Jens Kiesel
Justus-von-Liebig-Str. 7, 12489 Berlin
Profile
Hydrologic and hydraulic modelling,
habitat modelling,
sediment transport,
GIS applications and Python programming,
integrated water resources management
Employment history
as of 2014
Scientist (part-time), IGB Berlin
as of 2008
Freelance Consultant
2006–2007 and 2013-2014
Research Assistant (part-time), CAU Kiel
2004–2005
Graduate Assistant, TU Darmstadt
Education
2007-2014
PhD Thesis, CAU Kiel
2000–2006
Diploma (Master) in Civil Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), University of New South Wales (Australia)
Publications
All Publications (peer-reviewed)
Vu T, Kiesel J, Guse B, Fohrer N. accepted. Towards an improved understanding of hydrological change - Linking hydrologic metrics and multiple change point tests. Journal of Water and Climate Change.
Irving K, Kuemmerlen M, Kiesel J, Kakouei K, Domisch S, Jähnig SC. 2018. Daily stream flow and hydrological metrics for Germany, as predicted by a simple regression model. Scientific Data 5:180224, DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.224.
Kakouei K, Kiesel J, Domisch S, Irving K, Jähnig S, Kail J. 2018. Projected effects of climate change- induced flow alterations on stream macroinvertebrate abundances. Ecol Evol. 2018;00:1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3907
Guse B, Pfannerstill M, Gafurov A, Kiesel J, Lehr C, Fohrer N. 2017. Identifying the connective strength between model parameters and performance criteria. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21, 5663-5679, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5663-2017.
Kiesel J, Guse B, Pfannerstill M, Kakouei K, Jähnig SC, Fohrer N. 2017. Improving hydrological model optimization for riverine species. Ecological Indicators 80, 376-385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.04.032.
Kakouei K, Kiesel J, Kail J, Pusch M, Jähnig SC. 2017. Quantitative hydrologic preferences of benthic stream invertebrates in Germany. Ecological Indicators 79, 163-172.
Kiesel J, Pfannerstill M, Schmalz B, Khoroshavin V, Sheludkov A, Veshkurseva T, Fohrer N. 2017. Modelling of hydrological processes in snowmelt-governed meso-scale catchments of the Western Siberian Lowlands. International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1504/IJHST.2018.10007182.
Schmalz B, Kruse M, Kiesel J, Müller F, Fohrer N. 2016. Water-related ecosystem services in Western Siberian lowland basins - Analysing and mapping spatial and seasonal effects on regulating services based on ecohydrological modelling results. Ecological Indicators 71: 55-65.
Guse B, Kail J, Radinger K, Schröder M, Kiesel J, Hering D, Wolter C, Fohrer N. 2015. Eco-hydrologic model cascades: Simulating land use and climate change impacts on hydrology, hydraulics and habitats for fish and macroinvertebrates. Science of the Total Environment 533: 542-556.
Kail J, Guse B, Radinger J, Schröder M, Kiesel J, Kleinhans M, Schuurman F, Fohrer N, Hering D, Wolter C. 2015. From hydrology to species assemblages - a modelling framework to assess the effect of pressures on river habitat conditions and biota. PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0130228.
Kiesel J, Schröder M, Hering D, Schmalz B, Hörmann G, Jähnig SC, Fohrer N. 2015. A new model linking macroinvertebrate assemblages to habitat composition in rivers: development, sensitivity and univariate application. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 186 (1-2).
Schmalz B, Kuemmerlen M, Kiesel J, Cai Q, Jähnig SC, Fohrer N. 2014. Impacts of land use changes on hydrological components and macroinvertebrate distributions in the Poyang lake area. Ecohydrology 2014, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1569
Schröder M, Kiesel J, Schattmann A, Jähnig SC, Lorenz AW, Kramm S. 2013. Substratum associations of benthic invertebrates in lowland and mountain streams. Ecological Indicators 30, 178-189.
Kiesel J, Schmalz B, Brown G, Fohrer N. 2013. Application of a hydrological-hydraulic modelling cascade in lowlands for investigating water and sediment fluxes in the catchment, channel and reach. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics 61(4), 313-325.
Abdulla N, Petersen G, Kiesel J, Wade S. 2013. Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in Yemen. Journal of Earth Science and Engineering 3, 629-638.
Zhao GJ, Hörmann G, Fohrer N, Kiesel J, Gao JF, Li HP. 2012. Application of a nutrient model for sediment yield and phosphorus load estimation in a data scarce catchment in South China. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 21(7a), 1894-1904.
Kiesel J, Schmalz B, Savant G, Fohrer N. 2012. Across the scales: From catchment hydrology to instream hydraulics. In: Understanding Changing Climate and Environment and Finding Solutions. Editors: R-P. Hinkelmann, Y. Liong, D. Savic, MH. Nasermoaddeli, K-F. Daemrich, P. Fröhle, D. Jacob. TuTech Innovation.
Jähnig SC, Kuemmerlen M, Kiesel J, Domisch S, Cai Q, Schmalz B, Fohrer N. 2012. Modelling of riverine ecosystems by integrating models: conceptual approach, a case study and research agenda. Journal of Biogeography 39(12), 2253–2263.
Liu H, Kiesel J, Hörmann G, Fohrer N. 2011. Effects of DEM horizontal resolution and methods on calculating the slope length factor in gently rolling landscapes. Catena 87, 368-375.
Kiesel J. Fohrer N, Schmalz B. 2010. Considering aquatic habitat properties in integrated river basin management - an ecohydrological modelling approach. Hydrocomplexity: new tools for solving the wicked water problems. (edited by Savenije H, Demuth S, Hubert P.), IAHS Publications 338. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, 137-139.
Kiesel J, Fohrer N, Schmalz B, White MJ. 2010. Incorporating landscape depressions and tile drainages of a northern German lowland catchment into a semi-distributed model. Hydrological Processes 24, 1472 1486.
Liu H, Fohrer N, Hörmann G, Kiesel J. 2009. Suitability of S factor algorithms for soil loss estimation at gently sloped landscapes. Catena 77. 248-255.
Kiesel J, Hering D, Schmalz B, Fohrer N. 2009. A transdisciplinary approach for modelling macroinvertebrate habitats in lowland streams. IAHS Publications 328, 24-33.
Kiesel J, Schmalz B, Fohrer N. 2009. SEPAL – a simple GIS-based tool to estimate sediment pathways in lowland catchments. Advances in Geosciences 21(3), 25-32.