Sabine Grunwald

Program Areas

Departmental Research Areas:

Research Interests:

Soil-landscape modeling / pedometrics:The application of statistical and geostatistical methods for quantitative soil-landscape analysis, with the purpose of analyzing the spatial distribution, variability and behavior of soil properties
Environmetrics: Development of mechanistics and stochastic/deterministic spatially-explicit models to assess environmental quality
Geographic information systems (GIS) and landscape dynamics
Soil and remote sensing applications to assess soil and water quality

Specific Research Interests:

Investigate scaling behavior of soil and environmental properties and processes across various spatial and temporal scales
Understand carbon dynamics and model terrestrial carbon patterns and processes
Investigate spatially‐explicit functional relationships between human‐induced stressors (such as land use and climate change) and environmental landscape factors (soil, climate, land use / land cover, terrain, geology, and hydrology)
Gain insight into biophysical feedbacks (soil‐vegetation‐water‐atmosphere interactions) and carbon dynamics modulating sequestration and/or losses of carbon in mixed upland/aquatic ecosystems
Analyze phosphorus and nitrogen behavior and patterns in aquatic and terrestrial systems

Soil and Water Sciences Department