News and Activities

BGI welcomes two new doctoral students in September: Suxun Li starts in Nuno Carvalhais' "Model Data Integration" group. Jialiang Zhou joins Shijie Jiang's "Machine Learning for Hydrological and Earth Systems".
A warm welcome!

The ELLIS Unit Jena organizes a workshop on “AI and Data Science for Earth System Sciences”.
Location: Mälzerstraße 5, 07745 Jena at the IT-Paradies, 6th floor more

Two new colleagues started this August: Yucong Hu starts as a PhD student in the "Global Diagnostic Modelling" group. Markus Zehner supports BGI as a Research Software Engineer. A warm welcome!

This month Xiuzhi Chen joins the project group XTE as a PhD and Jiaxin Xie is a guest with the GDM group for the next year!
A warm welcome!

Registration for the EEBIOMASS Summer School is open until August 2, 2024! more

Three new colleagues have joined us this month: Mohammed Ayoub Chettouh started his PhD in the "Soil Biogeochemistry" group under project group leader Bernhard Ahrens. Dr Qi Yang supports the group "Global Diagnostic Models" as a PostDoc under project group leader Sophia Walther. Nan Meng, guest PhD student from China, is doing research in Sung-Ching Lee's "Eco-Meteorology Group" for one year
A warm welcome!

Between 09:30AM - 12:30PM, Markus Reichstein will co-host the workshop “Forecasting the future: AI in early warning systems” during the AI for Good Global Summit.
From 2:25PM - 2:40PM, he will talk about “Breathing nature: Unveiling the biosphere’s secrets through AI and earth observation”. more

BGI welcomes another guest scientist from China, Lijun Wang. She will be joining Shijie Jiang's ELLIS group until the middle of next year.
Scholarship holder Ru Xu has been supporting the Gregory Duveiller project group "Ecosystem Function from Earth Observation" since the beginning of the month.

USMILE ERC @ STI Forum: Markus Reichstein, Gustau Camps-Valls, Veronika Eyring and Pierre Gentine will hold an online presentation pn “Pushing Frontier Research in Climate Modelling and Understanding with AI for Urgent Mitigation and Adaptation Needs” more

Since April, Nicole Börner has been the project coordinator for the AI4PAX project in the "Model-Data Integration" group headed by Nuno Carvalhais. Marco Paina startet his intership in the group "Soil Biogeochemistry” headed by Marion Schrumpf. A warm welcome!
 

Sucessful EGU!

Several XTE members gave some great presentations at EGU this year:

• Weijie: presented on energy balance closure methods and their effects on evapotranspiration.
• Laura: presented on disentangling the multiscale controls on CO₂ fluxes at the Majadas site in Spain.
• Sinikka: presented on how water vapor is taken up by dry soils and how it can be detected by eddy covariance.
• Jake: presented on the new FLUXCOM-X-BASE dataset.

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Leo Roßdeutscher joined Marion Schrumpf's Soil Biogeochemistry research group as a PhD student this January. Jinfeng Zhao is a guest PhD student for one year in the project group of Alexander Winkler Atmosphere-Biosphere Coupling, Climate and Causality (ABC³). A warm welcome!