Projects
Running projects
DeMipSo3D
Detecting microplastic in soils using 3D Laser-Scanning-Confocal Microscopy (DeMipSo3D)
Duration: from 2019 to 2023
Funding Institution: University Augsburg; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Project MicBin
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener
Associate Researchers: Tabea Scheiterlein, M.Sc.
Research topics: analytical techniques, particle analyses, microplastic, agriculture soil
DYLAMUST
Soil erosion in agricultural landscapes in the context of dynamic changes of land use
patterns and structures (DYLAMUST)
Duration: planned from 04/2024 to 03/26
Funding institution: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Prof. Dr. Thomas Scholten (University Tübingen)
Associate Researchers: N.N.
Research topics: soil erosion, hybrid modelling, machine learning, landscape patterns and structures
DynAWI
Dynamic Agricultural Weather Indicators (DynAWI) to forecast extreme weather events in agriculture using artificial intelligence and machine learning
Duration: from 2021 to 2024
Funding institution: German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener
Associate Researchers: Dr. Pedro Batista
Research topics: agricultural weather indicators (AWI), scalable spatial data infrastructure (DataCube), artificial intelligence
EARL
Erosion and Runoff Laboratory (EARL)
Duration: start 2022
Funding institution: Bavarian Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry (StMELF)
Associate Researchers: Eva Resl, Johannes Mitterer, Karl Auerswald
Cooperation partners: Markus Disse (TU Munich), Peter Fiener (University of Augsburg)
Research topics: long-term erosion monitoring, optimized crop rotations and pest management
LaPaSed
The effect of landscape structure and patchiness on soil erosion, sediment transport and retention capacity
Duration: from 2020 to 2022
Funding Institution: German Academic Exhange Service (DAAD)
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Prof. Dr. Tomáš Dostál (CTU Prag)
Associate Researchers: Dr. Florian Wilken, Dr. Josef Kasra, Dr. David Zumr, Dr. Miroslav Bauer, Dr. Pedro Batista
Research topics: soil erosion, sediment connectivity, patchiness of landscapes
SoBio
Evaluating the role soil nutrients have on soil biogeochemical processes
in a tropical rain forest and sugarcane plantations in Uganda (SoBio)
Duration: from 2018 to 2022
Funding institution: German Academic Exhange Service (DAAD)
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Jospeh Tamale
Associate Researchers: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Doetterl
Research topics: greenhaus gas fluxes, N fluxes, land use effects, humid tropics
SOLITAIRE
Quantifying the impact of soil erosion and climate change on soil security by using alternative fallout radionuclides (SOLITAIRE)
Duration: from 2020 to 2023
Funding institution: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities co-financed by EU
Principal Investigator(s): Tom Vanwalleghem (University of Córdoba)
Cooperation partners: Andres Penuela, Adolfo Peña Acevedo and Vanesa García-Gamero (University of Córdoba), José Luis Mas and Santiago José Hurtado Bermúdez (University of Sevilla), Peter Fiener (University of Augsburg), Michael E. Ketterer
SOPLAS
SOPLAS - Macro- and microplastic in agricultural soil systems
Duration: from 2021 to 2024
Funding institution: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener
Associate Researchers: Dr. Florian Wilken, Alessandro Fabrizi, Ana Carolina Cugler Moreira
Research topics: Click here
TilEro
Tillage erosion affects crop yields and carbon balance in hummocky landscapes
Duration: from 2019 to 2022
Funding institution: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Prof. Dr. Michael Sommer (ZALF)
Associate Researchers: Lena Katharina Öttl
Research topics: tillage erosion, crop yields, soil organic carbon
Completed Projects
IGCS Carbon
Effects of soil organic carbon redistribution upon green house gas effluxes from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in a small agricultural catchment in South-East India
Duration: from 2011 to 2012
Funding Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, German Academic Exhange Service (DAAD)
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Dr. Kristin Steger
Research topics: soil and soil organic carbon redistribution, green house gas fluxes from water harvesting lakes
MicBin
Microplastic in fresh water systems (MicBin)
Duration: from 2017 to 2021
Funding institution: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
programm Plastic in the Environment
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener
Associate Researchers: Raphael Rehm, Tabea Scheiterlein
Research topics: microplastic in agricultural soils, microplastic erosion from arable land, 3D laser microscopy
MIRSed
Improving the quantification of sub-basin spatial sediment provenance fingerprinting using diffuse reflectance mid-infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy
Duration: from 2021 to 2022
Funding Institution: Humboldt Foundation
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Kazem Nosrati, Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener (host)
Research topics: sediment finger printing, mid-infrared spectroscopy
ModABC
Duration: from 2018 to 2019
Funding Institution: German Academic Exhange Service (DAAD)
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Prof. Dr. Tomáš Dostál (CTU Prag)
Associate Researchers: Dr. Florian Wilken, Dr. Josef Krasa, Dr. David Zumr
Research topics: analysis of erosion modelling in Europe
MONSOON
MONSOON - Feedbacks between land cover, people, and climate
in the seasonally arid tropics
Duration: from 2018 to 2022
Funding institution: German Academic Exhange Service (DAAD) & German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) program Make our Research Great Again 2018-2022
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Jed O. Kaplan, Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener (host)
Associate Researchers: Jake Simpson, Fenner Holman, Silvia Schrötter, Solveig Blöcher, Anna Stegmann
Research topics: vegetation modelling, climate and land surface interactions, wet and dry tropics
SoErAl
Acceleration of soil erosion from arable land following climate and land management change
Duration: from 2020 to 2021
Funding institution: German Academic Exhange Service (DAAD)
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Prof. Dr. Tomáš Dostál (CTU Prag)
Associate Researchers: Dr. Florian Wilken, Dr. Josef Kasra, Dr. David Zumr
Research topics: climate and land use change, soil erosion
TEROS
Lateral soil redistribution processes in an arable sloil landscape
Duration: from 2012 to 2018
Funding Institution: German Research Centre for Geoscience (GFZ),
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), University Augsburg
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Prof. Dr. Michael Sommer (ZALF), Dr. Oliver Bens (GFZ)
Associate Researchers: Dr. Florian Wilken
Research topics: soil redistibution and soil organic carbon balance, physically-based modelling
TropSOC
Tropical soil organic carbon dynamics along erosional disturbance gradients
in relation to variability in soil geochemistry and land use (TropSoc)
Duration: from 2016 to 2021
Funding institution: German Research Foundation (DFG), Emmy-Noether-Programm
Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Doetterl
Associate Researchers: Benjamin Bukombe, Mario Reichenbach, Florian Wilken
Research topics: Click here