Theresa Weber
We welcome Teresa Weber to our group who is doing an FFG-funded internship in our lab during July. Teresa is mainly working on the tree drought experiment (StartClim project), that started at the beginning of this month. This picture here shows her checking instrumentation at our study site in Neustift.
Peter Widmoser
Peter Widmoser (University of Kiel) visited us in June to work on diagnosing how to best force closure of the energy imbalance. The picture shows him during a field course on Kaserstattalm helping students with phytomass sampling.
Cumulative NEE in Neustift, 2001-2011.
The annual CO2 balance for 2011 is now available. Uptake started very early in spring and attained close-to-record values before the second cut, but less than usual carbon uptake during September (before the third cut) and comparably large losses during the wam autumn caused the annual CO2 balance to top out pretty much average and thus neutral.
Flux towers #4 and 5 operational! On 25 May 2012, Albin and Georg set up two urban flux towers in Bolzano/Bozen. These will measure latent and sensible heat fluxes within the frame of the Cooling town project. in particular we are interested in quantifying the degree to which plant-covered surfaces in urban areas are able to affect the partitioning between sensible and latent heat fluxes. Now all our turbulence equipment is somewhere out in the field – thanks to Mathias Rotach for lending us two krypton hygrometers!
After this years EGU meeting in Vienna, Ray Leuning (CSIRO, Canberra, Australia) spent a couple of days at our lab – not only to give a presentation and discuss science, but also to try our favorite spring skiing activity “figeln”. And because it’s 2012 and therefore the future, here’s a video:
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What we are teaching in 2012: an update! Read more…
