"The research group of Geoecology (Geography, Department of Geosciences) invites applications for
One PhD Student Position in Soil Science (65%, TV-L E13)
within the multidisciplinary project “Tropical Mountain Forest” granted by the German Science Foundation (http://www.tropicalmountainforest.com/). Combining monitoring and measurements of functional diversity, several research groups perform interdisciplinary research to understand the relationships between landscape change, biodiversity, biological interactions, and ecosystem processes and services."
see full job advertisement as pdf
Application deadline is April 21st, 2013
20 groups of scientists representing a multitude of scientific disciplines summarize major results of their research in this last issue of the TMF Newsletter: They report about science-directed and sustainable land-use systems and present protocols for optimization of sustainable forest and pasture management. Specific reactions of species and of the ecosystem tropical mountain forest (TMF) to increasing loads of nutrient input are shown. The researchers also summarize effects of altered precipitation and temperatures on nitrogen fluxes as well as on plant and animal diversity. They furthermore improved their hydrological models of water fluxes. Landscape parameters and forest dynamics were analyzed to improve landslide models. New animal species and mycorrhiza types are presented, mycorrhiza biomass were determined, and it was analyzed which mycorrhizae foster young trees. How environmental change influences climate and the ecosystem is demonstrated. The milestones achieved in the data warehouse are visualized. The researchers also offer new methods and introduce species to successfully monitor global change impacts.
Sitio de trabajo:
Ecuador (Parque Nacional El Cajas, Reserva Laipuna)
Detalles del trabajo: Anuncio de trabajo
Solicitud hasta el 10 de Mayo 2013
Sitio de trabajo:
Ecuador (Parque Nacional El Cajas, Reserva Laipuna)/
Alemania (Universidad de Bayreuth, Física de Suelos)
Detalles del trabajo: Anuncio de trabajo
Solicitud hasta el 10 de Mayo 2013
Loja Airport
The Loja airport in Catamayo, La Tona was reopened mid of December 2012. Flights are operated normally but the rest is still provisorily, as the airport terminal building will be completed around May this year.
Quito Airport
The airport of Quito moved in the night from the 19th to the 20th of February to its new location in the outskirts of Quito. Transfer to or from Quito takes between 1 to 2 hours depending on the traffic and transport media. There are public buses, airport shuttle buses between the new and the former airport and of course taxis.
The 30th of September 2012 ALL cell phone numbers in Ecuador change, as they will be increased from nine digits to ten digits. There will be a “9” added right after the first zero. When you call from abroad the “9” will be added right after the Ecuadorian country calling code.
Example: Movistar cell phone number of the ECSF
Calling from Ecuador:
Before: 095 950393
After: 0 9 95 950393
Calling from abroad:
Before: +593 95 950393
After: +593 9 95 950393
The speakers give a glimpse on the complex on-site review procedure of the projects which constitute the German part of the new Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Monitoring and Research in South Ecuador. They also report about the Status Symposium which enjoyed a numerous audience.
NCI reports about the application to the UNESCO for the first biosphere reserve in the Ecuadorian Western Cordillera comprising the entire ecological gradient from the Paramo to the Pacific.
The Science News present an investigation of the famers' preferences of land use options for the recultivation of abandoned agricultural areas. An analysis of nitrogen fixation shows why nutrient budgets should include the canopy.
The data manager and the webmaster analyze the usage of the RU's data warehouse.
The annual status symposium of the research unit will take place on Friday morning, 19th of October at the UTPL in Loja (8:30 - 13:00).
Scientists will present latest research results to the interested public. Everybody is invited to join this symposium. The talks will be given in Spanish language.
The review symposium for the new project application (Platfrom for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Monitoring and Research in South Ecuador) will take place at the UTPL in Loja on 18th of October (9:00 - 19:00).
Please not that only applicants and named cooperation partners are allowed to join this meeting.
A public symposium will take place on 19th of October.
The Newsletter no 17 presents a summary of five years of research (Speakers’ Corner) and provides insight in latest results of the nutrient addition experiments, the competition between bracken and pasture grass, mycorrhization, climate change research and recent modelings, the advances of the data warehouse and the Laser Scanning Mission as well as achievements in afforestation experiments (Science News). This issue also informs about recent progress of the foundation NCI, the status of the two transfer projects and the biodiversity results of the cooperating partner project.
The vast biodiversity of the tropical mountain forests once attracted German scientists to start the interdisciplinary research in the remote area of the Ecuadorian Rio San Francisco Valley. Now, after a total of 15 years of German-Ecuadorian research, they have unveiled features hitherto unknown regarding ecosystem constitution, functioning, and services. As they observed this unique ecosystem is locally threatened by non-sustainable land uses like pasture farming. Therefore they developed a science-directed sustainable land use portfolio based on their results and the resilience of the ecosystem against environmental changes. Their recommendations after five years of research in the scope of FOR816 include intensification, diversification, restoration and conservation, and to monitor the impacts of ongoing environmental change.
