TT-Prof. Dr. Jan Blöthe

2025

• Bösmeier, A. S. and Blöthe, J. H. (2025): Sediment storage quantification in the Black Forest highlights tectonic influence on typically wide and shallow valleys, E&G Quaternary Science Journal, 74, 301–324, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-74-301-2025
• Engelmann, C. E., Preusser, F., Fülling, A., Wilk, J., Eiche, E., Quandt, D., Hergarten, S., and Blöthe, J. H. (2025): Silts with a human touch: the shift from natural to anthropogenically controlled fluvial dynamics in the Kinzig River floodplains, southwestern Germany, E&G Quaternary Science Journal, 74, 235–262, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-74-235-2025
• Stammler, M., Blöthe, J., Flöck, F., Bell, R., and Schrott, L. (2025): Dos Lenguas rock glacier kinematics stable despite warming trend (2016–2024): Surface changes and the role of topography and climate in the Dry Andes of Argentina. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 50, e70151: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.70151
• Falaschi, D., Blöthe, J.H., Berthier, E., Tadono, T., and Villalba, R. (2025): Monitoring recent (2018–2023) glacier and rock glacier changes in Central Patagonia using high-resolution Pléiades and ALOS PRISM satellite data. Frontiers in Earth Science, 13, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1601249.
• Blöthe, J.H., Falaschi, D., Vivero, S., and Tadono, T. (2025): Rock Glacier Kinematics in the Valles Calchaquíes Region, Northwestern Argentina, From Multi-Temporal Aerial and Satellite Imagery (1968–2023). Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 36, 123-136: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2260

2024

• Schrott, L., Bell, R., and Blöthe, J.H. (2024): Mountain hazards and permafrost degradation. In: Schneiderbauer, S., Pisa, P.F., Shroder, J.F., Szarzynski, J. (Eds.): Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, 31-41: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822095-5.00005-X
• Stammler, M., Cusicanqui, D., Bell, R., Robson, B., Bodin, X., Blöthe, J.H., and Schrott, L. (2024): Vertical surface change signals of rock glaciers: combining UAV and Pléiades imagery (Agua Negra, Argentina). ICOP Extended Abstracts: http://dx.doi.org/10.52381/ICOP2024.138.1

2023

• Buckel, J., Mudler, J., Gardeweg, R., Hauck, C., Hilbich, C., Frauenfelder, R., Kneisel, C., Buchelt, S., Blöthe, J.H., Hördt, A., and Bücker, M., 2023: Identifying mountain permafrost degradation by repeating historical ERT-measurements, The Cryosphere, 17, 2919–2940: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2919-2023
• Buchelt, S., Blöthe, J., Kuenzer, C., Schmitt, A., Ullmann, T., Philipp, M., and Kneisel, C. (2023): Deciphering Small-Scale Seasonal Surface Dynamics of Rock Glaciers in the Central European Alps Using DInSAR Time Series. Remote Sensing, 15: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15122982
• Hoffmann, T.O., Baulig, Y., Vollmer, S., Blöthe, J.H., Auerswald, K., and Fiener, P. (2023): Pristine levels of suspended sediment in large German river channels during the Anthropocene? Earth Surface Dynamics, 11: 287-303: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-287-2023

2022

• Blöthe, J.H., and Hoffmann, T. (2022): Spatio-temporal differences dominate suspended sediment dynamics in medium-sized catchments in central Germany, Geomorphology, 418: 1-15: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108462
• Schoch-Baumann, A., Blöthe, J.H., Munack, H., Hornung, J., Codilean, A.T., Fülöp, R.H., Wilcken, K., and Schrott, L. (2022): Postglacial outsize fan formation in the Upper Rhonevalley, Switzerland–gradual or catastrophic? Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 47: 1032-1053: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.5301

2021

• Blöthe, J.H., Halla, C., Schwalbe, E., Bottegal, E., Trombotto Liaudat, D., and Schrott, L. (2021): Surface velocity fields of active rock glaciers and ice‐debris complexes in the Central Andes of Argentina, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46: 504-522: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5042
• Halla, C., Blöthe, J.H., Tapia Baldis, C., Trombotto Liaudat, D., Hilbich, C., Hauck, C., and Schrott, L. (2021): Ice content and interannual water storage changes of an active rock glacier in the dry Andes of Argentina, The Cryosphere, 15: 1187-1213: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/1187/2021/
• Holst, C., Janßen, J., Schmitz, B., Blome, M., Dercks, M., Schoch-Baumann, A., Blöthe, J.H., Schrott, L., Kuhlmann, H., and Medic, T. (2021): Increasing Spatio-Temporal Resolution for Monitoring Alpine Solifluction Using Terrestrial Laser Scanners and 3D Vector Fields, Remote Sensing, 13: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13061192

