Third-party Projects
As a member of the German Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the institute is jointly funded by the German government and the State of Thuringia. Approximately 25% of the overall institute's funding has been successfully acquired from competitive third-party grants in the past 5 years.
Scientific research projects funded through the basic Max Planck Society budget can be found on the web pages of our departments and research groups. In addition, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry pursues collaborative research projects (listed below) that are competitively acquired from third parties, e.g. European Commission (EU), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and other national ministries.
For any questions regarding third-party grants, please contact our BGC Grants Team
Current Projects
| 14Constraint Radiocarbon constraints for models of C cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: from process understanding to global benchmarking 12/2016 - 11/2020 (EU-H2020, ERC advanced grant) project webpage Contact: Susan Trumbore |  |
| AgWIT Agricultural Water Innovations in the Tropics 5/2017 - 4/2020 (BLE, Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung) project webpage Contact: Susan Trumbore | |
| AIRSPACE Aircraft Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gases with combined Passive and Active instruments 7/2017 - 3/2020 (BMBF) project webpage Contact: Christoph Gerbig | |
| ATTO Constraining the role of the Amazon in Global Greenhouse Gas Balance and Climate 5/2017 - 4/2020 (BMBF) project webpage Contact: Susan Trumbore, Jost Lavric, Christoph Gerbig |  |
| BACI Detecting changes in essential ecosystem and biodiversity properties – towards a Biosphere Atmosphere Change Index: BACI 4/2015 - 3/2019 (EU-H2020) project webpage Contact: Miguel Mahecha, Markus Reichstein |  |
| Biodiversity Exploratories Biodiversity Exploratories Core-Projects, Coordination 5/2014 - 4/2020 (DFG) project webpage Contact: Marion Schrumpf, Susan Trumbore |  |
| BIOMASCAT Assessing vegetation carbon dynamics from multi-decadal spaceborne observations 11/2018 - 10/2019 (ESA) Contact: Nuno Carvalhais | |
| CASPER Modelling the effect of silcon and calcium avaibility on the future sustainability of Arctic permafrost carbon pools on laboratory and field experiments 12/2018 - 11/2021 (DFG) Contact: Mathias Göckede |  |
| CHE CO2 Human Emissions 10/2017 - 12/2020 (EU/ Horizon 2020) Contact: Julia Marshall, Martin Jung |  |
| CIRCASA Coordination of International Research Cooperation on soil CArbon Sequestration in Agriculture 11/2017 - 10/2020 (EU/Horizon 2020) project webpage Contact: Marion Schrumpf |  |
| ClimateResilience DKN Future Earth Working group “Societal resilience and climate extremes” 10/2017 - 9/2019 (DKN-Future Earth) project webpage Contact: Markus Reichstein |  |
| CRESCENDO Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, Knowledge, Dissemination and Outreach 11/2015 - 10/2020 (EU-H2020) project webpage Contact: Sönke Zaehle |  |
| Deep Learning Mobilization of trait data from digital image files by deep learning approaches 7/2017 - 4/2019 (DFG) project webpage Contact: Jens Kattge | |
| ESDL Earth System Data Laboratory 4/2018 - 9/2019 (ESA, mit Untervertrag) project webpage Contact: Miguel Mahecha |  |
| Flora Incognita Flora Incognita – Interactive plant species identification with mobile devices 8/2014 - 7/2019 (BMBF) project webpage Contact: Jana Wäldchen |  |
| FÖV Early warning system for ecosystem changes (project extension) 10/2016 - 3/2019 (Zwillenberg-Tietz-Stiftung) project webpage Contact: Gerd Gleixner |  |