Download the TMF Newsletter no 17
An article in the famous German newspaper "Die Zeit" reports about the activities of the DFG research unit 816 in South Ecuador.
You can read the article in the online portal of the newspaper.
The scan of the article is available as PDF here (german).
Source:
Korneffel, Peter: Unter den Wolken; Report in: Die Zeit, No. 38, 13th Sept. 2012, p. 38
Data Upload and Maintenance Workshop (24th August 2012 in Marburg)
The workshop focuses on structuring and uploading new research data into the FOR816 Data Warehouse. It also aims to complement existing dataset and enhance its metadata quality for publishing (with a DOI) and reuse. This makes your data more valuable and persistently referable.
Every research unit member is invited to join the workshop, but the number of participants will be limited to a group of five to ensure an intensive support.
If you are interested please contact the data manager Thomas Lotz.
Unfortunately, this workshop did not take place due to missing registrations.
Loja airport in Catamayo – La Toma was closed June 3, 2012 until mid December at least. Alternatives are the airport of Cuenca and the airstrip of Zamora (Cumbaratza). Please find the General Information about the flights, the Itineraries and information about individual ground transport between Cuenca and Loja (status of information: 31.08.2012). For itineraries always cross check the websites from the airlines. All itineraries are subject to change. All information given without any guarantee.
Data Upload and Maintenance Workshop (11th May 2012 in Marburg)
The workshop focuses on structuring and uploading new research data into the FOR816 Data Warehouse. It also aims to complement existing dataset and enhance its metadata quality for publishing (with a DOI) and reuse. This makes your data more valuable and persistently referable.
Every research unit member is invited to join the workshop, but the number of participants will be limited to a group of five to ensure an intensive support.
If you are interested please contact the data manager Thomas Lotz.
Similar Workshops are planned to take place in August (also in Marburg) and in October (in Loja).
Unfortunately, this workshop did not take place due to missing registrations. We hope the next workshop in August will be better attended. Researchers should upload data in advance and check if they need additional support.
Curso de Campo: “Diversidad de plantas vasculares (árboles, epífitas) y almacenamiento de carbono en bosque montano ”
version 20.12.2011:
Se ofrece un curso sobre levantamiento y análisis de datos florísticos (árboles y epífitas vasculares) con el objetivo de analizar la composición, diversidad florística (alfa y beta) y el almacenamiento de carbono en los bosques tumbesinos de montaña en el extremo sur del Ecuador. El curso combina enseñanza en conocimiento del ecosistema con trabajo de campo y análisis de datos florísticos (idioma de trabajo: español). Se incluirán análisis estadísticos univariados (estimadores de diversidad, rarefacción, etc.) y multivariados (ej. ordenaciones DCA y NMDS). El curso ofrece 16 plazas para estudiantes de las carreras universitarias de Biología, manejo forestal, conservación del ambiente u otras carreras afines. Se llevará a cabo del 24 de marzo hasta el 3 de abril del 2012 de la siguiente manera:
Fase 1: 5 días de métodos y trabajo de campo en un bosque andino semihumedo en la Provincia de Loja (24.-29.3.2012).
Fase 2: 5 días de teoría, identificación de especies y análisis estadístico en la ciudad de Loja y la Estación Científica San Francisco (ECSF) (29.3.-3.4.).
El curso tiene un costo de US $ 210 que incluye:
- Transporte entre Loja y el sitio de estudio.
- 5 días de alojamiento y comida en el campo.
El viaje a la ciudad de Loja y los 5 días en la ciudad (fase 2; alojamiento y comida) actualmente representan costos adicionales. Esperamos alternativamente poder ofrecer hospedaje gratuito en la ECSF ó con compañeros lojanos para todos participantes que no tengan hogar en Loja, aún que en este momento todavía no se puede garantizar esto. Aplicantes lojanos pedimos constar en su carta de aplicación si pueden ofrezer hospedaje para 1-2 participantes de afuera de Loja en su casa, en caso que no podrémos ofrecer hospedaje en la ECSF para todas personas. Posibles novedades con respeto al hospedaje durante la fase 2 se publicará en una convocatoria actualizada bajo “noticias”/”news” en www.tropicalmountainforest.org ó directamente a través de http://137.248.191.82/news.do?newsid=117 antes del 27 de enero.
Personas interesadas en el curso favor enviar su currículum y una breve carta de aplicación (max. 1 página) hasta el 27 de enero del 2012 por correo electrónico a los coordinadores. Se confirmará la participación antes del 3 de febrero 2012.
