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I'm working as a research associate at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences , University of Victoria, British Columbia. My current focus is on how to implement the nitrogen and phosphorus cycle in the UVic Earth System Climate
Model. Before I came to UVic, I worked as a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. I was part of a team working on the EU-project HYMN, which stands for Hydrogen, Methane and Nitrous oxide:
Trend variability, budgets and interactions with the biosphere . My part in the HYMN project mainly revolves around modelling
methane emissions from peatlands, which is a direct continuation of my PhD work.
Ph.D. Thesis
You can download my thesis on ' Modelling northern peatland land
surface processes, vegetation dynamics and methane emissions' below. If you are interested in obtaining the code
or if you've got any question or comments please feel free to contact me .
Wania-PhD-thesis-2007.pdf
If you would like to have a nice copy of my thesis, you can get one from Lulu or now also from Amazon.
I am very happy to share my code. Since I am still doing some developments and testing, I haven't provided a version for download.
Please feel free to email me to obtain the latest version of LPJ-WHyMe.
Publications
Peer-reviewed
R. Wania, I. Ross, I.
C. Prentice (accepted) Implementation and evaluation of a new methane model within a
dynamic global vegetation model:
LPJ-WHyMe v1.3, Geoscientific Model Development Discussions.
R.
Wania, I. Ross, I. C. Prentice (2009) Integrating peatlands and permafrost into a dynamic global vegetation model:
I. Evaluation and sensitivity of physical land surfaces processes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, GB3014, doi:10.1029/2008GB003412.
Download here. R. Wania, I. Ross, I. C. Prentice (2009) Integrating peatlands and permafrost into a dynamic
global vegetation model: II. Evaluation and sensitivity of vegetation and carbon cycle processes vegetation dynamics. Global
Biogeochemical Cycles, GB3015, doi:10.1029/2008GB003413. Download here. A. Arneth, S. Sitch, A. Bondeau, K. Butterbach-Bahl, P. Foster, N. Gedney, N. de Noblet-Ducoudre,
I. C. Prentice, M. Sanderson, K. Thonicke, R. Wania, S. Zaehle (2009) From biota to
chemistry and climate: towards a comprehensive description of trace gas exchange between the biosphere and atmosphere. Biogeosciences Discussions, 6, 7717-7788. Download here. (Accepted for Biogeosciences)
R. Wania, P. Hietz, W. Wanek (2002) Natural N-15 abundance
of epiphytes depends on the position within the forest canopy: source signals and isotope fractionation. Plant, Cell and
Environment 25(4) 581-589.
P. Hietz, W. Wanek, R. Wania and N. Nadkarni (2002). N-15 natural
abundance in a montane cloud forest canopy as an indicator of nitrogen cycling and epiphyte nutrition. Oecologia
131 (3) 350-355.
Others R. Wania, M. Jolleys, W. Buytaert (2009). A previously
neglected methane source from the Andean paramo? iLEAPS Newsletter, 7, 58-59. Download here. R. Wania, I. Ross, I. C. Prentice (2009). Integrating permafrost, peatlands
and methane dynamics into a dynamic global vegetation model. iLEAPS Newsletter, 6, March 2009. Download here. R. Wania, I. C. Prentice, S. Harrison, E. Hornibrook, N. Gedney, T. Christensen, R. Clymo
(2004). The role of natural wetlands in the global methane cycle. EOS 85, 466. R. Wania and
W. Wanek (2003). Seasonality of nitrogen source availability of epiphytes in a tropical lowland rainforest. What's
up? The Newsletter of the International Canopy Network 9 (4) 4-5. R. Wania (2001). Nitrogen cycling in the canopy of a neotropical rainforest, Costa Rica. Diploma thesis, University
of Vienna, Austria.
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