Curriculum vitae Robert Jandl

Academic Degrees: Diplom-Ingenieur, Doctor rerum naturalium technicarum

born May 28, 1961 in Vienna; Family: married to Gertrude Jandl since 1985;
2 children: Nathalia(* 10/18/82), Johanna (* 11/15/86)

Education:

• High School at Kollegium Kalksburg in Vienna (1971-1979); Matura 1979

• Civil Service in 1981

• University Education:

  • Landscape Ecology and Landscape Architecture at BOKU, 1982-1987; Diploma Thesis 'Pedogenesis of selected soils in high altitudes in the Central Alps', advised by Univ.-Professor W.E.H. Blum; Institute of Soil Science
  • Forestry at BOKU, 1985-1989; Diploma Thesis 'Growth evaluation in young Norway spruce stands', advised by Univ.-Professor H. Sterba; Institute of Forest Yield Research
  • Dissertation at BOKU, 1989-1992; Thesis 'Biogeochemical processes at forest sites with wild garlic (Allium ursinum L.) in the Vienna Woods', advisor: Univ.-Professor G. Glatzel, Institute of Forest Ecology

Professional Career:

• Research Assistent at the Institute of Soil Science and Technical Geology, BOKU, 1982-1984 (Laboratory work dealing with the swelling pressure of clay minerals and chemical soil analyses for the field trip of the International Soil Science Society)

• Research Assistant at the Institute of Forest Ecology, BOKU, as a graduate student

• Consulting work for the Austrian Environmental Protection Agency (UBA) in 1992; project 'Integrated Monitoring'

• Austrian Forest Research Center, Institute of Forest Ecology, since 1992

• Research Assistant at Forestry Department (Dr. Phil Sollins) at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 1993/94 as a Schroedinger grantee of the Austrian Science Foundation

• University Lecturer at the Institute of Soil Science in Vienna since 1995; Class 'Chemistry of Soil Water'
• Assistant to the IUFRO Secretary 1999-2001
• Fulbright Scholar, Guest Lecturer at Colorado State University in Ft Collins, Natural Resources Lab in spring 2000
• Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO Working Group 8.02 (Site), since August 2000
• Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO Task Force 'Carbon Sequestration', since June 2001
• Lecturer in Erasmus Program 'Chemistry of the Rhizosphere' in Vienna and Prague, in May 2001

Experience at foreign institutions:

• Visiting Scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle (UoW) with Dr. Dale Cole and Dr. Fio Ugolini within a cooperation agreement between BOKU and UoW
• Research Assistent at Oregon State University with Dr. Phil Sollins; funded by a stipend of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF, Schroedinger Stipend)
• Fulbright Scholar at Colorado State University in March and April 2000

Participation at International Congresses:

• International Fertilizer Congress, Nicosia, Cyprus (poster)
• International Conference on Acidic Deposition - its nature and impacts, Glasgow, UK (oral presentation)
• Conference of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Atlanta, GA (oral presentation)
• Integrated Monitoring Workshop, Aberdeen, UK (oral presentation)
• International Soil Science Society Conference, Acapulco, Mexico (poster)
• International Humic Substances Society Conference, Wroclaw, Polen (poster)
• American Soil Science Society, Anaheim, CA (poster)
• American Soil Science Society, Baltimore, MD (poster)
• Annual Meeting of the project partners ''Recognition'' in Freiburg, Germany (oral presentation)
• Annual Meeting of the project partners ''Recognition'' in Munich, Germany (oral presentation)
• IUFRO World Congress Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (oral presentation)
• American Soil Science Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota (oral presentation)
• Annual Meeting of the project partners ''Recognition'' in Simlångsdalen, Sweden (oral presentation)
• Taller Internacional sobre secuestro de carbono, Mérida, Venezuela (oral presentation)
• Tagung der Deutschen und Österreichischen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft, Wien (poster)
• Simposio Medición y Monitoreo de la Captura de Carbono en Ecosistemas forestales, Valdivia, Chile (oral presentation)
• American Soil Science Society, Charlotte, North Carolina (oral presentation, poster)

Current work topics:

1. Changes of soil chemical properties due to atmospheric deposition; Methods of soil amelioration
2. Changes in tree nutrition due to changes in forest management practices; within this topic I am involved in the EU project Recognition;
3. Establishing nutrient budgets of forest ecosystems by means of simulation models, based on soil chemical and soil physical site properties; Calculation of a nitrogen budget for Achenkirch (Project G8 of FBVA)
4. Interface of soil microbiology and chemistry of the rhizosphere
5. Carbon dynamics of forest ecosystems
6. Identification of site degradations by means of soil chemical properties; Project is jointly pursued with Dr. Riedler (sYs-an)
7. Chemical rock weathering in forest soils (project with Dr Ottner; Institute of Geology, BOKU)
8. Co-Editor of the journal 'European Journal of Humic Substances' since 1999
9. Reviewer for various journals (Water, Air, and Soil Pollution; Journal of Environmental Quality)
10. Work on my habilitation thesis 'Chemistry of soil water in forests' (pre- liminary title); to be finished in winter 2001
11. Adviser to students: Edith Haslinger - graduated in fall 2000; Timotej Misic - to graduate in 2002; Hannes Spögler - to graduate in 2002
12. Contributions to the IUFRO Task Force GFIS (Global Forest Information Service)

Didactic experience:

• Lecture 'Introduction to soil water chemistry' since winter semester 1995 at BOKU; 2 hours weekly lecture, 1 hour application
• Guest Lecturer in 'Introduction to soil biology', taught by Doz Dr Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern at Institute of Plant Physiology at University of Vienna
• Guest Lecturer at Natural Resources Lab, Colorado State University, Ft Collins, in spring 2000
• Guest Lecturer at Universidad de Austral, Valdivia Chile in fall 2001
• Co-Advisor of students: Edith Haslinger (graduated in fall 2000), Timotej Misic (will graduate in 2001), Hannes Spögler (will graduate in 2002)

Languages skills: Fluent in English, both in writing and speaking; sobrevivo en español.

Organisation of Conferences:

• Member of the technical comitee of the conference 'Magnesiummangel in mitteleuropäischen Waldökosystemen' (organized by Univ.-Professor Glatzel; Salzburg 1991)
• Member of the technical comitee of the conference 'Soil Behaviour in Space and Time' (organized by Univ.-Professor W.E.H. Blum; Wien 1997)
• Member of the technical comitee of the Icobte (5 th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements), organized by BOKU and the American Soil Science Society.
• Special Issue of Ecological Engineering, edited by Drs. W Kilian and J Fanta, covering the results of a workshop 'Site' of the XX IUFRO World Congress in Tampere, Finland
• management of database and preparation of proceedings for the XXI IUFRO World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Organization of the ''Taller Internacional sobre secuestro de carbono'' in Mérida, Venezuela, as joint meeting of IUFRO WP 8.01 and 8.02