Coordinadores:
Dr. Juergen Homeier, Dep. Ecología de Plantas, U Göttingen, Alemania (jhomeie@gwdg.de)
Dr. Florian Werner, Dep. Ecología Funcional, U Oldenburg, Alemania (florianwerner@yahoo.com)
The new structure of the planned research platform is visualized. For the first time scientists report about the income of small farms as well as about their plant and land use which were analyzed by thorough interviews. Members of the Research Unit show how the forest responds to elevated nitrogen deposition and display nitrogen, nitrous oxide and nitric oxide fluxes. They also explain climate-growth-relationships in trees, and describe the factors which are affecting the spatial distribution of trees. The data warehouse manager introduces how to filter and aggregate tabular values. Our partner NCI reports about a mayor breakthrough in the conservation of people and biodiversity in Perú. EDIT partners analyzed the distribution of ants and partners from the UTPL introduce a study that will be conducted to sample geo-information in South Ecuador.
Download the TMF Newsletter no 16
LandschafftRessourcen (www.landschafftressourcen.de)
Sie zeigt Forschungsergebnise aus von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft langjährig geförderten Projekte.
Die FOR816 ist in den Themenkomplexen
sowie
vertreten.
Die Ausstellung gastiert noch bis 1. April 2012 im Deutschen Museum in München
und ist dann vom 5. April 2012 – 15. Mai 2012 in der Kunsthalle in Gießen zu besichtigen.
Mitgliederversammlung
der DFG-Forschergruppe 816
am: 25.02.2012
um: 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr
Ort: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Raum: 1011 - Kollegienhaus/Senatssaal
Tagesordnung
TOP1 Begrüßung
TOP2 Bericht des Sprechers
TOP3 Bericht des lokalen Beirats (Matt)
TOP4 Berichte der Bereichssprecher
TOP5 Bericht Data Warehouse (Lotz)
TOP6 Status high-ranked joint publications (Knoke, Wilcke, Bendix)
TOP7 Status Ecological Studies
TOP8 Stand Planungen 2013
TOP9 Verschiedenes
Annual Confernce of the Society for Tropical Ecology
"Islands in land- and seascape: The Challange of Fragmentation"
The conference (www.gtoe-conference.de) will run from February 22 to 25, 2012 in Erlangen, Germany.
The conference aims at maximizing interactions among scientists of all disciplines and backgrounds who are interested in tropical biogeography and biodiversity.
In 2012, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg will host the Annual Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology (Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, gtö), focusing on the Islands in land- and seascape.
The special issue of the TMF-Newsletter summarizes past achievements of 14 years of ecosystem and biodiversity research in South Ecuador and outlines future plans for a joint German- Ecuadorian research program starting in 2013. It lists all steps and deadlines for projects on the planned “platform for biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring and research in South Ecuador”. This newsletter by Jörg Bendix and Erwin Beck calls for project proposals. esw
The new landline phone numbers of the ECSF are:
+593 / (0)7 / 3060252
+593 / (0)7 / 3060253
The Movistar cell phone number of the ECSF still is:
+593 / (0)95 950393
Two scientists are honored for research and one received a conservation award. The 14th Newsletter also reports about the progresses in the new research platform, the Status Symposium, and the inauguration of the first reforestation project. The rubric Science News offers insight into a new convective cloud development, the disconnection of soil microbial structure and function, the three seasons that occur around Loja, the driving factors of decomposition, and the biodiversity of flies and arachnids. New search features in the data warehouse are introduced and a map displays the dimension of the fire that destroyed reforestation areas near the research station.
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Date: 6 and 7 October 2011
Venue: Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Loja
Please find the following information (effective 28.09.2011):
Timetable of the talks (the presentations are online available on the FOR816 internal website)
FOR816 members find more detailled information (General timetable and maps for internal events, flights, accommodation, etc.) in the internal part of the website in the news section (administrative news).
A data warehouse workshop will be orgaized by the subproject Z1 "Central Data Services" (Thomas Lotz - Data Manager).
The presentation of the workshop is here available as a pdf document.
The protocol is available here.
Every member of the research unit and the cooperating projects is invited to join this workshop.
5th of October, 2011 at the UTPL / Loja, Edificio Octógono, Ground floor, Sala 4
Agenda and timetable:
09:00 - 10:00 Overview and introduction
(basics, might be skipped by experienced users)
- Introduction - The FOR816dw, its data, and its goals
- Modules of the website
- Administration (personnel data, accounting, station pass, and ECSF reservation)
- Data upload, management, query, and download
Coffee break
10:15 - 11:30 Presentation of new features and concepts
(interesting for any user, minimum one member of each subproject should participate)
- The old and new "Concept of dataset structure" (resource/entity/attributes/values) and concerning meta data
- The new "Extended search" on datasets: temporal, spatial, personnel, and content related criteria
- The new "Category tree for attributes": An ontology approach
- The old but still crucial "Data User Agreement" ... and its utilization
Outlook:
- Planned "Data publication pipeline" (DOI)
- Data access and intellectual rights (now and after the termination of the RU)
11:30 - 12:00 User feedback, discussion, and future development
- Your annotations and wishes are welcome
After lunch there will be time for individual support in issues of preparing data sets for upload. For special requirements, you might contact me in advance.
