Current Projects:
DNL: Datacenter Nature and
Landscape in cooperation with the Swiss Federal Office fort he Environment
(FOEN)
Recent Projects:
Puzzle-Methode für grosse Lehrveranstaltungen, FILEP-Kleinprojekt ETH Zürich (2008-2009).
Computergestützter Programmierunterricht für Informatik-ferne
Studiengänge, FILEP-Project ETH Zürich, electronic online tutorials were developed to
help students to improve
their programming skills (2003-2005).
Teaching:
Autumn 2009: Informatik I (D-BAUG)
Spring 2009: Informatik II (D-BAUG)
Spring 2009: Anwendungsnahes Programmieren (D-UWIS, D-AGRL, D-ERDW)
Autumn 2008: Informatik I (D-BAUG)
Spring 2008: Informatik II (D-BAUG)
Spring 2008: Anwendungsnahes Programmieren (D-UMNW, D-AGRL, D-ERDW)
Autumn 2007/08: Informatik I (D-BAUG)
Summer 2007: Anwendungsnahes Programmieren (D-UMNW, D-AGRL, D-ERDW)
Summer 2007: Informatik II (D-BAUG)
Winter 2006/07: Informatik I (D-BAUG)
Summer 2006: Anwendungsnahes Programmieren (D-UMNW,
D-AGRL, D-ERDW)
Summer 2006: Informatik II (D-BAUG)
Summer 2005: Anwendungsnahes Programmieren (D-UMNW,
D-AGRL, D-ERDW)
Summer 2005: Informatik II (D-BAUG)
Summer
2004: Informatik II (D-MAVT) together with Prof. P. Koumoutsaktos and
Prof. P. Arbenz
Summer 2003: Anwendungsnahes Programmieren (D-UMNW,
D-AGRL)
Summer 2002: Anwendungsnahes Programmieren (D-UMNW,
D-AGRL)
Curriculum Vitae:
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1987
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Matura Typus B (Kantonsschule St.Gallen)
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1993
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Diploma: Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH
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1993-1995
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Assistant at the Institute of Atmospheric
Sciences, ETH
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1995
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Dr. sc. nat.
(thesis: Remote Sensing of Severe Hailstorms)
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1996
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Research associate at Princeton University (Water Resources Program)
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1997-1998
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IT Consultant at Solution Providers in Dübendorf
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1999-2000
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Freelance IT Consultant
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1999-2002
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Postgraduate studies in didactics and pedagogics
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2001-2006
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Academic counseling. Teaching of computer science
courses for students from natural sciences and engineering at ETH Zürich.
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2006-...
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Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, lecturer at ETH.
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Program Committee:
ITEE
2009: Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering, 4th
International ICSC Symposium, 28-29 May, 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Other Activities:
IEEE
senior member
1998 - 2000 Secretary/Treasurer of the IEEE
Switzerland Section
2001 - 2002 Vice-chair of the IEEE Switzerland Section
2003 – 2004 Chair of the IEEE Switzerland Section
2005-2006 Junior Past President of the IEEE Switzerland Section
2007-2008 Senior Past President of the IEEE Switzerland Section
2009-2010 Educational Activities Officer of the IEEE Switzerland Section
Publications: (Bettina Waldvogel formerly known as Bauer-Messmer)
B. Waldvogel, L. Wotruba, K. Müller, S. Bischof (2010).
Drowning in Geospatial Point Data: A Pattern Based Approach, EnviroInfo
2010, Bonn, Germany.
B. Waldvogel (2010). The Disappearance of Landscape Objects
in Databases: An Ontology Driven Approach to Object Representation.
Poster at GIScience 2010,
[http://www.giscience2010.org/pdfs/paper_102.pdf: ]
Grütter, R., Waldvogel, B., & Derungs, C. (2010).
Practical Ontology Development: Some Lessons Learnt. In, Proceedings of
the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology
Development, October 25-28, Valencia, Spain.
Grütter, R., Scharrenbach, T., & Waldvogel, B. (2010).
Vague Spatio-Thematic Query Processing – A Qualitative Approach to
Spatial Closeness. Transactions in GIS, 14(2), 97–109. Oxford, U.K.:
Blackwell Publishing.
Grütter, R., & Waldvogel, B. (2010). Comparing Full-Text, Metadata, Semantic and Combined Search Techniques for Location-Dependent Document Retrieval.
In M. Painho, M.Y. Santos & H. Pundt (Eds.), Proceedings of the
13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science -
Geospatial Thinking. AGILE 2010 archive page. 5 S.
