Doctoral researcher and FÖJ volunteer working at TERENO station in Fendt

Research

Climate change imposes major challenges on human-environment systems, particularly in mountain regions, with their sensitivity and vulnerability. Consequences may range from shifts in water abundance, winter floods, summer droughts and loss of biodiversity to reduced viability of winter tourism. Since no single scientific discipline can be capable of providing a complete understanding of climate change interactions and impacts, the development of an interdisciplinary research and training approach is required. This has been the objective of the MICMoR Research School.
MICMoR aimed at strengthening the knowledge about processes and interactions at the interfaces of atmosphere-biosphere-pedo-/hydrosphere research in complex mountain terrain. Large parts of its research were carried out at the TERENO Pre-Alpine Observatory in Southern Bavaria, Germany.

Research topics of MICMoR Fellows and Alumni


Sarah Asam: Derivation of a spatial and temporal high-resolution Leaf Area Index (LAI) time series from multi-scale remote sensing data using a radiation transfer model. University of Würzburg & DLR. PhD completed in 2014.

Barbara Bejer †: Assessment of carbon-based greenhouse gas exchange (CO2, CH4) of pre-alpine peat forests. KIT Campus Alpin.

Sofia Calvo-Rodriguez: Spatio-temporal interaction of precipitation, soil moisture and heat fluxes in prealpine terrain. University of Alberta, Canada. PhD completed in 2020.

David Gampe: Assessment of uncertainties in the hydro-climatic modeling chain over heterogeneous landscapes. LMU Munich. PhD completed in 2018.

Cornelius Hald: Analysis of meso- and microscale hydrometeorological fluxes in TERENO preAlpine using WRF-LES. KIT Campus Alpin & University of Augsburg. In progress.

Stefan Härer: Making use of local remote sensing measurements for improving snow cover products over different scales. LMU Munich. PhD completed in 2018.

Felix Havermann (né Wiß): Biogenic volatile organic compound emissions from bioenergy plants and potential impacts on air chemistry. KIT Campus Alpin & TUM. PhD completed in 2019.

Katja Heidbach: Flux footprint modeling of biosphere-atmosphere exchange measurements. KIT Campus Alpin & TUM. PhD completed in 2019.

Florian Heinlein: Water flow in single plants and crops: Modeling and measurements. Helmholtz Zentrum München & TUM. PhD completed in 2017.

Verena Huber García: Modelling integrated scenarios of land use change and water management in two Mediterranean river basins. LMU Munich. PhD completed in 2020.

Stephan Jung: Emission of allergenic grass pollen from TERENO preAlpine observatory sites. TUM. In progress.

Philipp Koal: Household of greenhouse gases in global change adapted agricultural soil-plant systems. Helmholtz Zentrum München & TUM. In progress.

Marvin Lüpke: Drought effects on isoprenoid emissions of Pinus sylvestris L. and Castanea sativa MILL. assessed by the Tree Drought Emission Monitor. TUM. PhD completed in 2018.

François Malique: Biogeochemistry of denitrification - from plant-soil mesocosms studies to biogeochemical modelling at the ecosystem level. KIT Campus Alpin & University of Freiburg. In progress.

Birgitta Putzenlechner: Assessing uncertainties of in situ FAPAR measurements across different forest ecosystems: implications for the validation of satellite derived FAPAR products. LMU Munich. PhD completed in 2020.

Stephanie Rehschuh: Impact of European beech forest diversification on soil organic carbon stocks, the greenhouse gas balance, and water and nutrient supply. KIT Campus Alpin & University of Freiburg. In progress.

Ladislav Šigut: Analysis of daily courses of GPP and NPP estimated by eddy covariance method
in mountain forest ecosystems in the Czech Republic. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic & University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. PhD completed in 2016.

Jamie Smidt: Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes from the Reed Area of a Fen in Southwest Germany. KIT Campus Alpin & TUM. In progress.

Mohsen Soltani: Spatiotemporal variability of water and energy fluxes: TERENO prealpine hydrometeorological data analysis and inverse modeling with GEOtop and PEST. KIT Campus Alpin & University of Augsburg. PhD completed in 2019.

Kayla Stan: Spatio-temporal interaction of carbon and latent heat fluxes in pre-alpine and boreal forest regions. University of Alberta, Canada. PhD completed in 2019.

Javier Tejedor: Nitrogen turnover in mountainous beech forests stocking on marginal calcareous soils: effects of climate change and forest management. KIT Campus Alpin & University of Freiburg. PhD completed in 2017.

Christoph-Josef Thieme: Measurements and modelling of energy and greenhouse gas fluxes from complex cropland ecosystems. Helmholtz Zentrum München & TUM. PhD completed in 2018.

Chante’ Vines: Baseline Methane Concentrations using Eddy Covariance Methods near a Hydraulic Fracturing Site. Ohio State University. In progress.

Karl Voglmeier: Hot spots and more: multi scale measurements for a better understanding of gaseous emissions from grazing systems. Agroscope Zürich & ETH Zürich, Switzerland. PhD completed in 2018.

Anne-Lena Wahl: Effects of climate change on plant-fungus interaction in alpine pastures. IRSTEA & University of Grenoble, France. PhD completed in 2016.

Lingxiao Wang: Monitoring permafrost environments with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors. LMU Munich. PhD completed in 2018.

Luise Wanner: Modelling the effect of a heterogeneous ecosystem on atmospheric transport processes of energy and matter. KIT Campus Alpin. In progress.

Michael Weber: Modeling climate change impacts on the hydrological regime of a high-mountain region. LMU Munich. PhD completed in 2020.

Claudia Weitnauer: Local PM10 concentrations in Bavaria (Germany) and their connections to
large scale circulation types. University of Augsburg. PhD completed in 2016.

Ye Yuan: A generalized data selection method for atmospheric carbon dioxide data. TUM. PhD completed in 2020.

Yuhao Zhu: Greenhouse gas emissions from excreta deposited onto tropical pasture in sub-Saharan Africa. KIT Campus Alpin & University of Freiburg. PhD completed in 2020.

Pablo Zuazo: Development of a fully automated soil incubation and gas sampling system for quantifying trace gas emission pulses from soils at high temporal resolution. KIT Campus Alpin & University of Freiburg. PhD completed in 2017.