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Biomet in the media

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.

Visitor

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.

New guest

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.

Visitors

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.

Student excursion to 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).