Within the frame of an excursion organized by the Research Area Mountain Regions of the University of Innsbruck, students visited the FAIR site today. Wolfgang Gurgiser, Stefan Mayr and Albin explained the scope of the research activities and the associated measurements. Below a few impressions (pictures courtesy Wolfgang Gurgiser).
Klea and Chloe will spend the next months with us doing internships on soil respiration and sap flux at the FAIR site. In the picture below they enjoy the snow brought by the recent coldspell at the FAIR site.
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 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.
Kaser L., Peron A., Graus M., Striednig M., Wohlfahrt G., Juran S., Karl T. (2022) Interannual variability of terpenoid emissions in an alpine city. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22, 5603-5618, doi: 10.5194/acp-22-5603-2022. [OPEN ACCESS]
