Dr. Holger Rupp
Contact
Dr. Holger Rupp
Department Soil System Science
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Location Magdeburg
Brückstraße 3a
39114 Magdeburg, Germany
Tel: +49 341 6025 4773
Fax: +49 341 235 45 9773
holger.rupp@ufz.de
CV / Scientific Career
1983
Graduate Engineer
1987
PhD
Occupational activities
1979 - 1983
Study at the University of Rostock, Discipline Rural Engineering
1983 - 1987
Scientist at the Research Centre for Soil Fertlity, Muecheberg, Germany
1987 - 1988
Senior Engineer for Rural Project Planning, Potsdam, Germany
1989 - 1991
Scientific Officer at the Scientific Centre for Amleioration Planning, Falkenberg, Germany
1991 - 1993
Scientist at the State Office for Environmental Protection
ab 1993
Scientist at Institute of Inland Water Research of the GKSS-Research Centre, Lysimeter Facility Falkenberg, Germany
ab 2005
Sensior Scientist, UFZ Department of Soil System Sciences
Research interests
- Studies on water and mass fluxes in soils
- Solute dynamics of wetlands
- Diffuse Pollution of Water Resources
Co-operations / Projects
ReKKS - Innovations for Sustainable Use of Agricultural Resources and Climate-adaption in the Arid Steppes of Kazakhstan and Southwestern Siberia in the Frame of the German BMBF assistence measure „CLIENT II – International Partnerships for sustaiablee Innovations“
Sub-project 2 Optimization of Water Budget by an innovative Soil Management
Runtime 2017 - 2023
Partner: Amazonen-Working Plants H. Dreyer GmbH & Co. KG, UGT GmbH, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Leibniz University Hannover
Publications
Rupp, H., Tauchnitz, N. and R. Meissner. 2024. The influence of increasing mineral fertilizer application on nitrogen leaching of arable land and grassland—results of a long-term lysimeter study, Frontiers in Soil Science 4, doi: 10.3389/fsoil.2024.1345073.
Kaden, U. S., Schulz-Zunkel, C., Fuchs, E., Horchler, P., Kasperidus, H. D., de Moraes Bonilha, O., Rupp, H., Tschikof, M., Weigelhofer, G., Hein, T. and M. Scholz. 2023. Improving an existing proxy-based approach for floodplain denitrification assessment to facilitate decision making on restoration, Science of The Total Environment 892, 164727, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164727.
Rupp, H.; Tauchnitz, N.; Meissner, R. 2021. The Effects of Soil Drying Out and Rewetting on Nitrogen and Carbon Leaching–Results of a Long‐Term Lysimeter Experiment. Water-Sui, 13, 17, doi:10.3390/w13182601.Köhn, J., Meißner, R., Rupp, H. and F. Reinstorf. 2021, Tools for Planning Local Mitigation of Water‐Driven Soil Erosion Resulting from Impacts of Future Climate Change, CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water, 1-13, doi: 10.1002/clen.202000385.
Baborowski, M., Rupp, H., Wendt-Potthoff, K., Tauchnitz, N., and Meissner, R. 2021. Factors Affecting Spatial and Temporal Variability of Metals in Drainage Water from Arable Fields, CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water 49, 2000364, doi: 10.1002/clen.202000364.
Tauchnitz, N., Kurzius, F., Rupp, H., Schmidt, G., Hauser, B., Schrödter, M. and R. Meissner. 2020, Assessment of pesticide inputs into surface waters by agricultural and urban sources - A case study in the Querne/Weida catchment, central Germany, Environmental Pollution 267, 115186, doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115186.
Haselow, L., Meissner, R., Rupp, H. & Miegel, K. Evaluation of precipitation measurements methods under field conditions during a summer season: A comparison of the standard rain gauge with a weighable lysimeter and a piezoelectric precipitation sensor. Journal of Hydrology 575, 537-543, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.05.065 (2019).
Rupp, H., R. Meissner, and P. Leinweber. 2018. Plant available phosphorus in soil as predictor for the leaching potential: Insights from long-term lysimeter studies. Ambio 47 (Suppl. 1): 103-113.
Bednorz, D., N. Tauchnitz, O. Christen, H. Rupp, and R. Meissner. 2016. The Impact of Soil Heterogeneity on Nitrate Dynamic and Losses in Tile-Drained Arable Fields. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 227 (10).
Bednorz, D., N. Tauchnitz, O. Christen, H. Rupp, and R. Meissner. 2016. Evaluating the transferability of measurements from simple constructed non weighable gravitation lysimeters to predict the water regime on field scale-a case study. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 179 (6):809-820.
Schulz-Zunkel, C., F. Krueger, H. Rupp, R. Meissner, B. Gruber, M. Gerisch, and H.-R. Bork. 2013. Spatial and seasonal distribution of trace metals in floodplain soils. A case study with the Middle Elbe River, Germany. Geoderma 211-212:128-137.
Shaheen, S., J. Rinklebe, H. Rupp, and R. Meissner. 2014. Lysimeter trials to assess the impact of different flood–dry-cycles on the dynamics of pore water concentrations of As, Cr, Mo and V in a contaminated floodplain soil. Geoderma 228-229: 5-13.
Shaheen, Sabry M., Jörg Rinklebe, Holger Rupp, and Ralph Meissner. 2014. Temporal dynamics of pore water concentrations of Cd, Co, Cu, Ni, and Zn and their controlling factors in a contaminated floodplain soil assessed by undisturbed groundwater lysimeters. Environmental Pollution 191 (0):223-231.Membership
German Soil Science Society