Dr. Janek WALK
Tel.: +49 931 31-85037
E-Mail: janek.walk@uni-wuerzburg.de
Institute of Geography and Geology
Working group Geomorphology
Am Hubland
97074 Wuerzburg
Campus Hubland South
Geography Building
Room 226
As of 10/2024 Postdoctoral research fellow (Akademischer Rat), Chair of Geomorphology, JMU Würzburg
01/2023 – 07/2024 Postdoctoral research fellow / University Assistant, Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
07/2020 – 12/2022 Postdoctoral research fellow in CRC 1211, subproject C02, Chair of Physical Geography and Geoecology, RWTH Aachen University
02/2017 – 06/2020 Doctoral student research associate in CRC 1211, subproject C02, Chair of Physical Geography and Geoecology, RWTH Aachen University
Degree: Dr. rer. nat.
Dissertation: “Alluvial fans along the coastal Atacama Desert – landforms, processes, and evolution”
10/2012 – 01/2017 Student assistant, Chair of Physical Geography and Geoecology, RWTH Aachen University
10/2015 – 01/2017 M.Sc. Applied Geography, RWTH Aachen University
Thesis: “Geoecological studies on arsenic contamination in the small-scale mining area of Nalaikh (Mongolia)“
10/2013 – 11/2016 B.Sc. Georesources Management, RWTH Aachen University
Thesis: “GIS-supported assessment of tsunami-endangered coastal areas on the basis of digital elevation models (DEM) – a comparison of methods using the example of Crete”
10/2011 – 09/2014 B.Sc. Applied Geography, RWTH Aachen University
Thesis: “Recent dust transport in Central Asia – survey of interregional transport pathways”
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115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Topographic change detection. . In Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49(2), pp. 582–600. Wiley, 2024.
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Fog controls biological cycling of soil phosphorus in the Coastal Cordillera of the Atacama Desert. . In Global Change Biology, 30(1). Wiley, 2024.
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115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Effects of the industrial history and environmental protection on heavy metals and microplastic. . In Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49(11), pp. 3419–3436. Wiley, 2024.
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Pedogenesis at the coastal arid-hyperarid transition deduced from a Late Quaternary chronosequence at Paposo, Atacama Desert. . In CATENA, 228, p. 107171. Elsevier BV, 2023.
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Dune movement under climatic changes on the north‐eastern Tibetan Plateau as recorded by long‐term satellite observation versus ERA‐5 reanalysis. . In Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 48(13), pp. 2613–2629. Wiley, 2023.
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Weathering under coastal hyperaridity – Late Quaternary development of spectral, textural, and gravelometric alluvial fan surface characteristics. . In Quaternary Science Reviews, 277, p. 107339. Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Arsenic distribution and pathway scenarios for sediments and water in a peri-urban Mongolian small-scale coal mining area (Nalaikh District, Ulaanbaatar). . In Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27(6), pp. 5845–5863. 2019.
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Testing the potential of K-feldspar pIR-IRSL and quartz ESR for dating coastal alluvial fan complexes in arid environments. . In Quaternary International, 556, pp. 124–143. Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Late Pleistocene alluvial fan evolution along the coastal Atacama Desert (N Chile). . In Global and Planetary Change, 190, p. 103091. Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Gradients in climate, geology, and topography affecting coastal alluvial fan morphodynamics in hyperarid regions – The Atacama perspective. . In Global and Planetary Change, 185, p. 102994. Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Geomorphology of the coastal alluvial fan complex Guanillos, northern Chile. . In Journal of Maps, 15(2), pp. 436–447. Informa UK Limited, 2019.
