Marvin Gabriel - Geographer
Dissertation
Mires and peatlands in Maputaland: Genesis, substrates and properties exemplified by the region “greater Manguzi” – A basis for adequate recommendations on sustainable farming and restoration
Education
10/2004 - 05/2012
Diplom (M.Sc.) in Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology at the Leibniz University Hannover
Diploma thesis: Investigations into soil quality and the occurrence of rickets in Kaduna, Nigeria
10/2003 - 10/2004
Studies of meteorology at the Leibniz University Hannover
08/2002 - 06/2003
Alternative service as caretaker at a schools field center
2002
A-level at the Hannah Arendt Gymnasium Barsinghausen
Work Experiences/Internships
since 03/2013
Postgraduate at the South Africa-project "Alliance for Wetlands – Research and Restoration" at the Division of Soil Science and Site Science at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt-University of Berlin
since 10/2012
Scientific collaborator at the South Africa-project "Alliance for Wetlands – Research and Restoration" at the Division of Soil Science and Site Science at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt-University of Berlin
10/2014 – 04/2015 & 10/2013 – 03/2014 & 10/2012 - 12/2012
Fieldcampaign in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
02/2011 - 04/2011
Fieldcampaign for Diploma thesis in Kaduna (Nigeria)
09/2009 - 03/2010
Exchange semester at the Queen’s University Belfast (UK)
05/2009 - 07/2009
Internship in Basle: Studies on forest-soils for the Agency for environmental protection and energy (Switzerland)
09/2006 - 09/2007
2 exchange semesters at the Université de la Réunion (France)
Memberships
International Mire Conservation Group
Green Desert e.V.
Publications
Gabriel, Marvin (2015): "World Wetland Day in Manguzi (South Africa): Awareness raising in rural South Africa" , IMCG Bulletin February 2015, p. 3-6.
Hartmann, L., Gabriel,M., Zhou, Y., Sponholz, B. & H. Thiemeyer ( 2014): Soil Assessment along Toposequences in Rural Northern Nigeria: A Geomedical Approach, Applied and Environmental Soil Science, vol. 2014, Article ID 628024, 9 pages.
Mosimann, T., Herbst, P., Gabriel, M. & J. Wessels (2010): Waldböden des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Geosynthesis Bd. 4, Sonderband 5, Hannover, 71 S.