At present the power line to our upcoming forest flux tower near Obermieming is being established – see pics courtesy of Markus Wörz.

At present the power line to our upcoming forest flux tower near Obermieming is being established – see pics courtesy of Markus Wörz.

Last week Marta and Georg set up the advection equipment that in a previous FWF project was used at grasslands in the larch forest flux tower in Torgnon (Aosta valley) to quantify the contribution of advection to the CO2 balance of the forest.

Within the frame of the project ALCH4 (funded by Province of South Tyrol/Alto Adige), Kathi, Enrico and our intern Benni are busy conducting lake-atmosphere methane flux measurements using our mobile platform (see picture on Kalterer See/Lago Caldaro; link to short video).


As Peng will be leaving Innsbruck towards Mainz after almost 4 years as a PostDoc in the advection project, we had a joint dinner today wishing him all the best for his future career.
Tomorrow Monday, Kadmiel Maseyk (Open University, UK) will be giving a presentation in the Institute Seminar series on “Shedding light on the dark reactions of photosynthesis: lessons from new approaches to large scale analysis”. Today, we got on the mountain bikes and went for a ride.
The group at lunch time with Kadmiel (3rd on right).
Ka
dmiel and Georg prepared for the ride down with Pfeishütte in background.