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Mondsee update

Bad weather doesn’t prevent Kathi and Albin from doing maintanence at our flux tower at Lake Mondsee. Mondsee_191209

454fafcc-5463-4318-898a-68c99fa30463 As vegetation development is progressing, Lorenz and Rolando are using our unique EcoBot for investigating spatial differences in energy partitioning between locally grown crops across the precipitation gradient from Cordillera blanca to negra just outside Huaraz.

Peru update

Llupa

The vegetation period is progressing at our study sites around Huaraz, as can be seen in the picture showing potatoe plants emerging at the EC flux tower site in Llupa.

Chincay

Meanwhile the new AWS has been set up in the Cordillera negra close to the village of Chincay.

2nd international COS workshop – wrap-up

Last week 31 scientists from 16 different countries met at the conference of the University of Innsbruck in Obergurgl in order to discuss the most recent research on carbonyl sulfide in a workshop organized by the Biometeorology group. As the pictures below show a lot of serious science happened, but we also had a lot of fun!