Ellis ist Professor für Geologie und Umweltsysteme an der University of Maryland und Mitglied einer Kommission, die die Einführung des Begriffs Anthropozän als geologisches Erdzeitalter untersucht hat. Der Begriff geht u.a. zurück auf den Nobelpreisträger P.J. Crutzen: "Das Anthropozän"....

The objective of this study is to develop a methodology that enhances the value and position of the geological heritage of any natural area in the world using a 3D virtual itinerary. Field applications of this geological itinerary enable students to participate actively in teaching and learning...

Bushfires pose a significant threat to lives and property. Fire management authorities aim to minimise this threat by employing risk management procedures. This paper proposes a process of implementing, in a Geographic Information System environment, contemporary integrated approaches to...

Hydraulic tomography is a powerful technique for characterizing heterogeneous hydrogeologic parameters. An explicit trade-off between characterization based on measurement misfit and subjective characterization using prior information is presented. We apply a Bayesian geostatistical inverse...

This paper maps the domain of earth and environmental sciences (EES) and investigates the relationship between cognitive problem structures and internationalisation patterns, drawing on the concepts of systemic versus cumulative global environmental change (GEC) and mutual task dependence in...