Prof. UZ Dr. Barbara Amon
Scientist; Executive Board Representative for Research
Department: Technology Assessment
Telefon: +49 331 5699-243
E-Mail: bamon@atb-potsdam.de
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Program areas
Research areas
- Measuring and reducing emissions from animal husbandry
- Animal welfare and precision livestock farming
- Biogas production from animal manures and energy crops
- Sustainable manure management
- Improvement of emission inventories
- Nitrogen management and fluxes
- Sustainability in agricultural systems and technologies
- Integration of regional agricultural production systems into concepts of OneHealth
Scientific activities
- IPCC
- Review Editor to 6th Assessment Report
- Lead Author chapter 'Agriculture', 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
- Expert Panel 'Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories'
- UNECE Control of Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP), EMEP Steering Body
- Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections (TFEIP): Co-chair 'Agriculture and Nature Panel'
- Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN): Expert Panel on 'Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrogen' and 'Nitrogen Budgets'
- FAO
- Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture (RAMIRAN)
- Nutrient cycles accounting and impact assessment Technical Advisory Group under the FAO-Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership
- KTBL Working group on climate protection
- Guest Editor for special issue 'Gaseous Emissions and Mitigation Options during Waste Management in Agroecosystems'
- Associate Editor of 'Journal of Environmental Quality'
- Editorial board 'Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Topic Waste Management in AgroEcosystems'
- Austrian Expert Panel on IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) 'Intensive rearing of pigs and poultry'
- Austrian working group on the sector Agriculture within the Austrian Climate Protection Law
- Austrian Assessment Report: contributing lead author
Projects
- SMP4 – Understanding Antibiotic Use in Livestock Rearing under Infrastructure and Regulatory Constraints: Evidence from DRC Im Rahmen dieser Pilotstudie werden Daten aus erster Hand über den Antibiotikaeinsatz in der Rinderzucht und die Prävalenz von…
- AMRAfrika – Stärkung der Überwachungssysteme für Antibiotikaeinsatz und -resistenz durch partizipative One Health- und Datenmanagementsysteme bei Rinderfarmen der Provinz Süd-Kivu, D.R. Kongo Das Ziel des Projekts ist es, ein Entscheidungshilfemodell…
- INNOVAFRIKA – Sustainable Innovations and Digitalization in Crop - Livestock Systems Sub-Saharan Africa Dieses Projekt, das Teil eines dreiphasigen Förderprogramms der DFG ist, zielt darauf ab, die Zusammenarbeit zwischen deutschen Forschern und Inst…
- DairyMix – Multikriterielle Bewertung, Entscheidungshilfe und Managementinstrumente für Milchproduktion in nachhaltigen Systemen, die Kreisläufe schließen und Tierhaltung und Pflanzenbau integrieren (DairyMix) Das Projekt DairyMix zielt darauf ab, de…
- Climate Farm Demo – A European-wide network of pilot farmers implementing and demonstrating climate smart solutions for a carbon neutral Europe Hinter dem Projekt Climate Farm Demo steht ein einzigartiges transeuropäisches Netzwerk von Pilot-Demo-Lan…
- ECONUTRI – Innovative concepts and technologies for ECOlogically sustainable NUTRIent management in agriculture aiming to prevent, mitigate and eliminate pollution in soils, water and air ECONUTRI ist ein Konsortium aus wissenschaftlichen Experten un…
- LIFE CARBON FARMING – Development and implementation of a result-based funding mechanism for carbon farming in EU mixed crop livestock systems Ziel des Projekts LIFE CARBON FARMING ist es, den CO2-Fußabdruck landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe mit Mischkul…
- MEDICow – Individualisierte Mastitis-Risikoeinschätzung in der Milchviehhaltung durch Sensoren, Digitalisierung und künstliche Intelligenz Das deutsch-irische Kooperationsprojekt MEDICow hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, auf Basis eines multisensorischen An…
- InnoHof – Leibniz-Innovationshof für nachhaltige Bioökoomie Auf dem Leibniz-Innovationshof für nachhaltige Bioökonomie werden künftig innovative Konzepte und Technologien für eine nachhaltige, zirkuläre Bioökonomie entwickelt und erprobt, indem Landw…
- Sequenz – Entschlüsselung des mikrobiellen Vernetzungsgrades innerhalb von Wirtschaftsdünger- und Biogas-Mikrobiomen Finanzierung von Sequenzierungskosten: Entschlüsselung des mikrobiellen Vernetzungsgrades innerhalb von Wirtschaftsdünger- und Biogas…
Publications
