Geography

Research Fellow

Geography

Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth, Hants, PO1 3HE

Diplom in Informatik from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (equivalent: MSc in Computer Science)
Dr.phil. (equivalent: PhD) in History from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (Focus: History of Science & Technology)

Goats and Gases: 'The Prevention of Compressed Air Illness' by Haldane et al – A Commentary, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 17(3): 195–196, 2006.
Paula Aucott, A.v.L and Humphrey Southall; Exposing the history of Europe: The creation of a structure to enable time-spatial searching of historical resources within a European Framework, OCLC Systems & Services, 25(4): 270–286, 2009. (Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010)
Historische GIS als Narrative?, in Helga Mitterbauer, Katharina Scherke and Sabine Müller (eds.), Kulturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch "Moderne" 5, Vienna: StudienVerlag, 2010, pp. 221–225.
Jacob Jongbloed (1896–1974): A Dutch pioneer of Aviation Medicine, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. In press.

Die Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug, in Andreas Göller and Annegret Holtmann-Mares (eds.), Ein Jahrhundert Luftfahrtgeschichte zwischen Tradition, Forschung und Landschaftspflege. Der August-Euler-Flugplatz in Darmstadt/Griesheim, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008, pp. 209–239.
'Splendid Isolation'? Aviation Medicine in World War II, in Ad Maas and Hans Hooijmaijers, (eds.), Scientific Research in World War II, London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 96–108.
The perfect astronaut would be a human without legs – J.B.S. Haldane and 'positive eugenics', in Regina Wecker, Sabine Braunschweig, Gabriela Imboden, Bernhard Küchenhoff and Hans J. Ritter (eds.), Wie nationalsozialistisch ist die Eugenik? / What is National Socialist about Eugenics? : Beitrag zur Geschichte der Eugenik im 20. Jahrhundert / Contributions to the History of Eugenics in the 20th Century, Vienna: Böhlau, 2009, pp. 127–138.
A.v.L & W. Moschek; Without Limits: Ancient History and GIS, in: Michael Dear, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria and Doug Richardson (eds.), Geohumanities: Art, history, text at the edge of place, Routledge, 2011. In press.

Who needs scientific instruments? Philosophers! Physiology and Philosophy in the fin de siecle, in Bart Grob and Hans Hooijmaijers (eds.),'Who needs Scientific Instruments. Conference on scientific instruments and their users. Oct 20-22, 2005', Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, 2006, pp. 29–36.
Humphrey Southall, A.v.L. and Paula Aucott; On the Organisation of Geographical Knowledge: data models for gazetteers and historical GIS, in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, Dec 9-11, 2009, pp. 162–166.
Zurück ins Meer – eine bessere Welt im 'Inneren Weltraum'?, in Elke Frietsch and Christina Herkomer (eds.), 'Ideale. Entwürfe einer "besseren Welt" in der Wissenschaft, Kunst und Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts', Proceedings of a conference held by the Freie Universität Berlin, July 17-19, 2009. In press.

"Hellige, Hans Dieter (Hg.): Mensch-Computer-Interface. Zur Geschichte und Zukunft der Computerbedienung. Bielefeld: transcript. 2008". in NTM, 17(2): 241–242, 2009.
"Werth, Karsten: Ersatzkrieg im Weltraum. Das US-Raumfahrtprogramm in der Öffentlichkeit der 1960er Jahre. Frankfurt: Campus, 2006." in Technikgeschichte, 76(3): 287–288, 2009.

Paula Aucott, Vojtech Kupca, Johan Lagrelius, A.v.L., Fredrik Palm, Humphrey Southall; "Administrative Unit Ontology Report and Schema D3.2", Deliverable Report for the European Union FP6 Programme (Query and context based visualization of time-spatial cultural dynamics), 04/04/2008, QVIZ-Website
A.v.L & W. Moschek, "Reading time through space: A GIS-aided study in Ancient History", Newsletter of the Society of Landscape Studies, Spring/Summer 2009, p. 3–6.
"Under the waves, above the clouds: A history of the pressure suit", doctoral dissertation in history, Technische Universität Darmstadt, abridged version, 2010; TU Darmstadt's library website