Dr. Lena Scheiffele
AG Wasser- und Stofftransport in Landschaften | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
- +49 331 977 2092
- Campus Golm
Haus 32, Raum 0.08
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
CV
Research Experience
- 2025 - today: Reseacher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, guest scientist at University of Potsdam
- 2018 - 2025: Reseacher at University of Potsdam, DFG research group "Cosmic Sense", Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
- 2016 - 2017: Reseacher at University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
- 2014: Research Assistant at University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
- 2011 - 2014: Research Assistant at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Education
- 2019 - 2024 : PhD in Geoecology at University of Potsdam
- 2011 - 2015: Master of Science Geoecology at University of Potsdam
- 2008 - 2011: Bachelor of Science Geoecology at University of Potsdam
Forschung
- Soil moisture measurements with Cosmic-ray neutron sensing
- Vadose zone hydrology
- Groundwater recharge
- Soil hydraulic modelling
Lehre
Past
- Irrigation in Agricultural Hydrology
- Seminar Datenquellen und -aufbearbeitung (GIS)
- Übung Hydrogeologie (Master Geoökologie)
- Geländeklimatologie und Bodenhydrologie im Landschaftspraktikum (Bachelor Geoökologie)
- Seminar Stoffdynamik (Bachelor)
Publikationen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3621-680X
Brogi, C., Nieberding, F., Scheiffele, L., Daccache, A., Schrön, M., and Bogena, H. R.: Irrigation Monitoring With Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensors: Unraveling Field Experiments With Neutron Transport Simulations, Water Resources Research, 62, e2025WR043105, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR043105, 2026.
Grosse, P. M., Marret, E., Scheiffele, L., Dimitrova Petrova, K., Francke, T., Altdorff, D., Heistermann, M., Schiel, M., Neumann, C., Scheffler, D., Saberioon, M., Kunz, M., Marach, J., Reginatto, M., Zboril, M., Balenzano, A., Rasche, D., Stumpp, C., Trost, B., and Oswald, S. E.: The Potsdam Soil Moisture Observatory: high-coverage reference observations at kilometer scale, Earth System Science Data, 18, 1703–1727, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1703-2026, 2026.
Scheiffele, L. M., Munz, M., Francke, T., Baroni, G., and Oswald, S. E.: Enhancing Hectare-Scale Groundwater Recharge Estimation by Integrating Data From Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing Into Soil Hydrological Modeling, Water Resources Research, 61, e2024WR037641, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037641, 2025.
Francke, T., Brogi, C., Duarte Rocha, A., Förster, M., Heistermann, M., Köhli, M., Rasche, D., Reich, M., Schattan, P., Scheiffele, L., and Schrön, M.: Virtual joint field campaign: a framework of synthetic landscapes to assess multiscale measurement methods of water storage, Geoscientific Model Development, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-106, 2024.
Heistermann, M., Francke, T., Scheiffele, L., Dimitrova Petrova, K., Budach, C., Schrön, M., Trost, B., Rasche, D., Güntner, A., Döpper, V., Förster, M., Köhli, M., Angermann, L., Antonoglou, N., Zude-Sasse, M., and Oswald, S. E.: Three years of soil moisture observations by a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster at an agricultural research site in north-east Germany, Earth System Science Data, 15, 3243–3262, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3243-2023, 2023.
Scheiffele, L. M., Schrön, M., Köhli, M., Dimitrova-Petrova, K., Altdorff, D., Franz, T., Rosolem, R., Evans, J., Blake, J., Bogena, H., McJannet, D., Baroni, G., Desilets, D., and Oswald, S. E.: Comment on ‘Examining the variation of soil moisture from cosmic-ray neutron probes footprint: experimental results from a COSMOS-UK site’ by Howells, O.D., Petropoulos, G.P., et al., Environ Earth Sci 82, 41 (2023), Environ Earth Sci, 82, 474, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11186-6, 2023.
Bogena, H. R., Schrön, M., Jakobi, J., Ney, P., Zacharias, S., Andreasen, M., Baatz, R., Boorman, D., Duygu, M. B., Eguibar-Galán, M. A., Fersch, B., Franke, T., Geris, J., González Sanchis, M., Kerr, Y., Korf, T., Mengistu, Z., Mialon, A., Nasta, P., Nitychoruk, J., Pisinaras, V., Rasche, D., Rosolem, R., Said, H., Schattan, P., Zreda, M., Achleitner, S., Albentosa-Hernández, E., Akyürek, Z., Blume, T., del Campo, A., Canone, D., Dimitrova-Petrova, K., Evans, J. G., Ferraris, S., Frances, F., Gisolo, D., Güntner, A., Herrmann, F., Iwema, J., Jensen, K. H., Kunstmann, H., Lidón, A., Looms, M. C., Oswald, S., Panagopoulos, A., Patil, A., Power, D., Rebmann, C., Romano, N., Scheiffele, L., Seneviratne, S., Weltin, G., and Vereecken, H.: COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors, Earth System Science Data, 14, 1125–1151, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1125-2022, 2022.
