Seufferheld, K. D., Batista, P. V. G., Shokati, H., Scholten, T., & Fiener, P. (2026).

A GLUE-based assessment of WaTEM/SEDEM for simulating soil erosion, transport, and deposition in soil conservation optimised agricultural watersheds.

SOIL, 12, 301–319.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-12-301-2026

It‘s a change that often goes unnoticed: while tropical agricultural regions are delivering ever higher yields, soils may be changing at a faster pace than we think — and not for the better. From March 2026, a new Emmy Noether Research Group at the University of Augsburg, led by soil scientist Dr. Pedro Batista, will focus on this barely visible but globally significant process.

Moreira, A.C.C., Wilken, F., Fabrizi, A. & Fiener, P. (2026).

UV light and abrasion’s role in degrading plasticulture films.

PLoS One 21(3): e0344790.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0344790

Shokati, H., Seufferheld, K. D., Fiener, P., & Scholten, T. (2026). 
Rapid flood mapping from aerial imagery using fine-tuned SAM and ResNet-backboned U-Net. 

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 30(3), 743-756.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-30-743-2026

Evrard, O., Takahashi, N., Sato, H., Ohta, R., Foucher, A., Chalaux-Clergue, T., et al. (2026)
Evidence of Fukushima fallout in the area affected by wildfires in Kamaishi (Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Japan): Implications for future environmental research using radionuclide tracers

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 292, 107876

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107876

Feldman, T. K., Mampage, C. B. A., Falk, N. M., Fernando J. C., Heffernan, B., Hill, T. C. J., Juergensen, D., Mignani, C., Nieto-Caballero, Grant, M. L. D., van den Heever, S. C., DeMott, P. J., et al. (2026).

Convective storms alter bioaerosol populations through cold pools and precipitation. 

Environmental Science: Atmospheres 6 (3): 286–309.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ea00129c

Taherinezhad-Javazm, K., Nosrati, K. & Fiener, P. (2025).

Spatiotemporal variations in aeolian sediment source fingerprinting using geochemical tracers and a Bayesian mixing model.

Aeolian Research, 74, 101008.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2025.101008

Dr. Cordula Witzig passed her PhD defense ("Temporal Variability of Microplastic Concentration and Composition in Streams and Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents: Mitigation of Cross-Contamination, Long-Term Mixed Sampling, and Representativeness Assessment") in cooperation between Soil and Water Resource Research and Technologiezentrum Wasser Karlsruhe. We wish her all the best for the future.

We were pleased to welcome members of the Württemberg-Franconian Turkey Producers Association to the Institute of Geography for a constructive discussion on plastic contamination in agricultural soil systems.

Brandes, E., Fiener, P., & Gessler, A. (2025).
Scaling laboratory results with machine learning is no silver bullet to strengthen global (micro) plastic mitigation policy.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (42), e2515836122.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2515836122 

Maarten W., Pedro P.V.B., & Andrew B. (2025). 

Accelerating soil erosion and sediment yields in (sub)tropical savannas of the Anthropocene, Elsevier, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, ISBN: 9780124095489

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-14082-2.00158-7

 

Seufferheld, K. D., Batista, P. V., Shokati, H., Scholten, T., & Fiener, P. (2025). A GLUE-based assessment of WaTEM/SEDEM for simulating soil erosion, transport, and deposition in soil conservation optimised agricultural watersheds. 

EGUsphere, 1-26.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3391