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Georg Kindermann
Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Georg Kindermann is a research scholar in Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services research group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. He first joined the Institute in 2005.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++, Julia) and GIS (QGis, Grass, gdal). He is developing a model estimating forest growth anywhere in the world, called the Global Forest Model (G4M), which allows simulation of the amount of biomass for bioenergy and carbon stored in forests, reacting to 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, Kindermann is also employed at the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Austria, where he is working on tree ring width analysis. There, he is developing a regional single tree forest growth simulator.
Previously, 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 decision support in companies. He also investigated the field of natural regeneration.
Last update: 06 JUN 2024
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.