Postdoc Project

Paleoenvironments and paleoclimate of central and southeastern Europe as well as Jordan using a multi-proxy approach on terrestrial sediments.

PhD Project

Janina Bösken (2017 & 2018). Luminescence dating of eolian and fluvial archives in the Middle and Lower Danube catchment and its implications for paleoenvironments. RWTH Aachen University online publications. 219pages, DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2018-01253.

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Research Fields

Paleoclimatic reconstructions

OSL dating

Geoarchaeology

Geographic Information Systems

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Vita

2007: Abitur in Ratingen, Germany

2007-2011: B.Sc. Georesource Management, RWTH Aachen. Bachelor thesis: The production of Biodiesel from Jatropha Curcas.

2011-2013: M.Sc. Earth Science - Geoecological Dynamics, University of Amsterdam. Master thesis: Geomorphology and landscape evolution of the Parroquia-Zarzilla region, SE Spain.

2014-2017: PhD student at the Chair of Physical Geography and Geoecology, RWTH Aachen.

Since 2017: Postdoc at the Chair of Physical Geography and Geoecology, RWTH Aachen.

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Publications

Janina Bösken, Nicole Klasen, Christian Zeeden, Igor Obreht, Slobodan B. Markovic, Ulrich Hambach, Frank Lehmkuhl (2017). A new luminescence-based geochronology framing the last two glacial cycles at the southern limit of European Pleistocene loess in Stalac (Serbia). Geochronometria 44, 150-161.

Janina Bösken, Pál Sümegi, Christian Zeeden, Nicole Klasen, Sandor Gulyás, Frank Lehmkuhl (in press). Investigating the last glacial Gravettian site 'Ságvár Lyukas Hill' (Hungary) and its paleoenvironmental and geochronological context using a multi-proxy approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Janina Bösken , Pál Sümegi, Christian Zeeden, Nicole Klasen, Sandor Gulyás, Frank Lehmkuhl (in press). Reply to "The Gravettian and the Epigravettian chronology in eastern central Europe: A comment on Bösken et al., 2017". Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Janina Bösken , Igor Obreht, Christian Zeeden, Nicole Klasen, Ulrich Hambach, Pál Sümegi, Frank Lehmkuhl (in press). High-resolution paleoclimatic proxy data from the MIS3/2 transition recorded in northeastern Hungarian loess. Quaternary International.

Thomas Hauck, Frank Lehmkuhl, Christian Zeeden, Janina Bösken , Arne Thiemann, Jürgen Richter (in press). The Aurignacian way of life: Contextualizing early modern human adaptation in the Carpathian Basin. Quaternary International.

Igor Obreht, Ulrich Hambach, Daniel Veres, Christian Zeeden, Janina Bösken , Thomas Stevens, Slobodan Markovic, Nicole Klasen, Dominik Brill, Christoph Burow, Frank Lehmkuhl (2017). Shift of large-scale atmospheric systems over Europe during later MIS3 and implications for Modern Human dispersal. Scientific Reports 7 (5848).

Christian Zeeden, Ulrich Hambach, Daniel Veres, Kathryn Fitzsimmons, Igor Obreht, Janina Bösken , Philipp Schulte, Frank Lehmkuhl (in press). Millenial-scale climate oscillations recorded in the Lower Danube loess: high resolution correlative age models constrained by Campanian Ignimbrite tephra and luminescence dating . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Igor Obreht, Christian Zeeden, Ulrich Hambach, Daniel Veres, Slobodan B. Markovic, Janina Bösken , Nikola Bačević, Milivoj B. Gavrilov, Frank Lehmkuhl (2016). Tracing the influence of Mediterranean climate on Southeast Europe during the past 350,000 years. Scientific Reports 6 (36334), DOI: 10.1038/srep36334

Frank Lehmkuhl, Stephan Pötter, Annika Pauligk, Janina Bösken (2018). Loess distribution and other Quaternary sediments in Germany. Journal of Maps 14 (2), pp. 330-340, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2018.1473817.

Publications in review:

Christoph Schmidt, Janina Bösken , Thomas Kolb (in review). Is there a common alpha-efficiency in polymineral samples measured by various infrared stimulated luminescence protocols? Geochronometria.

