Active research projects
Integrative solutions to water issues and conflicts
List of funded research topics within the WPA PhD scholarship program.
Ongoing projects
| Scholar | Nationality | Institute | Topic | foreign-partner | time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabine Baumgartner |  | Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute) | How resilient are semi-arid rangelands towards high grazing pressure and rainfall variability? Water and nutrient availability under different grazing regimes in Eastern Africa |  | 2019-2022 |
| Daniela Bendel | | Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation | Assessment of soil functions and valuation of lost soil-related ecosystem services due to land consumption and soil sealing under a changing climate | 2019-2022 | |
| Eva Hilt | | Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute) | Co-developing technical and social innovations for sustainable water resource management in Kenyan smallholder farming systems through diffusion of a Collaborative Learning approach |  | 2019-2022 |
| Kristian Johnson |  | Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute) | Effects of water-saving irrigation technologies on genotypic performance of irrigated lowland rice under different levels of salinity in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam |  | 2019-2022 |
| Hossein Zare |  | Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation | Assimilation of soil moisture and leaf are index data from satellite remote sensing to improve the forecasting power of crop models | 2018-2021 | |
| Mariana Pereira |  | Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute) | Assesing the water footprint of beef cattle production in integrated systems in Central West Brazil | | 2018-2021 |
| Lisa Jach | Institute of Physics and Meterology | An assesment of land-atmosphere coupling strenght due to land use change in the past and under two future climate scenarios in Europe | 2018-2021 | ||
| Alexandra Schappert | Institute of Phytomedicine, Department of Weed Science | Effects of cover crops and conservation tillage on weed suppression | 2017-2020 | ||
| Kevin Thellmann | Institute for Plant Production and Agroecology of the Tropics and Subtropics | Tipping points in water quality and quantity for human consumption and agricultural use |  | 2017-2020 | |
| Paolo Mori |  | Institute of Physics and Meteorology | Seasonal Forecasts for the Horn of Africa using high-resolution simulations with the WRF-NOAHMP-HYDRO model | 2017-2020 | |
| Katja Beck | Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture | Cooperations in Water Protection Areas | 2016-2019 | ||
| Robert Kahle | Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Soil Biology | The response of soil moisture to climate change as a key driver of changes in important agricultural ecosystem functions | 2016-2019 | ||
| Irene Witte | Institute for Soil Science and Land evaluation | Water use efficiency and groundwater recharge in Southwest Germany under Climate Change | 2015-2018 | ||
| Laura Mack | Institute for Crop Science | Water Scarcity in Egypt - improving and developing water sound cropping systems for the ancient grains 'quinoa' and 'chia'. |  | 2015-2018 | |
| Konrad Egenolf | Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute) | Biological nitrification inhibition - A strategy to preserve the quality of groundwater bodies through reduced nitrate leaching in agroecoecosystems. | 2015-2018 | ||
| Carolin Weiler | Institute for Crop Science | Minimizing water use conflicts of table grape production in Israel and Germany | 2014-2017 | ||
Hongxi |  | Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute) | Water Yield and Carbon export within watersheds affected by intensive rubber cultivation in Xishuangbanna, South-West China | | 2014-2017 |
| Anna Krupp | Institute of Botany | Host recognition and resistance reactions in the interaction of the parasitic weed Orobanche cumana and cultivated sunflower | 2014-2017 | ||
| Sarah Glatzle | Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute) | Improving water management with integrated crop-livestock systems in Brazil - the plant perspective | 2014-2017 | ||
| Charles Nwankwo | Institute for Soil Science and Land Evaluation | The seed ball technology – a transdisciplinary approach to its development and implementation into Sahelian pearl millet production systems |  | 2014-2017 |