Award

In April 2018 Susan Trumbore received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for her groundbreaking use of radiocarbon measurements in forests and soils to assess the carbon flux between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Her research thus makes an important contribution to understanding climate change. mehr

Finishing school with the best marks of her year, Johanna supported personnel, accounting and business travel within BGC administration. For her very good overall performance, including bilingual support, she was one out of 19 Max Planck-wide awardees of the Apprentice Award 2017. mehr

Sebastian Sippel, former PhD student and now postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, is awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize 2017 for junior geoscientists. The award ceremony will take place on September 25, 2017 during the general meeting of the German Geological Society in Bremen. mehr

Matthias Forkel, former doctoral student at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, is this year’s winner of the Beutenberg Campus science award in the category „outstanding dissertation”. In his PhD thesis he focused on the global dynamics of terrestrial vegetation in recent decades. His work strongly focused on the phenology of vegetation as observed on the one hand by means of optical remote sensing and on the other hand as modeled in response to meteorological conditions with vegetation models. mehr

Gerd Gleixner, research group leader at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, receives the Thuringian Research Award in the field of fundamental research. In his project “Biodiversity protects the climate”, the scientist showed the importance of soil microorganisms in connection with climate protection: when species richness is abundant, the soil is increasingly able to store carbon and nitrogen. Ecosystems with high biodiversity are much more resistant against perturbations such as drought and pests. mehr