If possible bring along a notebook.
Please feel free to contact Thomas Lotz (Data Manager) for further information: thomas.lotz[at]staff.uni-marburg.de
Please note the invitation for the inauguration of the DFG transfer project “Nuevos bosques para Ecuador” the 4th of October 2011 at 19H00 in Loja.
The 16th of September there was (fortunately without fatalities) an aircraft accident at the airport of Quito as the Tame airplane coming from Loja ran off the end of the runway and safety zone until it collided with a brick wall.
Due to this accident there are several problems concerning air travel to and from Quito:
Because part of the ILS (Instrument Landing System) from the airport Quito was damaged, the flights to and from Quito are at the moment more prone for delays or cancellations due to weather or poor visibility. The ILS will hopefully be repaired within the next days.
Another problem for us is that Tame has now one aircraft less, which has a major impact on the flight schedules between Quito and Loja:
- There will be until further notice from Monday to Saturday only one morning flight instead of two. The morning flight on Sunday and all flights in the afternoon from Monday to Friday and on Sunday should be operated normally.
- Tame has assured that all passengers who already have a ticket for a canceled morning flight are transferred automatically to the operated morning flight.
- Please check for all flights in advance and again the day before your trip with Tame if there’s any change. You can do this:
- At the Confirmed bookings site of the Tame webpage. You need your ID/passport number and the ticket number (NOT the flight number as quoted on the website). Both numbers you find in the upper part of your E-Ticket. Don’t put the first three numbers (269); start with the fourth number.
- Tame counters at the airports and the Tame offices
- By phone: 1 800 500800 or +593 / (0)2 / 3977100
For Friday 30 September 2011 demonstrations and other mass events were announced on the occasion of the uprising on 30 September 2010. Please avoid for your own security any kind of mass events in Quito or other cities in Ecuador.
Tame changed again the flight schedules for the morning flights between Quito and Loja and rebooked again the passengers. Please check again your flights.
More details about the reasons and what options you have to check your flights you find in the last important advice.
Precipitation dynamics are summarized in the second habilitation elaborated in this Research Unit. The Newsletter also covers reports of recent progress concerning the planned book and publications as well as the new research platform. High ranking delegations visited the research station. Progress in the creation of a Bioshere Reserve around Cajas National Park is outlined. The Science News include the fate of epiphytes, forest dynamics and fertilization experiments, water flow patterns as well as biomarkers for carbon sequestration. Counterparts from the Technical University of Loja offer their few on the planned research platform.
Am Freitag, den 10. Juni 2011, startet in Bonn die DFG Wanderausstellung: LandschafftRessourcen.
Dabei werden die von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Forschungsprojekte Ergebnisse aus langjährigen Untersuchungen zeigen.
Die FOR816 ist den Themenkomplexen "Raum für Vielfalt":
http://www.landschafftressourcen.de/index.php?id=50
sowie "Wasserkreislauf":
http://www.landschafftressourcen.de/index.php?id=64
vertreten.
A delegation of the Germany Science Foundation (DFG) visited our RU and met people and organizations to take the next steps towards the new Research Platform to monitor global change. News in the science section offer insights into fungi inventories, mycorrhiza communities and bracken compositions, long term climate measurements, pollen rain calibrations, and into the evolution of moths megadiversity, which took place much earlier than previously supposed. One partner from EDIT reports that for some ants habitat may be more important than food. Further topics are how FOR816 datasets should be cited, new members of the RU and an exhibition in which research results of the RU will be displayed in several places in Germany.
Student Assistent for collaboration in the subproject Z1 Central Data Warehouse
Job location: Marburg/Germany
Special requirements: Java experiences
More details in the job advertisement (de).
At the University of Cuenca a course about monitoring and processing of hydrological data will be realized between 04. – 09.04.2011.
| www.tropicalmountainforest.org DFG-FOR816 Ecuador | DFG senate commission on biodiversity research | Biodiversity Exploratories DFG-SP1374 |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix - Speaker bendix@staff.uni-marburg.de | Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer - Speaker b.gemeinholzer@bgbm.org | Dr. Jens Nieschulze - Data Manager jniesch@bgc-jena.mpg.de |
| Thomas Lotz - Data Manager thomas.lotz@staff.uni-marburg.de |
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
The next meeting on data management in interdisciplinary projects concerning
“Data repositories in environmental sciences – concepts, definitions, technical solutions and user requirements”
will be held in Rauischholzhausen (near Marburg) on February 28th – March 1st, 2011
hosted by the FOR816 Ecuador and Biodiversity Exploratories in collaboration with the WG Data of the DFG senate commission on biodiversity research.
Please reserve these dates in your agenda.
