Expertise: grassland management, climate change and farming systems (mitigation and adaptation), system innovations, integration dairy farming and nature management, project management
Career, experience:
1985-2000: Research Station for Cattle Husbandry. Grassland research, nitrogen fertilisation, grazing management, grassland management, nitrate leaching, semi-natural grassland, farming systems
2000-2003: Service for Land and Water Management, innovation manager agriculture and rural development
2003-2007: Service for Land and Water Management, team manager
2006: PhD thesis “Management and nitrogen utilization of grassland on intensive dairy farms”
2007-… : Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen UR, senior scientist, mitigation greenhouse gases, adaptation on climate change, grassland management,
Networks, working groups, (inter)national committees
Accountmanagement provinces Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, Utrecht,
Network contact for research programs “Rural development” and “Nature management”.
Network for research and innovations in peat regions
Important projects
1. Adaptation on climate change, Calculation of technical and economical consequences of climate change on farming systems in relation to crop production and animal health. - Project leader
2. Animal husbandry and salinity, Explore future problems with increasing salinity and how to deal with it. - Project leader
3. Animal husbandry and grazing, Technical support for communication projects on grazing, consumers’ attitude towards animal husbandry. - Project leader
4. Development of standards for fodder supply. (Standards are the basis for calculations of farm scale: technical, economical, environment and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. - Project leader |