December 12, 2022: The University of Greifswald sets the course for a sustainable forest use in the Eldena nature reserve
In the university-owned Eldena nature reserve, forestry use is to be permanently abandoned on about three quarters of the protected area. These areas will then be transferred in equal parts to an "Ökokonto" and a climate protection forest. The remaining quarter will continue to be managed as before. This is determined in the forest use concept that the University's Senate unanimously approved in August 2022. The designation of a climate protection forest with immediate and permanent management suspension supports the increased sequestration of carbon in tree biomass and forest soils. In the future, these areas transferred into an "Ökokonto" will primarily serve to develop and maintain site-typical biodiversity and protect natural processes.
Further information (in german) can be found here.
November 2022: Gast-Professor Michael Pisaric, Ph.D.
Dendrogreif welcomes Prof. Michael F. J. Pisaric Ph.D. as senior research fellow of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg who will stay in Greifswald from November 2022 until June 2023. For his research on the use of emerging technologies in the field of dendrochronology to study environmental and climate change in the subarctic during the past several centuries he ccoperates with our working group. A more detailed overview of the focus of his research can be found at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg.
A warm welcome!
April 28th 2022: Ph.D. Colloquium
Karolina Janecka presented her dissertation with the title "Effect of climate and microsite conditions on tree growth in termperate and hemiboreal forests of Europe - From loal to regional spatial scales" and thereby successfully defended her PhD. Congratulations!
February 2022: Scientist visiting the dendroecological lab
DendroGreif welcomes Miguel García-Hidalgo who is visiting us from Spain. Miguel is doing his PhD at the University of Valladolid and is working on the use of artificial intelligence in wood anatomy. In his research he focuses on the effects of climate variation on wood growth using deep convolutional neural networks and deep learning. Welcome Miguel!
February 2nd 2022: Ph.D. Colloquium
On the 2nd of February Timo Pampuch gave an insight into his research on the topic "A group of trees is called a forest - A holistic approach to study the anatomy and growth of Picea glauca" and did thereby, successfully defend his PhD. With his dissertation he contributes to the understanding of the influence of environmental factors on tree growth. Congratulations!
