We arrived in Cherskii. From left to right: Fanny Kittler, Martin Hertel and Olaf Kolle. (Photo: Fanny Kittler)Hello again from the northern latitudes during this winter. We are back in Cherskii for installing new instruments and maintaining the site in general. By "we" I mean the team of the Max-Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany: Olaf Kolle and Martin Hertel are part of the field and instrumentation group.

 

Both have been to Cherskii several times in the past and were also part of the team last year, when we re-activated our measurement site. Because of their experience in traveling to Siberia, assembling measurement systems in complex environments and working in extreme climatic conditions I am very happy to have them with me.

I, Fanny Kittler, am part of the department of biogeochemical systems and joined the group of "Integrating surface-atmosphere Exchange Processes across Scales - Modeling and Monitoring" in late fall of 2012. During my PhD I will focus on carbon and water fluxes measured mainly by the eddy-covariance technique and what environmental factors drive these fluxes on different temporal and spatial scales.

 

Furthermore I am interested in studying special micrometeorological conditions, e.g. the impact of extremely low temperatures during polar winters, which can have influence on the quality of the measured fluxes.

 

 

Written by Fanny