Quality proofed research data build the foundation for scientific knowledge gain. Although billions of Euros are spent annually in Germany alone to acquire data only a fraction are accessible over time and are re-used in further contexts. The Alliance of German Science Organisations acknowledges this problem and pools activities for their solutions. Interdisciplinary research project repositories are at the intersection of data collection in the field, work-in-progress-storage, and long-term archiving. Against this background the workshop explores required standards of data capture, data curation and interchange with respect to technical and social issues, and addresses challenges in long-term archiving in a national and international framework.
The aim is to bring together the community of project database manager, standards developer, information scientists, librarians, and funding agencies. As results, we anticipate a better communication between the many disciplines, an overview of the current state of the art and a roadmap for future activities.
A focus will be set on
“Data platforms in integrative biodiversity research”.
Sessions will concentrate on:
Data standards and ontologies for integrative biodiversity research
Concepts for Data Repositories
- Data exchange including legal status of data and access
- Sustainability of repositories including permanent funding strategies
- Migration strategies for project data to permanent enviornmental data repositories
- Structural and technical concepts
- Models; central, distributed networks, connected topical/regional nodes etc.
- Hardware; including costs
- Software; designs, data models, data flow, interfaces
User Requirements
- Demands of data provider and data user (bridging the gap between user needs and expectations)
- Added value to be provided by project repositories
- Required service tools (input, search, analysis, visualisation, output)
- Citeable data publications as incentive (DOI, ISI, others)
We are looking forward to this meeting and hope that you will be able to participate. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the local organizers.
With kind regards,
J. Bendix
B. Gemeinholzer
J. Nieschulze
T. Lotz
Contact to local organizers:
Thomas Lotz
Data Manager FOR816
Philipps-University of Marburg
Faculty of Geography
Deutschhausstr. 10
fon: ++49.(0)64 21 / 28-24 208
email: thomas.lotz@staff.uni-marburg.deSonja Haese
Philipps-University of Marburg
Faculty of Geography/Climatology and Remote Sensing
Geography Deutschhausstr. 10
D-35032 Marburg
fon: ++49.(0)64 21 / 28-24 839
fax: ++49.(0)6421 / 28-24 833
email: haese@staff.uni-marburg.de
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For registartion, please download the Frist call (pdf) and use the according form.
Further information on the planned speeches can be found in this Reminder (pdf).
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The Program and Abstracts of the Meeting are available here (pdf).
Contributions
Below all presentations and posters are listed. The underlined contributions are available as PDF.
Talks: Download all as zip [39MB]
Bendix, J.: Introduction to the Workshop
Schildhauer, M.: Using observational data models to enhance data interoperability for integrative biodiversity and ecological research
Kottmann, R.: GSC Standards, GCDML and megx.net : From minimum standard specifications through implementations to web services
Vogt, L.: What are Data and Metadata and what is the Role of Media Content?
Horstmann, W.: International repository infrastructures - connectivity between thematic and generic approaches
Klump, J.: An assessment of costs and risks in the operation of long-term digital archive infrastructures
Reusser, D.: Data version management
Michener, W. K.: DataONE: Changing Community Practice and Transforming the Environmental Sciences through Access to Data and Tools
Grobe, P.: Morph.D.Base - Increasing Transparency and Reproducibility of Morphological Data
Wrobel, M.: Challenges and success factors in adapting IT for the management of scientific data
Enke, N.: The user's view on data sharing
Posters: Download all as zip [11MB]
Nadrowski, K.: Biodiversity - Ecosystem Functioning (BEF-China) data portal
Curdt, C., Hoffmeister, D., Jekel, C., Waldhoff, G., Bareth, G.: The TR32 project database - TR32DB
Petzold, E.: Biodiversity Exploratories Information System - Feature Overview
Ostrowski, A.: Biodiversity Exploratories Information System - Technical Overview
Muche, G., Hillmann, T, Suwald, A.: Data management of BIOTA AFRICA, now useful for RSSC Southern Africa
Willmes, C., Hoffmeister, D., Biessmann, O., Hütt, C., Kürner, D., Volland, K., Bolten, A., Bareth, G.: CRC806-Database: Implementation of a data management for an interdisciplinary research project
Lotz, T., Dobbermann, M., Göttlicher, D., Nauss, T., Bendix, J.: FOR816-Ecuador Data Warehouse: An EML-based relational project database and more
Kralisch, S., Zander, F.: Environmental Data Management with the River Basin Information System (RBIS)
Triebel, D., Weiss, M., Schneider, T., Hagedorn, G., Jablonski, S., Reichert, W., Volz. B., Rambold, G.: The Diversity Workbench - a virtual biodiversity research environment
Droege, G., Zetzsche, H., Gemeinholzer, B.: DNA Bank Network - A shared data portal for integrative molecular and biodiversity research
Kattge, J., Diaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, C., Leadley, P., Bönisch, G., Wirth, C.: TRY: towards a unified global database of plant functional traits
Frenzel, M., Klotz, S., Hardisty, A., Bánki, O.: LifeWatch - a European e-science and observatory infrastructure supporting access and use of biodiversity and ecosystem data
Michener, W. K., Budden, A., Koleska, R., Vieglais, D, DataONE Team: DataONE: A virtual data center for the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences
Köchy, M.; The Carbon Portal - Metadata search and data access for the Integrated Carbon Observation System
Mehrtens, K., Springer, P., Fleischner, D., Schirnick, C., Jannaschk, K.: Components and aspects of an integrated data management approach
Seifarth, D.: Identifying Objects or Concepts in Ecological Data using Topic Maps
Heimann, D.: Semantic Data Access within the Biodiversity Exploratories Information System BExIS
Meeting: Datamanagers of DFG research programs
Meeting minutes (Nauß, Th.)
