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.
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.
This Friday we were visited by both Alon Angert from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, with whom we discussed COS isotopes, but also the CLIMERS group from TU Wien, with whom we discussed deployment of a GNSS system for quantifying vegetation water content at the FAIR site.
The picture below shows Ruxandra, Nico and Wouter enjoying late summer conditions at the FAIR site.
Within the frame of an excursion organized by the Research Area Mountain Regions of the University of Innsbruck, students visited the FAIR site today. Wolfgang Gurgiser, Stefan Mayr and Albin explained the scope of the research activities and the associated measurements. Below a few impressions (pictures courtesy Wolfgang Gurgiser).
Klea and Chloe will spend the next months with us doing internships on soil respiration and sap flux at the FAIR site. In the picture below they enjoy the snow brought by the recent coldspell at the FAIR site.
