Dr Martin Wattenbach
Honorary Research Fellow
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m.wattenbach@abdn.ac.uk
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St. Machar Drive 23, room G43, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, UK
Honorary Research Fellow
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http://www.abdn.ac.uk/modelling/
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Biography
Work experience
Jan. 2009 - current: Research fellow, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
CC-TAME project: focus on the assessment of impacts of agricultural land-use policies under consideration of the resulting feed-backs on the climate system in the European Union, funding: EU-FP7
CarboExtreme project: task leader: Crop yield variations and climate, Conditional probabilities of change in continental scale annual C sink, funding: EU-FP7
Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2008: Research assistant, Plant and Soil Science Department, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
CarboEurope IP: estimation of cropland carbon dynamic across scales and associated uncertainties, member of the uncertainty task force, funding: EU-FP6
Research visit to Fudan University (10days), The People's Republic of China, collaboration with Changming Fang, Professor of Soil Ecology, focus on temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon (SOC) turnover, funding: BBSRC
May 2003 - Jan. 2004: Research assistant, Plant and Soil Science Department, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
GREENGRASS project: uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of soil organic matter models (DNDC, PASIM), funding EU-FP5
Jan. 1999 - May 2003: Researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
MESSAGE project: forest hydrology interactions at landscape scale, part time, contributed to my doctoral thesis with the same focus
Oct. 1994 - Sep. 1999: Student worker, University Potsdam, Germany
DFG project: flood plain ecology and plant science in the lower Havel region
Administrative experience
Jan 2008 - Sept. 2008: Master course planning commission, University Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Design of a joint biology engineering department course in Systems Biology, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/systemsbiology/
Jun. 2008: scientific organiser, summer school, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Uncertainty in ecosystem modelling; Joint activity of NitroEurope IP and CarboEurope IP, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/modelling/summerschool/index.htm
Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2008: assistant of the cropland component coordinator in CarboEurope IP
Scientific organisation of meetings, write up of the annual reports, coordination of joint publication activities
Apr. 2005: scientific organiser, soil modelling conference and workshop, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
"Propagation of uncertainties in the representation of soil processes underlying carbon fluxes from measurements to Modelling" http://www.abdn.ac.uk/modelling/esf/index.htm
Dec. 2004: scientific organiser for the COST action 627 workshop Aberdeen, United Kingdom
"Propagation of uncertainties in the representation of processes underlying net ecosystem exchange (NEE) in grassland ecosystem models", Aberdeen ,Scotland, UK, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/modelling/cost627/index.htm
Education and qualification
Oct. 2003 - Dec. 2008: Dr. rer. nat. in Geo-ecology, University Potsdam, Germany, mark: magna cum laude
Thesis project: "The hydrological effects of changes in forest area and species composition in the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany", supervisors: Prof. Wolfgang Cramer, Dr. Franz Badeck,
Part time beside my full time job at Aberdeen University, United Kingdom
Oct. 1992 - Jan. 1999: Diplom Biologe, University Potsdam, Germany, mark: 1,0
Thesis project: Naturschutzfachliche Beurteilung von Gehölzen und Restwäldern der Unteren Havelniederung nach pflanzensoziologisch-standortkundlichen Kriterien", supervisors: Prof. Poetsch and Prof. Bork
Main subject of my study: "Ecology and nature conservation"
Oct. 1991 - Sep. 1992: Energy and process engineering, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Terminated after two semesters because of the lack of agreement between my interests in environmental subjects and the focus of the course
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Current Research
Carbon Balance of cropland ecosystems across scales in http://www.carboeurope.org/
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Collaborations
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: design and implementation of an uncertainty framework for ecosystem models see http://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/flechsig
http://www.nitroeurope.eu/: Uncertainty task force
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Research Grants
2009:
CarboExtreme project: task leader: Crop yield variations and climate, Conditional probabilities of change in continental scale annual C sink, funding: EU-FP7
GHG-Europe: GHG management in European land use systems, EU-FP7 project, named contributing scientist: uncertainty propagation from measurements to modelling
2008:
Summer school on uncertainty in ecosystem modelling, Budget: £10000, funding body: CarboEurope IP, NitroEurope IP projects
2005:
Co-applicant for the "soil modelling conference and workshop on propagation of uncertainties in the representation of soil processes underlying carbon", Budget: £20000, funding body: European Science Foundation, COST action 627, British Soil Science Society, Scottish Executive
2004:
Co-applicant for the workshop "propagation of uncertainties in the representation of processes underlying net ecosystem exchange (NEE) in grassland ecosystem models", Budget: £8000, funding body: COST action 627
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Teaching Responsibilities
2007-present: lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science", Aberdeen University, United Kingdom
Lectures given for undergraduate students in: " Land use and the water cycle", "Atmosphere and Ocean", "Atmosphere and the earth's surface", "Ocean circulation and the global environment", "Ocean composition and the global environment"; practical supervision: "Cycling of carbon in the global environment", "Can we control the earth’s climate by fertilising the oceans"
2003-present: co-supervision of MSc, BSc and PhD students
April 2001 - May 2003: honorary lecturer (Lehrauftrag), University of Potsdam, Germany
Courses given in floodplain ecology and biotope mapping for geo-ecology students
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External Responsibilities
Contributing author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forth assessment report: workgroup III - "Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Agriculture"
Reviewer for the European Science Foundation (ESF), Global Change Biology, Agriculture - Ecosystems and Environment, Ecology Letters, Oecologia, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Sciences Journal/Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques
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Selected Publications
The potential distribution of bioenergy crops in the UK under present and future climate
Jessica Bellarby, Martin Wattenbach, Gill Tuck, Margaret J. Glendining&
Pete Smith
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Ciais, P., Wattenbach, M., Vuichard, N., Smith, P., Piao, S.L., Don, A., Luyssaert, S., Janssens, I.A., Dechow, R., Leip, A., Smith, P., Beer, C., van der Werf, G.R., Gervois, S., Tomelleri, E., Freibauer, A., Schulze, E.D., 2009. The European Greenhouse Gas Balance Revisited. Part 2: Croplands. Global Change Biol., in press
Ciais, P., Soussana, J.F., Vuichard, N., Janssens, I., Piao, S.L., Dechow, R., Luyssaert, S., Wattenbach , M., Smith, P., Freibauer, A., Schulze, E.D., 2009. The European Carbon Balance Revisited. Part 1: Grasslands. Global Change Biol., in press.
