Free University of Berlin

Institute of Geological Sciences

At the Institute of Geographical Sciences of the Freie Universität Berlin, the issue of water is integrated in various ways into the curriculum of the bachelor and master courses in geography.

– Master program Geological Sciences with focus on Hydrogeology

Malteserstraße 74-100, Gebäude B, Raum 016, 12249 Berlin
Academic advice:
Dr. Andreas Winkler
rmlab@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Potential fields of work:

  • Cooperation in environmental and engineering offices with a focus on water management, environmental investigations and ground investigation
  • Research institutions
  • State and federal authorities
  • International organizations
  • NGOs

Entry requirement: Bachelor in Geological Sciences or comparable academic achievements

Application and enrolment:

www.fu-berlin.de/en/studium/bewerbung/index.html

Hydrological courses (selection):

  • Fundamentals of hydrogeology
  • Soil and groundwater protection
  • Stable isotopes in environmental research
  • Numerical modeling of groundwater flow and mass transport
  • Hydrogeological terrain methods

Working group Hydrogeology

Lead:
Prof. Dr. Michael Schneider
www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/geol/fachrichtungen/geochemhydromin/hydrogeologie/

Research foci:

  • Hydrogeology
  • Urban groundwater resources and water cycles
  • Managed Aquifer Recharge – MAR
  • Interaction of groundwater and surface water
  • Hydrogeology of arid areas

Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences

– M.Sc. Geographic Environmental Research

Malteserstraße 74-100, Building H und K, 12249 Berlin
Academic advice:
Dr. Moritz Nykamp
m.nykamp@fu-berlin.de
www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/geog/index.html

Potential fields of work:

  • Landscape and nature conservation
  • Advice to local, regional or federal authorities in the field of environment and agriculture
  • Insurance
  • Consulting offices
  • Engineering, geo and planning offices
  • Research institutions
  • Subject-specific federal and regional offices
  • International research institutions and organizations

Expertise for studying: Based on the basics acquired in the bachelor’s program
Entry requirement: For the master’s program:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a geoscientific degree program with a geographic science equivalent to that of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Geographic Sciences at Freie Universität or equivalent to another degree
  • Language certificate in English (Level B2 GER)

Application and enrolment:

  • Local admission restriction
  • For the 1st semester: 15.04.-31.05. (for the winter semester)
  • For the higher semester: 01.07.-15.08. (for the winter semester)
    and 01.01.-15.02. (for the summer semester)

Hydrological courses (selection):

  • GK / S human-environment relations
  • GK / PC-Seminar modelling in applied environmental research (e.g. hydrological modelling, erosion modelling, etc.)
  • Current topics on environmental research
  • Regional topics on environmental research (floods, droughts)
  • Project I / II Integrated Watershed Management (environmental resource management in practice)

Department of Applied Physical Geography, Environmental Hydrology and Resource Management

Lead:
Prof. Dr. Achim Schulte
www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/geog/fachrichtungen/angeog/index.html

Research foci:

  • Hydrological and coupled geomorphological processes in different time and space scales
  • Analysis of extreme hydrological situations (high and low water, droughts) and associated processes (material flows)
  • Land cover / land use and hydrological process interactions in river basins
  • Flow and sediment dynamics in stagnant and flowing waters
  • Fluvial morphodynamics
  • Development of concepts for risk reduction management strategies of extreme hydrological events and integrated water resources management (IWRM)
  • Paleo-hydrological investigations for the reconstructions of ecosystem dynamics as well as climate and other environmental changes