Institute of Soil Science
Prof. Dr. Lars Kutzbach
Photo: Lars Kutzbach
Professor for soils in the climate system
Address
Universität Hamburg
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Office
AP2
Room: 304a
Office hours
- Thursday 9 - 10am
Contact
Tel.: +49 40 42838-2021
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2015 | Professor of "Soils in the climate system" at the Institute for Soil Science at Hamburg University |
| 2011 | Successful Interim Evaluation of the Juniorprofessorship |
| 2009 | Juniorprofessorship at Hamburg University, Institute of Soil Science Head of the CliSAP Research Group "Regional Hydrology in Terrestrial Systems", Cluster of Excellence "Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction" |
| 2006 | PhD at Hamburg University, Department of Earth Sciences Topic: The Exchange of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide between Wet Arctic Tundra and the Atmosphere at the Lena River Delta, Northern Siberia |
| 2005 - 2008 | Scientific assistant at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology |
| 2000 - 2005 | PhD-Project at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research and Oceanography, Potsdam |
| 2000 | Degree Biologist, Hamburg University Topic: Die Bedeutung der Vegetation und bodeneigener Parameter für die Methanflüsse in Permafrostböden |
Research Focus
- The pedosphere in the climate system
- Element cycling at boundary layers of the earth system (collaboration with CEN)
- Regional hydrology in terrestrial systems (CliSAP-project)
- Landscape-atmospheres and lateral material flows in permafrost (EU-project PAGE21, BMFB-projects CarboPerm & KoPf)
- Landscape development and nutrient cycle of permafrost in climate change (DFG-project POLYGON)
- Hydrology, carbon and nutrient cycle of marshland at boreal, temperate and Mediterranean climatic zones (CliSAP flexible pool project, DAAD projectbased person exchange with Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Almeriá, Spain)
- New statistic proceedings for amplitude optimized paleo climate reconstructions of chronological high-resolution, noisy proxy data (DFG-project)
Teaching
Lectures
- Global biogeochemical cycling and the climate system (Lecture with practice; 4 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-1.2.; together with Jens Hartmann)
- Soil, water and vegetation processes and their coupling to the atmosphere (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-2.3., M.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-M-BK2.2; together with Christian Knoblauch)
- Permafrost soils and landscapes in the climate system (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-3.3, M.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-M-BK1.1; together with Eva-Maria Pfeiffer)
- Using the eddy covariance approach for analysing land-atmosphere fluxes of energy and matter (Lecture with program practice; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-3.3, M.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-M-BK1.1; together with Norman Rößger)
Courses
- Aktuelle Themen der Erdsystemforschung (2 SWS; M.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-M-BK1.1; together with Annette Eschenbach, Eva-Maria Pfeiffer)
- Interdisziplinäres Seminar (2 SWS; M.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-M-BK3.2; Coordinator)
- Scales in the climate system (M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-2.1; together with Johanna Baehr, Jörn Behrens, Michael Brüggemann, Thomas Frisius, Inga Hense, Lars Kaleschke, Simone Rödder, Maike Scheffold and Jürgen Scheffran)
Work Experiences, Practice, Field Trips
- Bodenkundliche Geländeübungen: Böden der Hahnheide (2 SWS; B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-1.2; together with Christian Knoblauch, Claudia Fiencke)
- Bodenkundliche Geländeübungen: Böden vor der Haustür (2 SWS; B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-3.4; together with Claudia Fiencke, David Holl und Eva-Maria Pfeiffer)
- Bodenkundliche Geländeübungen: Böden der Küstenniederungen (2 SWS; B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-3.1; together with Andreas Hadenfeldt)
- Praktikum und Seminar: Geowissenschaftliches Studienprojekt (B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-5.2; together with Annette Eschenbach, Eva-Maria Pfeiffer and other lecturers)
- Geowissenschaftliche Abschluss-Exkursion Erzgebirge / Ötztal (4 SWS, B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-6.1; together with Eva-Maria Pfeiffer)
- Field Course on Soil-Atmosphere Coupling (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-2.3; together with Olga Vybornova)
- Geländeübungen und Seminar: Soils and Land Use of Wetlands (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-2.3; together with Andreas Hadenfeldt)
Further Duties and Activities
University Duties
- Program representative B.Sc. Geoscience
- Deputy program representative M.Sc. Geoscience
- Advisory Committee Member of the Grad School "School of Integrated Climate System Sciences"
- Deputy program representative for the German-Russian M.Sc. Applied Polar and Marine Sciences (POMAR)
- Chairman for Ph.D. panels in various grad schools (currently 14)
- Head of the postdoc program COM (Career Oriented Mentoring) of the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP
- Regular mentor of Postdoc junior-scientists in COM-program
- Member of Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)
- Co-representative of the CEN-Research Focus "Element Cycling at Boundary Layers of the Earth System"
Further Non-University Activities
- Referee for diverse scientific funding agencies (DBU, DFG, NSF, NOAA)
- Referee for international scientific journals
- Advisory council member of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Polarforschung", the German Society for Polar Research
Publications
Boike, J., Nitzbon, J., Anders, K., Grigoriev, M., Bolshiyanov, D., Langer, M., Lange, S., Bornemann, N., Morgenstern, A., Schreiber, P., Wille, C., Chadburn, S., Gouttevin, I., Kutzbach, L.. “A 16-year record (2002–2017) of permafrost, active layer, and meteorological conditions at the Samoylov Island Arctic permafrost research site, Lena River Delta, northern Siberia: an opportunity to validate remote sensing data and land surface, snow, and permafrost models”. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 11. (2019): S. 261-299.DOI: 10.5194/essd-11-261-2019
Eckhardt, T., Knoblauch, C., Kutzbach, L., Holl, D., Simpson, G., Abakumov, E., Pfeiffer, E.-M.. “Partitioning net ecosystem exchange of CO2 on the pedon scale in the Lena River Delta, Siberia”. Biogeosciences 16. (2019): S. 1543-1562.https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1543-2019
Holl, D., Pancotto, V., Heger, A., Camargo, S.J., Kutzbach, L.. “Cushion bogs are stronger carbon dioxide net sinks than moss-dominated bogs as revealed by eddy covariance measurements on Tierra del Fuego, Argentina”. Biogeosciences 16. (2019): S. 3397–3423.10.5194/bg-16-3397-2019
Holl, D., Wille, C., Sachs, T., Schreiber, P., Runkle, B. R. K., Beckebanze, L., Langer, M., Boike, J., Pfeiffer, E.-M., Fedorova, I., Bolshianov, D. Y., Grigoriev, M. N.,Kutzbach, L.. “A long-term (2002 to 2017) record of closed-path and open-path eddy covariance CO2 net ecosystem exchange fluxes from the Siberian Arctic”. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 11. (2019): S. 221-240.10.5194/essd-11-221-2019
Knox, Sara H.; Jackson, Robert B.; Poulter, Benjamin; ... Kutzbach, Lars; ... Zona, Donatella. “FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity: Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2019) 10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0268.1