Dr. Carolin Winter
Lecturer (akademische Rätin auf Zeit)Chair of Environmental Hydrological Systems |
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Research interests
| Catchment hydrology | water quality | climate change | high-frequency monitoring |
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Current position
| Since 2023 | Lecturer (akademische Rätin auf Zeit) at the Chair of Environmental Hydrological Systems, University of Freiburg, Germany |
Education
| 2020 – 2023 | PhD at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Sciences – UFZ, Department for Hydrogeology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2018 – 2019 | Researcher at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Sciences – UFZ, Department for Hydrogeology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2015 – 2018 | M. Sc. Hydrology at the University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 2011 – 2015 | B. Sc. Environmental Sciences (major) and Environmental Hydrology (minor) at the University of Freiburg, Germany |
Internships and exchange programs
| 2017 | Internship at Mahila SEWA housing trust (MHT) in Jaipur, India |
| 2017 | Internship at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) |
| 2017 | EUCOR exchange: M. Sc. Water Science and Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| 2014 | Internship at Centro AGUA in Cochabamba, Bolivia |
| 2014 | Internship at Bosque Nativo in Valdivia, Chile |
| 2013 – 2014 | Exchange year: Ing. En Recursos Naturales, University Austral de Chile (UACh), Valdivia, Chile |
Awards and Scholarships
| 2023 | Doctoral Award, Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ |
| 2021 | Editors’ Choice Award by Water Resources Research for the Research Article Disentangling the impact of catchment heterogeneity on nitrate export dynamics from event to long‐term time scales |
| 2017 | Scholarship by the German academic exchange service (DAAD) for the internship at MHT in Jaipur, India |
| 2016 – 2017 | M. Sc. Scholarship of the “Förderverein Hydrologie e.V.” |
| 2015 | Think Forests Video Competition Award [runner up] by CIFOR (Centre for International Forestry Research) |
Publications
| Bieroza, M., Acharya, S., Benisch, J., Ter Borg, R. N., Hallberg, L., Negri, C., Pruitt, A., Pucher, M., Saavedra, F., Stanis- zewska, K., van’t Veen, S. G. M., Vincent, A., Winter, C., Basu, N. B., Jarvie, H. P., and Kirchner, J. W. (2023). Advances in Catchment Science, Hydrochemistry, and Aquatic Ecology Enabled by High-Frequency Water Quality Measurements. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07798 |
| Wachholz, A., Dehaspe, J., Ebeling, P., Kumar, R., Musolff, A., Saavedra, F., Winter, C., Yang, S., and Graeber, D. (2023). Stoichiometry on the edge-Humans induce strong imbalances of reactive C: N: P ratios in streams. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acc3b1 |
| Winter, C., Nguyen, V. T., L., Musolff, A., Lutz, S. R., Rode, M., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J. H. (2023). Drought can reduce the nitrogen retention capacity of catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 27(1) [Highlight paper]. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-303-2023 |
| Winter, C., Tarasova, L., Lutz, S. R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J. H. (2022). Explaining the variability in high-frequency nitrate export patterns using long-term hydrological event classification. Water Resources Research 58(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030938 |
| Winter, C., Lutz, S. R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Weber, M., Fleckenstein, J. H. (2021). Disentangling the impact of catchment heterogeneity on nitrate export dynamics from event to long‐term time scales. Water Resources Research 57(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027992 |
| Schnabel, F., Donoso, P. J., Winter, C. (2017). Short-term effects of single-tree selection cutting on stand structure and tree species composition in Valdivian rainforests of Chile. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 47(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40490-017-0103-5 |