08 May 2012

[Visitor]
After this years EGU meeting in Vienna, Ray Leuning (CSIRO, Canberra, Australia) spent a couple of days at our lab - not only to give a presentation and discuss science, but also to try our favorite spring skiing activity "figeln". And because it's 2012 and therefore the future, here's a video:

[Teaching]
What we are teaching in 2012: an update! Read more...

02 May 2012

There is a lot to write news about, so let's start at the beginning:

[New Presentations & Posters]
We attended the European Geophysical Union 2012 General Assembly! This means there is new stuff for you to discover. Here you go:

| The Presentations:

• Deposition of terpenes to vegetation – a paradigm shift towards bidirectional VOC exchange?
• Off-season carbon dioxide exchange of a temperate mountain grassland

| The Posters:

• Interannual and seasonal variability of CH4 and N2O exchange over a temperate mountain grassland
• The response of European tree species to drought: a meta-analysis
• Drought induced methanol emission from grassland
• Carbon storage potential of a managed mountain grassland - Inverse modelling and uncertainty analysis
• Leaf oxygen isotope exchange in water vapour and carbon dioxide of Fagus sylvatica under field conditions

[TV News]
Stefanie Hörbst and Felix Spielmann did measurements as part of a course at the University of Innsbruck comparing air temperatures in urban and rural environments. They had the opportunity to explain their work to a wider audience during their appearance in the Tirol Heute weather forecast! Here are some pics! And NEW! There is also a video!

12 March 2012

[PhD News]
Ines Bamberger successfully defended her PhD thesis on 9 March - congratulations! Ines will now move to ETH Grassland Science (Prof. Nina Buchmann) in Zürich for a PostDoc position.

[Paper Accepted]
Brilli et al. (2012) "Qualitative and quantitative characterization of volatile organic compound emissions from cut grass" was accepted in Environmental Science and Technology.

01 February 2012

[Award News]
Lukas was awarded the Outstanding Student Poster Award 2011 by the EGU for his poster on "Acetone and acetaldehyde exchange above a managed temperate mountain grassland".

[Short-term Scientific Mission]
Albin is presently on a short-term scientific mission with Prof. Gerrit Schoups at the TU Delft financed by the COST action ABBA. The objective of this week-long stay is to collaborate on the Bayesian calibration of our grassland carbon cycling model.

[New Group Member]
Felix Spielmann is joining the group as a Master student and will be conducting VOC leaf gas exchange measurements on mountain grassland plant species in collaboration with Prof. Jörg-Peter Schnitzler at the Helmholtz Zentrum München.

[New Publications]
The paper by Niu et al. on the thermal optimality of NEE was accepted by New Phytologist. Publications