Frank Lehmkuhl, Janina Bösken, Jan Hosek, Slobodan Markovic, Igor Obreht, Ulrich Hambach, Pál Sümegi, Arne Thiemann, Stefanie Steffens, Heiko Lindner, Daniel Veres, Christian Zeeden (in review). Loess distribution and related Quaternary sediments in the Carpathian Basin. Journal of Maps.

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Abstracts, presentations, and posters:

Dirk Leder, Janina Bösken (2018). Late Pleistocene landscapes and human mobility east of the Jordan Rift valley: Results of geoarcheological research in the Wadi Sabra. EGU General Assembly 2018, 09.-13.04.2018, Vienna, Austria.

Janina Bösken, Christian Zeeden, Ulrich Hambach, Daniel Veres, Nicole Klasen, Dominik Brill, Christoph Burow, Igor Obreht, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2018). Consistency challenges between correlative and luminescence age models for the last 150ka in the Lower Danube Basin loess-palaeosol sequences. EGU General Assembly 2018, 09.-13.04.2018, Vienna, Austria.

Janina Bösken, Wei Chu, Peter Fischer, Nicole Klasen, Christian Zeeden, Igor Obreht, Ulrich Hambach, Dusan Mihailovic, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2018). Integrating geomorphology, geophysics, sedimentology and geochronology - a multi-proxy geoarcheological investigation at the Early Upper Paleolithic site of Crvenka-At, Vrsac (Serbia). EGU General Assembly 2018, 09.-13.04.2018, Vienna, Austria.

Janina Bösken , Wei Chu, Peter Fischer, Nicole Klasen, Andreas Vött, Dusan Mihailovic, Frank Lehmkuhl (2017). The timing and the paleoenvironment of the Early Upper Paleolithic site of Crvenka-At, Vrsac (Sb). AK Geomorphologie, 9.-11.10.2017, Bayreuth, Germany.

Janina Bösken, Christoph Schmidt, Thomas Kolb (2017). Testing the possibility of a common a-value for pIRIR290 protocols of polymineral fine grains. 15th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, 11.-15.09.2017, Cape Town, South Africa.

Janina Bösken, Igor Obreht, Christian Zeeden, Nicole Klasen, Ulrich Hambach, Pál Sümegi,and Frank Lehmkuhl (2017). Paleoenrivonmental conditions at the loess paleosol sequence Bodrogkeresztúr in NE Hungary. EGU General Assembly 2017, 23.-28.4.2017. Vienna, Austria.

Janina Bösken, Nicole Klasen, Christian Zeeden, Igor Obreht, Slobodan B. Markovic, Ulrich Hambach, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2016). Comparison of fine grain quartz OSL and polymineral pIRIR measurements in the high dose range - examples from the Stalac loess-palaeosol sequence (Serbia). UK Luminescence and ESR meeting 2016, 11th-13th July 2016, Liverpool, UK.

Janina Bösken, Nicole Klasen, Christian Zeeden, Igor Obreht, Dan Veres, Ulrich Hambach, Slobodan B. Markovic, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2016). Erosion or age overestimation? The Urluia loess-palaeosol sequence. UK Luminescence and ESR meeting 2016. 11th-13th July 2016, Liverpool, U.

Janina Bösken (2016). Luminescence characteristics of southeastern European loess. (Non-conference) Talk at Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Burgos, Spain.

Janina Bösken, Christian Zeeden, Pál Sümegi, Nicole Klasen and Frank Lehmkuhl (2016): Paleoenvironmental analysis of two loess profiles at the Ságvár Lyukas Hill in western Hungary. In: Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience Symposium: From Local to Global, 23.-24.5.2016, pp.4-5, Marcel Mindrescu & Ionela Gradinaru (Eds.), Stefal cel Mare University Press, Georeview, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Janina Bösken, Igor Obreht, Nicole Klasen, Christian Zeeden, Slobodan B. Markovic, Ulrich Hambach, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2016): New geochronology of the Stalac section at the southern limit of European loess occurrence through pIR50IR290 dating. EGU General Assembly 2016, 17.-22.4.2016, Vienna, Austria.

