Melanie Brunn

Biodiversity, Chronosequences, climate and land-use change, GIS, nutrient cycles, soil organic matter, stable C and N isotopes

Topics

Climate change impacts on soil organic carbon dynamics in forest soil
Carbon and nutrient cycles across chronosequences
Decomposition of organic matter via δ13C depth profiles
Carbon dynamics in the rhizosphere
Nitrogen saturation in forests
Tropical biodiversity experiments

CV

Since 2018	Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Geography and Geoecology (IfGG), Geomorphology and Soil Science Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2017-2018	Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geosciences, Geoecology, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
2011-2017	PhD student. University of Koblenz-Landau and Eberhard Karls- University of Tuebingen. Thesis: “Controls of vertical carbon stable isotope distribution in topsoil: temperature, precipitation and time”
2003-2009	Student of Geography with specifications in Botanic and Geology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Department of Geography, Soil Science. Diploma thesis: “Element fluxes in litterfall in a tropical tree plantation in Panama: effects of biodiversity and microtopography“

Research abroad

2017	Visiting Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama)
2013	Visiting Scientist, Lincoln University, Christchurch (New Zealand)
2008	Visiting Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama)

Awards and research grants

2015	Poster Prize Winner during the fifth International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter 2015, Goettingen (Germany)
2013	Research grant by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (D/12/45516)
2011-2015	Scholarship by the Grant Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)
2012-2013	Travel grants for conference contributions by the Interdisciplinary Graduation Center of the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
2011-2013	Research grants to fund student researchers by the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
2008-2009	Research grant to conduct research in Panama by the University of Mainz (Germany)

Presentations

Oral presentations

Brunn, M., Oelmann, Y. (2017): Decomposition of soil organic matter approximated by stable carbon isotopes: a meta-analysis. German Soil Science Society (DBG) meeting 2017, Goettingen, Germany.

Brunn, M., Spielvogel, S., Condron, L., Wells, A., Oelmann, Y. (2015): Vertical δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N changes during pedogenesis. German Soil Science Society (DBG) Meeting 2015, Munich, Germany.

Brunn, M., Spielvogel, S., Condron, L., Wells, A., Oelmann, Y. (2015): Vertical δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N changes during pedogenesis. European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria.

Brunn, M., Spielvogel, S., Sauer, T., Oelmann, Y. (2013): δ¹³C depth profiles in forest soils as proxy for decomposition of SOM across a temperature and precipitation gradient. German Soil Science Society (DBG) Meeting 2013, Rostock, Germany.

Brunn, M., Spielvogel, S., Oelmann, Y. (2012): Carbon sequestration in forest soils of Rhineland-Palatinate: decomposition estimated via δ¹³C depth profiles. Workshop: “Isotopes in Ecosystem Sciences“, Goettingen, Germany.

Poster

Ryan, J. R., Brunn, M., Oelmann, Y. (2017): Carbon cycling and translocation processes in Baltic Sea coastal dune topsoils. German Soil Science Society (DBG) Meeting 2017, Goettingen, Germany.

Brunn, M., Brodbeck, S., Oelmann, Y. (2016): Three decades after afforestation are sufficient to yield decomposition-related vertical δ¹³C depth profiles in soil. JESIUM 2016 - Joint European Stable Isotope User Group Meeting, Gent, Belgium.

Brunn, M., Condron, L., Wells, A., Spielvogel, S., Oelmann, Y. (2015): Vertical δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N changes during pedogenesis and succession across a temperate rainforest dune chronosequence. Fifth International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter, Goettingen, Germany (Poster Award Winner).

Brunn, M., Spielvogel, S., Condron, L., Wells, A., Oelmann, Y. (2014): Climate and pedogenesis affect δ¹³C depth profiles in SOM. The Sixth International Workshop on Soil and Sedimentary Organic Matter Stabilization and Destabilization (SOM6) 2014, Kiawah Island, South Carolina, USA.

Brunn, M., Wilcke, W., Oelmann, Y. (2011): Element fluxes in litterfall in a tropical tree plantation in Panama: effects of biodiversity and microtopography. German Soil Science Society (DBG) Meeting 2011, Berlin & Potsdam, Germany.

Miscellaneous

Memberships and Reviewer

Memberships:	European Geoscience Union (EGU), seit 2015 German Soil Science Society (DBG), seit 2011
Reviewer:	Plant and Soil, PlosOne, Forests, Biology and Fertility of Soils

Public reports

Interview (14.01.2015): Melanie Brunn erforscht die Stabilität von Kohlenstoff in Böden. Uni Blog Universität Koblenz-Landau (https://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/blog /forschung-vorgestellt-melanie-brunn-erforscht-die-stabilitaet-von-kohlenstoff-in-boeden/)