GREENCYCLES Biogeochemistry and Climate Change Research and Training Network: News

Federica Pacifico (ESRII) will visit Neil Cape and Pawel Misztal at CEH Edinburgh and Paul Palmer at the University of Edinburgh.

Federica Pacifico (ESRII) will visit the partner ULUND for a two week secondment. There, she will work with Almut Arneth and Anna Ekberg.

Adam Durant (ER5) attended the 3rd International Workshop on Mineral Dust, Leipzig, Germany.

Federica Pacifico (ESRII) presented a poster at the 10^th IGAC Conference, France.

Sönke Zaehle started his Marie Curie Reintegration Grant (ERG) JULIA "Joining ecophysiological Understanding and global ecosystem modelling for improved simulation of Land surface Interactions with the Atmosphere" at the MPI-BGC, Jena, Germany.

Raquel García González (ESRI-CEA), Sönke Zaehle (ER1-CEA) and Trevor Keenan (ESRVIII-CREAF) visited Andrew Friend (UCAM-DGEOG) to discuss the results of their collaboration.

Tomek Kasikowski (ER2) is visiting the Greencycles partner Insituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Lisbon, Portugal. He works with Yannick le Page and Jose Pereira on modelling fires and land cover change.

Adam Durant (ER5) visited Kostas Tsigaridis at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA. They will be working on modelling the radiative effects of dust.

Ben Poulter (ER3) participated in a summerschool on uncertainty in ecosystem modelling, Aberdeen University, UK.

Sönke Zaehle (ER1) participated in the annual meeting of the CarboEurope-IP integration componant at the partner MPI-BGC, Jena, Germany

Meike Vogt presented a poster at the AMEMR Symposium in Plymouth, UK

Meike Vogt submitted her PhD thesis.

Meike Vogt attended the "International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the Oceans" and won a prize for the best student poster about her modelling work.

Raquel García González (ESRI) visited Andrew Friend (UCAM-DGEOG) to discuss her project.

Adam Durant (ER5) has an article published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres: "Ice nucleation and overseeding of ice in volcanic clouds". Link to publisher's website

Adam Durant (ER5) participated in a public discussion forum on “Volcanoes, dust, and climate”, Science Café, Bristol, a subset of the National Café Scientifique organisation, as an invited speaker.

GREENCYCLES network organised a session at the EGU General Assembly 2008. To read more on the EGU-2008 session organised by Greencycles...

To view the posters of the session...

Sönke Zaehle (ER1) gave a talk at the meeting of the Fast Track Initiative on Plant Functional Types at the Ministry for Higher Education, Paris France.

Adam Durant (ER5) gave a talk on " Realistic treatment of radiative forcing by mineral aerosols", QUEST Annual Science Meeting, Winchester, UK.

Roxana Petrescu (ESRXI) carried out a secondment at the partner TAS (Thales Alenia Space).

Meike Vogt attended the WWF workshop on "The Impact of the Oceans on Climate" in London, UK. The results of the workshop will be summarized in a WWF report for use in policy making.

Adam Durant (ER5) features as a co-author on an article published in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: "Reply" to a previously-published review article on the formation of mammatus clouds.
Reply article, Review article

Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski (ESRX) carried out a secondment at the partner UBRIS (University of Bristol).

Sönke Zaehle (ER1) was invited to the DIVERSITAS workshop "Advanced prediction of biome boundary shifts in regional and global dynamic vegetation models" held at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan.

Sönke Zaehle (ER1) visited Ben Poulter (ER3) at Potsdam to discuss his work on modelling tropical ecosystem dynamics.

Raquel García González (ESRI) and Sönke Zaehle (ER1) visited Andrew Friend (UCAM-DGEOG) to discuss their projects.

Maciek Telszewski (ESRIV) attended ELSA (The Earth and Life System Alliance) meeting in Norwich, UK. ELSA is a unique multi-disciplinary Alliance integrating world-class experts in biological, earth and social sciences. Several talks were given concentrating around a core theme: Elemental cycles that sustain life and climate.

Federica Pacifico (ESRII), Trevor Keenan (ESRVII) and Tomek Kasikowski (ER2) attended ERCA 2008. Andrew Friend (Greencycles co-ordinator) and Andrew Watson (Greencycles scientist in charge) will give lectures. Read more on ERCA 2008...

Yannick Le Page (ESRIX) carried out a secondment at the partner VUA to collaborate with G. van der Werf on the influence of various fire drivers on fire incidence (climate, landcover, human activities, etc) using fire remote sensing data.

Adam Durant (ER5) gave a talk on "Dust radiative forcing", QUEST Theme 2 Meeting, Bristol, UK.

Maciek Telszewski (ESRIV) attended the IP CARBOOCEAN Annual Meeting in Bremen, Germany. He gave a talk on "Mapping Sea Surface pCO2 In The North Atlantic - Bringing VOS measurements to the global context". He discussed possible application of his research with Nicolas Metzl, Rik Wanninkof and Lilianne Merlivat, all senior scientists in marine biogeochemistry.

Meike Vogt (ESRV) visited Matt Woodhouse at the University of Leeds to collaborate on DMS ocean-atmosphere fluxes and cloud condensation nuclei formation.

