Peter Buurman


Personal

e-mail: peter.buurman(at)wur.nl
Visiting and Postal address


Peter has reached his retirement age. On December the 10th 2008, he gave a presentation during his farewell meeting. But will he really leave? Download the presentation (in Dutch)

Research Interest

  • soil organic matter chemistry and dynamics
  • soil genesis
  • podzolisation
  • volcanic soils




PhD students at Wageningen University

  • Anne Jongkind (Nederland) – Soil processes under kauri
  • Octavio Mosquera (Colombia) – Carbon storage dynamics under silvopastoral systems in Colombian Amazonia
  • Ishak Yassir (Indonesia) – Estimating carbon stocks in regenerating forests in East Kalimantan, Indonesia


PhD students at other universities

  • Karen Vancampenhout, (Gent, Belgium) – Reconstruction of paleoenvironment through (organic matter) analysis of paleosols
  • Ramon Verde (Santiago, Spain) – Effect of land use change on andic properties of Galician soils on amphibolites (organic matter chemistry aspects)
  • Mauricio Rizzato (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) – Coastal podzols of Sao Paolo State (organic matter chemistry aspects)
  • Flavio Marques (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) – The stabilization of soil organic matter in Humox soils of Brazil (organic matter chemistry aspects)
  • Fernando Ferreira (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) – Organic matter chemistry aspects of mangrove soils


Current Research

  • Organic matter chemistry in Volcanic ash soils
  • Organic matter chemistry of Michigan podzols
  • Chemistry of a deep peat in Galicia, Spain (with Xabier Pontevedra Pombal and Antonio Martinez Cortizas of the University of Santiago de Compostela)
  • Chemistry (by pyrolysis-GC/MS) of the microbial biomass in soils


Special Course

  • Soil organic matter studies for environmental scientistsThis course covers, in about 35 lectures, subjects ranging from the global carbon cycle to molecular chemistry. Information upon request


Selected recent publications (complete list upon request)

  • Van Breemen, N., and P. Buurman, 1998. Soil Formation. Kluwer Academic Press, 375 pp
  • P. Buurman, Th. Pape, J.A. Reijneveld, F. de Jong and E. van Gelder, 2001. Laser-diffraction and pipette-method grain-sizing of Dutch sediments: correlations for fine fractions of marine, fluviatile, and loess samples. Netherlands Journal of Earth Sciences, 80:49-57
  • Buurman, P., B. van Lagoon, and A.Piccolo, 2002. Increase in stability against thermal oxidation of soil humic substances as a result of self-association. Organic Geochemistry 33:367-381
  • Van Breemen, N., and Buurman, P., 2002. Soil Formation, 2d Edition. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 404 pp Wattel-Koekkoek, E.J.W., P. Buurman, J. Van der Plicht, E. Wattel and N. Van Breemen, 2003. Mean residence time of soil organic matter associated with kaolinite and smectite. European Journal of Soil Science 54:269-278 R
  • Roscoe, R., and P. Buurman, 2003. Tillage effects on soil organic matter in density fractions of a cerrado Oxisol. Soil & Tillage Research 70:107-119
  • E.L. Meijer and P. Buurman, 2003. Chemical trends in a perhumid soil catena on the Turrialba volcano (Costa Rica). Geoderma, 117:185-201
  • Wattel-Koekkoek, E.J.W., and P. Buurman, 2004. Mean residence time of kaolinite and smectite-bound organic matter in Mozambiquan soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 68:154-161
  • Buurman, P., E. Garcia Rodeja, A. Martinez Cortizas and J.D.J. van Doesburg, 2004. Stratification of parent material in European volcanic- and related soils studied by laser-diffraction grain-sizing and chemical analysis. Catena, 56:127-144
  • Alcantara, F de, P. Buurman, N. Curi, A.F. Furtini Neto, B. van Lagen and E.L. Meijer, 2003. Assessing the extent of alterations in soil organic matter chemical composition after introducing riparian vegetation in hydroelectric reservoir shores (southeast Brazil). Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36:1497-1508
  • Roscoe, R., P. Buurman, B. van Lagen and E. Velthorst, 2004. Transformations in occluded light fraction organic matter in a clayey Oxisol: evidence from 13C-CPMAS-NMR and δ13C signature. Revista Brasileira Ciencia do Solo 28:811-818
  • Buurman, P., and A.G. Jongmans, 2005. Podzolisation and organic matter dynamics. Geoderma 125:71-83
  • Buurman, P., P.F. van Bergen, A.G. Jongmans, E.L.Meijer, B. Duran, B. Van Lagen, 2005. Spatial and temporal variation in podzol organic matter studied by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and micromorphology. European Journal of Soil Science 56:253-270 Buurman, P., 2006. Podzols. Encyclopedia of Soil Science 1318-1323. Taylor & Francis, New York.
  • Kool, D.M., P. Buurman and D.W. Hoekman, 2006. Oxidation and compaction of a collapsed peat dome in Central Kalimantan. Geoderma 137: 217-225 Buurman, P., J. Schellekens, H. Fritze and K.G.J. Nierop, 2007.Selective depletion of organic matter in mottled podzol horizons. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39:607-621
  • Buurman, P., Nierop, K.G.J., X. Pontevedra-Pombal, A, Martinez-Cortizas, 2006. Molecular chemistry by pyrolysis-GC/MS of selected samples of the Penido Vello peat deposit, Galicia, NW Spain. In: Peatlands: Evolution and Recordsof Environmental and Climate Change. Eds. L.P. Martini, A. Martinez Cortizas and W. Chesworth, p 217-240, Elsevier, Amsterdam
  • Arnalds, O., Bartoli, F., Buurman, P., Oskarsson, H., Stoops, G.,and Garcia-Rodeja, E.(Eds). 2007. Soils of Volcanic Regions in Europe. Springer, Berlin, 644 pp + CD-ROM
  • Buurman, P., Nierop, K.G.J., 2007. NaOH and Na-Na4P2O7-extractable organic matter in two allophanic volcanic ash soils of the Azores Islands – quantified pyrolysis-GC/MS data and factor analysis. In: Soils of Volcanic Regions in Europe. O. Arnalds, F. Bartoli, P. Buurman, H. Oskarsson, G. Stoops, E. Garcia-Rodeja (Eds), pp 401-410. Springer, Berlin
  • Nierop, K.G.J., Buurman, P., 2007. Thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation of organic matter in two allophanic volcanic ash soils from the Azores Islands. In: Soils of Volcanic Regions in Europe. O. Arnalds, F. Bartoli, P. Buurman, H. Oskarsson, G. Stoops, E. Garcia-Rodeja (Eds), pp 411-422. Springer, Berlin

