Paulina Englert receives the poster award at the conference of the Society of Agronomy

06 October 2023: Our staff member Paulina Englert receives the poster award at the conference of the Society of Agronomy for her poster contribution titled "Spatial and Temporal Variability of Nitrous Oxide Fluxes in a German Crop Rotation".

The poster shows initial results from the INFLUX project, in which she has been working on her PhD since September 2022. The data presented offer first insights into the evolution of nitrous oxide (N₂O) after fertilization of sugar beet. Due to the increased availability of nitrate and moist soil conditions in spring, N₂O emissions increased, despite the low nitrogen fertilization of only 60 kg/ha. The N₂O fluxes (measured with the Licor-7820) showed a very high spatial variability which cannot yet be explained with the soil data analyzed so far. An even clearer peak of N₂O emissions could be measured with the Eddy Covariance technique at the end of June induced by a heavy rainfall as well as rising temperatures after a dry period. The analysis of the Eddy Covariance data is currently being refined and we look forward to the results for winter wheat and insights into the underlying N₂O producing processes in the soil.

Contact at the Division Agronomy:

• Paulina Englert, Tel. 0551-39-25789, paulina.englert@uni-goettingen.de

Paulina Englert presents the certificate for the poster award in front of her poster.