Team > Heidi Bernsteiner

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair of geomorphology

Biography:

Since 2/2020
Research Assistant, PhD Student at the University of Bayreuth

12/2019 – 3/2020
Research Assistant, PhD Student at the University of Salzburg

6/2019 – 11/2019
Research Assistant, PhD Student at the University of Bayreuth

2/2012 – 1/2019
Diploma studies and teacher training in Geography and economics and Biology and environmental studies at the University of Salzburg
Thesis at the Department of Geography and Geology, in the field of Geomorphology; Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Lang; Title: After the ice: post glacial evolution of small overdeepened basins in the Eastern alps.

5/2010 – 1/2012
Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung und Wohnen - SIR
Employed as a project manager in building technologies and renewable energy sources.

10/2007 – 4/2010
Executive assistant at Salzburg AG

4/2004 – 12/2007
University of applied sciences (UAS) Salzburg (“Holztechnikum Kuchl”)
Structural engineering studies with focus on timber construction, BAUGESTALTUNG HOLZ
Thesis in the field of densification of existing rural settlements; Supervisors: Dr. Raimund Gutmann, Dr. Rupert Hebblethwaite; Title: Potentiale der Nachverdichtung am Beispiel eines Einfamilienhauses in Varianten;
2005: 4-month internship as a part of the academic education at UAS Salzburg (employed at Weissenseer Holzsystembau)
9.2.-23.3.2006: Construction of a „Skills Center” on the grounds of the Montic Primary School in Magagula Heights (Johannesburg, South Afrika) together with other students from the UAS Salzburg
(http://www.ithuba.org/about/s-arch/projekte-bis-2007)

10/2002 – 4/2004
University of applied sciences (UAS) Rosenheim, Study of INTERIOR DESIGN

2002
Matura, Bundesrealgymnasium Zell am See

Publications

        Journal Papers

• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Salcher B. & A. Lang (2020, submitted): From deglaciation to postglacial filling: Evolution of an isolated valley glacier system at the northern fringe of the Eastern Alps (Taferlklaussee, Austria). In: Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography.
  
  
  Conference talks incl. abstract
  
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Salcher B., Otto J.-Ch. & A. Lang (2018): After the ice: post glacial evolution of small overdeepened basins in the NE Alps - Lake Taferlklaussee, Austria. - Young Geomorphologists’ Meeting (Hildesheim, 5_2018).
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Salcher B., Lang A. & J.-C. Otto (2017): Postglacial history of an overdeepened lake basin (Taferlklaussee, Upper Austria). - Jahrestreffen der Österr. Forschungsgruppe für Geomorphologie und Umweltwandel 2017 (Johnsbach, 9_2017).
  
  
  Conference posters incl. abstract
  
• Bell R., Fort M., Götz J., Bernsteiner H., Etzlstorfer J., Berges J.-C., Posch E., Gurung N. (2019): Geomorphic impacts of the intense monsoon 2018 in Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal Himalaya. - Galileo Conference Perturbations of earth surface dynamics caused by extreme events (Kathmandu, Nepal, 10_2019).
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Etzlstorfer J. & Griesebner G. (2019): Intensified landslide dynamics in the arid Nepalese Himalaya. Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research - Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain (Innsbruck/Obergurgl, 6_2019).
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Reitner J, Salcher B. (2019): Why small size matters – A new view on the last glacial maximum in the Eastern Alps - EGU 2019 (Vienna, 4_2019), Geophysic. Res. Abstr. 21.
• Etzlstorfer J., Götz J. & H. Bernsteiner (2019): The complex landslide system at Khingar/Jharkot (Nepal) revisited - delineation, dynamics and human impact - EGU (Vienna, 4/2019), Geoph. Res. Abstr. 21.
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Salcher B., Otto J.-Ch. & A. Lang (2018): After the ice: post glacial evolution of small overdeepened basins in the NE Alps - Lake Taferlklaussee, Austria. - Central European Conference on Geomorphology and Quaternary Sciences (Gießen, 9_2018).
• Götz J., Etzlstorfer J. & H. Bernsteiner (2018): The complex landslide system at Khingar/Jharkot (Nepal) revisited – delineation, recent dynamics and human impact - Central European Conference on Geomorphology and Quaternary Sciences (Gießen, 9_2018).
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Salcher B., Otto J.C. & A. Lang (2018): After the ice: post glacial evolution of small overdeepened basins in the NE Alps - Lake Taferlklaussee, Austria. - EGU 2018 (Vienna, 4_2018), Geophysic. Res. Abstr. 20.
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Salcher B., Otto J.C. & A. Lang (2017): Postglacial evolution and recent siltation of the protected lake “Taferlklaussee” (Salzkammergut, Upper Austria). - Symposium for research in protected areas (Salzburg, 11_2017).
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Salcher B. & A. Lang (2017): Postglacial evolution and recent siltation of the protected lake Taferlklaussee (Austria) - Young geomorphologists’ Workshop (Ammersee, 5_2017).
• Bernsteiner H., Götz J., Salcher B. & A. Lang (2017): Postglacial evolution and recent siltation of the protected lake Taferlklaussee (Austria) - EGU 2017 (Vienna, 4_2017), Geophysic. Res. Abstr. 19.

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair of geomorphology

I am at the beginning of my PhD in mountain geomorphology and fascinated by (high) mountain regions. I am particularly interested in alpine sediment cascades in peri-(glacial) areas and their dynamics in the context of climate change. Especially the combination of field and remote sensing approaches as well as surface and subsurface information is of particular interest to me. My PhD thesis focusses on the dynamics of dead - and ground ice and its interrelation with sediment dynamics in alpine proglacial areas. For that, I combine different geophysical techniques with emphasis on electrical resistivity tomography, water isotope analyses, ground/surface temperatures, as well as high resolution geomorphic change modelling based on LiDAR data.

Ongoing projects/ collaboration in projects:

• Sensitivity and dynamics of ground and dead ice in alpine glacier forefields in the context of climate change since 1850
  
• The complex landslide system at Jharkot (Kali Gandaki catchment, Nepal) ('Mukslide')
  

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair of geomorphology

Heidi Bernsteiner

Room: 012, GEO I

Phone: +49 921 55-2054
E-mail: heidemarie.bernsteiner@uni-bayreuth.de