Anna Cord

Biology / Geography
Year 2019

Technische Universität Dresden

Institut für Geographie, Fakultät Umweltwissenschaften

Helmholtzstraße 10
1069 Dresden

Portrait of Anna Cord
Photo: P. Niedlich

Research areas

  • Spatial analysis and modeling

  • Multi-temporal remote sensing

  • Impacts of land use on biodiversity

  • Biogeography

  • Landscape Ecology

Resume

  • Since 2020
    Professor, Chair of Computational landscape Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden

  • 2018
    Invited participant of workshop “Sustainable Water Management in Mining and Post-Mining Landscapes”, organized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Belo Horizonte (Brasil)

  • since 2016
    Task leader for “Remote sensing of ecosystem services” in GEO BON (Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network)

  • since 2013
    Work package leader, Integrated Project “Land Use Conflicts” in UFZ research unit “Ecosystems of the future”

  • since 2012
    Head of working group “Biodiversity and ecosystem services”, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, UFZ Leipzig

  • 2012
    Dissertation (Dr. rer.nat.), Faculty of Arts, University of Würzburg

  • 2010
    Best doctoral student paper award, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), Biennial conference in Ottawa (Canada)

  • 2008-2010
    Several research stays with CONABIO (Mexican National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity), Mexico-City

  • 2007-2012
    Scientific assistant, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen

  • 2005-2006
    Studies of Geography (with specialization in Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing), University of Würzburg

  • 2004-2007
    Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

  • 2004
    Semester abroad, University of Umeå (Sweden)

  • 2001-2007
    Studies of Biology (Majors: Vegetation ecology, Tropical ecology and Molecular plant physiology), University of Würzburg

Selection of
publications

  • Modelling distributions of rove beetles in mountainous areas using remote sensing data.

    Dittrich, A., Roilo, S., Sonnenschein, R., Cerrato, C., Ewald, M., Viterbi, R., Cord, A.F. in: Remote Sensing, 2020.

  • Measuring ecosystem multifunctionality across scales.

    Hölting, L., Jacobs, S., Felipe-Lucis, M., Maes, J., Norsträm, A.V., Plieninger, T., Cord, A.F. In: Environmental Research Letters, 2019.

  • Constraints in multi-objective optimization of land use allocation – Repair or penalize?

    Strauch, M., Cord, A.F., Pätzold, C., Lautenbach, S., Kaim, A., Schweitzer, C., Seppelt, R, Volk, M. In: Environmental Modelling & Software, 2019.

  • Developing stakeholder-driven scenarios on land sharing and land sparing - insights from five European case studies.

    Karner, K., Cord, A.F., Hagemann, N., Holzkämper, A., Jeangros, B., Lienhoop, N., Nitsch, H., Rivas, D., Schmid, E., Schulp, C.J.E., Strauch, M., van der Zanden, E.H., Volk, M., Willaarts, B., Zarineh, N., Schönhart, M. In: Journal of Environmental Management, 2019.

  • Multifunctionality assessments – More than assessing multiple ecosystem functions and services? A quantitative literature review.

    Hölting, L., Beckmann, M., Volk, M., Cord, A.F. In: Ecological Indicators, 2019.

  • Developing stakeholder-driven scenarios on land sharing and land sparing - insights from five European case studies.

    Karner, K., Cord, A.F., Hagemann, N., Holzkämper, A., Jeangros, B., Lienhoop, N., Nitsch, H., Rivas, D., Schmid, E., Schulp, C.J.E., Strauch, M., van der Zanden, E.H., Volk, M., Willaarts, B., Zarineh, N., Schönhart, M. In: Journal of Environmental Management.

  • Reimagining the Potential of Earth Observations for Ecosystem Services Assessment.

    Ramirez-Reyes, C., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Adamo, S.A., Anderson, C.B., Anderson, C., Allington, G.R., Bagstad, K.J., Coe, M.T., Cord, A.F., Dee, L.E., Gould, R.K., Jain, M., Kowal, V.A., Muller-Karger, F., Norriss, J., Potapov, P., Qiu, J., Rieb, J.T., Robinson, R.E., Samberg, L.H., Singh, N., Szeto, S.H., Voigt, B., Watson, K., Wright, T.M. In: Science of the Total Environment.

  • Evolutionary algorithms for species distribution modelling: a review in the context of machine learning.

    Gobeyn, S., Mouton, A.M., Cord, A.F., Kaim, A., Volk, M., Geithals, P.L.M. In: Ecological Modelling, 2019.

  • Integration of satellite remote sensing data in ecosystem modelling at local scales: practices and trends.

    Pasetto, D., Arenas-Castro, S., Bustamante, J., Casagrandi, R., Chrysoulakis, N., Cord, A. F., Dittrich, A., Domingo, C., El Serafy, G., Karnieli, A., Kordelas, G., Manakos, I., Mari, L., Monteiro, A., Palazzi, E., Poursanidis, D., Rinaldo, A., Terzago, S., Ziemba, A., Ziv, G. In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2018.

  • A review of multi-criteria optimization techniques for agricultural land use allocation.

    Kaim, A., Cord, A. F., Volk, M. In: Environmental Modelling & Software, 2018.

Activities

    • Workshop „Bridging the Gap“

      The Sustainability Research Group is organising a workshop on the influence of research about environmental policy and sustainability on environmental policy decisions.

      Topics:

      Starts on
      07.10.23
      Ends on
      07.10.23

      Event access: Internal

      Berlin

    • Workshop „Rock Art“

      The members of the project WüstenWissen (desert knowledge) are organising a workshop on rock art.

      Topics:

      Starts on
      05.05.23
      Ends on
      05.05.23

      Event access: Internal

      Frankfurt am Main

    • Workshop "Data Science meets Landscape Ecology"

      Members of Die Junge Akademie meet junior researchers from the fields of Data Science and Landscape Ecology. From their disciplinary perspectives, they discuss the challenge of proposing the most sustainable possible concepts for the use of landscapes.

      Topics:

      Starts on
      15.06.22

      Event access: Internal

      Berlin

    • Change of roles

      We all change roles in different life situations. This is not different in science, as the Covid-19 situation shows particularly clearly with regard to the role of scientists, for example as communicators and advisors of politicians. But role changes are also omnipresent as an object of science. Issue 27 of JAM approaches the topic from different perspectives.

      Topics:

      Astrid Eichhorn, Michael Saliba, Erik Schilling

      Berlin 2020

      Grafik mit farbigen Streifen und dem Schriftzug "Rollenwechsel"
    • Robert Kretschmer, Philipp Kanske, Anna Lisa Ahlers, Michael Saliba, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, Christian Hof, Timo de Wolff, Anna Cord

      Berlin 2020

    • Vom Guten im Schlechten: Kalender 2021

      Unser neuer Kalender „2021 – Vom Guten im Schlechten“ mit zwölf wissenschaftlichen Betrachtungen und einer Werkserie von Julian Charrière ist erschienen: ein Plädoyer für die Wissenschaften, die Kunst und ihre Verbindungen zur Gesellschaft.

      Topics:

      2020