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Andreas Heinemeyer
Summary
Andreas did his MSc (Biology, University of Goettingen, Germany) and
PhD (Biology/Mycorrhizal carbon allocation, University of York) before he joined SEI York in 2002 as a post doctoral researcher within the Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics (CTCD). Since 2008 he then joint the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), a follow up of the CTCD. He currently leads a 10 year upland peatland project assessing management and climate impacts on blanket bog.
Andreas is a frequent speaker at outreach events on the science of climate change. Andreas became Research Group Leader in October 2014 and Associate Professor in 2016. He has over 15 years experience in the field of terrestrial carbon cycling focussing on impacts of management and climate change on soil in forests, agriculture and peatlands, and the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and ecosystem services provisioning. He developed the MILLENNIA peatland model and uses other carbon models such as Century and DNDC. Recently, he was involved in the UNFCCC in relation to defining peatlands as carbon stores within UN agreements. At national level he is involved in many UK groups related to peatland functioning and management, for example, the Upland Hydrology group and the Upland Management group.