Dr. Annette Freibauer

Research interests

• National inventory of greenhouse gases and air pollutants from agriculture, forestry and other land use: group leader and development of detailed calculations for Germany that allow quantifying effects of technical mitigation measures.
• Greenhouse gas management in German and European land use systems: annual to decadal variability of the carbon and greenhouse gas budgets of terrestrial ecosystems, attribution to natural and anthropogenic drivers, future vulnerability of carbon pools to climatic, biophysical and socio-economic changes.  
• Greenhouse gas emissions from managed peatlands: processes, mitigation measures and financing mechanisms.
• Processes, drivers and mitigation measures of N₂O emissions from soils
• Effects of land use and land use change on soil carbon
• Consultancy to the European Commission and national policy on the mitigation of climate change, monitoring of mitigation effectiveness and research on climate change and agriculture.

Research projects

• Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems (European Commission, 7^th Framework Programme)
• The nitrogen cycle and its influence on the European greenhouse gas balance (European Commission, 6^th Framework Programme)
• Integrated Carbon Observing System Preparatory Phase (European Commission, 7^th Framework Programme) [read more]
• Soil Inventory for Agriculture in Germany
• Coordination Action Carbon Observing System (European Commission, 7 ^th Framework Programme) [read more]
• Cooperative Project „Organic soils“ –Development of methods, activity data and emission factors for the national greenhouse gas reporting in the sector “Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use”
• Climate effects and sustainability of organic farming systems – Studies in a network of pilot farms
• Climate effects and sustainability of conventional farming systems – Studies in a network of pilot farms
• Greenhouse gas emissions in crop rotations with gras-clover in organic farming systems [read more]
• Greenhouse gas emissions from application of biogas slurries in Emilia-Romagna [read more]
• Development of automatic chamber systems for in-situ measurement of trace-gas exchange in agroecosystems
• Impact of agricultural management on the emission of greenhouse gases and reactive nitrogen gases in carbon-rich cropland and grassland systems
• SeqCure: Integrated systems to enhance sequestration of carbon, producing energy crops by using organic residues (European Commission, LIFE Programme, terminated in June 2010)
• „Climate protection: peatland use strategies” Project part: Greenhouse gas measurement in soil profile and peat columns, consultation to policy (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, terminated in June 2010)

Scientific papers

• Peer-reviewed scientific papers as listed in the vTI publication database
• Scientific papers as listed in the vTI publication database