Division of Agronomy
Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Awards 2025
11 November 2025: Our group member Paulina Englert received an award for her poster at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) conference in Vienna.
In her poster, she presented a dataset covering 2.5 years of half-hourly Eddy Covariance nitrous oxide (N₂O) flux measurements from the research station of the University of Göttingen called Reinshof (DE-Rns). N₂O emissions induced by fertilization, rainfall, freeze–thaw cycles, and tillage, as well as periods of N₂O uptake were observed. The results emphasize the importance of year-round, high-resolution N₂O measurements to capture short-term emission peaks and diel cycles. Such data are essential for obtaining realistic estimates of greenhouse gas budgets from crop cultivation as a basis to develop effective mitigation strategies.
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Contact person(s) in Division Agronomy:
- Paulina Englert, Tel. 0551-39-25789, paulina.englert@uni-goettingen.d
Research Unit 5903 Sustainable Rurbanity funded by DFG
04 July 2025: The newly established DFG Research Unit 5903 will investigate urbanization processes in the interplay of human action, historically evolved spatial structures and ecological processes. The consortium of 8 German institutions and 14 partners in India, Ghana and Morocco will initially receive 7.4 million euros in funding. The Universities of Kassel and Göttingen act as applicants of the proposal.
In sub-project C01 of the consortium, the Division Agronomy will develop indicators for the characterization and mapping of rurban areas. To this end, information from the research unit's sub-projects will be linked with high-resolution remote sensing data and socio-economic data from census reports and other geodata. We are cooperating with partners at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, at the University of Kassel and at the University of Casablanca in Morocco. The global-scale approaches for the quantification and mapping of rurban phenomena will be validated by regional analyses of the Moroccan partners developed with more detailed regional data.
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The development of settlement areas in the vicinity of Bengaluru (India) in the period 1985-2015. Source: DLR World Settlement Footprint Evolution
Research stay at ETH Zürich
02 June 2025: This week, our PhD student Paulina Englert returned from her three-month research stay at ETH Zürich in the group of Prof. Nina Buchmann. From March to May 2025 she was working with the Eddy Covariance Nitrous Oxide experts on her dataset taken at Reinshof. It was a great chance to learn new approaches like machine learning driver analysis and SHAP analysis. Also, she had the opportunity to visit their research sites across Switzerland in croplands, grasslands and forests (e.g. the ICOS Class 1 station Davos) and the ICOS station Jungfraujoch.
We thank the Grassland Sciences group for the wonderful time in Zürich and the PhenoRob project for supporting this exchange.
Contact at the Division Agronomy:
- Paulina Englert, Tel. 0551-39-25789, paulina.englert@uni-goettingen.de
