Alon Angert (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) was visiting us this week in order to discuss some COS science, especially with regard to stable isotopes of COS. Of course we also made Alon visit the FAIR field site despite (or because of) the wintery conditions.
We have received the fantastic news today that a joint project with the University of Bolzano (Massimo Tagliavini, Leonardo Montagnani, Damiano Zanotelli) and Eurac Research (Claudia Notarnicola, Mariapina Castelli, Alice Crespi and Georg Niedrist) entitled “A monitoring system for carbon fluxes in South Tyrolean ecosystems” will be funded within the Research Südtirol/Alto Adige 2022 call.
We have received the wonderful pre-Xmas news that our project “Longterm carbon and water balance of a coniferous forest” submitted to the Austrian National Science Fund (FWF) will be funded for the coming four years!
The funding will allow us to shift gears with respect to long-term measurements at the FAIR site, which we initiated back in 2021, and at the same time tackle some of the current problems in forest-atmosphere carbon and water exchange.
Reif M., Rotach M.W., Gohm A., Wohlfahrt G. (2023) Carbon Dioxide Exchange in an Idealized Valley. Environmental Modelling and Software 171, 105887, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105887.
PhD student Lorenz Hänchen will receive a grant from the Tyrolean Young Scientist 2023 program in order to work on making the photochemical reflectance index (PRI) a more reliable proxy for non-photochemical quenching.
Congratulations to Lorenz for this achievement!
