Wim de Vries

Wim de Vries is professor at the Environmental Systems Analysis Group of Wageningen University, where he holds the chair "Integrated nutrient impact assessment”. He is a researcher in the field of biogeochemistry with special reference to nutrient cycling, soil acidification, greenhouse gas emissions and metal pollution. His research is organized around large scale impacts of the elevated use of nutrients (especially nitrogen and phosphorus) in agriculture on air-, soil - and water quality and related boundaries in view of those impacts. Wim de Vries wrote more than 600 publications as an author or co-author on the above mentioned topic, including ca 200 publications in international peer reviewed journals.

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At the XXII International N Workshop he will give a key note lecture on the “Spatial variation in the cooling and warming impacts of anthropogenic nitrogen at global scale”. Apart from the warming effects of N-induced nitrous oxide and methane emissions and of NOx-induced ozone formation enhancing CO₂ emissions, he will discuss the cooling effects of N induced CO₂ sequestration and aerosol formation induced by NOx and NH3 emissions.