The Luxembourg Gutland Landscape

Annemieke Kooijman received her PhD in Biology in 1993 at the University of Utrecht on changes in nutrient availability and vegetation in rich fens due to environmental stress. She has been working at the University of Amsterdam as a landscape ecologist, currently at the Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics Department of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She works on interactions between soils and biota in ecosystems with gradients in geology and pH, such as semi-terrestrial wetlands, coastal dune grasslands and Luxembourg forests, with particular focus on ecosystem nutrition. For the Luxembourg forests, she has published a number of studies about the impact of geology and litter quality on ecosystem functioning. She has been teaching (field) courses on soils and landscape ecology in various ecosystems for more than 25 years. 

Erik LH Cammeraat received his PhD in Environmental Sciences in 1992 at theUniversity of Amsterdam on work in hydro-geomorphological processes in a forested marl catchment in Luxembourg. He worked next as a postdoc and PI on EU- and Dutch-funded projects related to Mediterranean desertification and degradation remediation. Currently he is appointed as Associate professor in geomorphology and land degradation at the Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics Department of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  He works on soil-geomorphology-vegetation interactions in both humid and dryland areas, as well as on degradation remediation strategies using ecoengineering approaches, and on the fate of carbon in soils. He has been teaching (field) courses on geomorphology, soils, landscape ecology, and hydrology for more than 20 years. 

Harry Seijmonsbergen was born in 1961 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and studied Physical Geography at the University of Amsterdam. During his Master-and PhD research he developed methods for the evaluation of natural hazards based on detailed geomorphological mapping in Austria. He has over thirty years of experience in teaching field courses, remote sensing and GIS tools and techniques.  Currently his research in the Theoretical Computational Geo-Ecology group at the University of Amsterdam is focusing on the functioning of Geo-Ecosystems by analyzing the 3D structure of  both the landscape and the vegetation cover using air-born and terrestrial LiDAR-based high resolution elevation data as well as geodiversity mapping at multiple scales.