FLUXNET Secondment recipients

Congratulations to the 2023 FLUXNET Secondment recipients!

 

RecipientYear
HostHost InstitutionSecondment Topic
Mukund Rao2023Dr. Tonantzin Tarin & Dr. Enrico A. YepezUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), MexicoEnvironmental controls on carbon assimilation and its allocation to tree-growth.
Sophie Ruehr2023Maurizio Mencuccini & Rafael PoyatosCentre for Ecological Research and Forest Applications (CREAF), Barcelona, Spainlinking eddy covariance data from FLUXNET and sap flow data from SAPFLUXNET to quantify plant reliance on groundwater across individuals and ecosystems.
Helen Kenion2023Dr. Dominik BrunnerSwiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Dübendorf, SwitzerlandTesting the use of Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) to estimate GHG fluxes from mole fraction measurements on a local scale in an urban environment.
Emma Reich2023Jacob NelsonMax Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, GermanyEvaluating SIF-T and SIF-GPP decoupling aross timescales and ecosystems.
Lewis Kunik2023Dan YakirWeizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IsraelExploring photosynthetic responses to warming and drying climate shifts in ENF biomes using the semi-arid Yatir forest in Israel as a case study.
Nicolas Katz2023Débora Regina RobertiUniversidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, BrazilInvestigating the carbon balance of Pampa Biome Grasslands, Southern Brazil.
Justine Missik2023Nadine RuehrKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)-Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GermanyImproving the representation of plant hydraulic behavior in vegetation and land-surface models.
Tristan Green2022
Minseok KangNational Center for AgroMeteorology, Seoul, South KoreaQuantifying forest fire disturbance on decreased carbon uptake in South Korea's KoFlux EC towers.
Mostafa Javadian2022William WoodgateThe University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaAssessing diurnal canopy temperature variation and its ability to track carbon uptake and water exchange across aridity gradients of southwest North America and eastern Australia.
Theresia Yazbeck2022Oliver SonnentagUniversité de Montréal, CanadaInvestigating the effect of tall shrub encroachment on vegetation composition, structure, and diversity and associated surface-atmosphere interactions at the Trail Valley Creek Research Station (FLUXNET Site ID: CA-TVC).
Julia Yang2022Dr. Stefan ArndtUniversity of Melbourne, Melbourne, AustraliaImpact of fire on the carbon and water flux dynamics of various forested ecosystems in Australia.
Ngoc Nguyen2022Mirco MigliavaccaEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyDeveloping satellite and flux-based estimates of ecosystem respiration that partition autotrophic and heterotrophic components.