Paulina Englert
BG Biogeosciences
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Paulina Englert for the poster/PICO entitled:
A 2.5-Year Eddy Covariance Study of Nitrous Oxide Fluxes in Winter Barley, Sugar Beet and Winter Wheat: Responses to Environmental and Management Factors (Englert, P.; Markwitz, C.; Abdulwahab, M. O.; Cowan, N.; Buchmann, N.; Knohl, A.; Siebert, S.; Meijide, A.)
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Paulina Englert is a research assistant at the University of Bonn within the Environmental Modelling group of Prof. Ana Meijide, and a PhD student at the University of Göttingen. With a background in agricultural sciences, she is working within the project “INFLUX – Improved process understanding and quantification of nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes in a German crop rotation”.
Her research focus on the quantification of N2O fluxes using Eddy Covariance and chamber measurements to gain a deeper understanding of the fluxes’ temporal and spatial variability at the field scale. Through the application of stable isotope studies and metagenomic analysis, she aims to improve the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for N2O production in agricultural soils.
In her poster at EGU, she was presenting a dataset of 2.5 years of half-hourly Eddy Covariance N2O fluxes from the research station of the University of Göttingen called Reinshof (DE-Rns). They observed N2O emissions induced by fertilization, rainfall, freeze-thawing and tillage as well as periods of N2O uptake. The results highlight the importance of year-round high-resolution N2O measurements to capture short-term emission peaks and diel cycles. This is essential to obtain realistic estimates of greenhouse gas budgets from crop cultivation as a basis for developing effective greenhouse gas mitigation strategies.