Michael Kahle

Michael Kahle is a Research Associate at the Professorship for Physical Geography within the Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, where he has been affiliated since April 2014. His research employs interdisciplinary approaches combining physical geography with digital humanities.

Research interests focus on climate change impacts and societal responses, including:

• Machine learning applications for historical climate text analysis
• Drought and flood event classification using NLP
• Climate-induced migration patterns
• Social consequences of extreme weather events
• Digital reconstruction of historical climatological data

His publications demonstrate consistent focus on climate-society interactions, with recent works analyzing drought resilience in Germany/China (2025), viticulture adaptation (2024), and flood classification methodologies (2022) using multimodal data analysis.

Key project involvement includes:

• tambora.org (2014-2016): Collaborative platform for historical climatology
• DEMUR project: Fluvio-social metabolism analysis of the Upper Rhine area