Dr. Katrin Di Bella Meusburger

Funktion

Gruppenleiterin

Einheit

Wald- und Bodenökologie

Gruppe

Bodenfunktionen und Bodenschutz

Kontakt

katrin.meusburger(at)wsl.ch

+41 44 739 2490

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Standort

WSL Birmensdorf Bi MG C 50

Research Interests ¶

Soil solution and the soil water availability for plants - Soil degradation processes – Stable isotopes and fallout radionuclides as soil, sediment and water tracers - Environmental modelling with remote sensing and GIS - Natural hazards and rainfall erosivity

Publications ¶

ORCID: 0000-0003-4623-6249; Research ID: AHA-6763-2022
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=P-RC09MAAAAJ&hl=de

Projects ¶

SNSF, 2025-2029, DeepDrought: Deep soil water a critical tree trait for Drought stress release?
GCOS, 2024-2027, SMURF: Soil Moisture Upscaling using Radiative transFer modelling
SNSF, 2023-2026, INSIghtForest: IN SItu tracking of water fluxes in Forest ecosystems
FOEN, 2025-2023, DRAINS: Drought Risk mAps for the Swiss Forest
SNSF, 2019-2023, SoilTain: How much water does Soil reTain for trees?
FOEN, 2018-2021, AlpErosion: Soil Erosion risk modelling in Alpine areas

Education ¶

2009 PhD in Geoscience, University of Basel, CH.
2005 MSc in Hydrology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, D.

Professional Career ¶

Since 11/2017 Senior researcher, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH.
01/2012 - 10/2017 Research Associate (Oberassistentin), University of Basel, CH.
11/2010 - 05/2011 Researcher, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, I.
07/2009 - 12/2011 Post-doctoral investigator, University of Basel, CH.

Teaching & Supervision ¶

Supervision and Co-Supervision: 3 PhD-, 11 MSc-, 8 BSc students
Since 2024 "Mountain Hydrology", ETHZ, CH.
Since 2022 "Bodenresourcen and global change", ETHZ, CH.
Guest lecturer in "Stable Isotope Ecology of Terrestrial Ecosystems", "Environmental Measurement Lab", "Mountain Forest Hydrology", ETHZ, CH.
2012-2017 Course coordinator “Ökologische Standortansprache”, University of Basel, CH.
2012-2017 Course coordinator “Einführung in die Hydrologie”, University of Basel, CH.

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