Scientific Outline
This summer school will focus on the measurement and modelling of greenhouse gas (GHG) exchange between soil, plants and the atmosphere as required for process-oriented studies as well as for field- or landscape level GHG budgets. The course will address the various challenges associated with the widely used closed chamber measurement systems with respect to data quality, analysis and up-scaling.
Combining lectures, hands-on exercises, discussions and excursions, acknowledged experts will provide training on the following topics:
- Soil-borne greenhouse gases (CO2, N2O, CH4): research objectives, measurement methods, and relevant environmental factors
- Error sources associated with gas flux measurements and ongoing standardization efforts within the German Soil Science Society (DBG)
- Data management: Preparation, handling, storage, and open-access publication of data
- Flux rate calculation: Introduction, theory and hands-on practical exercises
- Methods for data gap-filling for i) N2O and CH4 and ii) CO2 (incl. interpolation and empirical models)
- Methods for the statistical analysis of gas flux data as well as of relevant environmental parameters and management data methods accounting for inherent spatial and temporal variability
Further Information
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Venue
Forest Demonstration and Research Centre (Lehrforst) of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) and BOKU campus Muthgasse in Vienna, Austria
Duration
Afternoon of Sunday, August 30, 2015 until lunchtime on Saturday, September 5, 2015
Cost
The course fee of € 475 includes course materials, transportation during the course, accommodation (6 nights) and full board in the Lehrforst, breakfast in the student hotel in Vienna and the social dinner in Vienna. Participants are responsible for arranging and paying for their travels to and from Vienna.
Organizing Committee
- Prof. Dr. Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Dr. Michael Zimmermann and Mag. Sonja Leitner, Institute of Soil Research (BOKU), Vienna (Austria)
- Prof. Dr. Stephan Glatzel, Institute of Geography, University of Vienna, Vienna
- Dr. Andreas Schwen, Institute of Hydraulics and Rural Water Management (BOKU)
- Dr. Ulrike Hagemann, Institute of Landscape Biogeochemistry, ZALF, Müncheberg
- Ao. Prof. Dr. Helmut Schume and Ao. Prof. Dr. Klaus Katzensteiner, Institute of Forest Ecology (BOKU)
- Dr. Andreas Gattinger and Maike Krauss, Department of Soil Sciences, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick (Switzerland)
Scientific Contributors:
- Assoc. Prof. Lars Elsgaard, Department of Agroecology - Soil Fertility, Aarhus University, Aarhus (Denmark)
- Dr. Roland Fuß, Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Thünen Institute, Braunschweig
- Mathias Hoffmann, Institute of Soil Landscape Research, ZALF, Müncheberg
- Dr. Gerald Jurasinski, Landscape Ecology and Site Evaluation, University of Rostock
- Dr. Ralf Kiese, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research, KIT, Garmisch-Patenkirchen
- Dr. Martin Wattenbach, German Research Centre For Geosciences, Potsdam
- Prof. Dr. Friedrich. Leisch, Institute of Applied Statistics and Computing (BOKU)