Gottschalk, P., Bellarby, J., Chenu, C., Foereid, B., Smith, P., Wattenbach, M., Zingore, S., Smith, J., 2009, Simulation of soil organic carbon response at forest cultivation sequences using 13C measurements. Organic Geochemistry, in press
Hastings, A., Clifton-Brown, J., Wattenbach, M., Stampfl, P., Paul Mitchell, C. and Smith, P., 2008. Potential of Miscanthus grasses to provide energy and hence reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 28:465-472.
Smith, P., Martino, D., Cai, Z., Gwary, D., Janzen, H., Kumar, P., McCarl, B., Ogle, S., O'Mara, F., Rice, C., Scholes, B., Sirotenko, O., Howden, M., McAllister, T., Pan, G., Romanenkov, V., Schneider, U., Towprayoon, S., Wattenbach, M. and Smith, J., 2008. Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363:789-813.
Gottschalk, P., Wattenbach, M., Neftel, A., Fuhrer, J., Jones, M., Lanigan, G., Davis, P., Campbell, C., Soussana, J.F. and Smith, P., 2007. The role of measurement uncertainties for the simulation of grassland net ecosystem exchange (NEE) in Europe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 121:175-185.
Smith, P., Smith, J.U., Franko, U., Kuka, K., Romanenkov, V.A., Shevtsova, L.K., Wattenbach, M., Gottschalk, P., Sirotenko, O.D., Rukhovich, D.I., Koroleva, P.V., Romanenko, I.A. and Lisovoi, N.V., 2007. Changes in mineral soil organic carbon stocks in the croplands of European Russia and the Ukraine, 1990-2070; Comparison of three models and implications for climate mitigation. Regional Environmental Change, 7:105-119.
Standing, D., Baggs, E.M., Wattenbach, M., Smith, P. and Killham, K., 2007. Meeting the challenge of scaling up processes in the plant-soil-microbe system. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 44:245-257.
Smith, P., Chapman, S.J., Scott, W.A., Black, H.I.J., Wattenbach, M., Milne, R., Campbell, C.D., Lilly, A., Ostle, N., Levy, P.E., Lumsdon, D.G., Millard, P., Towers, W., Zaehle, S. and Smith, J.U., 2007. Climate change cannot be entirely responsible for soil carbon loss observed in England and Wales, 1978-2003. Global Change Biology, 13(12): 2605-2609.
Standing, D., Baggs, E., Wattenbach, M., Smith, P. and Killham, K., 2007. Meeting the challenge of scaling up processes in the plant–soil–microbe system. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 44(2): 245-257.
Wattenbach, M., Zebisch, M., Hattermann, F., Gottschalk, P., Goemann, H., Kreins, P., Badeck, F., Lasch, P., Suckow, F., Wechsung, F., Hydrological impact assessment of afforestation and change in
tree-species composition a regional case study for the federal state of Brandenburg (Germany), Journal of
Hydrology (2006), doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.08.005
Smith, J.O., Smith, P., Wattenbach, M., Gottschalk, P.I.A., Romanenkov, V.A., Shevtsova, L.K., Sirotenko, O.D., Rukhovich, D.I., Koroleva, P.V., Romanenko, I.A. and Lisovoi, N.V., 2007. Projected changes in the organic carbon stocks of cropland mineral soils of European Russia and the Ukraine, 1990-2070. Global Change Biology, 13(2): 342-356.
Burkart, M.; Wattenbach, M.; Wichmann, M.; Pötsch, J. (2003): Die Vegetation der unteren Havelaue: Stand der Forschung und Perspektiven in: Die ökologische Station Gülpe der Universität Potsdam : Forschungen an der Unteren Havel / Hrsg.: Ralf-Udo Mühle ; Klaus Kaden ; Florian Jeltsch. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2003. - 139 S., Brandenburgische Umweltberichte 13, http://info.ub.uni-potsdam.de/zsr/bub/issues/vol13.pdf
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Hastings, AFSJ., Wattenbach, M., Eugster, W., Li, C., Buchmann, N. & Smith, P. (2010). 'Uncertainty propagation in soil greenhouse gas emission models: An experiment using the DNDC model and at the Oensingen cropland site'. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, vol 136, no. 1-2, pp. 97-110.
[Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2009.11.016 - Eugster, W., Moffat, AM., Ceschia, E., Aubinet, M., Ammann, C., Osborne, B., Davis, PA., Smith, P., Jacobs, C., Moors, E., Le Dantec, V., Beziat, P., Saunders, M., Jans, W., Gruenwald, T., Rebmann, C., Kutsch, WL., Czerny, R., Janous, D., Moureaux, C., Dufranne, D., Carrara, A., Magliulo, V., Di Tommasi, P., Olesen, JE., Schelde, K., Olioso, A., Bernhofer, C., Cellier, P., Larmanou, E., Loubet, B., Wattenbach, M., Marloie, O., Sanz, M., Sogaard, H. & Buchmann, N. (2010). 'Management effects on European cropland respiration'. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, vol 139, no. 3, pp. 346-362.
[Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.09.001
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