Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Anlauf

• born in 1956
• Diploma in Agronomy, G?ttingen University, main topics Soil Science and Plant Production in the Tropics
• 4-months internship at a farm in Israel, 5-months internship at a farm in Norway and 6-months practical training in an agricultural rehabilitation project for leprosy sufferers in Northern Thailand
• Research assistant at Department of Soil Science, Hannover University, working on the reclamation of salt-affected soils and on computer simulation of nutrient and pollutant transport in soils
• two 5-months research visits at Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India
• 1987 Ph.D. (Soil Science in Horticulture) at Hannover University with a thesis on "Modeling the Reclamation of Salt-affected Soils Considering Spatial Variability"
• 1990 to 1997: working for the Hannover Public Waterworks in the fields of Hydrology and Groundwater protection: - Establishment of an groundwater quality advisory scheme for agriculture and horticulture in a water protection area of 15.000 ha arable land - Development of a water catchment management system using a Geographical Information System to store and evaluate all relevant data on soil, geology, hydrology and land holdings - Applications for water rights and water protection zones
• Professor for General Soil Science/Soil Physics/Soil Informations Systems at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences since 1997
• retired since October 2021; continue to carry out research projects and supervise theses

Courses taught 1997 to 2021

• Introduction to Soil Science (B. Sc. Applied Plant Biology; B.Sc. Horticulture)
• Soil Evaluation and Soil Protection (B. Sc. Applied Plant Biology; B.Sc. Horticulture)
• Regional Soil Science (B.Sc. Horticulture)
• Project work (B. Sc. Applied Plant Biology; B.Sc. Horticulture)
• Soils in the Tropics and Subtropics (B. Sc. Horticulture)
• Summer School Hefei&Huainan/China (B.Sc. Horticulture, B. Sc. Agriculture) (in English language)
   
• Geoinformatics and Soil Information Systems (M.Sc. Soils, Inland Waters and Contaminated Land) (in English language)
• Application of Models for Soil and Plant (M.Sc. Applied Plant Sciences)
• Models for Processes in Soil and Groundwater (M.Sc. Soils, Inland Waters and Contaminated Land) (in English language)
• Applied Soil Physics (M.Sc. Soils, Inland Waters and Contaminated Land)
• Development and Analyses of Growing Media (M.Sc. Applied Plant Sciences)
• Study project: Soil Evaluation (M.Sc. Soil Use & Soil Protection)
• Soils and Soil Protection outside Central Europe (M.Sc. Soils, Inland Waters and Contaminated Land) (in English language)

Research Projects

• Effect of Conservation Tillage on Soil Physical and Biological Parameters and Nitrate Leaching
• Reduction of Diffuse Agricultural Pollutant Inputs in the Area around Lake Chao, Anhui Province, China
• Water and Solute Dynamics on Recultivated Fly Ash Sites in Huainan, Anhui Province, China
• Development of a Simple Water Balance Model for the Prediction of Soil Water Content in Anhui, China
• Soil Physical Investigations on a Subsurface Irrigation Mat
• Heavy Metals and Organic Pollutants in and around City Solid Waste Dumping Sites in Haryana/India
• Development and Evaluation of New Water-Saving Irrigation Techniques
• Oxygen Supply in Cemetery Soils
• Prediction of Decomposition Durations on Cemetery Sites
• Physical Properties of Growing Media
• Sustainable Growing Media based on domestic wood raw materials

• Physics of Soils and Growing Media (Water and Solute Transport, Physical Properties of Horticultural Substrates)
• PC-based Simulation Models for Water and Solute Transport
• Soil Use and Pollutant Inputs
• Geografical Information Systems (Soil Information Systems)
• Combination of GIS and Simulation Models