Tuesday 29.09.2015

09:00-09:45Signing of the cooperation agreement between BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, GFZ Potsdam and IGB Berlin on the establishment of the "Centre for Sustainable Landscape Development" (by invitation only)

Landscape observatories and ecosystem ecology (Chair: T. Raab)
10:00-10:30S. BanwartSheffield UniversityGlobal network of critical zone observatories
10:30-11:00P. TrochUniversity of ArizonaLessons learned (so far) at the Landscape Evolution Observatory of Biosphere 2
11:00-11:30H. LinPenn State UniversityInnovative use of long-term soil moisture monitoring

Coffee break and poster exhibition
12:00-12:30K. FrankUFZ LeipzigModelling of ecological systems
12:30-13:00W. SchaafBTU Cottbus-SenftenbergObserving ecosystem evolution: 10 years Chicken Creek monitoring programme

Lunch break

14:00-17:00

Excursion to the Chicken Creek catchment