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Hella Wittmann is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany. Their research primarily intersects Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysics
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

Main topics addressed by Wittmann include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Hella Wittmann has published extensively in several key scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Among the recent papers featuring Wittmann's contribution are:

  • "Fluvial organic carbon cycling regulated by sediment transit time and mineral protection," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "A global rate of denudation from cosmogenic nuclides in the Earth's largest rivers," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Sediment Transit Time and Floodplain Storage Dynamics in Alluvial Rivers Revealed by Meteoric10Be," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • "The effect of lithology on the relationship between denudation rate and chemical weathering pathways - evidence from the eastern Tibetan Plateau," 2022, Earth Surface Dynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wittmann include:

  • Friedhelm von Blanckenburg
  • Dirk Sachse
  • Anne Bernhardt
  • Niels Hovius
  • Dirk Scherler

Best Publications

  • Relation between rock uplift and denudation from cosmogenic nuclides in river sediment in the Central Alps of Switzerland

    Hella Wittmann;Friedhelm von Blanckenburg;Tina Kruesmann;Kevin P. Norton

  • Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes

    T. F. Schildgen;D Cosentino;B. Bookhagen;S. Niedermann

  • Sediment production and delivery in the Amazon River basin quantified by in situ–produced cosmogenic nuclides and recent river loads

    H. Wittmann;F. von Blanckenburg;Laurence Maurice;Laurence Maurice;Jean-Loup Guyot

  • Earth surface erosion and weathering from the 10Be (meteoric)/9Be ratio

    Friedhelm von Blanckenburg;Julien Bouchez;Hella Wittmann

  • The dependence of meteoric 10Be concentrations on particle size in Amazon River bed sediment and the extraction of reactive 10Be/9Be ratios

    H. Wittmann;F. von Blanckenburg;J. Bouchez;N. Dannhaus

  • Fluvial organic carbon cycling regulated by sediment transit time and mineral protection

    Marisa Repasch;Joel S. Scheingross;Niels Hovius;Maarten Lupker

  • Effect of vegetation cover on millennial-scale landscape denudation rates in East Africa

    Verónica Torres Acosta;Taylor F. Schildgen;Brian A. Clarke;Dirk Scherler

  • Petrogenesis of crustal wehrlites in the Oman ophiolite: Experiments and natural rocks

    J. Koepke;S. Schoenborn;M. Oelze;H. Wittmann

  • 100 kyr fluvial cut-and-fill terrace cycles since the Middle Pleistocene in the southern Central Andes, NW Argentina

    Stefanie Tofelde;Taylor F. Schildgen;Sara Savi;Heiko Pingel

  • From source to sink: Preserving the cosmogenic 10Be-derived denudation rate signal of the Bolivian Andes in sediment of the Beni and Mamoré foreland basins

    H. Wittmann;F. von Blanckenburg;Jean-Loup Guyot;Laurence Maurice

  • Cosmogenic nuclide budgeting of floodplain sediment transfer.

    H. Wittmann;F. von Blanckenburg

  • Recycling of Amazon floodplain sediment quantified by cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be

    H. Wittmann;F. von Blanckenburg;Laurence Maurice;Laurence Maurice;Jean-Loup Guyot

  • A global rate of denudation from cosmogenic nuclides in the Earth's largest rivers

    H. Wittmann;M. Oelze;J. Gaillardet;E. Garzanti

  • Climate-driven sediment aggradation and incision since the late Pleistocene in the NW Himalaya, India

    Saptarshi Dey;Rasmus C. Thiede;Taylor F. Schildgen;Hella Wittmann

  • An improved experimental determination of cosmogenic 10Be/21Ne and 26Al/21Ne production ratios in quartz

    Mirjam Goethals;R. Hetzel;Samuel Niedermann;H. Wittmann

  • Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps

    Romain Delunel;Fritz Schlunegger;Pierre G. Valla;Pierre G. Valla;Jean Dixon

  • A test of the cosmogenic 10Be(meteoric)/9Be proxy for simultaneously determining basin-wide erosion rates, denudation rates, and the degree of weathering in the Amazon basin

    H. Wittmann;F. von Blanckenburg;N. Dannhaus;Julien Bouchez

  • The cosmogenic record of mountain erosion transmitted across a foreland basin: Source-to-sink analysis of in situ 10Be, 26Al and 21Ne in sediment of the Po river catchment

    Hella Wittmann;Marco G. Malusà;Alberto Resentini;Eduardo Garzanti

  • Protracted river response to medieval earthquakes

    Amelie Stolle;Wolfgang Schwanghart;Christoff Andermann;Anne Bernhardt

  • Controls on erosion patterns and sediment transport in a monsoonal, tectonically quiescent drainage, Song Gianh, central Vietnam

    Tara N. Jonell;Peter D. Clift;Long V. Hoang;Tina Hoang

Frequent Co-Authors

Taylor F. Schildgen
Taylor F. Schildgen University of Potsdam
Dirk Scherler
Dirk Scherler Freie Universität Berlin
Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Friedhelm von Blanckenburg
Friedhelm von Blanckenburg Freie Universität Berlin
Jean-Loup Guyot
Jean-Loup Guyot Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Niels Hovius
Niels Hovius University of Potsdam
Dirk Sachse
Dirk Sachse University of Potsdam
Julien Bouchez
Julien Bouchez Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Bodo Bookhagen
Bodo Bookhagen University of Potsdam

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