Houska, Dr. Tobias

Address:
Department of Landscape Ecology and Resources Management
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, Room B223
35392 Gießen

Phone: +49 (0)641 9937384 

Email: tobias.houska@umwelt.uni-giessen.de

Developer of the Statistical Parameter Optimization Tool for Python (SPOTPY)

Scientific interest

• Bayesian inference and prediction in hydro-biogeochemical modelling (CMF, HYMOD, LandscapeDNDC)

• Application of techniques to quantify model parameter, -structure, input, output and prediction uncertainty analysis (SPOTPY)

• Interdisciplinary work to understand hydrological- nitrogen and carbon cycle on the catchment scale

• Programming with Python, Matlab, spatial/temporal analysis with GIS

Scientific career

References

Up-to-date references and review activities can be found at ORCID, Publons and ResearchGate.

• Charamba, L. V. C., Houska, T., Kaiser, K., Knorr, K.-H., Krüger, S., Krause, T., Chen, H., Krám, P., Hruška, J., and Kalbitz, K.: Tracing sources of dissolved organic matter along the terrestrial-aquatic continuum in the Ore Mountains, Germany, Science of The Total Environment, 943, 173807, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173807, 2024.
• Huang, J., Yin, H., and Houska, T.: Enhancing Insight into DOM Fate in Aquatic Systems: Introducing the FLOTATION Model, Water Research, 121942, doi:10.1016/j.watres.2024.121942, 2024.
• Wangari, E. G., Mwanake, R., Houska, T., Kraus, D., Gettel, G. M., Kiese, R., Breuer, L., and Butterbach-Bahl, K.: Identifying landscape hot and cold spots of soil greenhouse gas fluxes by combining field measurements and remote sensing data, Biogeosciences, 20, 5029–5067, doi:10.5194/bg-20-5029-2023, 2023. "Among the journals top downloaded articles"
• Barresi Armoa, O. L., Sauvage, S., Houska, T., Bieger, K., Schürz, C., and Sánchez Pérez, J. M.: Representation of Hydrological Components under a Changing Climate—A Case Study of the Uruguay River Basin Using the New Version of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool Model (SWAT+), Water, 15, 2604, doi:10.3390/w15142604, 2023.
• Mwanake, R. M., Gettel, G. M., Wangari, E. G., Glaser, C., Houska, T., Breuer, L., Butterbach-Bahl, K., and Kiese, R.: Anthropogenic activities significantly increase annual greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from temperate headwater streams in Germany, Biogeosciences, 20, 3395–3422, doi:10.5194/bg-20-3395-2023, 2023.
• Wangari, E. G., Mwanake, R. M., Kraus, D., Werner, C., Gettel, G. M., Kiese, R., Breuer, L., Butterbach-Bahl, K., and Houska, T.: Number of Chamber Measurement Locations for Accurate Quantification of Landscape-Scale Greenhouse Gas Fluxes: Importance of Land Use, Seasonality, and Greenhouse Gas Type, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2022JG006901, doi:10.1029/2022JG006901, 2022. "Among the journals top downloaded articles"
• Sahraei, A., Houska, T., and Breuer, L.: Deep Learning for Isotope Hydrology: The Application of Long Short-Term Memory to Estimate High Temporal Resolution of the Stable Isotope Concentrations in Stream and Groundwater, Frontiers in Water, 3, 113, doi:10.3389/frwa.2021.740044, 2021.
• Houska, T., Kraft, P., Jehn, F. U., Bestian, K., Kraus, D., and Breuer, L.: Detection of hidden model errors by combining single and multi-criteria calibration, Science of The Total Environment, 777, 146218, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146218, 2021.
• Jehn, F. U., Breuer, L., Kraft, P., Bestian, K. and Houska, T.: Simple Catchments and Where to Find Them: The Storage-Discharge Relationship as a Proxy for Catchment Complexity, Frontiers in Water, 3, doi:10.3389/frwa.2021.631651, 2021.
• Almahayni, T. and Houska, T.: Towards dynamic and process–based modelling of radionuclides cycling in terrestrial radioecology, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 225, 106380, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106380, 2020.
• Chamorro, A., Houska, T., Singh, S. K. and Breuer, L.: Projection of Droughts as Multivariate Phenomenon in the Rhine River, Water, 12(8), 2288, doi:10.3390/w12082288, 2020.
• Jehn, F. U., Bestian, K., Breuer, L., Kraft, P. and Houska, T.: Using hydrological and climatic catchment clusters to explore drivers of catchment behavior, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(3), 1081–1100, doi:10.5194/hess-24-1081-2020, 2020.
