October 2023

October was a busy month for the group!
First of all, Sinikka published a preprint on “Interpretability of negative latent heat fluxes from Eddy Covariance measurements during dry conditions”.
Laura attended the TERENO conference in Bonn to show some preliminary results of her first PhD project.
Bayu joined the group, and visited Majadas de Tiétar with Laura and the Fieldwork team.
Lastly, Nick secured a Horizon Europe project on blue carbon ecosystems (C-BLUES), and will give a keynote talk at Asiaflux 2023.

September 2023

On August 30, our BGI department held annual retreat and it was the first time that Laura and Arvind presented posters showing their PhD projects, exciting! Also, our group hosted a visitor, Alex, from PSInet. We discussed how water potential information can help us understand better about plant responses to drought and heat stress. And, Sinikka will supervise a BSc student to establish soil retention curve for Majadas de Tiétar. This will allow us to convert long-term soil water content measurements to soil water potential, and hence to better simulate C fluxes under dry conditions.

July 2023

This summer, the Eco-Met group attended the exciting FLUXNET conferece in Brno, Czech Rebplic (beautiful city!!); it has been five years since it happened last time. This is first time that Laura and Arvind attended a conference in person and they presented their poster. Sinikka gave a talk on using eddy covariance to capture non-rainfall water inputs. We also had great discussions with very nice people and finally met Kazu and Youngryel, who travelled all the way to Europe.

March 2023

In March, the Eco-Meteorology group has been very busy. First, we had a new PhD recruitment round (update coming soon!).
Second, we hosted a workshop on “Ecosystem-atmosphere interactions and nature-based climate solutions” with 12 invited external speakers (the first photo below). We had great talks and discussions with wonderful people and formed further collaboration on this topic!
Third, with all the new members and collaboration with the dryland ecosystem processes group, we went to Majadas de Tiétar meeting old firends and new collaborators (the second photo below). Excited about incoming research work.
Last but not least, the Eco-Meteorology group is featured by the member spotlight in the brand new FLUXNET newsletter, Issue No. 1.