Since 10/2019

Scientific staff at the Chair of Regional Climate Change and Health at the Medical Faculty of Augsburg

07/2019-09/2019

Scientific staff at the Chair for Regional Climate and Hydrology at the University of Augsburg

2015-2019

Scientific staff at the Chair of Physical Geography and Quantitative Methods/Chair of Physical Geography with focus on climate research at the University of Augsburg (DFG project COMEPRO)

2012-2015

PhD and research associate at the Chair of Physical Geography and Quantitative Methods at the University of Augsburg for the DFG project "Warm Water Events in the Southeast Atlantic: Benguela-Niños“

2011

Research associate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), for the CEDIM project "Flood hazard in a changing climate", IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

2010

Diploma thesis "Comparison of regional climate simulations for the hydrological climate impact analysis of the Mulde catchment area", at the Department "Regional Climate Systems", IMK-IFU Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Impact of weather, climate and climate change on health

• Determination of recent and future exposure to air pollutants (e.g. ozone)
• Estimate local climate changes relevant to health
• Investigate specific links between individual diseases and weather and air pollutants (e.g. aortic rupture)
• Develop adaptation measures to climate change in the health sector
• Developing educational materials on climate change and health and planetary health

Methodological priorities:

• Quantitative Methods/Geostatistics
• Statistical downscaling
• Bias correction of climate model data

Current projects:

• AdaptNet: Adaptation and networking of primary care and specialist care with regard to the health effects of climate change. Click here.
• Lead of the project ProTect: Development of a heat action plan for the Augsburg University Hospital. Click here.

Completed research projects:

• Statistical downscaling of ground-level ozone for Europe. Click here.
• Climate, air and weather influences on aortic ruptures in Augsburg and Munich. Click here.
• Co-development of the new VHB (Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern) course "Planetary Health" in collaboration with LMU Munich and the Universities of Regensburg and Wuerzburg. Click here
• DFG-Project (2014-2019): Comparison of metrics for probabilistic climate projections of precipitation in the Mediterranean region (COMEPRO)
• DFG-Project (2011-2014): Warm water events in the Southeast Atlantic - Benguela-Niños: Origin, climatic effects, long-term variations and future developments
• "Flood hazard in a changing climate" funded by CEDIM (Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology)

• Publication Award of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Augsburg 2022 (for the paper: Kaspar-Ott, I., Olschewski, P., Koller, S., Hyhlik-Dürr, A., Streck, E., Eckstein, H.-H., Radu, O., Hertig, E. (2022): Determination of the influence of weather and air constituents on aortic aneurysm ruptures. Heliyon, 8(4), e09263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09263)

Talks

• Kaspar-Ott, I., Herrmann, A,. Hueber, S., Hertig, E. (2023): Adapting and linking primary and specialist care to the health impacts of climate change. EHS Symposium, University of Augsburg.

• Kaspar-Ott, I. (2023): Klimawandel und Gesundheit. Volkshochschule VHS Weilheim, Kurs „klimafit - Klimawandel vor der Haustür! Was kann ich tun?“

• Kaspar-Ott, I., Jahn, S., Hertig, E. (2023): Future ground-level summer ozone concentrations in Europe: the importance of ozone as predictor in a statistical downscaling approach. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

• Kaspar-Ott, I., Hertig, E. (2022): Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Gesundheit. Zusatzmodel "Klimawandel und Gesundheit" zur strukturierten curricularen Fortbildung "Praktische Umweltmedizin", Bayerische Landesärztekammer.

