Sebastian Wolf

Postdoctoral Researcher

Education

Ph.D. Ecosystem Sciences, ETH Zurich, 2010

M.Sc. Geography, Dresden University of Technology, 2006

Research Description

My main interest is the carbon and water cycling of ecosystems and its interaction with land use, ecophysiology and climate change. To study ecosystem fluxes of greenhouse gases, I predominantly employ micrometeorological flux tower measurements and the eddy covariance method combined with biophysical modeling techniques.

Selected Publications

Wolf S, Eugster W, Majorek S, Buchmann N (2011) Afforestation of tropical pasture only marginally affects ecosystem-scale evapotranspiration. Ecosystems 14(8): 1264-1275

Wolf S, Eugster W, Potvin C, Turner BL, Buchmann N (2011) Carbon sequestration potential of tropical pasture compared with afforestation in Panama. Global Change Biology 17(9): 2763-2780

Schneebeli M, Wolf S, Kunert N, Eugster W, Mätzler C (2011) Relating the X-Band opacity of a tropical tree canopy to sapflow, rain interception and dew formation. Remote Sensing of Environment 115(8): 2116-2125

Wolf S, Eugster W, Potvin C, Buchmann N (2011) Strong seasonal variations in net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a tropical pasture and afforestation in Panama. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151(8): 1139-1151

Potvin C, Manzilla L, Buchmann N, Monteza J, Moore T, Murphy M, Oelmann Y, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Turner, B.L., Wilcke W, Zeugin F, Wolf S (2011) An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 261(10): 1614-1624

Wolf S, Walz U, Kleber A (2009) Effects of land-cover change on soil erosion in the Saxon Switzerland National Park Region. Die ERDE 140(2): 155-174

Schneebeli M, Matzler C, Wolf S, Eugster W (2008) X-band opacity of a tropical tree canopy and its relation to intercepted rain, eddy fluxes and other meteorological variables. Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, MICRORAD 2008. doi: 10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579514

Honors and Awards

Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (MC-IOF), European Commission, Postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley (USA) & ETH Zurich (Switzerland), 11-2012 to 10-2015

SNF Fellowship for Prospective Researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley (USA), 11-2011 to 10-2012