Dorian Hammerl
This month we welcome Dorian Hammerl to our group who is doing an FFG-funded internship in our lab during August. Dorian is continuing Teresa’s work from the month before, mainly working on the tree drought experiment (StartClim project) that started at the beginning of July. The picture here shows him at our study site in Neustift.
Georg spent a week in Aosta Valley, Italy, studying CO2 advection at the subalpine grassland site Torgnon together with Marta Galvagno and colleagues from ARPA Valle d’Aosta. The pictures show the study site in the fading light of day and the prominent peak of Matterhorn (Cervino) across the border to Switzerland. The video shows an attempt to visualise nighttime downslope flows using a fog machine (usually used for parties ….).
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.
