PD Dr. Katrin Drastig
Leader of the investigators group "Water productivity in agriculture (AgroHyd)"
Department: Technology Assessment and Substance Cycles
Telefon: +49 (0)331 5699 218
E-Mail: kdrastig@atb-potsdam.de
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Research programs
Research areas
- Process assessment under climate change conditions
- Assessment of technical and process adaptation demand
- Agricultural water balances of single processes and of whole branches as basis for further development
- “World food supply and water resources: an agricultural-hydrological perspective (AgroHyd)”
Scientific activities
- Member in the working group (WG 11) for the development of ISO 14002-2 „Environmental management systems – Guidelines for using ISO 14001 to address environmental aspects and conditions within an environmental topic area – Part 2: Water”
- Member of the jury Thuringian Innovation Award, the Innovationspreis Thüringen (since 2018)
- ATB-contact person for the Germany's National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) (since 2017)
- ATB-Person of confidence for PhD students (since 2011)
Projects
- ALCIS – Sensorbasierte Fernsteuerung des Wassermanagements und sensorbasierte Überwachung des vegetativen Zustandes gartenbaulicher Kulturen - ein Low Cost System aus integrierten Netzwerkknoten und Kommunikationsnetzen Im Fokus von ALCIS steht das B…
- WFP – Water Footprint Assessment of meat and dairy products In any national or international forum that the competitiveness of Brazilian livestock is being discussed, the natural resource that appears to have a big differential is water. Brazil is …
- AgroHyd – Welternährung und Wasserressourcen: eine agrarhydrologische Perspektive. Der globale Wandel - wachsende Weltbevölkerung, ein Anstieg des mittleren Nahrungsenergiebedarfs pro Kopf und des Anteils tierischer Nahrungsmittel in verschiedenen Lä…
Publications
- Boulay, A.; Drastig, K.; Amanullah; Chapagain, A.; Charlon, V.; Civit, B.; Hess, T.; Hoekstra, A.; Ibidhi, R.; Lathuillière, M.; Manzardo, A.; McAllister, T.; Motoshita, M.; Pirlo, G.; Ridoutt, B.; Russo, V.; Salmoral, G.; Singh, R.; Vanham, D.; Pfister, S. (2021): Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership. Ecological Indicators. (Mai 2021): p. 107391. Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107391
- Drastig, K.; Kreidenweis, U.; Meyer-Aurich, A.; Ammon, C.; Prochnow, A. (2021): Case study of effects of mineral N fertilization amounts on water productivity in rainfed winter rapeseed cultivation on a sandy soil in Brandenburg (Germany) over three years. Water. (14): p. 0. Online: https://doi.org/10.3390/w13141958
- Zare, M.; Drastig, K.; Zude-Sasse, M. (2020): Tree water status in apple orchards measured by means of land surface temperature and vegetation index (LST-NDVI) trapezoidal space derived from Landsat 8 satellite images. Sustainability. (1): p. 70. Online: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12010070
- Drastig, K.; Flemming, I.; Herppich, W.; Gusovius, H. (2020): Study of Water Productivity of Industrial Hemp under Hot and Dry Conditions in Brandenburg (Germany) in the Year 2018. Water. (12): p. 1-21. Online: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12112982
- Zanella Carra, S.; Palhares, J.; Drastig, K.; Schneider, V. (2020): The effect of best crop practices in the pig and poultry production on water productivity in a Southern Brazilian watershed. Water. (11): p. 3014. Online: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12113014
- Herppich, W.; Gusovius, H.; Flemming, I.; Drastig, K. (2020): Effects of drought and heat on photosynthetic performance, water use and yield of two important fibre hemp cultivars at a poor-soil site in Brandenburg (Germany). Agronomy. (9): p. 1361. Online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/9/1361
- Kraatz, S.; Libra, J.; Drastig, K.; Hunstock, U.; Zare, M.; Jacobs, H. (2019): Water use indicators at farm scale - An agro-hydrological software solution. Science of the Total Environment. (15 August 2019): p. 133-145. Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.368
- Drastig, K.; Zare, M.; Suarez, T.; Dammer, K.; Prochnow, A. (2019): Rainfall interception of winter rapeseed in Brandenburg (Germany) under various nitrogen fertilization treatments. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. (April): p. 308-317. Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.01.027
- Baroni, G.; Drastig, K.; Lichtenfeld, A.; Jost, L.; Claas, P. (2019): Assessment of Irrigation Scheduling Systems in Germany: Survey of the users and Comparative Study. Irrigation and Drainage. (2): p. 0. Online: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2337
- Vellenga, L.; Qualitz, G.; Drastig, K. (2018): Farm Water Productivity in Conventional and Organic Farming: Case Studies of Cow-Calf Farming Systems in North Germany. Water. (10): p. 1294. Online: https://doi.org/10.3390/w10101294
Veröffentlichungen vor ATB-Zugehörigkeit
- Drastig, K., Vellenga, L., Qualitz, G., Singh, R., Pfister, S., Boulay, A.-M., Wiedemann, S., Prochnow, A., Chapagain, A., De Camillis, C., Opio, C. & Mottet, A. (2021) Accounting for livestock water productivity - How and why?. Land and Water Discussion Papers. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca7565en
- FAO (2019) LEAP: Guidelines for water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains. FAO, Rom, 104 S. http://www.fao.org/partnerships/leap/resources/guidelines/en/
Curriculum Vitae
Katrin Drastig
Professional Career:
- 2018 Habilitation in Crop Sciences, Humboldt-University zu Berlin
- since 2009 Research Scientist at the Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim within the research area "Water efficiency in agriculture"
- 09/2004 - 03/2009 Assistant in the young researcher group "Information and Modelling Systems for the Management of Large-scale Flood Events" at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Hydrology
- 10/1999 - 09/2004 Assistant and PhD-student in the project "Waterbudget of Disturbed and Undisturbed Ecosystems" of the German Science Council
- 10/1998 - 10/2003 Research Scientist at the Institute of Applied Geosciences in Giessen, Germany