Helena van der Merwe (ESRXIII) joined the department of Geography of the University of Cambridge. She will work on "Spatial Feedbacks" with Andrew Friend.

Meike Vogt (ESRV) attended the MAREMIP Meeting (Marine Ecosystem Modelling Intercomparison Project) in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Adam Durant (ER5) gave a talk entitled "Dust radiative forcing" at the First Meeting of the QUEST Working Group on Dust, Exeter, UK

The work of Yannick Le Page (ESRIX) is published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion. Link toward the article Global fire activity patterns (1996–2006) and climatic influence: an analysis using the World Fire Atlas.

Valentina Sicardi (ESRVI) carried out her secondment at the University of Norwich (UEA).

Anna Lourantou (ESRXII) gave a talk at the "3ème journées jeunes chercheurs" organised by the French Society of Stable Isotopes (SFIS), at Lyon, France.

Maciek Telszewski (ESRIV) participated in SOLAS Summer School. He presented a poster and gave a talk on neural network mapping. When wide palette of air-sea interactions was the main topic of the scientific lectures, geo-engineering, policy making and publishing issues were also deeply discussed during this multidisciplinary summer school which took place in Cargese, France (Corsica).

Yannick le Page (ESRIX), Frederica Pacifico (ESRII) and Sönke Zaehle (ER1) as well as senior scientists from the University of Lund, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement and the MetOffice participated in a Marie Curie-iLEAPS Workshop entitled Towards a process-based description of trace gas emissions in land surface models. To read more on this training programme...

Anna Lourantou (ESRXII) presented her results to the EPICA community at Bernin, France.

Anna Lourantou (ESRXII) participated in the "fête de la science" at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie. She explained why scientists study air bubbles in ice cores.

Adam Durant (ER5, UBRIS) And Sandy Harrison visited Yves Balkanski (CEA-LSCE) to discuss on dust modelling.

Marlies Gumpenberger(ESRIII), Sarah Shannon (ESRVII), Yannick Le Page(ESRIX), Roxana Pestrescu (ESRXI) and Tomek Kasikowski (ER2) attended the GREENCYCLES workshop on Remote Sensing at Cannes, France.

Anna Lourantou (ESRXII, CNRS), Adam Durant (ER5, UBRIS) and senior scientists from the University of Bristol and from the University of East Anglia attended the INSU/QUEST-DESIRE meeting at Totnes, UK. To read more on QUEST-DESIRE project...

Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski (ESRX) and Tomek Kasikowski (ER2) participated in the QUEST summer school, organised by the GREENCYCLES partner "University of Bristol". Tomek gave a talk on "Fire modelling in Met Office/Hadley Centre". Read more on QUEST-ES4 2007...

Three Greencyclists Experienced Researchers, Nick Stephens (ER4), Sönke Zaehle (ER1) and Ben Poulter (ER3) publish an article on the Greencycles network in the EOS newsletter of the AGU. To read more on this article in EOS...

Maciek Telszewski (ESRIV) participated in EUR-OCEANS/CARBOOCEAN Summer School organized by the IFM-GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany). The core theme of the School was combining data and models, with the main focus on statistical analysis and data assimilation in biogeochemical oceanography.

Roxana Petrescu (ESRXI) and Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski (ESRX) publish in Biogeosciences Discuss. an article on "Modelling CH4 emissions from arctic wetlands: effects of hydrological parameterization". Link toward the article...

Tomek Kasikowski (ER2) participated in FREEVAL (Fire Radiative Power EVALuation) project meeting, held in European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK. He gave a talk on "Hadley Centre: fire-related activity".

Anna Lourantou (ESRXII) visited AWI in Bremerhaven and collaborated with Peter Köhler on the BICYCLE model. The aim of this visit was the optimal interpretation of LGGE 13C paleodata with a recently validated carbon cycle model.

Maciek Telszewski (ESRIV) gave a talk on "North Atlantic surface water pCO2 maps by a neural network approach and multiple linear regression." during GlobColour (European Space Agency DUE Project) User Meeting, Norwich, UK.

Roxana Petrescu (ESRXI) is in Kytalyk Research Station, Siberia, Russian Federation. Her fieldwork is aimed to improve knowledge of permafrost soil processes and permafrost hydrology and to gather supporting data for the modelling of methane fluxes. To read more on Roxana's field trip in Siberia...

Sönke Zaehle (ER1) is visiting the CREAF to discuss with Raquel García González and Trevor Keenan.

Federica Pacifico (ESRII) has joined the Met Office as Early Stage Researcher (ESRII). She will work on "Modelling BVOC emissions and their impacts".

Maciek Telszewski (ESRIV) gave a series of talks in high schools in Poland. Presentation given in 5 high schools was titled: "What's wrong with the hot summer?". The aim was to communicate climate change science to young (16-17 years old) people in rural Europe. He has also presented the Greencycles network and mentioned few words about our scientific mission. Read more about these conferences...

Sarah Shannon (ESRVII) visits for one week the LGGE, Grenoble, France. She presents her last results and prepares her next secondment.

