Gert-Jan Nabuurs

• Teamleader Forest Ecosystems
• Senior researcher European Forest Scenario Studies
• Associate researcher to the European Forest Institute, Finland
• Associate Professor to the University of Joensuu, Finland

Education
Msc. in Forestry and Soil Sciences from the Agricultural University Wageningen
PhD in forest planning and economics from the University of Joensuu, Finland.

Research interest
My main field of interest is in forest resource analyses for European forests in combination with climate change and carbon sequestration studies. Results have been published in over 120 publications.

Affiliations
Member of the expert group for the UN-ECE’s ‘European Forest Sector Outlook Studies’.
Deputy chair of the IUFRO group 4.02.07: ‘large scale inventories and scenario studies’.

Awards
Hissink price
Joensuu City Senior Research Scholarship
Tim Peck Young Scientists Award.

IPCC
Lead author for Chapter 4 of Working Group III for IPCC’s Third Assessment Report Lead Author for chapter 3 of the IPCC special Report on Land use, land use change and forestry.
Co-ordinating Lead Author for chapter 3 of the IPCC Good Practice Guidance report (2003). 
Coordinating lead author of the ‘forestry’ chapter of working group III of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Main publications

• Janssens, I. A., A. Freibauer, P Ciais, P. Smith, G.J. Nabuurs , G Folberth, B. schlamadinger, R.W.A. Hutjes, R. Ceulemans, E.-D Schulze, R. Valentini, A.J. Dolman (2003). "Europe's terrestrial biosphere absorbs 7 to 12% of European anthropogenic CO2 emissions." Science 300: 1538-1542.
• Masera, O. R., M. Kanninen, J. Garza-Caligaris, G.J. Nabuurs, M. Kanninen, A. Pussinen, T. Karjalainen 2003. "Modelling carbon sequestration in afforestation and forest management projects: The CO2FIX V2 approach." Ecological modelling 164: 177-199.
• Nabuurs, G.J., M.J. Schelhaas, G.M.J. Mohren and C.B. Field. 2003. Temporal evolution of the European Forest sector carbon sink 1950-1999. Global Change Biology. 9:152-160
• Nabuurs, G.J., R. Päivinen, A. Pussinen & M.J. Schelhaas. 2003. Development of European forests until 2050 - a projection of forests and forest management in thirty countries. EFI Research Report 15. European Forest Institute. Joensuu, Finland
• Nabuurs, G.J., N.H. Ravindranath, K. Paustian, A. Freibauer, W. Hohenstein, W. Makundi and 34 others. 2004. LUCF Sector Good Practice Guidance. In Penman et al. (Eds.), IPCC Good practice Guidance for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry. IPCC NGGIP Programme. p 3.1 – 3.312. Published by IGES for IPCC. Japan. 
• Nabuurs, G.J. 2004. Current consequences of past actions: how to separate direct from indirect.  In: Field, C. and M Raupach (Eds.,), The global carbon cycle. SCOPE 62. p. 317-326

Full publication list

Hobbies

• Gardening
• Enjoying life in the small village of Overloon
• Conifer cone collection
• Race biking, squash
• IVN-Maasvallei
• Training youth football team