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Soil Science

Photo: Christina Steffens, UHH, Institut für Bodenkunde

Prof. Dr. Lars Kutzbach

Prof. Dr. Lars Kutzbach

Photo: Lars Kutzbach

Professor for Soils in the Climate System

Address

University of Hamburg
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg

Office

AP2
Room: 304a

Office hours

  • by arrangement

Contact

Tel: +49 40 2395-22021

Curriculum Vitae

since 2015 Professor of "Soils in the climate system" at the Institute for Soil Science at Hamburg University
2009 Junior professorship 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 Diploma Biology, Hamburg University
Topic: "Die Bedeutung der Vegetation und bodeneigener Parameter für die Methanflüsse in Permafrostböden"

Research Focus

  • Soils in the Climate System
  • Greenhouse Gas Dynamics and Landscape Development of Permafrost Landscapes (DFG Project POLYGON, EU Project PAGE21, BMBF Projects Carboperm, KoPf, MOMENT, MOMENTplus, and CLICCS N4)
  • Monitoring and Balancing of Greenhouse Gases in Peatlands (A26-EkG,  Project A26-muT Project)
  • Greenhouse Gas Processes and Biotic Interactions in Tidal Marshes (RTG2530)
  • Knowledge Transfer Network Orchard Soils in the Altes Land (WEBB)
     

Teaching

Lectures

  • 63-211 Genese, Diversität und Funktion von Böden (Vorlesung; 2 SWS; B.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-B-3.4; together with Christian Beer)
  • 63-902 Biogeochemical Earth System Processes (Vorlesung mit Übungen; 4 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ESW-M-CLISYS; together with Jens Hartmann)
  • 63-313 Soil, water and vegetation processes and their coupling to the atmosphere (Vorlesung mir Übungen; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ESW-CLISPEC, M.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-M-B2.2; together with Christian Knoblauch)
  • 63-320 Permafrost soils and landscapes in the climate system (Vorlesung; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ESW-CLIADVANCE, M.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-M-B3.1; together with Christian Beer)

Courses

  • 63-267 Wissenstransfer-Lernprojekt Obstbauböden im Alten Land (Seminar mit Exkursionen; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-B-3.1)
  • 63-301 Interdisziplinäres Seminar (Seminar; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-M-G3.2, GeoW-M-B3.2, GeoW-M-M3.2; Koordinator)
  • 63-933 Researching and Shaping Climate Futures (Seminar, 2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ESW-CLINT; together with Johanna Baehr, Jörn Behrens, Leonard Borchert, Michael Brüggemann, Achim Oberg)
  • 63-312 Frontiers of Soil-Scientific Research: Water, Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics of Permafrost-Affected Soils and Landscapes (Seminar; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-M-B3.1, together with Christian Beer, Claudia Fiencke and Minjung Kwon)
  • 63-986 Climate Study Project Preparation (Seminar; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ESW-CLISTUDY, together with Johanna Baehr)

Work Experiences, Practice, Field Trips

  • 63-217 Geowissenschaftliche Abschlussexkursion Ostdeutschland (Exkursion und Seminar; 4 SWS, B.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-B-5.2; together with Tim Eckhardt-Laub)

  • 63-310 Bodendiversität und internationale Bodenklassifikation (Übungen und Seminar; 2 SWS, M.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-M-B1.1; together with Oliver Kaufmann)

  • 63-324 Bodenkundlicher Feldkurs Grönland (Geländepraktikum und Seminar; 6 SWS, M.Sc. Geowissenschaften GeoW-M-B2.1; together with Claudia Fiencke)

  • 63-918 Soils and Land Use of Wetlands (Geländepraktikum und Seminar; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ESW-CLISPEC; together with Andreas Hadenfeldt)

Research and Preparatory Projects (in preparation for theses)

Further Duties and Activities

University activities

  • Member of the leadership team of the Department of Earth System Sciences
  • Deputy Representative for Studies and Teaching in the Department of Earth System Sciences
  • Academic Head of the School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS)
  • Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS)
  • Co-Leader of CLICCS Research Topic N4: Scale interactions in a warming Arctic
  • Leader of the subproject 3: “Effects of permafrost thawing and formation on the methane fluxes in heterogeneous tundra landscapes” of the BMBF-project “MOMENT”
  • Spokesperson of the teaching area "Biogeochemistry of the Climate System" of the international study programme M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences
  • Member of the Subject Doctoral Committee oft he Department of Earth System Sciences
  • Chair for Ph.D. Advisory Panels in various graduate schools (over 25 so far)

 

Additional activities

Publications