Yannick Le Page (ESRIX), Sergey Venevsky and José Pereira (ISA) organize a meeting at the University of Leeds on "validation and comparison of coupled and uncoupled fire models".

Ben Poulter (ER3) attends the AIMES-QUEST workshop for Young Scientists on "Modelling Land Use-Decision Making", Bristol, UK.

Meike Vogt (ESRV) attends the 6th Green Ocean project meeting at Villefranche-sur-mer, France. She gives a talk on "Impact of ecosystem composition on the DMS cycle" and participates in discussions groups.

Ben Poulter (ER3) attends the iLeaps Marie Curie Training Course on “Integrated measurements over land ecosystem atmosphere boundaries” at Hyyiälä, Helsinski, Finland.

Meike Vogt (ESRV) presents a poster on DMS and ocean acidification at:" An ICES Workshop on the Significance of Changes in surface CO2 and Ocean pH in Shelf Sea Ecosystems (WKCpH)", London, UK.

Meike Vogt (ESRV) holds a seminar at the University Bern, Institute for Climate- and Environmental Physics, Switzerland.

Marlies Gumpenberger (ESRIII) attends the Metier course on 'Remote Sensing of the Land Surface'.

Maciek Telszewski (ESRIV) presents a poster ''Neural networks as a technique for reconstructing marine pCO2 fields in the North Atlantic using in situ, reanalysis and remotely sensed data.'' at Surface Ocean CO2 Variability and Vulnerability (SOCOV) Workshop at IOC/UNESCO, Paris, France.

Yannick Le Page (ESRIX) starts his three-month secondment at the Met Office. He will collaborate with Richard Betts, Tomek Kasikowski and Sergey Venevsky (University of Leeds) on "validation and comparison of coupled and uncoupled fire models".

Raquel García González (ESRI) starts her three-month secondment at the CREAF. She will collaborate with Trevor Keenan (ESRVIII) to compare the two models they are working on.

Meike Vogt (ESRV) is at the SOLAS Open Science Conference in Xiamen, China, 2 posters on 1) DMS modelling and 2) DMS under enhanced pCO2 in a mesocosm experiment, discussion session on CODIM (see below)
http://www.solas2007.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=457

Meike Vogt (ESRV) and Nick Stephens (ER4) are in Plymouth at the AMEMR workshop, "Skill assessment of plankton functional type models on a global scale"
http://www.amemr.info/default.asp?page=workshop1

Tomek Kasikowski (ER2) has joined Greencycles at the Met Office, UK, as experienced researcher.

Maciek Telszewski (ESRIV) started his 3 months secondment at LSCE, France. There, he will be focused on developing, using Fortran and Matlab, an appropriate neural network.

Meike Vogt is in Brussels for CODIM workshop, an international workshop on the intercomparison of prognostic ocean DMS models
www.quebec-ocean.ulaval.ca/CODiM/

Roxana Petrescu is visiting the University of Lund in Sweden for her secondment. She is working with Torben Christensen and Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski on modelling methane (CH4) missions from tundra wetlands with Peatland model - a comparison between 2 sites, Chokurdagh (Siberia) and Stordalen (N Sweden). She has spent 10 days at Abisko in Laponia to work with Marcin.

Anna Lourantou started her secondment at the LSCE in France. She will stay three months collaborating with Elisabeth Michel, Laurent Bopp and Didier Paillard. She will constrain already developed models with the δ¹³C results she obtained during her experimental work at LGGE.

Anna Lourantou gave a talk on her results on δ¹³CO₂during the last deglaciation at EPICA meeting, Il Ciocco, Toscana, Italia.

Eight early-stage Greencyclists participated in the QUEST summerschool, organised by the GREENCYCLES partner "University of Bristol". Read more...

Ben Poulter has joined the Greencycles Network at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany as Experienced Researcher. Read more...

Prof W. Cramer at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, offers a PhD position in ecological / biogeochemical modelling of the Amazon basin, closely related to the work in Greencycles. Read more...

Meike Vogt, Greencycles Early-Stage Researcher at UEA, Norwich, UK, presented her recent work on DMS emissions at the 4th International Symposium on Biological and Environmental Chemistry of DMS(P) and Related Compounds in Norwich, UK. Read more...

Raquel Garcia Gonzalez, Greencycles Early-Stage Researcher at LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, FR, presented her recent results on modelling and evaluating carbon, water and energy fluxes at a MIND workshop in Rome, Italy. Read more...

Meike Vogt, Greencycles Early-Stage Researcher at UEA, Norwich, UK, presented her recent results on measuring and modelling DMS emissions on the 5th Green Ocean workshop in Villefrance sur mer, France. Read more...

Trevor Keenan, Greencycles Early-Stage Researcher at CREAF, Barcelona, ES, presented his recent results on modelling BVOC emissions at the IUFRO conference on the affects of climate change on Forests worlwide in Palencia, Spain. Read more...

Andrew Friend and Sönke Zaehle presented their recent work on diffuse/direct radiation and the role of nitrogen in the terrestrial carbon cycle at the European Geophysical Union general assembly in Vienna, Austria.