Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
Inland surface waters are vulnerable to climate change, however, they are natural sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding the contribution of surface water ecosystems in global greenhouse gas emissions can provide information for mitigation measures and future policy making. As a PhD student, I currently focus on modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from surface water with PCLake+ and PCDitch.
Aquatic ecosystems provide diverse ecosystem services, but now are under the pressure of human socioeconomic development and climate change. During my master's experience at Wageningen University, I started to work on lake ecological modelling to simulate the critical nutrient load for shifting lakes from a clear state to a turbid state or vice versa under different scenarios using PCLake+. After that, I continued to work on PCLake+ in my internship at NIOO. I assessed the lake ecosystem resilience related to macrophytes biodiversity by increasing vegetation functional groups in the PCLake+. Now, with the interest of aquatic ecological modelling, my main focus is developing a greenhouse gas emission model for connected ditch systems by incorparting the carbon cycle with an ecosystem model PCDitch.