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Speaker:
Wolfgang Cramer
Wolgang.Cramer<at>pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg A31, 14473 Potsdam,
Germany
Title of the talk:
Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystems under Global Change
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Biosketch
Wolfgang Cramer is Professor of Global Ecology at the Institute of Geoecology at Potsdam University and since the beginning of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in 1993 he is the head of the „Global Change and Natural Systems“ department.
A geographer by training (Diploma from the Justus-Liebig Universität in Gießen, Germany) he received his PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden, on vegetation science. His postdoctoral research had first been carried out at Uppsala University before becoming an associate professor at Trondheim University, Norway. During his time in Trondheim he became a research scholar on sustainable development of the biosphere at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. Before moving to Potsdam he held the position of Brundtland-Professor for „Energy, Environment and Society“at the Center for Environment and Development at Trondheim University.
During the last 13 years, most of his work was related to the development of suitable modelling techniques for the assessment of broad-scale biospheric responses to changes in climate and atmospheric CO2 concentration. He was a member of the group which developed the most widely used terrestrial biogeography model, BIOME 1. His current research group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research develops assessment tools for global change impacts on the terrestrial biosphere (dynamic global vegetation models), water resources (catchment and basin scale models of water availability and quality), forests (dynamics of natural and managed forests) and agricultural crops (mechanistic model of cereal growth and phenology). Jointly with the Climate Impacts Group at the Department of Plant Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden and the Research Group "Global Ecology" at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, the group at PIK is developing the Lund-Potsdam-Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM). His interest is now encompassing questions of vulnerability and vulnerability assessments including stakeholder views and opinions.
Wolfgang Cramer has published widely, among others more then 70 papers in refereed journals. He contributed as a Lead Author to the Second (1995) as well as the Third (2001) Assessment Report to IPCC, and to the Special Report „Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry“ (2000). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal „Regional Environmental Change“ and on the editorial board of many other journals.
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