Link to this news item:
http://www.tropicalmountainforest.org/ --> News --> Conferences --> February 2011
http://www.tropicalmountainforest.org/news.do?newsid=73
Participants
Photo taken by Maik Dobbermann
The next member assembly of the RU816 will be held right after the annual gtö conference on Friday, 25. February 2011 in the Goethe University of Frankfurt from 9:00 - 13:00 h.
Further infromation will be announced here at a later date.
The DAAD invites all persons who studied or worked at least three months in Germany to an alumni meeting in Quito at the 29th of January.
Please find in the invitation more detailed information.
The tasks and challenges of the RU in 2011, a summary of the successes of the last year and the visit at a feasible new research site are among the topics. Others cover the fire that destroyed the reforestation plots, science news about precipitation and nutrient availability, effects of transformations from forests to pastures on soils as well as “canopy wetlands” as a novel source of methane. The web-based planning tool “MapViewer” is introduced. News about cooperating partners as well as new people and staff members round off the 11th issue of the TMF-Newsletter.
Due to the Ecuadorian census 2010 there will be severe restrictions of the freedom of movement the 28 of November in the whole country. Please read the actual advices of the German Federal Foreign Office (only in German available) and avoid any traveling this day.
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (ohne Abschluss) für PHP-Programierarbeiten im Teilprojekt Z1 Central Data Warehouse gesucht.
Weitere Informationen finden sich in der Ausschreibung.
Bewerbungen werden bis zum 22.11.10 entgegengenommen.
UPDATE:
Die Stelle wurde besetzt.
UPDATE:
You can download the informative presentation of this workshop here
A data warehouse workshop in Loja will take place on Staurday, 9th of October, next to the FOR816 Status Symposium 2010.
The location will be the hall 1 in the Octogono of the UTPL.
It is open to every FORler. Please make sure that at least one member of each subproject will take part in the workshop.
The program is planed as follows:
9:00 - 12:00 a.m.
presentation and discussion
- introduction and overview of the data warehouse
- administration hints for PIs and subproject admins
- presentation of new features
- discussion of categories to structure data attributes of the various diciplines
1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
hands-on
A possibility to work on the data warehouse under the guidance of the data manager and jointly with other researchers
- update your personal data
- administrate your subproject members and website
- search for datasets
- download metadata and data
- upload your data
For this part it is required to bring your own notebook with a WLAN adapter to the workshop.
Please feel free to contact Thomas Lotz (Data Manager) for further information: thomas.lotz[at]staff.uni-marburg.de
Date: 7 and 8 October 2010
Venue: Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Loja
Please find the following information (effective 17.09.2010):
FOR816 members find more detailed information (internal events, flights, accommodation, etc.) in the internal part of the TMF webpage in the news section (administrative news).
The tenth TMF Newsletter summarizes what’s new at the approaching Symposium of the Research Unit (RU). It describes how the research permits for the study area in Ecuador may be influenced by the upcoming CBD conference in Nagoya, Japan. NCI informs about a 1.5 Million fund for conservation and bioknowledge. One research group illuminates the competition between bracken fern and Setaria grass. Another group calculated the price which may be able to prevent further deforestation. And the warehouse managers explain how the RU’s database is interrelated with databases from other ecologists and the World Wide Web.
The situation in Ecuador went back to normal. If there’re important changes, we will keep you informed.
Please find the actual advices of the German Federal Foreign Office (only in German available).
Berichterstattung zur Forschungs-, Technologie- und Innovationspolitik weltweit: Nachhaltigkeit und Innovationen in Lateinamerika; 2. Schwerpunktausgabe 07/10
"Gemeinsamer Erfolg in Wissenschaft, Bildung und Wissentransfer -deutsch-ecuadorianische Biodiversitätsforschung in Südecuador" (J. Bendix)
Der Artikel kann hier als PDF heruntergeladen werden.
