Weekly lecture series

Our weekly lecture series includes internal seminars by our scientists as well as colloquia by scientists from mostly international research institutes. Guests from our local academic partners are welcome upon request.

Location: Lecture hall of the MPI-BGC (room C0.001)

Time: Standard time is Thursday, 2 pm

The lectures are held in English.

Upcoming colloquia

Colloquium: João Henrique Fernandes Amaral

Carbon dynamics in tropical wetlands: study cases from the Amazon and the Orinoquia

Jan 20, 2026 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Colloquium: Christian Wirth

Traits, Rates and States – News from and visions for the research arboretum ARBOfun

Jan 29, 2026 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

C1 seminar room

Colloquium: David Schellenberger Costa

The PlantHub project - links to MPI-BGC

Jan 29, 2026 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

C1 seminar room

Archive of past colloquia

Upcoming institute seminars

Seminar: David Ho

Ensemble simulation of greenhouse gas distributions for remote sensing data assimilation

Jan 22, 2026 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Seminar: Juliana da Silva Menger

Towards open and fAIR data through research data management

Jan 22, 2026 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Lecture Hall (C0.001)

Seminar: Yuchen Bai

Pulse fragmentation-induced uncertainty in forest LAI mapping using UAV LiDAR

Feb 26, 2026 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Seminar: Christian Reimers

Understanding the effects of meteorology on plant phenology using transformer networks

Apr 2, 2026 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Archive of past seminars