Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences

Andreas Herrmann - Geo-Ecologist

 



 

Contact

Tel.: (030)2093 46401

andreas.herrmann.1@agrar.hu-berlin.de

 

Projects

DBU-Project “CARBOFLUX: Measuring and Assessment of GHG Fluxes in rewetted Forest Peatland"
LandPakt - Potentials and Costs for Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases

 

Scientific focus

  • Soil science and soil chemistry
  • Matter dynamic and mass balance in biogeosystems
  • Measuring and modelling of greenhouse gases
  • Functional Microbiology in Peatlands

 

Personal Data

Date and place of birth: June 20, 1982 in Bernau near Berlin

Family status: married

 

Education

2003 - 2010

Studies in Geoecology (Diploma) at the University of Potsdam

focus on: soil chemistry and wetland ecology

 

Diploma thesis:Quantification of a pedogenic Silica-Pool in slope-, land use- and stoneseries

 

2007

Graduation in environmental education

 

2002 - 2003

Community service

 

2002

Abitur

 

Work Experiences

since 2013

Research Assistant in the project "LandPakt - Potentials and Costs for Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases" at the Division of Soil Science and Site Sciences at the Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin

 

Since 2012

Scientific collaborator at the DBU-Project "CARBOFLUX: Measuring and Assessment of GHG-Fluxes in a rewetted Forest Peatland" at the Division of Soil Sciences and Site Sciences at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt-University of Berlin

 

Since 2012

Research assistant in the Sub-Project “Effects of rewetting Measures to GHG Dynamic” in cultivated Peatlands (Leibniz Graduate Society “LandPaKT” in cooperation with ATB)

 

Since 2010

Scientific collaborator at the Division of Soil Sciences and Site Sciences at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt-University of Berlin

Teaching in Soil Science and Carbon Dynamic

 

2009 - 2010

Research assistant in the Project „Sulfate release from building rubble” at the Division of Site Science and Soil Protection at the Institute of Ecology at the Technical University Berlin

 

2008

Research assistant in the DFG-Project „Soil Organic Matter – Alteration in Amount and Composition of stable Parts in Dependence on Land Use and Pedogenesis” at the Institute of Soil Landscape Research at ZALF Müncheberg

 

2007

Research assistant in the DFG-Project „In situ Characterization of Soil Organic Matter on Surfaces of preferential Flow Pathways, Soil Aggregates and Bio Pores” at the Institute of Soil Landscape Research at ZALF Müncheberg

 

2006

Research assistant in the BMBF-Project “Preagro II” at the Institute for Soil Landscape Research at ZALF Müncheberg

 

International Experiences

2014

InGOS N2O chamber intercomparison workshop in Hyytiälä, Finland

 

05/2013

International Summer School - Flux measurement technique for non CO2 GHG: methods, databases and modelling in Poland

 

08/2008

Summer School in Westsiberia

 

02/2007 - 03/2007

Co-worker in the Project "Heavy Metal release in abandoned dumps" in South Africa

 

Internships

2011

Internship in measuring and modelling of GHG fluxes in cultivated peatlands

at the Institute of Landscape Biogeochemistry at ZALF Müncheberg

 

2008

Internship at GFZ (Section Climate Dynamic and Landscape Development): Extraction of Bio-Opal and analysis by use of ICP and UV-Spectroscopy

 

2006

Internship in measurement of soil physical parameter by use of geoelectric and drillings in the field at the Institute of Soil Landscape Research at ZALF Müncheberg

 

Memberships

German Peat Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Moor- und Torfkunde DGMT)

International Peat Society (IPS)

German Soil Science Society (Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft DBG)

NABU e.V. (Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V.)

 

Poster

Herrmann, A.;  Köberich, K; Ruess, L. J. (2015): Spatial and seasonal variability of the microbial community in forest fen soils in North-East-Germany. Ecology of soil Microorganisms 2015, 29.11. – 03.12.2015, Prague.

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Herrmann, A. (2015): Calibration of N2O-Flux measurements by static chambers – Results from the Soil N2O chamber intercomparison campaign. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2015, 05.09. – 10.09.2015, München.