During the European Geoscience Union Meeting in Vienna (23.-27. April 2012) we had the Friday session on Molecular and isotopic techniques in terrestrial ecosystem studies. People gathered around Marco's poster for a group picture. The Zurich crowd in the back (from left to right): Daniel Wiedemeier (GIUZ), David Hiltbrunner (WSL), Stefanie Meyer (ART), Marco Griepentrog (GIUZ), Michael Schmidt (GIUZ). And two visitors Roland Bol (right, Forschungszentrum Jülich) and Sue Trumbore (in the front, Max-Planck-Insitute for Biogeochemistry).
SOM-5
5th International Workshop on Soil and Sedimentary Organic Matter Stabilization and Destabilization. Unifying concepts of organic matter dynamics in terrestrial and aquatic systems (7 -11 October 2012. Monte Verità, Ascona, Lago Maggiore, Switzerland). More information here.
Team Outing to Lucerne on 14th November, 2011. In front: Christian Mavris. Second row (from left to right): Samuel Abiven, Nimisha, Angela Maurer, Barbara Pichler, Bruno Kägi, Mirjam Studer, Helene Grueter, Darja Aepli, Claudia Schreiner. In the back: Michael Schmidt, Elisabeth Nietlispach, Bernardo Maestrini and Michael Hilf (click to enlarge).
PhD defense September 29th, 2011
Karen Budge successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Does carbon distribution and turnover in (sub)alpine grassland soils indicate these areas may be potential carbon dioxide hotspots in the event of climate warming?"
(right Karen Budge with her main supervisor, Dr. Jens Leifeld, ART)
New publication in Nature
Michael W. I. Schmidt, Margaret S. Torn, Samuel Abiven, Thorsten Dittmar, Georg Guggenberger, Ivan A. Janssens, Markus Kleber, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, Johannes Lehmann, David A. C. Manning, Paolo Nannipieri, Daniel P. Rasse, Steve Weiner & Susan E. Trumbore: Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property, in: Nature, 6 October, 2011, DOI: 10.1038/nature10386
University of Zurich press release
The "Summer Welcome Gathering" coincided with the hottest day of the year so far with 30 degrees Celsius still at 20 h (June 28th 2011). Also it was a farewell to Rienk who will start a new position at Stockholm Univeristy. Also we blind tasted red wines, as you can see from the covered bottle labels (click to enlarge). From left to right (sitting) Bernardo Maestrini, Daniel Wiedemeier, Stefanie Müller, Samuel Abiven, Marco Griepentrog, Mirjam Studer; from left to right (standing) Rienk Smittenberg, Max Schneider, Nimisha, Ivan Woodhatch and Michael Schmidt.
Verteidigung am 10. Juni 2011
Adrian Kammer verteidigte erfolgreich seine Dissertation mit dem Titel "Carbon Fluxes from Decaying Beech Litter: Insights form a 13C-Tracer Experiment and a New Method to Analyse the Stable Isotopes in Soil CO2 Effluxes". Im Bild Adrian Kammer (links) mit seinem Doktorvater Dr. Frank Hagedorn, WSL.
Verteidigung am 6. Juni 2011
Maximilian Schneider verteidigte erfolgreich seine Dissertation mit dem Titel "Assessment of a Molecular Marker Method to Determine the Pyrogenic Carbon Component in Charcoals and Soils". Im Bild (von links nach rechts) die Mitglieder des Promotionskomitees Dr. Rienk Smittenberg und Dr. Samuel Abiven, Kandidat Maximilian Schneider, der Doktorvater Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidt sowie der externe Gutachter Prof. Dr. Timothy Eglinton (ETH).
