Wolfgang Cramer (ecologist)

Wolfgang Cramer (* 1957 in Goslar ) is a German geographer and ecologist . From 2003 to 2011 he was Professor of Global Ecology at the University of Potsdam . Since 2011 Wolfgang Cramer has been Director of Research at the French Center National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), at the Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE) in Aix-en-Provence / Marseille ( France ).

biography

Cramer studied geography in Giessen . He then did his doctorate in Uppsala (Sweden) with a thesis on vegetation on the Swedish Baltic coast . From 1986 to 1993 he worked at the Geography Institute of the “General Science University ” (today the Technical and Natural Science University of Norway ) in Trondheim ( Norway ), most recently as “Brundtland Professor for Energy, Environment and Society”. In 1993 he moved to the newly founded Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , where he was department head until 2011, most recently for the research field “ Earth System Analysis ”. In 2003 he was also appointed professor for “Global Ecology” at the Institute for Geoecology (later Earth and Environmental Sciences) at the University of Potsdam and held this chair until he moved to France in 2011. From 2012 to 2017 he was Scientific Director of the Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE) in Aix-en-Provence .

Cramer wrote scientific contributions on the modeling of forest dynamics against the background of climatic factors as well as on the investigation of the dynamics of the biosphere on a global and continental scale. He led a major European study of ecosystem services in Europe (ATEAM) and the associated communication network AVEC. These two projects have for the first time presented a regionally detailed study of ecosystem functions for all of Europe and published it in the form of international specialist articles. The results were made accessible to young scientists through an intensive dialogue with experts and two summer schools. As part of the European network of excellence ALTER-Net , these summer schools have now become a permanent institution, where around 35 young scientists, 20 lecturers and a management team come together for two weeks in the town of Peyresq in the French Alps every September .

Cramer has been involved in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1998 , currently as lead author of the introductory chapter to the Sixth Assessment Report of Working Group 2. He is also editor of the journal Regional Environmental Change . He has been an associate member of the Académie d'Agriculture de France since 2017 .

Web links

• http://www.imbe.fr/wolfgang-cramer
• http://www.pik-potsdam.de/alter-net
• Regional Environmental Change

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Académie d'Agriculture de France: Wolfgang Cramer , June 12, 2017.