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Connecting the carbon, water, and energy cycles in carbon-rich northern landscapes through a sustainable research program

The goal of this project is to expand the understanding of the tundra and other northern landscapes in order to predict changes to the water and carbon cycles. This research provides a rigorous baseline upon which one may compare the results of expected climate and land use change. It is particularly focused toward the needs of the global climate modelling community. The modelling community has suggested that the permafrost region of Russia is one of their more poorly understood regions of the world while one of the most critical – due to its scale and high carbon content. Over the next two years, I will expand on research questions developed during my three years in Hamburg by increasing collaboration with modelers in Hamburg and field scientists from Russia. Together, these approaches offer an integrated methodology to scientific questions between and within the carbon, water, and energy cycles. This work will include new field work and careful interpretations of measurements derived from two landscapes of northern Russia. The new field data acquisition and process studies over the next two years will focus on a new landscape type for our research group, namely the annually flooded banks along the Lena River Delta. The full research program directly crosses spatial scales (soil pore to landscape) and contributes to understanding across even larger scales (several grid cells within global climate models, multiple remote sensing image pixels). Its contributions to sustainability initiatives include an expanded outreach and educational component funded in part through the KNU’s mini-grant program.

Institution

Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences

Department

Geowissenschaften

Field, Centrum

Institut für Bodenkunde

Researcher

Ph.D. Benjamin Runkle

Project duration

2012 bis 2014

Internal partner

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Kutzbach (Fakultät für Mathemeatik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften)

External partner

Klimacampus, Centre for Globalization and Governance

Funded by

KNU (Föli 3, Föli 4)

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Contact
Universität Hamburg
Center for a Sustainable University
Mittelweg 177
20148 Hamburg
www.nachhaltige.uni-hamburg.de
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