• Kaspar-Ott, I., Jahn, S., Pomee, M., Hertig, E. (2022): Downscaling und Projektion von bodennahen Ozonkonzentrationen für Europa. AK Klima, Ochsenfurt, October 28-30.
• Kaspar-Ott, I. Hertig E., Pollinger F., Ring C., Paeth H., Jacobeit J. (2016): General circulation model weighting for optimized probabilistic climate change projections of Mediterranean precipitation. MedCLIVAR, Athens, Greece, September 26-30.
• Ott I., Lutz K., Rathmann J., Jacobeit J. (2013): Warm water events in the southeast Atlantic and their impact on regional and large-s cale atmospheric conditions in the CMIP5 model output. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.
• Ott I., Rathmann J., Lutz K., Jacobeit J. (2012): Langzeit-Untersuchung von Warmwassereignissen im südöstlichen Atlantik. AK Klima, Berlin, Oktober 26-28.
• Ott I., Rathmann J., Jacobeit J. (2012): Vergleich von Beobachtungs- und Modelldaten zur Analyse von Warmwasserereignissen im südöstlichen Atlantik. Jahrestagung der Afrikagruppe deutscher Geowissenschaftler (AdG), Hamburg, Juni 22-23.

Posters

• Kaspar-Ott I., Hertig E., Kaspar S., Pollinger F., Ring C., Paeth H., Jacobeit J. (2019): Weighting CMIP3 & CMIP5 models with respect to Mediterranean precipitation in a statistical downscaling framework. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 7-12.
• Kaspar-Ott I., Hertig E., Pollinger F., Ring C., Paeth H., Jacobeit J. (2016): Gewichtung von Klimamodellen mittels statistischer Downscaling-Ergebnisse für den Niederschlag des Mediterranen Raums. AK Klima, Bad Dürkheim, November 4-6.
• Kaspar-Ott I., Hertig E., Pollinger F., Ring C., Paeth H., Jacobeit J. (2016): Development and comparison of weighting metrics for probabilistic climate change projections of Mediterranean precipitation. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 17-12.
• Kaspar-Ott I., Hertig E., Pollinger F., Ring C., Paeth H., Jacobeit J. (2015): Präzisierung von Niederschlagsprojektionen im Mittelmeerraum durch bestmögliche Gewichtung von Multimodellensembles. AK Klima, Hattingen, Oktober/November 30-1.
• Ott I., Romberg K., Rathmann J., Jacobeit J. (2014): Auswirkungen von Atlantik Niños: Analyse eines CMIP5-Ensembles. AK Klima, Basel, November 7-9.
• Ott I., Lutz K., Jacobeit J. (2014): Teleconnections of ENSO and the tropical South-Atlantic in a CMIP5 model ensemble. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 27- May 02.
• Ott I., Lutz K., Rathmann J., Jacobeit J. (2013): Telekonnektionen tropischer Warm- und Kaltwasserereignisse im Pazifik und Atlantik in globalen Klimamodellen. AK Klima, Augsburg, November 1-3.
• Ott I., Lutz K., Rathmann J., Jacobeit J. (2013): Warmwasserereignisse im südöstlichen Atlantik und deren klimatologische Auswirkungen auf regionaler und globaler Ebene. Jahrestagung der Afrikagruppe deutscher Geowissenschaftler (AdG), Jena, Juni 28-29.
• Ott I., Wagner S., Duethmann D., Liebert J., Berg P., Feldmann H., Ihringer J., Kunstmann H., Merz B., Schaedler G. (2012): Climate change impact on medium and small sized river catchments in Germany: An ensemble assessment. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU2012-9559, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 22-27.
• Wagner S., Berg P., Duethmann D., Liebert J., Ott, I., Kunstmann H. (2011): High resolution regional climate modeling for flood hazard impact study in Germany. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-10858, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 04-08.
• Liebert J., Berg P., Duethmann D., Ihringer J., Kunstmann H., Merz B., Ott. I., Schaedler G., Wagner S., (2011): Wie ändert sich die Charakteristika von Hochwasserereignissen unter dem Klimawandel und mit welchen Unsicherheiten sind solche Aussagen behaftet? Tag der Hydrologie, Vienna, Austria, March 24-25.
• Berg P., Duethmann D., Liebert J., Ott I., Wagner S. (2011): Uncertainty aspects of changes in flood hazard in medium size river catchments for the near future. DKKV 11. Forum Katastrophenvorsorge, Potsdam, Germany January 18-19.