Dr. Wolfgang Obermeier
Wolfgang Obermeier is research associate in the Research and Teaching Unit “Physical Geography and Land Use Systems” (Prof. Dr. Pongratz) in the Faculty of Geosciences at LMU Munich. He studied Geography at the Philipps-University of Marburg and the Faith-University in Istanbul. His research uses data from field experiments, remote sensing approaches (such as satellites) and various modeling approaches, and focuses on the terrestrial biosphere in interaction with humankind and the atmosphere. He is coordinator of a sub-project in the ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’-funding line of the BMBF (STEPSEC). Currently, his main research lies on the evaluation of estimates on carbon dioxide emissions from land use and land use changes, with a particular focus on differences between scientific model output and official data reported by countries, for example, to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).