Project group: Soil Science & Land Use

Photo: Nikolay Basharin, Institute of Permafrost (Yakutsk)

Soil transformation along Alaas catenas under climate change

Ongoing sub-project

• Inventory of the climate-related change in land use with the help of a GIS analysis based on existing satellite images (field campaign: validation through soil observations and local expert knowledge, summer 2020) - funded by the FZG Fund for promotion of networks and early career scientists, UHOH (funding amount 10,000 €)

Participants at the University of Hohenheim

• Dr. sc. agr. Holger Pagel, Postdoc, Department of Biogeophysics (310d), Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thilo Streck, Head of Department of Biogeophysics (310d), Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation
• Dr. Sergey Blagodatskiy, Postdoc, Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute (490)

International partners

• Prof. Roman V. Desyatkin, Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia
• Prof. Trofim Kh. Maximov, Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences / Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia
• Dr. Nadezda A. Vasilyeva, Interdisciplinary laboratory for mathematical modeling of soil systems, Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Moscow, Russia
• Prof. Mikhail N. Zheleznyak, Director, Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia

Guests

• Njurguyana Nikiforova, Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia (March - August 2020)
• Nadezda A. Vasilyeva, Interdisciplinary laboratory for mathematical modeling of soil systems, Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Moscow, Russia (July 2019)
• Prof. Roman V. Desyatkin, Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia (December 2018)
• Prof. Trofim Kh. Maximov, Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences / Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia (December 2018)