Der EDIT ATBI+M NEWSLETTER 03 (Juli 2010) enthält zwei kurze Beiträge zum Thema
RESEARCH IN THE PODOCARPUS NATIONAL PARK, ECUADOR
- Structure, diversity and distribution of ant communities
M. Leponce, T. Delsinne, T. Arias Penna, J. Jacquemin
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. - Beetles on tree barks
Jürgen Schmidl
Research associate RBINS Brussels, Department for Biology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Five groups of the Research Unit (RU) report about their latest results: the transformation of nitrogen, mycorrhizas and reforestation, land use and erosion, modelling and remote sensing and mycorrhizas in seedling development. The ninth TMF Newsletter also summarizes news around the research station, new DFG-cooperation projects, and describes why the RU can be viewed as a model to update the Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) protocols of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD). New cooperation partners from the ABA ECUADOR initiative are about to start field work. And a project plan is introduced to overcome ecological and institutional barriers for restoration of biodiversity and forest utilization potentials.
You find the protocol of the Upload Workshop (11.-12.06.2010) in Marburg in the rubric "documents -> protocols"
Der Central Data Service Z1 bietet vom 11.-12. Juni einen Daten-Upload Workshop in Marburg an. Hierbei wird vorgestellt, wie Datensammlungen der Teilprojekte im zentralen Data-Warehouse zum Austausch mit anderen Forschern zur Verfügung gestellt werden können. Der Workshop wird sich besonders auf die technische Unterstützung beim Upload-Vorgang konzentrieren. Es wird aber auch Raum für Fragen und Wünsche bezüglich der Nutzung und Entwicklung der Datenbank geben.
Der Workshop kann von jedem besucht werden, der in naher Zukunft seine Daten über das Datawarehouse der Forschergruppe zur Verfügung stellen möchte, aber mit der angebotenen Anleitung unter "Data > FOR816 data > Neuen Datensatz hochladen" nicht zurecht kommt. Die Teilnaheme am Workshop ist für alle Teilprojekte der Phase 1 verpflichtend, die bis zum 31. Mai 2010 ihre im Forschungsantrag (Phase1) angekündigten Daten nicht hochgeladen haben. Der Workshop hat primär das Ziel, den Upload dieser fehlenden Daten zu unterstützen.
Es freut sich auf einen informativen und erfolgreichen Workshop, das Team Z1 Central Data Services:
Thomas Lotz, Kerstin Bach, Maik Dobbermann
PhD position (3 year term) in Climatology & Ecological/Environmental Modelling at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Geography.
Download the full job specification as pdf.
The position is filled!
The 8th TMF Newsletter informs about: Visiting DFG officials, the new structure
during the second phase of the Research Unit, NCI proposes a bioknowledge
program, new mycobiotns of orchids discovered, cooperation with scientists from
EDIT who explore ants, beetles and flies in the RBSF area and amongst others
data warehouse news as well as new people and staff members.
Please download here.
To be able to reserve time for the next FOR816 member meeting in your
calender, please find below the date & venue of the next member meeting
in 2010.
Venue: Marburg
Date: Thuesday, 23.02.2010
Time: 13:00-16:00 h
More detailed information will be published later.
Update II:
Please find attached the official invitation and the agenda as pdf.
The public part of our status symposium will take place on the 4th of November 2009 afternoon at the UTPL in Loja.
A detailed schedule will be announced soon.
In this issue 14 working groups from several scientific disciplines provide an insight into their latest research results uncovered in the diverse ecosystem of the tropical mountain rainforest. The Tumbesian dry forest is introduced and hints at success and moving of people from the Research Unit are given.
To download the newsletter as pdf, please click here.
Mittwoch 29.07.2009: Mitgliederversammlung während der GTÖ/ATBC-Tagung in Marburg (Beginn: 14:00 Uhr)
Der Bericht kann hier als PDF heruntergeladen werden.
Ort: Bildungszentrum "Kardinal Döpfner Haus" in Freising
Zeit: vom 16.02.2009 10:00 Uhr bis 17.02.2009 16:00 Uhr
Review of Ecol. Studies Series published in Mountain Research and Development Vol 28 No 3/4 Aug–Nov 2008:
Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador
Edited by Erwin Beck, Jörg Bendix, Ingrid Kottke, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl. Berlin, Germany:
Springer, 2008. xxii + 522
pp. Ecological Studies Series,
Vol 198.
see "pdf"
Announcment of the Latin America Symposium " Biodiversity in Change" held in Bonn from the 12.-13. Dezember 2008.
It is still possible to submit poster and talks.
For further details please see (http://www.ilz.uni-bonn.de/la-symposium/)
Un corto artículo sobre las XXXII jornadas nacionales de biología realizadas en la cíudad de Loja, del 20 al 22 de noviembre de 2008.
ver "pdf"
Ein Schlaglicht aus dem Arbeitsleben von Florian Werner, erschienen im GEO-Magazin unter dem Titel: E-mail vom Ende der Welt
siehe pdf
First Announcement of an International Scientific Conference on:
"Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change"
on Sunday, October 5 – Thursday, October 9, 2008
Located in a conference center on the island of Bali, Indonesia
For further information see attached pdf or visit
http://www.globalchange-2008.org/
Hier können Sie die Zusammenfassung des "Parlamentarischen Abend zur Biodiversitätsforschung" als PDF herunterladen:
Biodiversität - Faszination der Facetten
oder direkt auf den Webseiten der DFG ansehen:
http://www.dfg.de/aktuelles_presse/ausstellungen_veranstaltungen/berichte/2008/biodiversitaet.html
This years bi-national symposium on the subject "Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of a Megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in South Ecuador" will be held in Loja on the 11.-12. September 2008.
