Lectures of the Department Biogeochemical Integration
2026
University of St Andrews Summer Study 2026: Blue Carbon Science and Policy
Lecturer: Sung-Ching Lee
Date: 6 June - 20 June 2026
Location: University of St Andrews
Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Lecturer: Sung-Ching Lee
Date: SS 2026
Location: University of Freiburg
Note: Part of the module “Land-Atmosphere Interactions” in MSc program “Environmental Sciences”
2025
Biogeochemical Cycles
Lecturer: Susan Trumbore and Alexander Winkler
Date: WS 25/26
Location: University of Jena
Atmosphere-Biosphere Coupling
Lecturer: Alexander Winkler
Date: WS 25/26
Location: University of Hamburg
Note: Block seminar (3 semester hours)
Citizen science plant observations for ecosystem research
Lecturer: Susanne Tautenhan
Date: WS 25/26
Location: TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Module: The lecture is a part of the module “Ecophysiology, ecosystems, and management”
Climate Change and Climatology
Lecturer: Alexander Winkler
Date: WS 2025/2026
Location: University of Jena
Note: Guest lecture in Alex Kleidon’s course
ELLIS Summer School 2025
Date: 01. - 05. September 2025
Location: Jena
Sessions:
1. Learning Global Parameterizations of Ecosystem Processes Using Hybrid Modelling (Nuno Carvalhais)
2. An Introduction to Explainable AI for Earth Science Data (Shijie Jiang)
Research Challenges:
1. Infuse Machine-Learned Land Phenology in a Global Climate Model (Alexander Winkler und Christian Reimers)
2. Learning Spatial Controls of Ecosystem Functional Properties (Nuno Carvalhais und Sujan Koirala)
3. Extrapolating the Globe: Challenges of Upscaling Sparse Data (Xin Yu)
4. Enhancing Carbon and Water Flux Upscaling with Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning (Qi Yang)
5. EasyHybrid.jl Unlocked: Bridging Neural Networks and Process-Based Models (Lazaro Alonso und Bernhard Ahrens)
6. Characterization and Tracking of Cloud Movements Using Geostationary Satellite Image Time Series (Fabian Gans und Gregory Duveiller)
iDiv Summer School 2025: Deep learning for biodiversity and ecological research
Lecturers: Jana Wäldchen and Ladislav Hodac
Date: 25. - 28. August 2025
Location: iDiv Leipzig
Lecturers: Nuno Carvalhais, Sujan Koirala, Siyuan Wang
Date: 12. - 16. Mai 2025
Location: Jena
Sessions: Understanding the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Inferring Process Dynamics from Biomass Data; Bridging Models and Observation; Exploratory Model-Data Integration Exercises
Land-Atmosphere Interaction module in Climate Change Ecology major
Lecturer: Sung-Ching Lee
Location: University of Freiburg
Duration: 22.04.2025 - 09.05.2025
2024
Machine Learning for Geospatial Modelling
Lecturer: Shijie Jiang
Date: WS 2024/2025
Location: University of Jena
Lecture: Hands-on Machine Learning and Hybrid Modelling
Climate Change and Earth System Modelling
Lecturer: Alexander Winkler
Date: WS 23/24 and 24/ 25
Location: University of Freiburg
Sessions: Projections of a Changing Climate & Plants under Rising CO2 & Machine Learning in Climate Science
Modeling & Monitoring Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes
Lecturer: Alexander WInkler
Date: WS 24/25
Location: Boston University
Session: Carbon System State Determines Warming Potential of Emissions
Remote sensing of land management in a sustainable Earth system perspective
Lecturer: Gregory Duveiller
Date: November 22 - 27, 2024
Location: UCLouverain
Responsible: Nuno Carvalhais You will be introduced to different dimensions of the Earth Explorer Mission BIOMASS and trained in Earth observation related topics! You will learn about the mission objectives, the technical background (such as SAR, Tomography, Interferometry and Polarimetry) and related research topics. The target group of the summer school are (early career) scientists from the fields of remote sensing, forestry and earth system sciences. |
Land-Atmosphere Interaction module in Climate Change Ecology major
Lecturer: Sung-Ching Lee
Date: 09.04.2024 - 27.04.2024
Location: University of Freiburg
Assessment: Projects involve data analysis, visualization and mini-workshop presentation
2023
Fernerkundung für Globale Prozessmodelle / Remote sensing for global process models (University of Jena Winter Semester 2022/2023)
Lecturer: Markus Reichstein
Place: Friedrich Schiller University
Time: Jan 30 - Jan 31, 2023 & 06. - 08.02.2023
More information : Friedolin-Link
2022
Klimawandel / Climate Change, University of Jena
Lecturer: Dr. René Orth, Dr. Alexander Winkler
Place: The lecture will take place online on 20.10.2022 (link will be sent by email), and all dates thereafter at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry at Hans-Knöll Straße 10
Time: Thursdays 10:15-11:45am
First lecture: Thursday 20 October 2022, 10:15-11:45am
Assessment: Written exam at the end of the semester and presentation/moderation in the seminar belonging to the module
Contact: René Orth (rene.orth@bgc-jena.mpg.de or phone 03641 576250)
More information : Friedolin-Link
Earth System Components
Lecturer: Dr. Ana Bastos (only contributing)
Place: University of Leipzig within the MSc Earth System Data Science and Remote Sensing at the Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences
2021
Advanced methods of statistics
Lecturer: Dr. Ana Bastos
Place: Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena
Time: Thursdays 8:00 - 10:00, Sommersemester 2021
More information: Friedolin-Link
Model-data integration for natural sciences
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Markus Reichstein
Place: University Innsbruck
Time: 20, 21, 27 & 28 Jan, 2021 9-12 am