Lena Katharina Öttl is a PhD student assessing the impact of tillage erosion on crop biomass production in the Uckermark region in North-East Germany. The research is in cooperation with the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research ZALF e.V. in Müncheberg. She did her MSc. in Climate and Environmental Sciences at the University of Augsburg and spent one semester at ZALF (working group „Landscape Pedology“; former „Institute of Soil Landscape Research“). There, she started working on her research topic which was continued in her master thesis. The thesis deals with erosion feedbacks on the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) of arable crops in a climate-sensitive catchment in the hummocky young moraine landscape of North-East Germany.

Since 10/2019 PhD student in the DFG-funded project „Tillage erosion affects crop yields and carbon balance in hummocky landscapes (TilEro)“, located at the University of Augsburg

2018-2019       Research associate at the Professorship for Water and Soil Resource Research, Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg

2018                Master thesis: „Erosion feedbacks on the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) of arable crops in a climate-sensitive catchment in North-East Germany“

2017                Research term at the „Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, ZALF e.V.“, working group „Landscape Pedology“, Müncheberg

2016-2018       Master of Science „Climate and Environmental Sciences“ („Klima- und Umweltwissenschaften“), University of Augsburg

2016                Graduate assistant at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center, department „Atmosphere“, Oberpfaffenhofen

2016                Bachelor thesis: „Der Einfluss der Bodenfeuchte auf die Sommertemperaturen in Mitteleuropa“

2015-2016       Student assistant in the DFG-funded project „SLAC-SD. Meeres- und Landoberflächen-Atmosphäre-Klima-Wechselwirkungen“, Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg

2013-2016       Bachelor of Science in Geography, University of Augsburg