See his Publication List in Wageningen UR Library (not all publications are published and some links are incorrect)


In press

  • P. Buurman, R. Roscoe and F. de Alcantara, 2003. Carbon sequestration in Brazilian savannah systems: problems and results. Edafologia, in press
  • A.G. Jongkind , E.Velthorst and P. Buurman, 2007. The effect of kauri (Agathis australis) on C, N, pH and dithionite-, oxalate-, and pyrophosphate-extractable Fe, Al and Si in andesitic soils in the Waitakere Ranges, New Zealand. Geoderma
  • Muggler, C.C., P. Buurman, E.L. Meijer, 2007. Weathering trends and parent material characteristics of polygenetic oxisols from Minas Gerais, Brazil: I. Mineralogy. Geoderma
  • Buurman, P. (guest editor). European Journal of Soil Science 2007. Thematic Issue on Volcanic soils
  • Buurman, P., F. Peterse and G. Almendros, 2007. Soil organic matter chemistry in allophanic soils – a pyrolysis-GC/MS study of a Costa Rican Andosol catena. European Journal of Soil Science
  • Kaal, J., Martinez Cortizas, A., Pontevedra Pombal, X., Buurman, P., Nierop, K.J.G., Baldock, J.A.. Evaluating 13C CPMAS NMR in conjunction with a molecular mixing model and Py-GC/MS of the Penido Vello peat deposit, NW Spain. Organic Geochemistry
  • Amezquita, M.C., P. Buurman, H.F. Ramirez, 2007. Factors affecting soil carbon stocks: a multivariate analysis approach. In: L. ‘t Mannetje, P. Buurman and M.C. Amezquita (Eds), Carbon sequestration in tropical grassland ecosystems. Wageningen Academic Publishers
  • Buurman, P., and O. Mosquera, 2007. Anaysis of soil variability and data consistency. In: L. ‘t Mannetje, P. Buurman and M.C. Amezquita (Eds), Carbon sequestration in tropical grassland ecosystems. Wageningen Academic Publishers
  
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