This winter term we have the pleasure to host Prof. Chuixiang (Tree) Yi as a visting Fullbright Professor. During his stay he plans to work with group members on links between atmospheric boundary layer dynamics and ecosystem exchange processes. The picture below shows Tree and Kathi visiting the FAIR site flux tower.
Congratulations to Katharina Scholz who today successfully defended her PhD thesis on “The carbon balance of an alpine grassland and a mountain lake in complex topography: ecological insights and micro meteorological insights”!
Today Michaela successfully defended her MSc thesis entitled “Combining chlorophyll fluorescence and carbonyl sulfide for the estimation of gross primary productivity” – congratulations!
On Friday, Michaela, Albin and Georg attended the kick-off workshop of the project “Effect of climate extremes on grapevine production in South Tyrol: early detection of abiotic stress and consequences for vine quality” funded by the province of Südtirol/Alto Adige. During the course of the workshop the three project teams from Free University of Bolzano, Laimburg and University of Innsbruck visited the TerraXCube in Bolzano, where a factorial heat-drought experiment will be conducted, the EC tower at the field site near Plantaditsch, discussed the mid-term planning for 2021 and had an excellent joint lunch in the Felsenkeller at Laimburg.
Today Albin and Georg attended the presentation of the successful projects of the 2019 Research Südtirol/Alto Adige call in Bozen/Bolzano (http://www.provinz.bz.it/news/de/news.asp?news_action=4&news_article_id=643217). Proud and grateful to be amongst the 20 funded projects and looking forward to collaborate with UniBz (Massimo Tagliavini et al.) and Laimburg (Barbara Raifer and Florian Haas) in this project!