Barbosa, L. R., Coelho, V. H. R., Scheiffele, L. M., Baroni, G., Filho, G. M. R., Montenegro, S. M. G. L., Almeida, C. das N., and Oswald, S. E.: Dynamic groundwater recharge simulations based on cosmic-ray neutron sensing in a tropical wet experimental basin, Vadose Zone Journal, 20, e20145, https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20145, 2021.
Scheiffele, L. M., Baroni, G., Franz, T. E., Jakobi, J. and Oswald, S. E.: A profile shape correction to reduce the vertical sensitivity of cosmic-ray neutron sensing of soil moisture, Vadose Zone Journal, 19(1), e20083, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20083, 2020.
Fersch, B., Francke, T., Heistermann, M., Schrön, M., Döpper, V., Jakobi, J., Baroni, G., Blume, T., Bogena, H., Budach, C., Gränzig, T., Förster, M., Güntner, A., Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., Kasner, M., Köhli, M., Kleinschmit, B., Kunstmann, H., Patil, A., Rasche, D., Scheiffele, L., Schmidt, U., Szulc-Seyfried, S., Weimar, J., Zacharias, S., Zreda, M., Heber, B., Kiese, R., Mares, V., Mollenhauer, H., Völksch, I. and Oswald, S.: A dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture observation in a highly instrumented pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Germany, Earth System Science Data, 12(3), 2289–2309, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2289-2020, 2020.
Scheiffele, L. M., Franz, T. E., Oswald, S. E. and Baroni, G.: Testing a new correction factor to account for the vertical sensitivity ofcosmic-ray neutron sensing for soil moisture estimation, European Geosciences Union, Wien., 2019.
Baroni, G., Scheiffele, L. M., Schrön, M., Ingwersen, J. and Oswald, S. E.: Uncertainty, sensitivity and improvements in soil moisture estimation with cosmic-ray neutron sensing, Journal of Hydrology, 564, 873–887, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.07.053, 2018.
Schrön, M., Köhli, M., Scheiffele, L., Iwema, J., Bogena, H. R., Lv, L., Martini, E., Baroni, G., Rosolem, R., Weimar, J., Mai, J., Cuntz, M., Rebmann, C., Oswald, S. E., Dietrich, P., Schmidt, U. and Zacharias, S.: Improving calibration and validation of cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the light of spatial sensitivity, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21(10), 5009–5030, doi:10.5194/hess-21-5009-2017, 2017.
Scheiffele, L. M., Baroni, G., Schrön, M., Ingwersen, J. and Oswald, S. E.: Evaluation of uncertainty in field soil moisture estimations by cosmic-ray neutron sensing, in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, vol. 19, p. 13830., 2017.
Robledo-Abad, C., Althaus, H.-J., Berndes, G., Bolwig, S., Corbera, E., Creutzig, F., Garcia-Ulloa, J., Geddes, A., Gregg, J. S., Haberl, H., Hanger, S., Harper, R. J., Hunsberger, C., Larsen, R. K., Lauk, C., Leitner, S., Lilliestam, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Muys, B., Nordborg, M., Ölund, M., Orlowsky, B., Popp, A., Portugal-Pereira, J., Reinhard, J., Scheiffele, L. and Smith, P.: Bioenergy production and sustainable development: science base for policymaking remains limited, GCB Bioenergy, 9(3), 541–556, doi:10.1111/gcbb.12338, 2016.
Scheiffele, L. M., Baroni, G. and Oswald, S. E.: Assessment of Soil Moisture Dynamics on an Irrigated Maize Field Using Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing, in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, vol. 17, p. 830. [online] Available from: adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015EGUGA..17..830S (Accessed 22 June 2016), 2015.
Bodirsky, B. L., Popp, A., Weindl, I., Dietrich, J. P., Rolinski, S., Scheiffele, L., Schmitz, C. and Lotze-Campen, H.: N2O emissions from the global agricultural nitrogen cycle - current state and future scenarios, Biogeosciences, 9(10), 4169–4197, doi:10.5194/bg-9-4169-2012, 2012.