Biography

2012

PostDoc, University of Potsdam, Germany

2011

Teaching and research assistant, Geosciences Rennes, Universite de Rennes 1, France

2011

Bi-national PhD at Geosciences Rennes, Université Rennes 1, France and Remote Sensing Group, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. Climate, topography and erosion in the Nepal Himalayas. The position has been grant aided for three years by DAAD – German Exchange Program -

2007

Diploma (Msc.) Geoecology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, majors in Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Geotechnology, Remote Sensing. MSc. thesis dealing on geomorphology, erosion and river geometry in Nepal including two and a half month of field work. Topic: Quantitative erosion estimation in the rugged topography of the high Himalayas. Integrated approach. - Field work has been grant aided by the German Exchange Program DAAD -

2004

Erasmus exchange Student, University of Iceland. Majors: Environmental Geochemistry, Surveying, Quaternary Environment, Volcanology, Glaciology

Research

- Monsoon hydrological cycle in the Himalayas, transfer of precipitation to river discharge, transient groundwater storage and possible implication for erosion processes in high mountain environments, mountain river hydrology, water reservoirs and flow paths in high mountains.

- Sediment production, storage and transport (from suspended sediment loads and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide analysis). Controls on erosion processes and its transport.

- Temporal variability of climate and vegetation development and their impact on erosion.

- Anthropogenic impacts on fluxes (e.g. farming, mining, road construction).

- Evaluation of remotely sensed measurements (precipitation, vegetation, relief, etc.) with on-site information. Applying multi-data geo-spatial analysis to evaluate erosion processes on a temporal scale.

Teaching

2011) Theory and application of GIS in Geosciences, Master level, Geosciences Rennes, Universite de Rennes 1, France

2008) Pratical application of remote sensing and image analysis in geosciences, Remote Sensing Group, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

Publications

Andermann, C., Crave, A., Bonnet, S., Gloaguen, R. (submitted). Connecting source and transport - suspended sediments - in the Nepal Himalayas. 

Andermann, C., Longuevergne, L., Bonnet, S., Crave, A., Davy, P. and Gloaguen, R. (2012). Impact of transient groundwater storage on the discharge of Himalayan rivers. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1356.

Andermann, C., S. Bonnet, and R. Gloaguen (2011), Evaluation of precipitation data sets along the Himalayan front. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi:10.1029/2011GC003513.

Andermann, C., and R. Gloaguen (2009), Estimation of erosion in tectonically active orogenies. Example from the Bhotekoshi catchment, Himalaya (Nepal). International Journal of Remote Sensing, doi:10.1080/01431160802558733.

Conferences

Andermann, C., Bonnet S., Crave, A., Davy, P., Gloaguen, R., Longuevergne, L., (2011). Connecting hydrology and suspended sediment transport with precipitation in the Nepal Himalayas. AGU Fall Meeting, 5-9 December. Poster invited.

Andermann, C., Bonnet S., Crave, A., Davy, P., Gloaguen, R., Longuevergne, L., (2011). The real cause of the suspended sediment transport - river discharge hysteresis loop, in the Nepal Himalayas. AGU Fall Meeting, 5-9 December. Poster.

Andermann, C., Bonnet S., Crave, A., Davy, P., Gloaguen, R., Longuevergne, L., (2011). The real cause of the suspended sediment transport - river discharge hysteresis loop, in the Nepal Himalayas. Fall Meeting, 5-9 December. Poster.

Andermann, C., Gloaguen, R., Bonnet, S., Crave, A., Merchel, S., (2011). Erosion patterns in the Nepal Himalayas from river gauging, cosmogenic nuclides and precipitation data. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Ausogenic nuclides and precipitation data. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 03-08 April. Poster

Merchel, S., Munnik, F., Andermann, C., et al.. (2011). The role of chemistry in setting-up a new AMS facility, 12th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-12). Wellington, New Zealand, 20-25 March. oral presentation

Merchel, S., Munnik, F., Andermann, C., et al. (2011). DPG Frühjahrstagung des Arbeitskreises Atome, Moleküle, Quantenoptik und Plasmen (AMOP). Dresden, 13.-18 March, poster

Andermann, C., Bonnet, S., Gloaguen, R. (2010). Precipitation distribution along the Himalayan front, comparison of remotely sensed products. AGU Fall Meeting, 13-17 December. oral presentation

Crave, A., Andermann, C., Gloaguen, R., Bonnet, S. (2010). Control of sediment concentration in major rivers of the Nepal Himalayas. AGU Fall Meeting, 13-17 December. oral presentation

Andermann, C., Gloaguen, R., Bonnet, S., (2009). Erosion in the Himalayas on catchment scale. integrative remote sensing assessment. IGARSS, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 12 – 17 July, Cape Town. Oral presentation (invited) and extended abstract

Andermann, C., Gloaguen, R., Bonnet, S.,(2008). The Interaction of climate-tectonic-landscape and erosion in the Hindikush Himalayas: Integrated approach of remote sensing techniques, laboratory experiment simulations and ground truth validation. The 10^th Int. Symposium on High Mountain Remote Sensing cartography HMRSC-X (8-11 September 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal). oral presentation and extended abstract

Andermann, C., Gloaguen, R., Bonnet, S., Geodynamic processes in the Himalayas. Inverse calibration attempt of Remote Sensing data by in-situ determination, numerical- and analog modelling, MatGeoS 1st Workshop on Mathematical Geosciences, Freiberg (13-14 June 2008, Germany). poster and extended abstract

Andermann, C., Gloaguen, R., Stadler, S., Quantitative erosion estimation in the rugged topography of the high Himalayas. Integrated approach., Proceedings of Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der SGPBF, DGPF und OVG, 19.-21. June 2007, Muttenz / Basel, Switzerland. poster and extended abstract

Workshops

2011 ESF (European Science Foundation) research conference, Cosmogenic Nuclides, 8 - 13^th August 2011, Obergurgl/Innsbruck, Austria.

2010 ESPG 7^th European Surface Processes Group meeting, Relations between Physical Erosion and Chemical Weathering, 1-4^th July, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany.

2009 SIESD, Summer Institute for Earth-surface Dynamics, NCED St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, August 12-21 August 2009, Minneapolis, USA.

2009 ESPG 6^th European Surface Processes Group meeting, The stochastic nature of sediment transport, 6-9^th July 2009, Roscoff, Brittany, France.

2008 4^th ESA (European Space Agency) EO (Earth Observation) Summer School on Earth System Monitoring and Modelling, ESRIN, 4-14 August 2008, Frascati, Italy.