Welcome at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Welcome at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry


Focus on the Earth

Our research is dedicated to the study of global biogeochemical cycles describing the interactions between the biosphere, the atmosphere, the geosphere and the entire climate system. We aim to better understand how living organisms - including humans - exchange basic resources such as water, carbon, nutrients, and energy with their environment and how this affects ecosystems and climate at regional to global scales. 

Lise Meitner Excellence Program

Lise Meitner Excellence Program

The Lise Meitner Excellence Program shall help to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.
Every new researcher in the Lise Meitner Excellence Program receives the offer to take part in the tenure track process, which – following a positive decision by the tenure committee – will lead to a permanent W2 post with group equipment.
For this years call for application the deadline is April 8.

We support the initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen!

We support the initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen!

We are committed to ensuring that people from different backgrounds live and work together respectfully.

News

Multiple small satellites orbiting Earth, captured against a backdrop of clouds and the blue atmospheric edge, viewed from space.
Thanks to FLUXCOM-X, the next generation of data driven, AI-based earth system models, scientists can now see the Earth’s metabolism at unprecedented detail – assessed everywhere on land and every hour of the day.
Aerial view showing significant land erosion with exposed soil and vegetation, with soil draining into the bordering ocean.
New study on the Arctic carbon cycle provides important insights and highlights research needs
Groundwater threatened by droughts and heavy rainfalls
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods.

Events

Scientific events

MC3 4 Earth Colloquium

Mar 17, 2025 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Mar 18, 2025 01:00 PM
Jena, Germany

EGU 2025: European Geosciences Union General Assembly

Apr 27, 2025 - May 2, 2025
Vienna, Austria

EEBIOMASS Summer School 2025

May 12, 2025 - May 16, 2025
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Room: Hörsaal

Public events

There are currently no events planned.

Seminars & colloquia

Kolloquium: Bettina Weber

Ecological roles and relevance of cryptogamic communities in Earth system processes under the impact of global change
Mar 20, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Seminar: Chenna Sun

(t.b.a.)
Mar 27, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Seminar: Chen Qi

(t.b.a.)
Mar 27, 2025 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Seminar: Michal Galkowski

(t.b.a.)
Apr 3, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Recent Publications

Jagdhuber, T.; Schmidt, A.-S.; Fluhrer, A.; Chaparro, D.; Jonard, F.; Piles, M.; Holtzman, N.; Konings, A. G.; Feldman, A. F.; Baur, M. J. et al.; Steele-Dunne, S.; Schellenberg, K.; Kunstmann, H.: Estimation of forest water potential from ground-based L-band radiometry. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 18, pp. 5509 - 5522 (2025)
Wang, C.; Chen, J.; Lee, S.-C.; Xiong, L.; Su, T.; Lin, Q.; Xu, C.-Y.: Response and recovery times of vegetation productivity under drought stress: Dominant factors and relationships. Journal of Hydrology 655, 132945 (2025)
Widhalm, B.; Bartsch, A.; Strozzi, T.; Jones, N.; Khomutov, A.; Babkina, E.; Leibman, M.; Khairullin, R.; Göckede, M.; Bergstedt, H. et al.; von Baeckmann, C.; Muri, X.: InSAR-derived seasonal subsidence reflects spatial soil moisture patterns in Arctic lowland permafrost regions. The Cryosphere 19 (3), pp. 1103 - 1133 (2025)
Karasante, I.; Alonso, L.; Prapas, I.; Ahuja, A.; Carvalhais, N.; Papoutsis, I.: SeasFire cube - a multivariate dataset for global wildfire modeling. Scientific Data 12, 368 (2025)
Claussen, M.; von Storch, H.; Heimann, M.; Sausen, R.; Zorita, E.: A brief history of climate science in Hamburg. In: Climate Science Concepts Born in Hamburg (Eds. Claussen, M.; von Storch, H.; Heimann, M.; Sausen, R.; Zorita, E.). Springer, Cham (2025)
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