2009 - 2015

Dr. Jakob Zscheischler received the Wladimir-Peter-Köppen-Preis. Congratulations!

CAB-LAB-workshop at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry

PI Sönke Zähle

Markus Reichstein at the Thüringer Klimarat (Thuringian Climate Panel)

Essentielle Ökosystem VariablenEine Perspektive aus dem H220 Project BACI by Miguel Mahecha at the D-GEO Workshop „Das GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON) – Potenziale, Beiträge und Nutzung in Deutschland“

Tina Trautmann joined the Global Diagnostic Modelling Group. Guido Kraemer started as PhD in the Empirical Inference of the Earth System Group. Welcome!

Silvia Caldararu, Melanie Kern and Richard Nair joined the Terrestrial Biosphere Modelling Group. Welcome!

Data-driven unraveling Earth System Dynamics with the Earth System Data Cub talk by Markus Reichstein at Earth Observation Open Science 2.0 ESA

Invited keynote talk by Markus Reichstein at Final Conference, Environmental Adaptation:from Molecules to the Planet Estonian Center of Excellence in Environmental Adaptation ENVIRON

Cristina Novara from the University of Turin is visiting the Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and Experimentation Group. Welcome!

Lucia Eder and Enrico Weber joined the Terrestrial Biosphere Modelling Group. Welcome!

Jakob Zscheischler was honoured with the Otto Hahn Medal. Congratulations!

Matthias Forkel sucessfully defended his PhD thesis at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Congratulations!

Verena Bessenbacher joined the department to work on the SMANIE experiment. Welcome!

Rocio Perez joined the department as EU project manager. Welcome!

Milan Flach joined the department as PhD student. Welcome!

Paul Bodesheim joined the department as PostDoc. Welcome!

Tarek El-Madany joined the department as PostDoc. Welcome!

Jürgen Knauer joined the department as new PhD Student. Welcome!

Jakob Zscheischler sucessfully defended his PhD thesis at the ETH Zürich. Congradulations!

Sebastian Sippel joined the department as new PhD Student and was awarded a scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation. Welcome and Congrats!

Jürgen Knauer joined the department as new Master Student. Welcome!

The "Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2014" by the German Research Foundation (DFG) goes to Sönke Zaehle. Congratulations from the BGI team!!

Sujan Koirala joined the department as new PostDoc. Welcome!

Dr. Oscar Pérez Priego joined the department as new PostDoc. Welcome!

Dr. Tea Thum from the Finnish Meteorological Institute is visiting the department. Welcome!

Jinhong Guan joined the department as new PhD associated with the Biosphere-Atmosphere Interaction Group. Welcome!

Kristina Luus joined the department as new PostDoc to work on the FACE model-data intercomparison project! Welcome!

Markus Reichstein received the Max Planck research prize 2013! Congratulations from the research group! more

Reik Donner joined the department as new PostDoc scientist to work on the GEOCARBON project! Welcome!

 Antje Moffat was awarded the price for the best PhD-thesis of the Department for Mathematics and Informatics at the Friedrich-Schiller Univerisity in Jena in 2012-2013. Congratulations!

Franziska Schrodt joined the department as new PostDoc via an iDiv collaboration! Welcome!

Fabian Gans joined the department as new geoscientific programmer! Welcome!

Lulia Ilie joined the group as new PhD student!Welcome!

, System Administrator Appreciation Day: The MDI thanks the MPI-BGC IT-Team for yet another year of excellent support for our research! Great job!

Martin Jung received Beutenberg Campus Science Award for his contributions to the analyses of global biogeochemical fluxes - Congratulation!

Antje Moffat defended her PhD! Congratulations!

The MDI group congratulates Lee Miller (theory group) on the occasion of his successful PhD defense!

Journal of Geophysical Research Paper published: M. Jung et al. (2011) Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations, JGR, 116, G00J07, 2011.

Biogeosciences Discussions Paper published: M. Braakhekke et al. (2011) Modeling the vertical soil organic matter profile using ²¹⁰Pb_ex measurements and Bayesian inversion, Biogeosciences Discuss., 8, 7257-7312, 2011.

Data gap-filling and flux-partitioning tool is back on-line

Anna Görner defended her PhD thesis successfully at the University of Jena. Congratulations!
 

Eric Thomas started recently his M.Sc. thesis and Martin Thurner is joining our group for his PhD. Welcome!

MDI @ EGU: See MDI contributions or meet us at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 in Vienna

Comments and our response to Mahecha et al. (2010) (Science) were published.

With the inauguration of the IMPRS for Global Biogeochemical Cycles our group got new members: Welcome to Matthias Forkel and Yogesh Kumkar!

Gitta Lasslop defended her PhD thesis successfully at the University of Hamburg. Congratulations!

Jung, M. et al. (2010) Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply, Nature.
Press release by the Max Planck Society: (in German), and by other institutions: English (ClarkU), English (OSU)
 

Nuno Carvalhais defended his PhD thesis successfully at the University of Lisbon. Congratulations!

Papers published: Beer, C., et al. Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Co-variation with Climate, Science and Mahecha, M.D.? et al. Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level, Science. Press release by the Max Planck Society: English, German, and the AAAS: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, JapaneseClarifications in response to media, Klarstellungen zum Medienecho, Chiarimento in risposta ai media

Soil respiration across scales: Report in New Phytologist

Paper accepted. Report in iLEAPS newsletter.

Paper accepted. Carvalhais, N. et al. (2009, accepted) Identification of vegetation and soil carbon pools out of equilibrium in a process model via eddy covariance and biometric constraints. Global Change Biology.

Paper accepted. Lasslops, G. et al. (2009) Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02041.x, Global Change Biology. pdf