• Liebermann, R., Breuer, L., Houska, T., Kraus, D., Moser, G. and Kraft, P.: Simulating Long-Term Development of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Plant Biomass, and Soil Moisture of a Temperate Grassland Ecosystem under Elevated Atmospheric CO2, Agronomy, 10(1), 50, doi: 10.3390/agronomy10010050, 2020.
• Jehn, F. U., Chamorro, A., Houska, T. and Breuer, L.: Trade-offs between parameter constraints and model realism: a case study, Sci. Rep., 9(1), 1–12, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46963-6, 2019.
• Kellner, J., Houska, T., Manderscheid, R., Weigel, H.-J., Breuer, L. and Kraft, P.: Response of maize biomass and soil water fluxes on elevated CO₂ and drought–from field experiments to process-based simulations, Glob. Change Biol., 25(9), 2947–2957, doi:10.1111/gcb.14723, 2019.
• Camargos, C., Julich, S., Houska, T., Bach, M. and Breuer, L.: Effects of Input Data Content on the Uncertainty of Simulating Water Resources, Water, 10(5), 621, doi:10.3390/w10050621, 2018.
• Jehn, F. U., Breuer, L., Houska, T., Bestian, K. and Kraft, P.: Incremental model breakdown to assess the multi-hypotheses problem, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(8), 4565–4581, doi:10.5194/hess-22-4565-2018, 2018.
• Liebermann, R., Breuer, L., Houska, T., Klatt, S., Kraus, D., Haas, E., Müller, C. and Kraft, P.: Closing the N-Budget: How Simulated Groundwater-Borne Nitrate Supply Affects Plant Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Temperate Grassland, Atmosphere, 9(10), 407, doi:10.3390/atmos9100407, 2018.
• Maier, N., Breuer, L., Chamorro, A., Kraft, P. and Houska, T.: Multi-Source Uncertainty Analysis in Simulating Floodplain Inundation under Climate Change, Water, 10(6), 809, doi:10.3390/w10060809, 2018.
• Kellner, J., Multsch, S., Houska, T., Kraft, P., Müller, C. and Breuer, L.: A coupled hydrological-plant growth model for simulating the effect of elevated CO 2 on a temperate grassland, Agric. For. Meteorol., 246, 42–50, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.05.017, 2017.
• Houska, T., Kraft, P., Liebermann, R., Klatt, S., Kraus, D., Haas, E., Santabárbara, I., Kiese, R., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Müller, C. and Breuer, L.: Rejecting hydro-biogeochemical model structures by multi-criteria evaluation, Environ. Model. Softw., 93, 1–12, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.03.005, 2017.
• Houska, T., Kraus, D., Kiese, R. and Breuer, L.: Constraining a complex biogeochemical model for CO2 and N2O emission simulations from various land uses by model–data fusion, Biogeosciences, 14(14), 3487–3508, doi:10.5194/bg-14-3487-2017, 2017.
• Seifert, A.-G., Roth, V.-N., Dittmar, T., Gleixner, G., Breuer, L., Houska, T. and Marxsen, J.: Comparing molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in soil and stream water: Influence of land use and chemical characteristics, Science of The Total Environment, 571, 142–152, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.033, 2016.
• Houska, T., Kraft, P., Chamorro-Chavez, A. and Breuer, L.: SPOTting Model Parameters Using a Ready-Made Python Package, PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0145180, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145180, 2015. "Among the journals top cited articles"
• Houska, T., Multsch, S., Kraft, P., Frede, H.-G., and Breuer, L.: Monte Carlo-based calibration and uncertainty analysis of a coupled plant growth and hydrological model, Biogeosciences, 11, 2069-2082, doi:10.5194/bg-11-2069-2014, 2014.

Other publications

• Kalbitz, K., Houska, T., Krüger, S., Krause, T., Jackisch, C., Lau, M., Julich, S., Petzlod, R., Brösing, M., Brückner, D., Möller, A., Müller, I.: Entstehung, Freisetzung und Transport von gelöstem organischen Kohlenstoff (DOC) in bewaldeten Einzugsgebieten am Beispiel der Trinkwassertalsperre Sosa, Schriftenreihe des LfULG, Heft 2/2024, 2024.

• Houska, T.: Uncertainty analysis of complex hydro-biogeochemical models, doi:10.22029/jlupub-10422, 2017.

Approved grants (PI level only)

Cooperations abroad

• Visitor of Prof. Jasper Vrugt in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine

• Visitor of Prof. Dmitri Kavetski in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide

Awards

• Winner of the IFZ Award 2013 for the best thesis in the field of Land Use and Biodiversity