• Historical evolution of nitrogen depositions and expected climate change effects on the nitrogen load in the groundwater body "Langenauer Donauried"

• Development of a new strategy for emission control to protect groundwater from intolerable nitrogen depositions

• Development of an internet-based GIS application for simulation of nitrogen dynamics under corn fields (including data sampling on test plots)

• Phosphorus loads released by a former sewage disposal field

• Spatially distributed investigations on the frequency of periods with critical shortage of plant available soil water content ("drought index ") for the State of Baden-Württemberg

• Sources and prospected trend of the high nitrate loads at Hausen drinking water wells (including isotope sampling and evaluation)

• Data acquisition for land management an groundwater protection: composition and processing of digital datasets on land-use and soil properties, design of extended monitoring program

• Development of a Smallworld GIS application (AGRAR) to support land management and cooperation between water supply companies and agriculture

keywords

land-use, agriculture, management practices, soil data, nitrogen dynamics, nitrogen loads, climate change, drinking water, water supply, groundwater protection, sewage disposal, remedial action, concepts for restoration, data acquisition, digital datasets, monitoring programmes