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.
PhD defense June 10th, 2011
Adrian Kammer succesfully defended his PhD thesis on "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" (left Adrian Kammer with his main supervisor Dr. Frank Hagedorn, WSL).
PhD defense June 6th, 2011
Maximilian Schneider successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Assessment of a Molecular Marker Method to Determine the Pyrogenic Carbon Component in Charcoals and Soils". On the photo are (from left to right) the members of the PhD committee Dr. Rienk Smittenberg and Dr. Samuel Abiven, the candidate Max Schneider, the main supervisor Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidt and the external referee Prof. Dr. Timothy Eglinton (ETH).
