News

EcoChange general meeting in Zürich/Birmensdorf

[May 31st, 2010] From May 4th to May 7th 2010 the EcoChange general meeting took place in Zurich/Birmensdorf.

Summer School 2010

[May 7th, 2010] ECOCHANGE Summer School on "Predictive Habitat Suitability Modelling"

Two vacancies in Dynamic Ecosystem Modelling

[May 7th, 2010] Postdocs or PhD Studentships

PhD thesis: Geo-spatial modelling and monitoring of European landscapes and habitats using remote sensing and field surveys

[January 20th, 2010] Sander Mücher, EcoChange researcher from ALTERRA, NL, published his PhD thesis at the Wageningen University: Mücher, C.A., 2009. Geo-spatial modelling and monitoring of European landscapes and habitats using remote sensing and field surveys. PhD thesis Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, ISBN 978-90-8585-453-1, 269 pp.

2nd Newsletter published

[January 7th, 2010] The 2nd Newsletter is now available! Enjoy reading!

Two new Briefing Sheets available

[Jan. 7, 2010] Two further briefing sheets are available: One presenting results from Activity 1 (Land use and land cover data), the second one describing the Integrated Sustainability Assessment under way in Activity 6.

Two postdoctoral research positions (Terrestrial Ecosystem modelling) at Lund University

[Jan. 05, 2010] The Ecosystem Modelling and Biodiversity group (EMBERS) of the Lund University, Sweden is mainly concerned with simulating the effects of global change on the structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, as well as feedbacks of ecosystem and land cover changes on the climate system. Vegetation dynamics, species distributions and biodiversity at global, regional and local scales are a particular focus. The postdoctoral researchers will be involved in working with the development and application of the process-based ecosystem model to address a number of global change issues. Please find more information in the file attached.

ScienceWatch.com interview with Antoine Guisan

[Jan. 05 2010] Dr. Antoine Guisan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution and the Institute of Geology & Paleontology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. ScienceWatch.com asks him about his highly cited work related to climate change.

Three EcoChange partners among the top 15 “Highly Cited Authors in Climate Change Research 1999-2009”

Science Watch examined highly cited research on climate change over the last decade.

New positions at CME adverted

Postdoctoral positions and PhD-stipends within 16 themes at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate - Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen

AIMES Open Science Conference

AIMES (Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System) will hold its first Open Science Conference: "Earth System Science: Climate, Global Change and People" in May 2010 in Edinburgh.

New EcoChange article published in "Landscape and Urban Planning"

A new EcoChange article “Modelling the spatial distribution of Natura 2000 habitats across Europe” has been published in 'Landscape and Urban Planning'. The European Commission has published some headline news about it in 'Science for Environment Policy'.

Post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Liege

The Unit for Climate and Biogeochemical Cycles Modelling (UMCCB) of the University of Liège (ULg) seeks applicants for a post-doctoral fellowship in the framework of a FRFC research project funded by the F.R.S.-FNRS. The project is conducted in collaboration with the Laboratory of Plant and Microbial Ecology (Prof. M. Carnol, ULg) and the Biosystem Physics Unit (Prof. M. Aubinet, Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux, ULg).

EcoChange Flyer

EcoChange flyer now available for download.

Newspaper article on 1st stakeholder workshop in Swiss case study

On June 16th 2009 a first stakeholder workshop took place in the Swiss case study region Aargau. The aim was to discuss and further develop the scenarios as part of the integrated sustainability assessment. The German newspaper article gives a nice overview of the ISA/ABM work done within EcoChange.