- Cantillon, M.; Hennessy, T.; Amon, B.; Dragoni, F.; OBrien, D. (2024): Mitigation of gaseous emissions from dairy livestock: A farm-level method to examine the financial implications. Journal of Environmental Management. (14 February 2024): p. 119904. Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119904
- Diaz de Otálora Aguirre, X.; del Prado, A.; Dragoni, F.; Balaine, L.; Pardo, G.; Winniwarter, W.; Sandrucci, A.; Ragaglini, G.; Kabelitz, T.; Kieronczyk, M.; Jorgensen, G.; Estellés, F.; Amon, B. (2024): Modelling the effect of context-specific greenhouse gas and nitrogen emission mitigation options in key European dairy farming systems. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. : p. 0. Online: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-023-00940-6
- Hilgert, J.; Herrmann, C.; Petersen, S.; Dragoni, F.; Amon, T.; Belik, V.; Ammon, C.; Amon, B. (2023): Assessment of the biochemical methane potential of in-house and outdoor stored pig and dairy cow manure by evaluating chemical composition and storage conditions. Waste Management. (August): p. 14-24. Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X23003781
- van der Weerden, T.; Noble, A.; Beltran, I.; Hutchings, N.; Thormann, R.; de Klein, C.; Amon, B. (2023): Influence of key factors on ammonia and nitrous oxide emission factors for excreta deposited by livestock and land-applied manure. STOTEN. (September): p. 0. Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723026876
- Rychla, A.; Amon, B.; Hassouna, M.; Van der Weerden, T.; Winiwarter, W. (2023): Costs and effects of measures to reduce ammonia emissions from dairy cattle and pig production: A comparison of country-specific estimations and model calculations. Journal of Environmental Management. (Heft Oktober): p. 0. Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479723014664
- Wilfart, A.; Baillet, V.; Balaine, L.; Diaz de Otálora Aguirre, X.; Dragoni, F.; Krol, D.; Fratczak-Müller, J.; Rychla, A.; Gracia. P. Rodriguez, D.; Breen, J.; Anestis, V.; Buckley, C.; Alem, H.; Winiwarter, W.; Akkal-Corfini, N.; Amon, B. (2023): DEXi-Dairy, an ex multicriteria tool to asses the sustainability of dairy production systems in various European regions. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. : p. 0. Online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-023-00935-3
- Alexandropoulos, E.; Anestis, V.; Dragoni, F.; Hansen, A.; Cummins, S.; OBrien, D.; Amon, B.; Bartzanas, T. (2023): Decision support systems based on gaseous emissions and their impact on the sustainability assessment at the farm level: An evaluation from the users side. Sustainability. (17): p. 0. Online: https://doi.org/10.3390/su151713041
- Cinar, G.; Dragoni, F.; Ammon, C.; Belik, V.; van der Weerden, T.; Noble, A.; Hassouna, M.; Amon, B. (2023): Effects of environmental and housing system factors on ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from cattle barns: A meta-analysis of a global data collation. Waste Management. (1 December 2023): p. 60-70. Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2023.09.007
- Neysari, P.; De Vries, J.; Ogink, N.; Amon, B.; Groot Koerkamp, P. (2023): Reviewing the N-gap in livestock manure systems: Direct and indirect methods for measuring N losses and perspectives for quantifying N2 emission. Biosystems Engineering. (Mai): p. 179-199. Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2023.03.018
- Janke, D.; Bornwin, M.; Coorevits, K.; Hempel, S.; van Overbeke, P.; Demeyer, P.; Rawat, A.; Declerck, A.; Amon, T.; Amon, B. (2023): A low-cost wireless sensor network for barn climate and emission monitoring. Atmosphere. (14): p. 1643. Online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/14/11/1643
Curriculum Vitae
WORK EXPERIENCE
Nov 2018- Associate professor for environmental engineering and agricultural engineering at the University of Zielona Góra, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering, Poland
Jan 2015- Coordinator of ATB research programme 1 ‘Precision farming in crop and livestock production’
Sep 2012- Senior research scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB)
1994-2017 Senior research scientist at the Division of Agricultural Engineering, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems and at the Institute of Soil Research of the Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
1993-94 Research assistant at the Technical University of Munich, Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (LfL) in Freising-Weihenstephan, Department ‘Agricultural Engineering and Animal Housing’
EDUCATION
2007 Habilitation in Agricultural Engineering
1998 Degree as Dr. nat.techn.
1994-98 Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna)
1990 Gap year in farms incl. extensive on-farm training
1993 Degree of ‘Diplomagraringenieurin’
1988-93 Technical University of Munich, Topic: ‘Agricultural Engineering’, Specialisation in: ‘Animal Production’
1987 School leaving certificate, university entry qualification