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Stefanie Steinbach

Contact
Room: IA E6/71
Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-23415
Mail: stefanie.steinbach@rub.de
Unit: Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences

PhD student
Research assistant

Stefanie-steinbach
Stefanie Steinbach

Curriculum vitae

02/2021 – present    Interdisciplinary Geographic Information Science, Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum

02/2019 – present    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands: GIS and Remote Sensing for the Risk & Vulnerability master specialization

07/2019 – 02/2021    EU Project Unit, Gustav Stresemann Institute Bonn, Germany

03/2018 – 06/2019    Remote Sensing Research Group, University of Bonn, Germany

02/2017 – 03/2018    Africa Rice Center Cotonou, Benin

01/2015 – 09/2016    Remote Sensing Research Group, University of Bonn

08/2014 – 10/2014    Africa Rice Center Cotonou, Benin

01/2014 – 04/2014    Internship, Africa Rice Center Cotonou, Benin (DAAD scholarship)

07/2012 – 08/2012    Internship, Black Forest Nature Conservation Centre, Seebach, Germany

Publications

 

Publications

Peer-reviewed

Steinbach, S., Cornish, N., Franke, J., Hentze, K., Strauch, A., Thonfeld, F., Zwart, S. & A. Nelson 2021. A new conceptual framework for integrating Earth observation in large-scale wetland management in East Africa. Wetlands 41, 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01468-9

Thonfeld, F., Steinbach, S., Muro, J., Hentze, K., Games, I, Näschen, K. & P. F. Kauzeni 2020. The impact of anthropogenic land use change on the protected areas of the Kilombero catchment, Tanzania. ISPRS J Photogramm Remote Sens 168(2020), 41-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.07.019

Thonfeld, F., Steinbach, S., Muro, J. & F. Kirimi 2020. Long-Term Land Use/Land Cover Change Assessment of the Kilombero Catchment in Tanzania Using Random Forest Classification and Robust Change Vector Analysis. Remote Sensing 12(7), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071057

Gabiri, G., Leemhuis, C., Diekkrüger, B., Näschen, K., Steinbach, S. & F. Thonfeld 2019. Modelling the impact of land use management on water resources in a tropical valley catchment of central Uganda, East Africa. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.430

Näschen, K., Diekkrüger, B., Leemhuis, C., Steinbach, S., Seregina, L. S., Thonfeld, F. & R. van der Linden 2018. Hydrological modeling in data-scarce catchments: The Kilombero Floodplain in Tanzania. Water 10(5), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10050599

Gabiri, G., Burghof, S, Diekkrüger, B., Leemhuis, C., Steinbach, S. & K. Näschen 2018. Modeling spatial soil water dynamics in a tropical floodplain, East Africa. Water 10(2), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10020191

Muro, J., Strauch, A., Heinemann, S., Steinbach, S., Thonfeld, F., Waske, B. & B. Diekkrüger 2018. Land surface temperature trends as indicator of land use changes in wetlands. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 70, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.02.002

Daniel, S., Gabiri, G., Kirimi, F., Glasner, B., Näschen, K., Leemhuis, C., Steinbach, S. & K. Mtei 2017. Spatial Distribution of Soil Hydrological Properties in the Kilombero Floodplain, Tanzania. Hydrology 4(57), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology4040057

Leemhuis, C., Thonfeld, F., Näschen, K., Steinbach, S., Muro, J., Strauch, A., Daconto, G., Games, I. & B. Diekkrüger 2017. Sustainability in the Food-Water-Ecosystem Nexus: The Role of Land Use and Land Cover Change for Water Resources and Ecosystems in the Kilombero Wetland, Tanzania. Sustainability 9(9), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9091513

 

Other

Strauch, A., Bunting, P., Campbell, J., Cornish, N., Eberle, J., Fatoyinbo, T., Franke, J., Hentze, K., Lagomasino, D., Lucas, R., Paganini, M., Rebelo, L., Riffler, M., Rosenqvist, A., Steinbach, S., Thonfeld, F., Tottrup, C., 2022. The Fate of Wetlands: Can the View From Space Help Us to Stop and Reverse Their Global Decline?, in: Kavvada, A., Cripe, D., Friedl, L. (Eds.), Geophysical Monograph Series. Wiley, pp. 85–104. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119536789.ch5