Christian Zeeden, Anja Duwe, Janina Bösken, Isabel Pipaud, Wei Chu, Thomas Hauck, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2016): Relating past occupation patterns to (paleo)environmental properties - hypothesis testing. EGU General Assembly, 17.-24.4.2016, Vienna, Austria.

Janina Bösken, Nicole Klasen, Igor Obreht, Christian Zeeden, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2015): The Stalac loess-paleosol sequence: pIRIR dating of polymineral fine grains and component analysis investigating dose dependency on quartz fine grains. Deutsches Lumineszenz und ESR-Treffen, 6.-8. November 2015, Berlin.

Janina Bösken, Nicole Klasen, Igor Obreht, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2015): Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of loess-paleosol sequences in Serbia and Hungary - first Luminescence data. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Berlin.

Frank Lehmkuhl, Ulrich Hambach, Slobodan Markovic, Christian Zeeden, Janina Bösken, Wei Chu, Eileen Eckmeier, Thomas Hauck, Igor Obreht, Philipp Schulte, Pal Sümegi, Dan Veres, Alida Timar-Gabor (2015). Danube loess - paleoenvironmental record and potential eastern European corridor of the dispersal of modern humans. INQUA 2015, 16.7.-2.8.2015, Nagoya, Japan.

Frank Lehmkuhl, Christian Zeeden, Janina Bösken, Eileen Eckmeier, Ulrich Hambach, Thomas Hauck, Nicole Klasen, Slobodan Markovic, Igor Obreht, Philipp Schulte, Pal Sümegi, Wei Chu, Alida Timar-Gabor, and Dan Veres (2015): Paleoenvironmental change as derived from loess sediment properties: Examples of last glacial loess sites from the Carpathian Basin. EGU General Assembly 2015, 12.-17.4.2015, Vienna, Austria.

Janina Bösken, Igor Obreht, Christian Zeeden, Nicole Klasen, Pal Sümegi, Slobodan Markovic, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2014). Environmental conditions on the corridor of human migration between 40,000 and 14,000 a BP in the Balkan region. A multi-proxy approach on loess-paleosol profiles. In: Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climatic Variability in the Carpathian-Balkan Region, pp. 11-15, Marcel Mindrescu & Ionela Gradinaru (Eds.), Stefan del Mare University Press, Georeview.

Frank Lehmkuhl, Christian Zeeden, Janina Bösken, Eileen Eckmeier, Ulrich Hambach, Thomas Hauck, Nicole Klasen, Slobodan Markovic, Igor Obreht, Philipp Schulte, Pal Sümegi, Daniel Veres, Anja Zander (2014). Climatological and environmental change as derived from physical and geochemical loess sediment particles: Examples of last glacial loess sites from the Pannonian Basin. pp.91-94, Marcel Mindrescu & Ionela Gradinaru (Eds.), Stefan del Mare University Press, Georeview.

Janina Bösken, Nicole Klasen, Igor Obreht, Christian Zeeden, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2014): OSL & pIRIR290 dating of the Stalac loess profile, Serbia. Deutsches Lumineszenz und ESR Treffen, Gießen.

Igor Obreht, Frank Lehmkuhl, Christian Zeeden, Slobodan B. Markovic, Ulrich Hambach, Janina Bösken, Eileen Eckmeier, Philipp Schulte (2014): The Orlovat loess-paleosol section - possible link between lowland loess plateaus and upland hill slope loess sediments in the Pannonian Basin? Kukla Loessfest '14 - 7th Loess Seminar in Wroclaw Procedings, p.19.

Janina Bösken, Christian Zeeden, and Frank Lehmkuhl (2014): Analysis of Migration Processes due to Environmental Conditions between 40,000 and 14,000 a in the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan region, Luminescence Dating. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der AK Geoarchäologie und der AG Paläopedologie 2014, 29.-31.5.214, Aachen, Germany.

Emilia Urbanek, Janina Bösken, Albert Titema, David Nunez Pastrana, and Bridget Emmett (2014): Soil wettability, moisture status and CO2 flux in a long term drought and warming simulation experiment. Geophysical Research Abstracts 16, EGU2014-3389, EGU General Assembly.

Janina Bösken (2013): Geomorphology and landscape evolution of the Parroquia-Zarzilla region, southeast Spain. M.Sc. thesis University of Amsterdam.