Katharina (fourth from left) and Felix (leftmost) were officially awarded their PhD fellowships by the University of Innsbruck (picture courtesy of university press office).

Paul Stoy visited us (pictures showing him at our field site Neustift and together with Albin and Katharina at the Grawa waterfall in Stubai Valley) to give a presentation on “Interpreting processes by observing patterns: Data-intensive strategies for understanding the role of ecosystems in the climate system”.

New paper: Barthel M.,Sturm P., Hammerle A., Buchmann N., Gentsch L., Siegwolf R., Knohl A. (2014) Soil H₂ ¹⁸O labelling reveals the effect of drought on C¹⁸OO fluxes to the atmosphere. Journal of Experimental Botany 65, 5783-5793. doi: 10.1093/jxb/eru312.