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
Gusti, M. & Kindermann, G. (2011). An approach to modeling landuse change and forest management on a global scale. In: Proceedings, 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2011). pp. 180-185 Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands: SCITE Press. ISBN 978-989-8425-78-2 10.5220/0003607501800185.
Tietjen, B., Cramer, W., Bottcher, H., Kindermann, G. , Fuss, S., Obersteiner, M. , Hunt, A., & Watkiss, P. (2011). WP 2F: Ecosystems and forests. Global report analysis. Final Report to Sponsor: Deliverable 2F3, Full Costs of Climate Change
Schmidt, J., Leduc, S., Dotzauer, E., Kindermann, G. , & Schmid, E. (2010). Potential of biomass-fired combined heat and power plants considering the spatial distribution of biomass supply and heat demand. International Journal of Energy Research 34 (11) 970-985. 10.1002/er.1623.
Schmidt, J., Leduc, S., Dotzauer, E., Kindermann, G. , & Schmid, E. (2010). Cost-effective CO2 emission reduction through heat, power and biofuel production from woody biomass: A spatially explicit comparison of conversion technologies. Applied Energy 87 (7) 2128-2141. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.11.007.
Sauer, T., Havlik, P. , Schneider, U.A., Schmid, E., Kindermann, G. , & Obersteiner, M. (2010). Agriculture and resource availability in a changing world: The role of irrigation. Water Resources Research 46 W06503. 10.1029/2009WR007729.