Early october we received that the ESPRIT grant proposal that Sophie Baartman has put in to FWF will be funded – congrats to Sophie!

Starting with April 2026 Sophie will be working on one of the largest uncertainties in our process-understanding of the leaf-scale COS exchange, that is the internal COS conductance. She will address this topic using a mix of lab and field experiments using leaf gas exchange measurements and stable isotopes of COS (the latter in collaboration with Lisa Wingate/INRAE).

We’re delighted to announce that we have received notice that two of our submitted projects will receive funding. The first one goes to Lorenz Hänchen, who received funding for the project “EARLY – Early drought stress detection in Alpine Grassland Ecosystems” by the Forschungszentrum Berglandwirtschaft of the University of Innsbruck. The second one goes to Martin Rutzinger (Department of Geography), Magnus Bremer (LaserData) and Georg for the project “BeatTheBeetle – Early detection of spruce bark beetle in Austria using remote sensing”, funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).

We have received the fantastic news today that a joint project with the University of Bolzano (Massimo Tagliavini, Leonardo Montagnani, Damiano Zanotelli) and Eurac Research (Claudia Notarnicola, Mariapina Castelli, Alice Crespi and Georg Niedrist) entitled “A monitoring system for carbon fluxes in South Tyrolean ecosystems” will be funded within the Research Südtirol/Alto Adige 2022 call.