Georg Kindermann
Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Georg Kindermann joined the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in 2005 as a Research Scholar in the Forestry Program, now the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program. He holds a PhD in forestry, with particular focus on forest growth and yield modeling. He has experience in forest measurement and sample plot design, data storage (SQL), statistics (R), programming (C++, Perl) and gis (QGis, Grass). He has developed a model estimating forest growth for any point on the globe (global forest growth model - g4gm) which allows simulation of the amount of biomass for bioenergy and stored carbon in forests which are reacting on changes in the environment (temperature, precipitation, C02) and management (rotation time, thinning). In combination with economic estimates such as the wood price, it is possible to calculate the competition over land between different land uses, and to find regions which have high pressure on deforestation.Currently, Dr. Kindermann is also employed at the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), where he is working on tree ring width analysis. There, he is developing a regional single tree forest growth simulator.
Previously, Dr. Kindermann worked at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in the Institute of Forest Growth and Yield Research in Vienna. He refined a distance dependent single tree growth simulator (Moses) to use it as a decision support in a company. He has also investigated in the field of natural regeneration.
Last update: 04 MAR 2015
Publications
Kraxner, F., Aoki, K., Leduc, S., Kindermann, G. , Yang, J., Yamagata, Y., Tak, K., & Obersteiner, M. (2011). BECCS in South Korea - An analysis of negative emissions potential for bioenergy as a mitigation tool. DOI:10.3384/ecp11057676. In: World Renewable Energy Congress 2011 - Sweden, 8-13 May 2011.
Huang, J., Abt, B., Kindermann, G. , & Ghosh, S. (2011). Empirical analysis of climate change impact on loblolly pine plantations in the southern United States. Natural Resource Modeling 24 (4) 445-476. 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2011.00098.x.
Hurtt, G.C., Chini, L.P., Frolking, S., Betts, R.A., Fischer, G., Hibbard, K., Houghton, R.A., Kindermann, G. , & Riahi, K. (2011). Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500-2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands. Climatic Change 109 (1) 117-161. 10.1007/s10584-011-0153-2.
Riahi, K. , Rao, S., Krey, V. , Cho, C., Chirkov, V., Fischer, G., Kindermann, G. , Nakicenovic, N. , & Rafaj, P. (2011). RCP 8.5 - A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions. Climatic Change 109 (1) 33-57. 10.1007/s10584-011-0149-y.
Havlik, P. , Schneider, U.A., Schmid, E., Bottcher, H., Fritz, S. , Skalsky, R. , Aoki, K., De Cara, S., Kindermann, G. , Kraxner, F., Leduc, S., McCallum, I. , Mosnier, A., Sauer, T., & Obersteiner, M. (2011). Global land-use implications of first and second generation biofuel targets. Energy Policy 39 (10) 5690-5702. 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.03.030.