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Rossella Guerrieri a Marie Sklowdoski Curie fellow based at CREAF in Barcelona visits ECOFUN to give a great talk on the research she is conducting as part of her fellowship. The title of her talk was ‘Linking carbon, water and
After 4 great years and playing an active role in the story of the ECOFUN team and lab, Joana sadly has to leave for pastures new. Joana has now moved on to the ECOTRON facility in Montpelier and we hope
Our new project MicroMic has officially started. Spent a lovely day in the Ciron valley yesterday identifying trees for phyllosphere sampling. If you are interested about learning more about the Ciron Valley take a few minutes to watch this little
Tania Fort has just started her PhD trying to understand the role of plant phyllosphere communities on drought resistance, leaf function and reproductive success. She already has a very busy program lined up and field work in the Ciron valley
John Marshall from SLU in Sweden spends a few days in Bordeaux and visits the ECOFUN lab to discuss laser spectrometers and mesophyll conductance amongst other many other things. John has also sent us some lovely soils and moss from
Just finished preparing the last of the soil kits for the sampling of carbonic anhydrase activity and soil microbial community as part of the ERC SOLCA project. We have had a great response from sites across Europe willing to sample
Lisa was invited to the ETH in Zurich to talk about the ERC SOLCA project and learn more about the research being conducted in Zurich. It was also a lovely opportunity to catch up with Prof. Nina Buchmann who has
Matthias visits the ECOFUN team to work on some global runs with his model MECBETH as part of the SOLCA project. Basically Jerome, Matthias and Thomas spent many hours together in a small room like this until they had produced
After an intense few days discussing soil microbial COS and CO18O exchange the ECOFUN team treat their guests to a night out in the beautiful Chartrons area of Bordeaux.
We are really pleased to welcome Ana and Noelia to the ECOFUN team for the next few months. They will be helping us on the SOLCA project extracting soil waters and assessing microbial biomass on soils coming in from all