Today, with the help of Nico Bader from CLIMERS TU Wien, Mario, Herbert and Albin installed three GNSS receivers at the FAIR site to allow for the separate calculation of vegetation optical depth (VOD) for the tree canopy and understory strata.

Today, with the help of Nico Bader from CLIMERS TU Wien, Mario, Herbert and Albin installed three GNSS receivers at the FAIR site to allow for the separate calculation of vegetation optical depth (VOD) for the tree canopy and understory strata.

On Tuesday Alexander was officially awarded the ÖAW doc fellowship for his project “Towards more Defensible Eddy Covariance-derived Ecosystem CO2 Budgets: A Numerical Modeling Approach” – again congrats. Image courtesy/copyright: ÖAW/Daniel Hinterramskogler.

Benyahia F., Gonzalez C.V., Abdelkader A.B., Asensio D., Kadison A., Haas F., Raifer B., Wohlfahrt G., Zanotelli D., Tagliavini M., Andreotti C. (2026) Impact of water stress timing and intensity on physiological performance and wine quality in two white grapevine cultivars in a mountain vineyard. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 6920071, doi: 10.1155/ajgw/6920071. [OPEN ACCESS]
from the Biomet group, with special thanks to Anna for crafting this fabulous card.

Georg talks to ORF about the forest carbon cycle in the context of recent reports at Austrian and European scale that show a recent decline in carbon storage capacity and what that means for efforts towards decarbonisation (external link). Thanks to Anna Huber (Büro für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit) for support.