Scharrenbach, T., Grütter, R., Waldvogel, B., &
Bernstein, A. (2010). Structure Preserving TBox Repair using Defaults.
In, Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Description Logics
(DL 2010), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 4–7, 2010. CEUR Workshop
Proceedings.
Bauer-Messmer, B. (2009). LIN: Lernen in Netzwerken,
Einsatz von Web 2.0 zum Vernetzen von Lehrenden und Lernenden in
grossen Lehrveranstaltungen. Erste Erfahrungen 2008/2009.
Bauer-Messmer, B., Müller, K., Wotruba, L., Bischof,
S., Grütter, R., Scharrenbach T., Meile R., Hägeli M., Schenker J.
(2009). The Data Centre Nature and Landscape (DNL): Service Oriented
Architecture, Metadata Standards and Semantic Technologies in an
Environmental Information System. EnviroInfo
2009, Berlin, Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection, 23rd Int. Conf. on Informatics for Environmental Protection, Wohlgemuth V., Page, B., Voigt K. (Eds.), pp. 101-112.
Bauer-Messmer, B., Grütter, R.
(2009). Semantic modeling of temporal information in a database for
biotope inventories. In: Information Technologies in Environmental
Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, I.N. Athanasiadis
et al. (eds), Springer-Verlag, pp 518-534.
Grütter, R., Scharrenbach, T., Bauer-Messmer, B. (2008). Improving an RCC-Derived Geospatial Approximation by OWL Axioms.
In A.P. Sheth, S. Staab, M. Dean, M. Paolucci, D. Maynard, T. Finin, K.
Thirunarayan (Eds.), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2008. 7th International
Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26–30,
2008, Proceedings. LNCS (Volume 5318, pp. 293–306). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
Bauer-Messmer, B., Scharrenbach T., Grütter R. (2008).
Improving an Environmental Ontology by Incorporating User-Input. In:
Proceedings EnviroInfo 2008, Lüneburg, Germany, pp 559-566.
Bischof, S., Bauer-Messmer, B. (2008). Semantic
Enhancement of Environmental Metadata. In: Proceedings EnviroInfo 2008,
Lüneburg, Germany, pp 123-131.
Grütter, R., Bauer-Messmer, B., & Frehner, M. (2008). First Experiences with an Ontology-Based Search for Environmental Data. In, Proceedings of the 11th AGILE International Conference on GI Science, 6-8 May 2008, Girona, Spain.
Grütter, R., Bauer-Messmer,
B.: Towards Spatial Reasoning in the Semantic Web: A Hybrid Knowledge
Representation System Architecture. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg (2007)
Bauer-Messmer, B., Grütter,
R., Schenker, J., Hägeli, M. (2007) Integration
semantisch heterogener Datenquellen von Landschaftsdaten, Datenbank Spektrum,
Sonderheft Geo- und Umweltdatenbanken, pp 36-41.
Frehner, M., Müller, K., Bauer-Messmer, B. (2007) Designing a User Interface for a
Web-based GIS Tool – A Concept for the Virtual Data Centre, 13th EC GI &
GIS Workshop, Porto, June 2007.
Grütter, R., Bauer-Messmer, B.: Combining OWL with RCC for Spatioterminological
Reasoning on Environmental Data. In: OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED). CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(2007)
Bauer-Messmer, B.,
R. Grütter, 2007: Designing a Bilingual Eco-Ontology
for Open and Intuitive Search, submitted to: ITEE 2007: Third International
ICSC Symposium – Information Technology on Environmental Engineering, March
2007, Oldenburg, Germany.
Grütter, R., B. Bauer-Messmer,
2007: Towards Spatial Reasoning in the Semantic Web: A Hybrid Knowledge
Representation System Architecture, submitted to: AGILE 2007, May 2007, Aalborg, Denmark.
Bauer-Messmer, B., L. Fässler, M. Wyss,
2005: Einführungskurse ins Programmieren – eine didaktische Herausforderung.
Entwicklung, Einsatz und erste Erfahrungen mit E.Tutorials
im Programmierunterricht. Final project report, Institute for Computational Science, Technical
Report 499, D-INFK, ETH Zürich.
Bauer-Messmer, B., 2005: Programmieren Lernen mit Java,
Vorlesungsunterlagen und CD-ROM zu den Lehrveranstaltungen “Anwendungsnahes
Programmieren” und “Informatik I”, pp 131.