| GHG-TCPS Green-House-Gas Total Column Performance Simulations 3/2017 - 2/2019 (ESA, Unterauftrag der Uni Bremen) Contact: Julia Marshall |  |
| GIF 2 Do trees recyle CO2 respired in the stems? 7/2017 - 6/2020 (GIF, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development) Contact: Susan Trumbore | |
| IAGOS-AISBL Longterm observations of atmospheric composition 10/2014 - 12/2019 (DWD (Thomas Koch)) project webpage Contact: Christoph Gerbig |  |
| ICOS-ERIC Inverse modeling of GHG fluxes using the CarboScope regional inversion system 4/2012 - 12/2025 (DWD) Contact: Christoph Gerbig |  |
| INTAROS Integrated Arctic Observation System 12/2016 - 11/2021 (EU-H2020) project webpage Contact: Mathias Goeckede |  |
| KoPf Kohlenstoffumsatz und Treibhausgasfreisetzung aus tauendem Permafrost Nordostsibiriens unter sich ändernden Umwelt- und Klimabedingungen, Vorhaben: Projektionen der Auswirkung von sibirischen degradierendem Permafrost (TP2) 6/2017 - 5/2020 (BMBF) Contact: Mathias Goeckede | |
| MALAICC Multivariate analysis of the land-atmosphere-interactions in a changing climate 2/2018 - 1/2021 (DFG, Emmy-Noether) project webpage Contact: Rene Orth |  |
| MOCABORS Moisture dynamics and carbon sequestration in boreal soils 4/2018 - 12/2019 (Norwegischer Forschungsrat, NIBIO) project webpage Contact: Bernhard Ahrens, Markus Reichstein |  |
| MoReDEHESHyReS Modelling Responses of Dehesas with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing 1/2017 - 12/2019 (BMBF, DLR) project webpage Contact: Mirco Migliavacca |  |
| MORGAN Methane on Regional Grids through Adaptive Nesting 6/2017 - 5/2020 (DLR) Contact: Julia Marshall |  |
| Mr. PARTS Minirhizotron: Phenology and Root Traits 6/2017 - 5/2019 (EU 8 / Horizon 2020 / Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship) project webpage Contact: Richard Nair, Mirco Migliavacca, Markus Reichstein |  |
| NASBC Nonlinearities and Alternative States of Biogeochemical Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems 1/2015 - 12/2019 (DFG, Emmy-Noether) project webpage Contact: Carlos Sierra |  |
| NUNATARYUK Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation 11/2017 - 10/2022 (EU/ Horizon 2020) project webpage Contact: Mathias Göckede |  |
| QUINCY Quantifying the effects of interacting nutrient cycles on terrestrial biosphere dynamics and their climate feedbacks 9/2015 - 9/2020 (EU, ERC consolidator grant) project webpage Contact: Sönke Zaehle |  |
| RECCAP2 RECCAP-2, Regional carbon cycle assessment and processes 4/2018 - 9/2020 (ESA,Université de Versailles St. Quentin en Yvelines ) Contact: Martin Jung | |
| S5P-FTIR-MPG TCCON-FTIR-Station Ascension Island 11/2017 - 10/2020 (BMWI mit DLR) Contact: Dietrich Feist |  |
| SAVNET Observing vegetation status and function from the ground to the space (SAVNET) 1/2017 - 12/2018 (CSIC: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid) Contact: Mirco Migliavacca | |
| SIRS Metrology for stable Isotope Reference Standards 6/2017 - 5/2020 (H2020-EURAMET) project webpage Contact: Heiko Moossen |  |
| SPP 1685 Phase II Ein Modellansatz zur Kontrolle des Umsatzes organischer Substanz im Ökosystem durch Nährstoffverfügbarkeit 2/2017 - 1/2020 (DFG) project webpage Contact: Marion Schrumpf, Sönke Zaehle |  |
| TREE Biodiversity-exploratories: Ecological mechanism in changes of diversity along the gradients of land use in temperate forests – from tree to the forest management 4/2017 - 3/2020 (DFG) Contact: Susan Trumbore, Shaun Robert Levick |  |
| TRuStEE Training on Remote sensing for Ecosystem modElling 10/2016 - 9/2020 (EU-H2020) project webpage Contact: Mirco Migliavacca |  |
| VERIFY Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases 1/2018 - 12/2021 (EU/ Horizon 2020) Contact: Martin Jung, Christoph Gerbig |  |