Dr. Ole Wendroth

Ole Wendroth holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, the University of Goettingen, and currently is a Professor of Soil Physics at the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky. He was a Post-Graduate Researcher (1990–1991) and a Post-Graduate Research Scientist (1991–1992) at the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, served as a Research Scientist at the Center of Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research, Muencheberg, German (1992–2004) and an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky (2004–2012). Landscape processes: Soil water and solute transport processes at different spatial and temporal scales are one focus of his group. His group investigates transport processes in well-drained silt-loam soils, and is interested in the impact of soil management on transport processes, their scale dependence, spatial correlation length and association to other soil properties. Another focus is the investigation of spatio-temporal biomass development in farmers’ fields. His group describes the spatial pattern of biomass during the growing season based on crop sensor observations in combination with stochastic models.