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May 2021


Albuera (Spain) - (M.Hertel)
  • Trip to Majadas and Albuera (Spain) - Set up of El Barra system, a huge Microwave sensor for measuring water balance and installing of various small sensors
  • Preparing for the above divided form below ground labelling experiment of Marina Cotta from MPI-PZ in Cologne
  • Repair of lots of soil-temperature sensors at Jena Experiment site
  • Preparing tree loggers for D. Marra in Brasil
  • Travel planning and packing of the equipment for the trip to reusel Netherlands in May/June
  • planning and purchase for the new new project by Dr. M. Göckede and Prof. M. Heimann.....quantify effects of disturbances on feedbacks between Arctic permafrost and global climate
  • Maintenance and repair at field stations,
  • Dismantling of our longstanding station in Gebesee, which is now fully operated by the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig
  • Planning rescue training with MPI-C Mainz in July, combined with First aid course
  • Planning for ATTO Trip as soon as possible(Brasil), for Zotto Trip in September (Russia) as well as Planning Cherskii Trip in September and all the other stations when possible
  • Planning and purchasing für C3/C4 fields
  • Various online Trainings, e.g. for pest control, CE-Training





April/ March 2021


Cotta labelling - (K. Kuebler)


  • Preparing for the above divided form below ground labelling experiment of Marina Cotta from MPI-PZ in Cologne
  • Shipping of material for repair and flasks to Zotto
  • Preparinf tree loggers for D. Marra in Brasil
  • Travel planning and packing of the equipment for the trip to spain in April *

Jenaexperiment 2021-(N. Hempel)

  • Cleaning and repair of lots of sensors at Jena Experiment site
  • planning and purchase for the new new project by Dr. M. Göckede and Prof. M. Heimann.....quantify effects of disturbances on feedbacks between Arctic permafrost and global climate
  • Maintenance and repair at field stations, dismantling of our longstanding station in Gebesee, which is now fully operated by the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig
  • Renewing PSA equipment
  • Planning rescue training with MPI-C Mainz in July, combined with First aid course
  • Planning for ATTO Trip as soon as possible(Brasil), for Zotto Trip in September (Russia) as well as Planning Cherskii Trip in September and all the other stations when possible....Vaccination efforts
  • Planning and purchasing für C3/C4 fields
  • Various online Trainings, e.g. for pest control, logger programming, 3D print
  • We say farewell and thanks to Steffen Rühlow from the Gerd Gleixner group
  • Herewith we would like to express our deepest sympathy on the death of our longtime colleague and friend and supporter of this website Silvana Schott





February/ January 2021


Cherskii (Siberia) 2019 - (M. Kunz)

  • q-arctic: new project by Dr. M. Göckede and Prof. M. Heimann.....quantify effects of disturbances on feedbacks between Arctic permafrost and global climate - technical support by our group - among others sensors and energy supply
  • Corona crisis: working in shifts and from home, using social media
  • Testing goniometer
  • Maintenance and repair at field stations
  • Renewing PSA equipment
  • Planning rescue training in July combined with First aid course
  • Planning for ATTO Trip as soon as possible(Brasil), for Zotto Trip in September (Russia) as well as Planning Cherskii Trip in September and all the other stations when possible
  • Remote programming of cameras in Spain
  • Planning and purchasing für C3/C4 fields
  • Planning and purchase for repair of lots of sensors at Jena Experiment site
  • Shipping of flasks from Zotto
  • Farewell and Thanks to BODO WIlD

News Archive

Publications

1El-Madany, T. S., Reichstein, M., Carrara, A., Martín, M. P., Moreno, G., Gonzalez-Cascon, R., Peñuelas, J., Ellsworth, D. S., Burchard-Levine, V., Hammer, T. W., Knauer, J., Knauer, J., Kolle, O., Luo, Y., Pacheco-Labrador, J., Nelson, J. A., Perez-Priego, O., Rolo, V., Wutzler, T., Migliavacca, M. (2021). How nitrogen and phosphorus availability change water use efficiency in a Mediterranean savanna ecosystem. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(5): e2020JG006005. doi:10.1029/2020JG006005.
2Ehrle, A., Kolle, O., Tischer, A., Trumbore, S. E., Michalzik, B. (2021). Effects of mound building Lasius flavus on organic carbon and nutrient fluxes in soils of temperate grassland ecosystems. Pedobiologia, 84: 150701. doi:10.1016/j.pedobi.2020.150701.
3Pacheco-Labrador, J., El-Madany, T. S., Martin, M. P., Gonzalez-Cascon, R., Carrara, A., Moreno, G., Perez-Priego, O., Hammer, T., Moossen, H., Henkel, K., Kolle, O., Martini, D., Burchard, V., van der Tol, C., Segl, K., Reichstein, M., Migliavacca, M. (2020). Combining hyperspectral remote sensing and eddy covariance data streams for estimation of vegetation functional traits. Biogeosciences Discussions. doi:10.5194/bg-2019-501.
4El-Madany, T. S., Carrara, A., Martín, M. P., Moreno, G., Kolle, O., Pacheco-Labrador, J., Weber, U., Wutzler, T., Reichstein, M., Migliavacca, M. (2020). Drought and heatwave impacts on semi-arid ecosystems' carbon fluxes along a precipitation gradient. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 375(1810): 20190519. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0519.
5Reum, F., Göckede, M., Lavric, J. V., Kolle, O., Zimov, S., Zimov, N., Pallandt, M., Heimann, M. (2019). Accurate measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane mole fractions at the Siberian coastal site Ambarchik. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12(11), 5717-5740. doi:10.5194/amt-12-5717-2019.

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