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.
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.
We have received news of former visiting PhD student Yibo Yan successfully defending his PhD thesis – congrats Dr. Yibo Yan!
We’ve received the fantastic news that former AustroSIF PostDoc David Martini will be awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship to improve the representation of chlorophyll fluorescence and non-photochemical quenching in ORCHIDEE with Fabienne Maignan at LSCE.
Within the frame of the fellowship David plans to spend some time in our lab to work on the AustroSIF data set and use it for benchmarking of the improved model.
Time flies … and thus after one year it is already time to say Goodbye to Yibo (second on left) and wish him all the best for his return back home to China and a smooth continuation and successful completion of his PhD!
