2017

Sippel, S., El-Madany, T., Migliavacca, M., Mahecha, M.D., Flach, M. and Reichstein, M. have contributed to the BAMS special report Explaining Extreme Events of 2016, Chapter 16 Warm winter, wet spring, and an extreme response in ecosystem functioning on the Iberian Peninsula.
 

"Flora Incognita - Plant Identification with a Smartphone" was awarded as an official project of the UN Decade of Biological Diversity. Congratulations!

Jeroen Smits will give a seminar on the the Global Data Lab data base: C1 seminar room @ 10am

BGI activities at Long night of science more

Second BACI Progress and review meeting

Markus Reichstein speaker at COP23 Side Event: Where and when will the abitability limits of Earth be reached due to climate change?

Tina Trautmann received the award of the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences (FSU Jena) for her masters thesis: Macroscopic Diagnostic modeling of the hydrological cycle: Understanding the dynamics of water pools in snow affected regions. Congradulations!

Ekaterina Bogdanovich manakhova starting as BGI Masters student today. Welcome!

Prof. Christian Frankenberg, California Institute of Technology, USA, visits BGI. Welcome!

Satellites map photosynthesis at high resolution - new Science publication co-authored with Martin Jung

Mirco Migliavacca keynote speaker at ClimMani meeting.

Visiting PhD student Shanning Bao starting today. Welcome!

New BGI members Caglar Kückuk and Marleen Pallandt-Vermeulen starting today. Welcome!

Seminar by Prof. Gaby Katul: A fluctuation-dissipation analogy for evaporation and gas transfer velocities across interfaces
1:30 pm, C1 seminar room

Talk by Dr. Tom Hengl from ISRIC (International Soil Reference and Information Centre, Wageningen) Towards hybrid (data/model-driven) spatial and spatiotemporal models for global SOC: opportunities and challenges
10am, C1 seminar room

Talk by Prof.Dr. Gaby Katul, Duke University, USA, Evapotranspiration: From kinetic theory to the limits of plant life
2:00 pm C1 seminar room

Prof. Gaby Katul, Duke University, will visit BGI

Markus Reichstein, Miguel Mahecha and Xuanlong Ma at iDiv Conference 2017

Tropical forest response to elevated CO2: Model-based hypotheses for the AmazonFACE experiment talk by Dr. Katrin Fleischer from TU München
2pm, C1 seminar room

Prof. Dr. Anja Rammig and Dr. Katrin Fleischer from TU München are visiting BGI today and tomorrow. Welcome!

TBM and Soil Biogeochemistry Group offfering PhD position on Modelling soil organic matter dynamics

Prof. D. Ellsworth (U. Western Sydney, AUS) visits the TBM group as part of the DAAD-project "Data-model integration for understanding nitrogen and phosphorus”. Welcome!

Mirco Migliavacca as keynotespeaker at AsiaFlux Conference 2017 in Beijing

Christian Requena Mesa and Basil Kraft start their IMPRS-PhD linked to BGI. Welcome!

Laura Recuero Pavón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, is visiting Empirical Inference of the Earth System group. Welcome!

Sebastian Sippel awarded Bernd Rendel Prize 2017. Congradulations!

Trustee First Training School on Ecosystem Ecology, Vegetation Modelling and Time series Analysis

Workshop on Environmental Informatic Challenges at Dornburger Castles

Raphael Proulx, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada, is visiting BGI. Welcome!
11:00 am Lecture Hall talk about Living in a world without BEF: No relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning

FLUXNET Workshop 2017, Berkeley

2 PostDoc positions available

EnMAP Core Scientific Team (ECST) workshop will be held Meeting in Potsdam at GFZ

François Buscot, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, gives a talk on Endogenous rhythmic growth, a trait suitable for the study of interplays between multitrophic interactions and tree development: 11:00 am BGC Colloquium

FLUXCOM Workshop, 2017 at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Jakob Zscheischler (ETHZ) gives a talk on Compound Extreme Events in C1 at 2pm. Welcome!

BGI members at EGU Vienna.

2 PostDoc positions available. Review of applications will begin 31.05.2017!

CAB-LAB Project Workshop in ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Introducing the Earth System Data Cube and demonstrating its usage

Markus Reichstein key note speaker at 18^th Swiss Global Change Day

Tea Thum joined the Terrestrial Biosphere modelling Group. Welcome!

Talie Musavi SAT3 interview

New version of REddyProc available

Sofia Cerasoli, Univ. Lisboa, is visiting BAIE. Welcome!

Jinhong Guan starts as BAIE PostDoc. Welcome!

MDR Thüringen TV interview with Talie Musavi

PhD projects offered by IMPRS-gBGC. Applications until March 15, 2017

Veronika Eyring (DLR) is visiting BGI. Seminar Earth System Model Evaluation with Observations: Opportunities and Challenges for CMIP6 at 16:00h in the C1 seminar room. Welcome!

Lin Yu starts as PostDoc in Research Groups Soil Biogeochemistry and Terrestrial Biosphere Modelling
Welcome!

Fluxnet interview with Martin Jung

SUBSOM II kick-off meeting in Bochum

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship granted for Richard Nair. Congratulations!

Recent Nature publication by Jung et al.

Javier Pacheco-Labrador joined the Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and Experimentation Group. Welcome!

Jana Wäldchen and Michael Rzanny joined the Biogeochemical Integration Department. Welcome!

Dr. Jürgen Burkhardt (University of Bonn) is visiting the Terrestrial Bioshpere Modelling Group. Welcome!