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Advanced Research Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- matthias.kuhnert@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
Dr. Matthias Kuhnert Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, 23 St Machar Drive, Room G43 Aberdeen AB24 3UU Scotland, UK
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
since 2010 Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Aberdeen (Scotland)
2007 - 2010 Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology of the Technische Universitaet Dresden (Germany)
2003 - 2006 GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (Germany)
2002 Visiting scholar at the Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Maryland (USA)
1994 - 1997 Biological Technician at the Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine in Goettingen (Germany)
- Research
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Research Overview
The research focus is environmental modelling, with the focus on greenhouse gas emissions and soil organic carbon. Especially, croplands and potential mitigation options for climate change were part of recent research. Here negative emissions (carbon sequestration to capture and store carbon from the atmosphere) are of major interest.
Alongside carbon sequestration strategies, carbon accounting including the measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) of soil organic carbon changes is of special interest. MRV systems provide data for soil organic carbon changes, which are required for carbon certificate trading, legal obligations or subsidies. My actual work shows also a strong focus on developing applicable MRV systems, which are crucial to implement mitigation strategies.
As an environmental modeller, I use a wide range of different models. In my actual work and mainly use the biogeochemical models DAYCENT and ECOSSE. The actual focus of my modelling work is on European agriculture and rice systems.
Key words: MRV systems, Map Comparison, Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Transfer, phenology, ecological modelling, soil erosion, water repellent soils, nitrogen Emissions, scale effects, extreme events, GHG emissions, soil organic carbon, SOC modelling, decomposition, croplands, agriculture, climate neutral, sustainable farming, organic farming
Current Research
ClieNFarms: https://www.inrae.fr/en/news/more-climate-neutral-and-climate-resilient-farms-across-europe
VERIFY: http://verify.lsce.ipsl.fr/
Past Research
CIRCASA: https://www.circasa-project.eu/
U-GRASS: https://www.soilsecurity.org/u-grass/
MACSUR: http://macsur.eu/
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
SBS Master projects
Honours Essay Course (BI4517)
Part of the "Catchment Management Course" (EK5511) lecture series: Introduction to hydrological Modelling (this includes a lecture, a practical exercise and a tutorial)
Part of the "Ecology and Environmental Science" (BI1511) lecture series: Interconnectivity, Biogeochemistry 1 + 2, Climate Change and Mitigation
Supervision of 3 PhD students.
- Publications
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Mitigation potential for carbon sequestration on four British wheat sites
5th International Symposium on Soil Organic MatterContributions to Conferences: AbstractsVariability of effects of spatial climate data aggregation on regional yield simulation by crop models
Climate Research, vol. 65, pp. 53–69Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01326
Impact of droughts on the carbon cycle in European vegetation: a probabilistic risk analysis using six vegetation models
Biogeosciences, vol. 11, no. 22, pp. 6357-6375Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6357-2014
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5173/1/bg_11_6357_2014.pdf
The challenge of modelling nitrogen management at the field scale: simulation and sensitivity analysis of N2O fluxes across nine experimental sites using DailyDayCent
Environmental Research Letters, vol. 9, no. 9, 095003Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssessing the sensitivity of modelled estimates of N2O emissions and yield to input uncertainty at a UK cropland experimental site using the DailyDayCent model
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, vol. 99, no. 1-3, pp. 119-133Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCapturing Cropland and Grassland Management Impacts on Soil Carbon in the UK LULUCF Inventory
Commissioned by UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. NERC/Centre for Ecology Hydrology. 90 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsEnvironmental change impacts on the C- and N-cycle of European forests: A model comparison study
Biogeosciences, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1751-1773Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAttributing greenhouse gas emissions associated with land use and land use change to direct and indirect human and natural drivers: a modelling study to estimate their relative importance
European Geosciences UnionContributions to Journals: AbstractsSystems approaches in global change and biogeochemistry research
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 367, no. 1586, pp. 311-321Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0173
Simulating N2O and NO emissions from European forest and grassland ecosystems using the process based model DailyDaycent
European Geosciences UnionContributions to Conferences: Abstracts