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.
Meanwhile the new AWS has been set up in the Cordillera negra close to the village of Chincay.
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!
Mario, our technician, having fun delivering N2 cylinders together with Albin to the instrument hut at Neustift.
Thanks to the excellent work of science communication specialist Mag. Gabriele Rampl from SciNews, our paper on “The urban imprint on plant phenology” in Nature Ecology & Evolution received a wide echo in the national (e.g. APA, ORFonScience, Der Standard, TT) and international (e.g. El Pais, Rodexo, Spain’s News, Südtirol News, Academia) press. Follow this link for the article in the Newsroom by the University of Innsbruck.
Today Felix and Katharina are out at Leinefelde (flux tower run by Alex Knohl and his group) to bring back the COS laser and the Moni-PAM system, which have been at the site together with a SIF system (FLOX box) by MPI (Mirco Migliavacca) since September and early summer, respectively.
