Carsten W. Müller

Hydrological Conditions Outweigh Soil Texture, Temperature, and Terrain in German Agricultural Land Use Background The availability of fertile land suitable for agriculture is limited. In the European Union, political demand for self-sufficiency in staple food production currently competes with increa...

How do we decide what grows where? 🌱🧪⚒️

Our new paper analyzes 100 years of land-use history across 3,104 sites in Germany and finds that hydrological properties shape our agricultural landscapes.

doi.org/10.1002/jpln...

@cwmsoils.bsky.social @thuenen.de

#Hydrology #LandUse #Sustainability #Soil

Happy new year to everyone!
I wish you all an enthusiastic 2026 full of energy and opportunities! …and don’t forget to spend more time outdoors 😉

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PhD position in #SoilScience - join my research group and work together with me on the project: ‘CINCA - Climate change Impacts on Nutrient and Carbon Allocation in soils of maritime Antarctica’ at @tuberlin.bsky.social #biocrust #POM #MAOM #Antarctica #SOC
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8️⃣ #TUBerlin- Forscher gehören laut dem Ranking Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers zu den meistzitierten der 🌏. Gratulation an Steve Albrecht, @efesce.bsky.social, @cwmsoils.bsky.social, Klaus-Robert Müller, Wojciech Samek, Holger Stark, Peter Strasser & Arne Thomas!🎉
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I’m very happy to be listed as a Highly Cited Researcher 2025 by Clarivate. It is wonderful to see the strong interest in our work – a reflection of the dedication, creativity, and teamwork of so many people in my group and across our collaborations. @tuberlin.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social

Cheers and Congratulations to Yujia Liu - PhD thesis submitted - she worked on a better understanding of denitrification processes at hot-spots in Danish croplands - way to go 💪 @ucph.bsky.social

starting every new month with a group brunch, everyone brings something - loads of delicacies and good coffee 🤩@tuberlin.bsky.social

summer seems endless in Berlin - the view from our lab - pure magic these days 😉

Thanks. I use Nikon bodies and Sigma Art series lenses.

more photo backup...with some favorite sport shots ;)

while adding another backup for all my photos, coming across some polar logistics shots... makes me really looking forward to the next field season up North :D #Antarctica #Arctic #fieldwork #logistics

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final project report just submitted, new project proposal ready for submission - sometimes science is just a hamster wheel - let’s call it a week 😓

early birthday present to my group …and me ☺️
From today on, if you visit us, we‘ll have espresso and Co for you, maybe even the professor will do the barista 😉

🤣 - actually @paulinerummel.bsky.social came up with them in my group back in Copenhagen

it’s a cloudy stormy autumn day in Berlin, but at least there’s sunny agriculture socks #urbanfarming

Glienicker Brücke, the old „spy bridge“ between former Eastern and Western Germany always offers a magic view on my daily commute #cycletowork

Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity This collection examines how human activities and global change stressors are transforming the composition and functioning of terrestrial Arctic and Antarctic ...

Extended deadline! Submissions welcomed until 1st December to the npj biodiversity collection: Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity 🐻‍❄️🐧 Edited by: @annebeejay.bsky.social, Daly Noll Vergara, Luis Pertierra and me www.nature.com/collections/...

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Ich hoffe, dass es hilft Menschen für die wunderbare Welt des Bodens zu begeistern. Aber auch für die Wissenschaft, die hinter diesen Erkenntnissen steht.

Hier der Link zum Buch:
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Finished the poster for our just funded project: "CINCA - Climate change Impacts on Nutrient and Carbon Allocation in soils of maritime Antarctica" for the @dfg.de priority program 1158 #Antarctic Research workshop in Bremerhaven next weekend - we are all excited to continue our work in #Antarctica

magic scenes that you completely miss when commuting by car or train #cycletowork #Jungfernsee #Potsdam

summer was very productive in our soil science 'art studio' 🥰 - lacquer profiles from the @tuberlin.bsky.social campus in the making #soilart #urbansoil #artefacts

First day back in the lab after the summer feels like birthday presents arrived early 🥳
We now have a second new BET (specific surface area), operated together with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social and our "IRMS project" from Nuuk, Greenland - both are now waiting for the gasses to be connected 😉

Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock - Nature Ecology & Evolution This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species. Using nitrogen-fixing species for forestation, agriculture and land rege...

This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species, potentially offering a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change for forestation, agriculture and land regeneration 🧪🌳

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I‘ve never been in Africa so far, but thanks to my lab head Anne Wagner I now have a little piece of Africa in my office 🤩 …thanks to our Namibia project supported by seed funding of @tuberlin.bsky.social

Prepping for the farewell of Ingrid Koegel-Knabner #SOMQueen today, and somehow I feel a bit older too going through all the photos 😉

We are seeking a new director for our institute:

Director (f/m/d) at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences – Agrosphere (IBG-3) at Forschungszentrum Jülich @fz-juelich.de
with professorship (W3) in Terrestrial Systems Analysis
at the @unibonn.bsky.social University of Bonn

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The good, the bad and the ugly" - really nice talk by @markussteffen.bsky.social about carbon farming and its pitfalls from a Swiss perspective today at #DBG25

Thanks - unfortunately, I don’t think it’s recorded.