Steinbach, S., Salepci, N., Eckardt, R., Schmullius, C. & A. Rienow, 2022. Earth observation education for Zero Hunger: A Massive Open Online Course towards achieving SDG #2 using EO. In: 4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184405.114

Steinbach, S., Cornish, N., Franke, J., Hentze, K., Strauch, A., Thonfeld, F., Zwart, S. & A. Nelson 2021. A new conceptual framework for integrating Earth observation in large-scale wetland management in East Africa. Wetlands 41, 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01468-9

Muro, J., Steinbach, S., Thonfeld, F., Leemhuis, C., Daconto, G. & I. Games 2018. Earth Observation and partnerships to support land use management. In: NEREUS/ESA/EC 'The ever growing uses of Copernicus across Europe's regions', 118-119.

Zwart, S. J. & S. Steinbach, 2014. Defining inland valleys in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rice Today 13(3), 20-21.

 

Presentations

Steinbach, S., Goebel, M., Rienow, A., Zwart, S. & A. Nelson. Poster presentation: Assessment of a remote sensing-based indicator for quantifying wetland use intensity in East Africa, ESA Living Planet Symposium, 23.-27.05.2019, Bonn, Germany.

Steinbach, S., Salepci, N., Eckardt, R., Schmullius, C., A. Rienow, 2022. Earth observation education for Zero Hunger: A Massive Open Online Course towards achieving SDG #2 using EO. Oral presentation: 4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA), 27.-29.04.2022, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Steinbach, S., Hentze, K., Franke, J., Cornish, N., Strauch, A., Thonfeld, F., Zwart, S. & A. Nelson. Poster presentation: Earth Observation for tropical wetland management to support food security in Rwanda, 16.-20.09.2019, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Steinbach, S., Hentze, K., Franke, J., Cornish, N., Strauch, A., Thonfeld, F., Zwart, S. & A. Nelson. Poster presentation: Earth Observation for ecosystem monitoring at the interface of wetland conservation and food production in Rwanda, ESA Living Planet Symposium, 13.-17.05.2019, Milan, Italy.

Steinbach, S., Hentze, K., Franke, J., Cornish, N., Strauch, A. & F. Thonfeld. DeMo-Wetlands: Copernicus-based detection and monitoring of tropical wetlands in Rwanda. Poster presentation: EARSeL Convention & NASA Workshop 'LULC Change Drivers, Impacts and Sustainability within the Water-Energy-Food Nexus', 9.-12.07.2018, Chania, Greece.

Steinbach, S., Cornish, N., Franke, J., Strauch, A., Hentze, K. & F. Thonfeld: Kartierung und Monitoring von tropischen Feuchtgebieten mit Copernicus Daten. Oral presentation: DLR-Symposium Neue Perspektiven der Erdbeobachtung, 25.-27.06.2018, Köln.

Steinbach, S. Remote sensing based mapping, characterization, and monitoring of wetlands. Mündliche Präsentation: Summer School 'Sustainability in the Food-Water-Ecosystem Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa in support of the SDGs: Sustainable wetland use', University of Bonn Bonn/Makerere University, 12.-18.03.2018 Kampala, Uganda.

Steinbach, S., Thonfeld F., Amler, E., Kirimi, F., & G. Menz. Langfristige Veraenderungsdetektion von Landbedeckung und Landnutzung im Kilombero-Feuchtgebiet (Tansania) unter Verwendung von Kompositen aus multitemporalen Metriken. Oral presentation: 5. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Arbeitskreise Fernerkundung der DGfG e.V. und DGPF e.V., 29.-30.09.2016, Halle/Saale, Germany.

Research Interests

  • Earth observation for natural resources management
  • Sustainable wetland management
  • Food security
  • Earth observation education

Education

09/2017 – present    Doctoral studies, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands:
Sustainable use of African wetlands for food security: A spatial evaluation approach

04/2014 – 03/2017    M.Sc. Geography, University of Bonn, Germany
Thesis: Development of a land cover and land use classification scheme for the Kilombero floodplain wetland (Tanzania) using multitemporal satellite data (GlobE scholarship)

10/2010 – 04/2014    B.Sc. Geography, University of Bonn, Germany
Thesis: GIS-based analysis of geomorphologic and hydrologic characteristics of inland valleys in central Benin
    Winter semester 2012/13: University College Cork, Ireland (Erasmus scholarship)