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.
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.
This week Eirik Næsset Ramtvedt from the Norvegian University of Life Sciences visited us to discuss tree encroachment effects on biogeochemical cycling and albedo-carbon tradeoffs.
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.
Last week Kukkis and Nicholas from ETH Zürick/Grassland sciences visited us to discuss and exchange on COS soil, leaf and ecosystem-scale measurements. The best place for doing so is of course in the field and thus a visit to the FAIR site was included – see below.
