Dr. rer. nat. Frank Schlütz

Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften (FU)

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Dr. Frank Schlütz is the current representative of the Geoarchaeology in Topoi. The full equipped Topoi pollen laboratory and the microscope pool are managed by him. As a Botanist Frank Schlütz works in close interdisciplinary cooperation with Archaeologists, Geographers and soil scientists in Eurasia (Germany, Russia, Caucasus, Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet, Himalaya) and abroad (Africa, South America). His research foci are on Geoarchaeology, vegetation history and climate change based especially on Palynology in a broad sense, covering analyses of pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) such as spores of fungi, ferns and mosses, algae, microscopic animal remains and charcoal particles as well. This allows a most holistic reconstruction of former palaeoecological conditions. The studied sediment archives reach from drilled terrestrial, lacustrine and marine profiles to archaeological stratigraphies, feces (animal dung, latrines) and surface samples, spanning from recent and medieval times to the Neolithic and into the late Pleistocene.
 

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Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften
Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften
Fachrichtung Physische Geographie

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Malteserstraße 74-100
12249 Berlin
Deutschland

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Publications

Schlütz, F., Lehmkuhl, F., 2009. Holocene climatic change and the nomadic Anthropocene in Eastern Tibet: Palynological and geomorphological results from the Nianbaoyeze Mountains. Quaternary science reviews 28, 1449-1471.
Dupont, L., Schlütz, F., Ewah, C., Jennerjahn, T. C., Paul, A., Behling, H., 2009. Two-step vegetation response to enhanced precipitation in Northeast Brazil during Heinrich Event 1. Global Change Biology 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02023.x.
Schlütz, F., Lehmkuhl, F., 2007. Climatic change in the Russian Altai, southern Siberia, based on palynological and geomorphological results with implications on teleconnections and human history since the middle Holocene. Veget. History a. Archaeobot. 16, 101-118.
Schlütz, F., Zech, W., 2004. Palynological investigations on vegetation and climate change in the Late Quaternary of Lake Rukche area, Gorkha Himal, Central Nepal. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 13, 81-90.
Schlütz, F., Dulamsuren, C., Wieckowska, M., Mühlenberg, M., Hauck, M., 2008. Late Holocene vegetation history suggests natural origin of steppes in the northern Mongolian mountain taiga. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 261, 203–217.
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Employment
Since 07/2009 Stand-in of the professorship of Geoarchaeology, Freie Universität Berlin
06/2007 – 05/2009 Palaeoecology of the Himalaya in the late Quaternary
02/2007 – 05/2007 On the history of the walnut forests of Kirgizstan
11/2006 – 01/2007 Dendroecology of fossil Pine forests
06/2006 – 10/2006 Paleoecological investigations on medieval sediments in eastern Germany
02/2006 – 05/2006 Effects of the slowdown of the thermohaline circulation during Heinrich Event 1 and the Younger Dryas Period on the climate of tropical south-western Africa and tropical eastern South America
07/2003 – 10/2005 Recent Dynamic und Holocene landscape development of fragmented forest biocoenosis in Tibet
02/2003 – 06/2003 Palynological Investigations on the vegetation and climate history of the Bale Mountains (Ethiopia) in the late Quaternary
02/2001 – 01/2003 On the late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation history in Inner Mongolia and surroundings as results of climatic and hydrological effects
01/2001 Pollen analyses in a framework of interdisciplinary research on the late Quaternary of the Kilimanjaro
01/1999 – 12/2000 Palaeoecology Altay Mountains: Holocene vegetation, climate and settlement history of the Russian and Mongolian Altay Mountains in comparison with the Alps

 

Education

1998 Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Georg-August University of Göttingen under the supervision of Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen Beug. Title of thesis: “Palynological investigations on the Holocene history of vegetation, climate and human influence in High Asia (Nanga Parbat, Karkoram, Nianbaoyeze, Lhasa) and on the Pleistocene of China (Qinling Shan, Gaxun Nur).”

 

Expeditions

2010 Azerbaijan and Georgia
2009 Russia, European part
2008 Nepal, Annapurna circuit, Kingdom of Mustang
2008 Mongolia, Gobi Altai, Khangay Mountains
2007 Mongolia, Gobi desert, Gobi Altay, Khangay Mountains
2007 Russia, western Siberia, Ob/Irtysh
2005 Mongolia, Hentiy Mountains
2003 China, Tibet
2001 China, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai
2000 Russia, South-Siberia, Altay Mountains
1999 Russia, South-Siberia, Altay Mountains
1995 Nepal, Annapurna, Muktinath

 

Peer reviews

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Palaeobotany and Palynology; Quaternary Science Reviews; The Holocene; Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Teaching Experience
Courses, lectures and seminars for students of Biology, Geography, Geology and Archaeology on Diploma, Bachelor and Master level in Vegetation history, Botany for Geologists, Plant morphology, Palynology, Field work, Plant systematics, Plant determination, Soils and Relief, Biodiversity.