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Oliver Sonnentag's academic background is primarily in hydrology, having obtained a master's degree from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. After earning his master's in 2001, he worked at a surveying company and subsequently pursued a second master's in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Salzburg in Austria in 2003. In 2004, he moved to Canada to commence a PhD in Physical Geography at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Jing Chen, focusing on the influence of topography on greenhouse gas exchanges in boreal peatlands. Following his PhD completion in 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Berkeley until 2010, where he explored various issues related to hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecophysiology of Mediterranean ecosystems. He then collaborated with Dr. Andrew Richardson at Harvard University from 2010 to 2011, investigating forest phenology in New England. Since September 2011, Oliver has been a faculty member in the Department of Geography at the University of Montreal, where his research interests include hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecophysiology of peatlands in permafrost regions.
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