small creek: An interdisciplinary project of the 12th grade. In: Geoscience Education: Understanding System Earth (= series of publications by the German Society for Geosciences. Issue 48). 2006, p. 48 ( archiv.ipn.uni-kiel.de, PDF ), accessed on July 25, 2020.
  • Physical geography and geosciences in Waldorf schools: the curriculum and its modification in interdisciplinary teaching. In: F. Jacobs, H.-G. Röhling O. Uhlmann (Ed.): GeoLeipzig 2004, Geosciences secure the future (= series of publications of the German Geological Society. Issue 34). 2004, pp. 238-239.
  • Landscape degradation, soil erosion and conservation on the Cycladic island of Naxos, Greece. In: Basel contributions to physiogeography: Physiogeographica. Volume 21, 1994.
  • The Significance of Permafrost in the Formation and Appearance of Push Moraines. In: Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Permafrost, Beijing, China. Vol. 1, 1993, pp. 374-379.
  • Terrace Degradation and Soil Erosion on Naxos Island, Greece. In: S. Wicherek (Ed.): Farm Land Erosion In Temperate Plains Environments and Hills . 1993, pp. 429-450.
  • Arctic push moraines, a case study of the Thompson Glacier Moraine, Axel Heiberg Island, NWT, Canada. In: Journal of Geomorphology NF Supplement-Volume 86, 1992, pp. 161-171.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Leser, Stephan Reber, Armin Rempfler: Geo-ecological research in northwest Spitzbergen. First report on the geoecology sub-project of the Geoscientific Spitsbergen Expedition 1990 (SPE '90) to the Liefdefjorden . In: The Earth; Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin . January 1990, ISSN  0013-9998 , p. 255–268 ( online access [accessed August 10, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Andrill - Southern McMurdo Sound Project. Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics , accessed on August 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Stäblein (Ed.): Geomorphologische Detailaufnahme (=  Berlin geographical treatises . Volume 30 ). Institute for Geographical Sciences of the Free University of Berlin, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-88009-029-7 , doi : 10.23689 / fidgeo-2860 ( online [accessed on August 10, 2020] GMK project of the German Research Foundation).
  4. ↑ http://web.giub.uni-bonn.de:7434/gmk.digital/home.htm map GMK100, sheet Mannheim
  5. ↑ Lorenz King et al .: Expedition to Ward Hunt Island (The Orbitex Arctic Ocean Research Project). In: RC Bachmann (Ed.): The Best of Switzerland. Orbitex , Zurich 1989, pp. 331–346.
  6. ↑ Working group polar instructors. German Society for Polar Research , accessed on August 10, 2020 .
  7. ^ Polar Educators International. Accessed August 10, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ Hannover 2015. Polar Educators International, 2015, accessed on August 10, 2020 (English, international workshop “Education meets science”).
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin