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Congratulations to Regina for her new paper that takes the MuSICA model to a new level by exploring the physiological and climatological signals recorded in the cellulose 18O/16O ratio of grasses. Using a new carbon growth and allocation scheme specific to grasslands, she demonstrated
This year the EcoFun team is hosting five MSc students on a range of interesting topics: Ludovic Lacombe (MSc 2), Université de Bordeaux: The influence of A. petiolata and other brassicas on COS emission from soils Muriel Batide (MSc 2), Université
Camille Delvigne will be working with the team for the next 18 months as part of her FWO fellowship Celsius in collaboration with Sophie Opfergelt at UCL, Belgium. Camille is currently learning all about plants with the team and will
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
As part of our continued collaboration with Alexis Achim and Laval University, Quebec ECOFUN hosted a visit from Joelle Berthier. Joelle spent her time here learning about stable isotope variations in ecosystems and was trained in the preparation and extraction
Last week we had the opportunity to host a science discovery stage for three high school teachers. Our guests came from three local institutions: Lycée des Métiers de la Mer (Gujan-Mestras), Lycée Polyvalent Victor Louis (Talance) and Lycée General et
The EcoFun team is always interested in recruiting highly motivated PhD students. This year there are potentially two PhD topics co-supervised by our team that will be opened in the annual PhD competition at the Ecole Doctorale at The Universite
The EcoFun team will be well represented at the next EGU meeting held in Vienna, Austria (17-22 April 2016), with a total of six presentations, one organised session and a splinter meeting. Check out the schedule! SMP31 COSANOVA network meeting
Last January, Steven Wohl, Grace Jho and me (Teresa Gimeno) joined Jean-Christophe Domec on his field trip. We drove to a typical maritime pine plantation of ‘Les Landes’ region, managed and supervised (but not owned) by the forest and agricultural
Sarah’s paper from her MSc internship on intra-annual wood density modelling in maritime pine stands subjected to seasonal droughts has been accepted for publication in Tree Physiology. See here. Congratulations!