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Andreas Lang is affiliated with the University of Salzburg in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with specific subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work covers several main topics:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

Andreas Lang has contributed to multiple research publications with notable papers including:

  • "Current glacier recession causes significant rockfall increase: the immediate paraglacial response of deglaciating cirque walls" (2020), published in Earth Surface Dynamics
  • "Ending the Cinderella status of terraces and lynchets in Europe: The geomorphology of agricultural terraces and implications for ecosystem services and climate adaptation" (2021), published in Geomorphology
  • "Volume estimation of soil stored in agricultural terrace systems: A geomorphometric approach" (2021), published in CATENA
  • "A 6-year lidar survey reveals enhanced rockwall retreat and modified rockfall magnitudes/frequencies in deglaciating cirques" (2020), published in Earth Surface Dynamics
  • "Life before Stonehenge: The hunter-gatherer occupation and environment of Blick Mead revealed by sedaDNA, pollen and spores" (2022), published in PLoS ONE

The scientist frequently publishes in several journals, including:

  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Geomorphology
  • Geoarchaeology
  • CATENA
  • PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in the research community include Antony G. Brown, Daniel Fallu, Ben Pears, Pengzhi Zhao, and Lisa Snape.

Best Publications

  • Human impact on the environment in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands—a state of the art

    Jan Nyssen;Jan Nyssen;Jean Poesen;Jan Moeyersons;Jozef Deckers

  • Equivalent dose estimation using a single aliquot of polymineral fine grains

    D Banerjee;A.S Murray;L Bøtter-Jensen;A Lang

  • High-resolution record of the last Interglacial–glacial cycle in the Nussloch loess–palaeosol sequences, Upper Rhine Area, Germany

    Pierre Antoine;Denis Didier Rousseau;Denis Didier Rousseau;Ludwig Zöller;Andreas Lang

  • Rapid and cyclic aeolian deposition during the Last Glacial in European loess: a high-resolution record from Nussloch, Germany

    Pierre Antoine;Denis Didier Rousseau;Denis Didier Rousseau;Olivier Moine;Stéphane Kunesch

  • Classic and new dating methods for assessing the temporal occurrence of mass movements

    Andreas Lang;José Moya;Jordi Corominas;Lothar Schrott

  • Abrupt millennial climatic changes from Nussloch (Germany) Upper Weichselian eolian records during the Last Glaciation.

    Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Pierre Antoine;Christine Hatté;Andreas Lang

  • Age and source of colluvial sediments at Vaihingen–Enz, Germany

    Andreas Lang;Sibylle Hönscheidt

  • Holocene river activity: analysing 14C-dated fluvial and colluvial sediments from Germany

    Thomas Hoffmann;Andreas Lang;Richard Dikau

  • Phases of soil erosion-derived colluviation in the loess hills of South Germany

    Andreas Lang

  • Annually dated late Weichselian continental paleoclimate record from the Eifel, Germany

    Bernd Zolitschka;Achim Brauer;Jörg F.W. Negendank;Hagen Stockhausen

  • Changes in sediment flux and storage within a fluvial system: some examples from the Rhine catchment

    Andreas Lang;Hans Rudolf Bork;Rüdiger Mäckel;Nicholas Preston

  • δ13C of Loess Organic Matter as a Potential Proxy for Paleoprecipitation

    Christine Hatté;Pierre Antoine;Michel Fontugne;Andreas Lang

  • OSL dating of coarse-grain fluvial quartz using single-aliquot protocols on sediments from NE Peloponnese, Greece

    M Fuchs;Andreas Lang

  • Luminescence dating of hillslope deposits - a review.

    M. Fuchs;A. Lang

  • High-resolution chronologies for loess: comparing AMS 14C and optical dating results

    Andreas Lang;Christine Hatté;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Pierre Antoine

  • Trends and controls of Holocene floodplain sedimentation in the Rhine catchment

    Thomas Hoffmann;Gilles Erkens;Renate Gerlach;Josef Klostermann

  • Holocene alluvial sediment storage in a small river catchment in the loess area of central Belgium

    Tom Rommens;Gert Verstraeten;Pieter Bogman;Iris Peeters

  • Bayesian modelling the retreat of the Irish Sea Ice Stream

    Richard C. Chiverrell;Ian M. Thrasher;Geoffrey S. P. Thomas;Andreas Lang

  • Luminescence dating of glaciofluvial deposits: A review

    I.M. Thrasher;B. Mauz;R.C. Chiverrell;A. Lang

  • Link between European and North Atlantic abrupt climate changes over the last glaciation

    Denis Didier Rousseau;Adriana Sima;Pierre Antoine;Christine Hatté

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis-Didier Rousseau
Denis-Didier Rousseau University of Montpellier
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Pierre Antoine
Pierre Antoine Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gerard Govers
Gerard Govers KU Leuven
Christine Hatté
Christine Hatté University of Paris-Saclay
Michel Fontugne
Michel Fontugne Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Bernd Zolitschka
Bernd Zolitschka University of Bremen
David M. Hodgson
David M. Hodgson University of Leeds

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