Response to Climate Change - System Approaches

Judson Sheridan

Research Team 11

Main objective:

The team has focus on comparing how climate change will affect agricultural landscape systems in Norway and Minnesota.This includes positive and negative effects on production systems and adaptation to such changes. Special focus on green house gas emissions and measures to reduce emissions, carbon sequestration. Special focus on winter hydrology in catchments, runoff pathways and environmental effects. The work is based on 3 Subgroups: Hydrology, Carbon in soils and Response to climate change- system approach.

The team

· Principal Investigator at UMN: Jason Hill
· Principal Investigator UMB-Bioforsk: Research Manager Climate Research Lillian Øygarden
· Other team members USA: Clarence Lehmann, Bruce Wilson, John Baker, Gary Feyereisen, Mary Williams, David Mulla, Don Wyse,
· Other team members Norway: Helen French, Johannes Deelstra, Wendy Waalen, Arne Grønlund, Audun Korsæth, Daniel Rasse. Research Projects

Funding from Norway, The Norwegian Research Council (Norklima). Project leader Helen French:

· Pollution risks and water management at airports and roads in a changing climate, NFR, NORKLIMA: 2005-2009. Partners Bioforsk and UMN. 3 mill NOK.

· Stormwater and Roads. Partners Bioforsk and UMN. 2007- 2009. 3 mill NOK.

· Exflood: Extreme weather in small catchments, consequences for transport infrastructure and peri-urban settlements. Partners from UMB, Bioforsk and UMN (2010- 2012). 3 mill NOK.

Bioforsk own funding; 2000 $ in 2010 for supporting the team with planning cooperation/project applications with Minnesota.

Industry Partners

· In USA: None

· In Norway: None

Researcher exchange, incl Post Docs and PhD

· From USA to Norway; John Baker, Martin Du Saire, 2 weeks field research visiting Helen Fench: Project Pollution risks at airport and roads in a changing climate.

· From USA to Norway: Jason Hill and Clarence Lehmann, one week June 2009 visiting UMB, Bioforsk, Soil and Environment Division, Ås and Bioforsk Arable Crop Division Apelsvoll. Participating workshop 9- 10 June 2009 for discussion about future cooperation with UMB, Bioforsk and UMN.

· From USA to Norway: Clarence Lehmann, one week June 2010, Participating International Polar year conference, Oslo and Workshop Ås, discussion further research cooperation related to bioenergy crops, biochar, catchment hydrology.

· From Norway to USA: Helen French, Johannes Deelstra, Lillian Øygarden visited UMN October 2009 (Science week) for workshop; Response to climate change- System Approach. Discussions and planning of future cooperation.

Student Exchange

Geoffrey Kramer, UMN, master student, 6 months at Bioforsk in 2009 under the supervision of Helen French and Jannes Stolte.

Scientific Paper

French, H.K., du Saire, M., Baker, J. and Binley, A. (2006) Time-lapse Measurements of Electrical Resistivities to Characterise Snowmelt Infiltration Patterns, American Geophysical Union, Joint Asembly, San Francisco, December 2006

Jannes Stolte, Geoffrie Kramer, Helen French. 2009. Snow and snowpack dynamics: effects on catchment hydrology in Norway. Presentation at the International Conference on Land and Water Degradation Processes and Management, 6-9 September 2009, Magdeburg, Germany.

Kramer, Geoffrie J. 2009. Cold-Season Hydrologic Modeling in the Skuterud Catchment: An Energy Balance Snowmelt Model Coupled with a GIS-based Hydrology Model. Bioforsk report 126, 4, 2009 Bioforsk, Ås, Norway, 41 pp.

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Cooperation UMN-UMB

Cooperation between University of Minnesota (UMN) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB). Contact persons:

Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

College of Biological Sciences, St. Paul, UMN

Office Phone: 612/625-5782

Ragnhild Solheim

Research Director, UMB

Office Phone: +47 6496 6191