older Publications

• Hoffmann, T.O., Baulig, Y., Fischer, H., and Blöthe, J.H. (2020): Scale-breaks of suspended sediment rating in large rivers in Germany induced by organic matter, Earth Surface Dynamics, 8: 661-678: https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-2020-3
• Groh, T., and Blöthe, J.H. (2019): Rock Glacier Kinematics in the Kaunertal, Ötztal Alps, Austria, Geosciences, 9: 373: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9090373
• Blöthe, J.H., Rosenwinkel, S., Höser, T., and Korup, O. (2019): Rock-glacier dams in High Asia, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 44: 808–824, 10.1002/esp.4532.
• Halla, C., Blöthe, J.H., Trombotto, D., and Schrott, L. (2018): Permafrost in Argentiniens Anden – eine bedeutende hydrologische Ressource, Geographische Rundschau, 70: 36-40
• Schoch, A., Blöthe, J.H., Hoffmann, T., and Schrott, L. (2018): Multivariate geostatistical modeling of the spatial sediment distribution in a large scale drainage basin, Upper Rhone, Switzerland, Geomorphology, 303: 375-392: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.11.026
• Otto, J.-C., Prasicek, G., Blöthe, J., and Schrott, L. (2018): GIS Applications in Geomorphology. In: Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems, 81-111: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.10029-6
• Munack, H., Blöthe, J.H., Fülop, R.H., Codilean, A.T., Fink, D., and Korup, O. (2016): Recycling of Pleistocene valley fills dominates 135 ka of sediment flux, upper Indus River, Quatemary Science Reviews, 149: 122-134: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.07.030
• Blöthe, J.H., Korup, O., and Schwanghart, W. (2015): Large landslides lie low: Excess topography in the Himalaya-Karakorum ranges, Geology, 43: 523-526: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-large-landslides-himalaya-karakoram-ranges.html
• Stolle, A., Langer, M., Blöthe, J.H., and Korup, O. (2015): On predicting debris flows in arid mountain belts, Global and Planetary Change, 126: 1-13: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.12.005
• Blöthe, J.H., Munack, H., Korup, O., Fülling, A., Garzanti, E., Resentini, A., and Kubik, P.W. (2014): Late Quaternary valley infill and dissection in the Indus River, western Tibetan Plateau margin, Quatemary Science Reviews, 94: 102-119: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.011
• Munack, H., Korup, O., Resentini, A., Limonta, M., Garzanti, E., Blöthe, J.H., Scherler, D., Wittmann, H., and Kubik, P.W. (2014): Postglacial denudation of western Tibetan Plateau margin outpaced by long-term exhumation, Geological Society of American Bulletin, 126: 1580-1594: http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B30979.1
• Blöthe, J.H., and Korup, O. (2013): Millennial lag times in the Himalayan sediment routing system, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 382: 38-46: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.044

• since 04/2020
  Tenure-Track Professor for Geomorphology and recent Morphodynamics at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
• 10/2014 – 03/2020
  Research Associate, Geographical Institute, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
• 10/2014
  Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) with the title „Himalayan Valley Fills“
• 04/2010 – 09/2014
  Research Assistant, Institute for Earth and Environmental Sciences, University Potsdam
• 10/2009 – 03/2010
  Research Assistant, Institute for Geography and Geology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg

• Permafrost in high mountain areas
• Fluvial geomorphology
• Sediment dynamics

• Blöthe J H: Das versteckte Eis der Berge – alpiner Permafrost in Zeiten des Klimawandels. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Freiburg. 2023
• Blöthe J H: Wenn das unsichtbare Eis taut. Geochemisch-Lagerstättenkundliches Seminar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 2022
• Blöthe J H: Deriving surface kinematics of Andean rock glaciers from feature tracking in optical imagery. IPA Action Group Rock glacier inventories and kinematics, online. 2022
• Blöthe J H, Halla C, Bottegal E, Schrott L, Trombotto Liaudat D: Volumetric and kinematic assessment oft he current state of the Morenas Colorads ice-debris complex, Cordón del Plata, Argentina, XXI Congreso Geológico Argentino, online 2022 (Cordón del Plata, Argentina, XXI Congreso Geológico Argentino, online)
• Blöthe J H, Tapia Baldis C, Halla C, Bottegal E, Trombotto Liaudat D, Schrott L: Dynamic changes of a large ice-debris complex in the Central Andes of Argentina 2022 (EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, May 23-27,)
• Blöthe J H: Auf dem Weg in eine Zukunft ohne Eis? Vortragsreihe „Zukunft?! Und globaler Wandel“, 2021 (Gesellschaft für Geographie und Ethnologie Freiburg.)
• Blöthe J H, Hoffmann T: Extreme sediment transport events predominate sediment flux from German upland rivers 2021 (Mid-European Geomorphology Meeting 2021)
• Blöthe J H, Hoffmann T: Few floods govern decades of suspended sediment flux in German upland rivers 2021 (EGU General Assembly 2021, online, April 19-30)
• Blöthe J H, Kraushaar S: Tragen die saisonale Auftauschicht und der Permafrostkörper signifikant zum spätsommerlichen Abfluss bei? 2021 (GeoWoche 2021, online, October 5-9)
• Blöthe J H: Rock-glacier dams in High Asia. Vortrag zur Verleihung des International Paper Award 2019 2020 (Geographisches Institut der Universität Bonn)
• Blöthe J H, Halla C, Schwalbe E, Trombotto D, Schrott L: Assessing rock glacier horizontal movement in the Cordón del Plata range, Central Andes of Argentina Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Permafrot, Chamon, 2018 (Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Permafrot, Chamon)
• Blöthe J H, Hillebrand G, Hoffmann T: Sediment rating and annual cycles of suspended sediment in German upland rivers (A. Paquier & N. Rivière, Eds.) 2018; 40: 04020: https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/abs/2018/15/e3sconf_riverflow2018_04020/e3sconf_riverflow2018_04020.html

• SWR Science Talk: So verändert der Klimawandel die Alpen, Dezember 2022

• Member of the Board of the German Working Group for Geomorphology
• Member of the Board of the Natural Science Society of Freiburg