Bauer-Messmer, B., 2004: Warum Informatik studieren? Faltblatt zum
Informatikstudium (Bachelor- & Masterstudium),
D-INFK, ETH Zürich
Bauer-Messmer B., 2004: Studienführer zum Informatikstudium: Bachelor- und Masterstudium, D-INFK, ETH Zürich, pp 32.
Hinterberger, H., L. Fässler, B.
Bauer-Messmer: From Hybrid Courses to Blended Learning: A Case Study. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New
Educational Environments (ICNEE), 27.-30. September
2004, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Hinterberger H., B. Bauer-Messmer,
1998: Discrete Object Detection and Motion Registration Based on a Data
Management Approach. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on
Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 98, Capri, Italy, IEEE
Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, pp.
89-110.
Bauer-Messmer, B.,
J.A. Smith, M.L. Baeck and W. Zhao, 1997: Heavy
Rainfall: Contrasting Two Concurrent Great Plains
Thunderstorms. Weather and Forecasting.
Bauer-Messmer, B.,
J.A. Smith, M.L. Baeck, 1997: Heavy Rainfall in
Hailstorms, 13. Conference on Hydrology, 2 - 7 February 1997,
Long Beach, CA.
Bauer-Messmer, B.,
and A. Waldvogel, 1997: Satellite Data Based
Detection and Prediction of Hail. Atmospheric Research.
Schmid, W., H.H. Schiesser,
B. Bauer-Messmer, 1997: Nowcasting severe
wind-producing supercell storms with C-band Doppler
radar. accepted for publication, Meteorological
Applications.
Bauer-Messmer, B.,
1996: Detection of hail using satellite data. Progress in Environmental Remote
Sensing Research and Applications, Parlow (ed.), A.A.
Balkema, Rotterdam, ISBN 90 5410 598 4, 447 - 451.
Hinterberger, H., and B. Bauer-Messmer,
1996: Discrete Object Detection and Motion Registration Based on a Data
Management Approach. Proceedings ACM SIGMOD/POD 96 Joint Conference, Montreal, June 3-6, 1996.
Schmid, W., S. Hümbeli, B.
Bauer-Messmer, and W. Linder, 1996: On the formation of supercell
storms. Preprints Conf. on Severe Local Storms, San Francisco CA, 451 - 454.
Schiesser, H.H., W. Schmid, R.A. Houze, Jr., and B.Bauer-Messmer,
1996: A tornado-producing mesoscale convective system
in Northern Switzerland. preprints 7th Mesoscale Process Conference, Reading, UK.
Messmer, B., 1995: Erkennung und Vorhersage von Hagel mit Meteosat-Daten.
Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 4, 187 - 195.
Bauer-Messmer, B., 1995: Remote Sensing of Severe Hailstorms. Dissertation no.
11316, ETH Zürich, pp.130.
Posters and other publications:
L.
Fässler, B. Bauer-Messmer, 2005: Programmieren Lernen
mit Java, invited presentation,
Tag der Lehre, ETH Zürich, November 2005.
L. Fässler, H.Hinterberger, B. Bauer-Messmer,
2004: The Application Guide: Each Student his own tutor, poster presentation in
Ed-MEDIA 04, World Conference on Educational Multimedia , Hypermedida
& Telecommunications, Association fort he Advancement of Computing in
Education (AACE), Lugano.
Hinterberger, H., L. Fässler, B. Bauer-Messmer, 2003: Der Anwendungsführer:
Jeder Studierende sein eigener Tutor, 8. NET-Jahrestagung,
Neue Medien im Hochschulunterricht, Zürich.
Bauer-Messmer, B.; 2000-2001: Unterrichtsmaterialien auf dem Server
für Unterrichtsmaterialien der ETH: EducETH (www.educeth.ch): Entdeckendes Lernen,
Vorträge, Puzzle-Gruppenarbeit.
Bauer-Messmer, B.,
J.A. Smith, and W. Zhao, 1996: A comparison of the storm environments of a
squall line and a heavy rainfall event. AGU spring meeting,
Baltimore MD, May 20 - 24 1996.
Smith, J.A., B. Bauer-Messmer,
M.L. Baeck, 1996: Radar Studies of Heavy Rainfall and
Flash Flooding. Fifth National Heavy Precipitation Workshop,
9 - 16 Sept. 1996, State College, Pennsylvania.
Messmer, B., 1995: Naturwissenschaften und das Internet”, Forum Engelberg,
Engelberg, März 1995.
