Ruth Sos
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PhD Student
Address
Universität Hamburg
Sustainability and Global Change
Grindelberg 5
20144 Hamburg
Office
GB 5
Room: R212
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42838 2147
Master of Science in Geomatics, PhD candidate
Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change.
University of Hamburg, Germany.
International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs (IMPRS-MA).
She studied Technical Surveying Engineer at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and a Master of Science in Geomatics at the HafenCity University of Hamburg (specializing in Geoinformation technology). In her Master thesis she developed an open-source tool based on gvSIG and Java for modelling and visualizing pollution of streams at the example of Brazil.
Research Interests:
- GIS applications in water resources engineering with specific focus on river channels; surface water hydrology.
- Climate Change
- Geographic Information Systems.
- Impacts of sugarcane monocultures on coastal waters and possible mitigation strategies.