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Current Projects
Current Projects
German Agricultural Soil Inventory
(BZE-LW)
German Agricultural Soil Inventory
(BZE-LW)
On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture we analyze at the Thünen-Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture all German agricultural soils in a 8x8 km grid. This is the basis for the German greenhouse gas reporting and quantification of emissions from the agricultural sector. For full description see and the team here.
I am responsible for the development of the first national soil spectral library using MIR spectroscopy and identify changes of soil organic matter as a relation of its quality and pyrogenic carbon.
Achieved Projects
Achieved Projects
Where on Earth in fire-derived carbon stored?
Where on Earth in fire-derived carbon stored?
2018-2023
In this project we epxlored the role and fate of pyrogenic and wildfire-derived carbon in permafrost-affected and tropical soils. This project was funded by the Swiss National Sceince Foundation and led by Smauel Abiven. Full description here.
Deep soil flipping of grassland soils in New Zealand.
Deep soil flipping of grassland soils in New Zealand.
2017
We investigated the change in soil organic carbon stocks after deep soil inversion at the New Zealand West Coast over twenty years. This project was a corperation of the Thünen-Institut of Climate Smart Agriculture in Germany and the Plant and Food Research Institute in New Zealand.
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