The 3rd Year of CarboEurope
Ernst-Detlef Schulze (Coordinator))
MPI for Biogeochemistry, Jena
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• Coordinator‘s report: ED Schulze
• Management report: A Freibauer
• Reports
– Soil respiration workshop: W Kutsch
– Task force meetings:
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Ciais: Processes
Heimann: integrateion
Valentini: Kyoto
Reichstein: uncertainty
• Gender committee:
M Schrumpf
• Elections:
None
• Comments by the advisory board: S Dennis
• Footballgame
• SEC/Advisory Board Meeting
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Co-ordinator‘s report
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What has happened?
Commission: New officer since Nov 2006:
Anastasios Kentarchos
Science:
Advection experiments
Consolidation of data & models
Cross-cutting workshops
Projects:
NitroEurope since Feb 06
CarboAfrica
ICOS
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What has happened?
Administration:
The team of the CarboEurope office
- Annette Freibauer: overview, strategic decisions,
workplan, policy relations
- Angelika Thuille: day-to-day management
- Yvonne Hofmann: secretary, webpage
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What has happened?
Conferences
- CarboEurope session at EGU
- CarboSchool presentations at EGU and Kentucky,
USA
Cross-cutting Workshops
- Chiotto (Vermeulen), Amsterdam, March 2006
- Croplands/grasslands
(Tenhunen/Smith/Soussana), Bayreuth, May 2006
- Wetlands (Choijnicki), Poznan, June 2006
- others
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The Science Review by the Commission
Reviewers
- Phil Ineson
- Timo Karijalainen
Recommendations
- Critical path analysis
- Better integration between components
- Systematic approach to uncertainties
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Example of the very detailed review
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• The following delays/deviations are noted but are not really
raised as major concerns at this stage (but see above).
• There are sometimes delays in data delivery. On the other
hand, there have been also requests from outside the
consortium to provide data in the datasets.
• Workpackage 1.1. has delays in some deliverables 1.1.4,
1.1.5, 1.1.6 and thereby also in related milestones.
• Workpackage 1.3. has delays in deliverables 1.3.1 and 1.3.3
and in related milestone.
• Workpackage 1.4 has delays in deliverables 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and
milestones 4, 5, 6 and 7.
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Tasks 2007
Task forces: integration between
components
Progress towards key objectives
Synthesis by main PIs
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Future: Towards FP7
ICOS
SEC plus some project leaders will have to
meet in December/January to cast a paper
about the future view of CarboEurope-IP-2
Press event in first half of 2007
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Future: What is expected in 2007?
Ecosystems: Continuation and optimization of
ecosystem CO2 flux network, first synthesis of major
ecosystem types and of the soil sampling project
™ Atmosphere: Multiple gas species attribution to the
European C balance and controlling processes, high
frequency aircraft profiles
™ Regional experiment: 2007 campaign
™ Integration:
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™ First
assessment of upscaling techniques from point
flux measurements to Eurogrid
™ Proceedings in Biogeoscience
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Initiatives for further Nature/Science papers!
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The Future
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Will we close the gap between bottomup and top-down approaches?
Will we get a handle on the uncertainty
of NEE?
Will we incorporate management in
ecosystem models?
Can we reward the maintenance of Cstocks?
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Main Events 2007
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NitroEurope annual meeting, Paestum, Italy, 5-9
Feb 2007
Fluxnet Workshop, Italy, Feb 2007
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 15–20
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Next CarboEurope annual meeting: October
Poland, Poznan, October 2007!!!
™ Czech Republic, Prague
™ France, ???
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Thank You.