We organize an open day full of EMERALD science!
Join us at the EMERALD Open Science Day on 17 October 2023 at Klimahuset! We will gather Norwegian communities working within the field of ‘ecological climatology’.
The EMERALD Open Science Day is free and open to anyone interested in high latitude ecosystems and climate science. Please register from here before 9 October 2023. Feel free to invite your colleagues and friends. Event agenda can be downloaded from here.
Agenda
11:00 Arrival and coffee/tea
11:10 Opening
Brit Lisa Sjelkvåle (Director NHM)
11:20 Science summary
Lena M. Tallaksen & Frode Stordal (EMERALD PIs, UiO)
12:00 Keynote lecture - Ellen Dorrepaal (Umeå University)
Through polar day and polar night: Year-round climate feedbacks from Arctic ecosystems
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Keynote lecture - Ryan Bright (NIBIO)
Carbon in Norwegian forests: Historical developments, recent trends, and future outlooks
14:15 Early Career Researcher session
Norbert Pirk (UiO), The EMERALD flux quiz: Guessing ecosystem exchanges of carbon and water
Ane Victoria Vollness & Astrid Vatne (UiO), Drought effects on dwarf birch leaves
Eirik Aasmo Finne (NINA & UiO), The climatic effects of lichens
Inge Althuizen (NORCE), Keeping it cool - How mosses regulate soil microclimate
Hui Tang (FMI & UiO), Implementing moss in Earth System Models
Eva Lieungh (NHM), Computer simulation of a field experiment in the Norwegian mountains
Lasse Keetz (UiO), Machine learning for plant-environment interactions on the Emerald planet
15:30 Break
15:45 Group discussions - Jarle W. Bjerke (NINA)
* How to move from single discipline to multidisciplinary studies?
* Which processes are missing in terms of plant-climate interactions for improving models?
16:45 Gathering and concluding
17:15 End of the day
EMERALD – “Terrestrial ecosystem–climate interactions of our EMERALD planet” is a large, coordinated research project supported by the Research Council of Norway aiming to improve the representation of high latitude ecosystems and their climate interactions in climate models. EMERALD has its base at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway.
The EMERALD project uniquely brought together two main science communities in Norway, namely ‘terrestrial ecologist’ and ‘climate modellers’, forming a community in the field “ecological climatology”. Since the project started in 2019, there has been an extensive amount of research activities to integrate existing research activities among key partners, including joint field work and experiments, as well as coordinated modelling efforts. EMERALD worked in synergy with a total of about 40 (both completed and ongoing) research projects from ten national partner institutions. The project will conclude by the end of 2023 and we are looking forward to share our experience and knowledge gained with the wider community.