AgroEco-HPM: A high-performance data-driven agroecosystem modelling platform for developing agricultural systems with minimum environmental impact

Understanding and forecasting the effects of land use change are of central importance in mastering the challenges of global change. Without such understanding and forecasting, it will be impossible to meet the goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the agro sector – while at the same time maintaining food security. Denmark is uniquely positioned to reach these goals, and this extremely ambitious proposal builds on a strong existing infrastructure (the Daisy model) to provide an advanced geo-referenced platform for datasets relevant to agricultural land use and for generation of synthetic data. Collaborators from KU, AU, DTU, Germany and the private agricultural sector in Denmark will develop and/or use the infrastructure.   

Project participants

Lars Stoumann Jensen – Professor in Soil Fertility and Recycling of Organic Waste Resources, Head of the Plant and Soil Science Section, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), Københavns Universitet

Svend Christensen – Head, of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), Københavns Universitet

Carsten T. Petersen – Group leader of the Agrohydrology group. The Environmental Chemistry and Physics section. Head of Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), Københavns Universitet

Kristian Thorup-Kristensen – Professor of Crop Science at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), Københavns Universitet

Hans Christian Bruun Hansen – Professor at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), Environmental Chemistry and Physics, Københavns Universitet

Søren Marcus Pedersen – Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Københavns Universitet

Michael Friis Pedersen – Researcher, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Københavns Universitet

Jørgen Eivind Olesen – Head of department, Professor, Department of Agroecology (AGRO), Aarhus Universitet

Finn Plauborg – Senior scientist at Department of Agroecology (AGRO), Aarhus Universitet

Kiril Manevski – Researcher/Assistant professor, Climate & Water, Dept. of Agroecology (AGRO), Aarhus Universitet

Johannes Pullens – PostDoc, Assistant Professor, Department of Agroecology (AGRO), Aarhus Universitet

Jacob Gyldengren – PostDoc, Department of Agroecology (AGRO), Aarhus Universitet

Mogens Humlekrog Greve – Senior Researcher, Head of section: Soil Physics and Hydropedology

Klaus Butterbach –Bahl – Professor Landscape BioGeoChemistry, Department of Agroecology (AGRO), Aarhus Universitet, Research Director, Pioneer Center Land-CRAFT

Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen – Senior Advisor, PhD, Head of Science and Environmental Management Section at Institute of EcoScience, Faculty of Technology, Aarhus University

Birger Andersen – Professor, Security and IT Systems, Technical University of Denmark

Jens Elbæk – Head of Department, MSc Agriculture SEGES Innovation P/S, SEGES INNOVATION

Casper Tribler – Director, SEGES Digital, SEGES INNOVATION

Simon Kramme – Head of Unit, Flooding & Hydrology, Department of Weather Research, The Danish Meteorological Institute

Michael Butts – Senior Consultant, Flooding, Division of Water Resources Engineering (TVRL)

Heidi Barlebo – State Geologist, PhD, Head of Hydrology Department, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Ida Karlsson Seidenfaden – Researcher, Hydrogeological modelling, climate change impact and uncertainties, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Raphael Schneider – Researcher, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Efstathios Diamantopoulos – Professor, Dr., Chair of Soil Physics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Merete Styczen – Affiliated Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), Københavns Universitet

Torsten Müller – Professor for Fertilization and Soil Matter Dynamics, Inst. of Crop Science, University of Hohenheim, Hohenheim, Germany

Janna Macholdt – Prof. Dr. habil, Head of Department, Department of Agronomy and Organic Farming, Martin-Luther-University Halle, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Theresa Kjærside – Head of Earth Observations at the Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency (SDFE)

Klaus Steenberg Larsen – Associate Professor, PhD AnaEE Denmark coordinator & Head of AnaEE Technology Centre, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Københavns Universitet

Per Gundersen – Professor, Forest, Nature and Biomass, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Københavns Universitet

Jozef Takáč – Senior Researcher, Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovak Republic