curriculum vitae

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

research foci

  • soil erosion modelling, focus on tillage erosion & soil organic carbon (model SPEROS-C)
  • impact of tillage erosion on crop biomass production
  • influence of combined tillage & water erosion on soil organic carbon turnover

member of the project „ TilEro - Tillage erosion affects crop yields and carbon balance in hummocky landscapes“ funded by the DFG

courses / teaching

(applied filters: semester: current | institute: Institut für Geographie | lecturers: Lena Katharina Öttl | languages: deutsch | course types: all)
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publications

2022 | 2021

2022

Öttl, Lena K., Wilken, Florian, Hupfer, A., Sommer, M., Fiener, Peter (2022): Non-inversion conservation tillage as an underestimated driver of tillage erosion. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24749-7
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Quinton, John N., Öttl, Lena K., Fiener, Peter (2022): Tillage exacerbates the vulnerability of cereal crops to drought. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00533-8
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2021

Öttl, Lena Katharina, Wilken, Florian, Auerswald, Karl, Sommer, Michael, Wehrhan, Marc, Fiener, Peter (2021): Tillage erosion as an important driver of in‐field biomass patterns in an intensively used hummocky landscape. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3968
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Presentations

09/2022     Poster at the annual meeting of the German Soil Science Association (DBG) in Trier, Germany

                  Poster entitled "Modelling to identify main modulators of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and dynamics in an erosion-affected hummocky soil landscape", got one of seven poster prizes (238 posters in total)

 

05/2022     Presentation at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria

                  "Tillage erosion as an important driver of soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics long before agricultural mechanisation"

 

05/2021     Presentation at the virtual European Geoscience Union (vEGU) General Assembly 2021 (online)

                  "Modulators of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and dynamics in an intensively used hummocky landscape in North-East Germany"

 

04/2020     Presentation at the virtual European Geoscience Union (vEGU) General Assembly 2020 (online)

                  "What role does tillage erosion play regarding landscape evolution of an intensively used hummocky landscape?"

 

04/2019     Presentation at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019 in Vienna, Austria

"Tillage erosion as the main driver of in-field yield patterns in an intensively used hummocky landscape"

 

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