This week Christiaan van der Tol (University of Twente, NL) was visiting us to act as an examiner in the PhD defence of Lorenz, give a talk in our Department seminar and talk SIF with the group. And of course we took Christiaan to the FAIR site.
Today Lorenz successfully defended his PhD thesis – congrats!
Thanks to everybody who contributed to the journey which started back in 2019 with a successful field trip to Huaraz/Peru, was cruelly interrupted by the Covid pandemic which basically halted all planned field activities and then triggered lots of creative “work-arounds” that in the end resulted in a unique dissertation.
This week Eirik Næsset Ramtvedt from the Norvegian University of Life Sciences visited us to discuss tree encroachment effects on biogeochemical cycling and albedo-carbon tradeoffs.
Daria Ferraris, PhD student with Marta Galvagno and Dario Papale, started here 4-month visit with us to work on intercomparing CO2 flux measurements of a grazed and shrub-encroached mountain grassland and a mountain forest in Aosta Valley.
Last week Kukkis and Nicholas from ETH Zürick/Grassland sciences visited us to discuss and exchange on COS soil, leaf and ecosystem-scale measurements. The best place for doing so is of course in the field and thus a visit to the FAIR site was included – see below.