Unsere Forschergruppe präsentierte sich auf der UN-Konferenz COP 9 am 19. Mai 2008.
Mehr Informationen auf der DFG-Homepage oder Pressemitteilung als PDF herunterladen.
Es sind nun zwei Dokumente verfügbar, welche einige Ergebnisse der COP 9 zeigen. (pdf1, pdf2)
Pressemitteilung vom idw und von der Universität Mainz.
Der Artikel mit dem Namen "Tropical Andean forest derives calcium and magnesium from Saharan dust." ist auch in unserer Publikationsdatenbank zu finden.
Der zweite Newsletter steht jetzt zum Download bereit.
Sie können ihn hier herunterladen.
Sunday, October 5 - Thursday, October 9, 2008
Located the Jayakarta Bali Resort & Spa on the island of Bali, Indonesia
We are very pleased to inform you that registration is available as of 1
March, 2008.
Starting immediately, there is a call for submissions of oral presentations
and posters.
Ensure that your submission arrives by 30 May, 2008 at the very latest. For
more detailed information and to submit your abstract please visit the
conference webpage and register on-line.
www.GlobalChange-2008.org
Take advantage and register early to avoid the additional late registration
charge and at the same time book your hotel accommodation to secure the
specially arranged conference rates and room availability.
Attention:
Accommodation at the conference hotel must be booked by 30 March to secure a
room, as we will have to return the rooms after that date. It will not be
possible to book a room in the conference hotel after that date. October is
high season in Bali and hotel accommodation is at a premium.
The Organizing Committee
This is a call for papers for Gloss2008 as reminder to hand in your abstracts for the "First Global Summit on Sustainable Development and Biodiversity" (Gloss2008), Symposium + exhibition, taking place from 10.12. to 13.12. 2008 in Raipur, India, (state Chhattisgarh)and followed by a four-days excursion through the forests of Chhattisgarh. This might allow your institute to have a look at the site for future field research in connection with a possible partnership with the conference host, IK Foundation of India.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is May 15 2008.
For further information, please visit us at at the Official Gloss-page:
www.gloss2008.com
where you will find further information about the full range of issues, submission procedure, and registration by clicking on "Technical sessions" (Symposium), "Submission of abstracts", "Early Registration" and "Registration form".
Call for paper Prof. Dr. R.N. Pati, Prof.Dr. Trinh, Dr. Schwarz--1
Call for paper Dr. Schwarz-Herion
Advances in research on sustainable management and the role of academic education.
2-4 April 2008.
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences.
Vienna, Austria
For further information please see the pdf.
A workshop on Mycorrhizas in Tropical Forests will be organized at UTPL, Loja, 22 to 25 September 2008. Further information see www.mycorrhiza-research.de.
Ingrid Kottke and Juan Pablo Suarez
The second circular of the International Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology which is taking place in Hohenheim(Germany) between 18-22 February 2008 can be found here.
Der erste Newsletter der Arbeitsgruppe wurde heute veröffentlicht.
Sie können ihn hier herunterladen.
Invitación para el 5° Coloquio Mensual
Tenemos el placer de invitarles al quinto Coloquio Mensual de la Unidad de Investigación en lo cual Juan Pablo Suarez nos explica en su exposición “Una visión general de las micorrizas y sus roles en los ecosistemas” porque las micorrizas son quizá uno de los mejores ejemplos como una red de interacciones entre organismos ayuda a mantener nuestros ecosistemas.
Lugar: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Núcleo de Loja
Día: Martes 12 de febrero de 2008
Hora: 8 de la noche
In der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 04.04.2007 erschien ein Artikel über die Forschergruppe.
(pdf)
A small article about the ESCF was published by the EFE on the 12/17/2007.
(pdf)
On the 10/20/2007 an article about the ECSF appeared in a supplement about technics and science in the newspaper "La Hora" (Loja).
(pdf)
In honor of its 25th anniversary in December 2007 the national park "Podocarpus" released the following program of the celebrations.
(pdf)
On Saturday, 22. September, an extensive fire started at a hillside close to the research station. Thanks to the 24 people that have currently stayed at the station, 4 firemen from Loja and local residents from Sabanilla, the fire had been under control after six hours without damaging the test sides from the research unit nor the ones from the Technical University of Loja. Nobody was injured and a house from a local resident (lower central part of the image) could be safed from the flames.
Das Symposium findet in Loja/Ecuador statt.
Veranstaltungsort: Honorable Consejo Provincial de Loja, Salón de la Provincia.
Programm der Vorträge und Poster siehe pdf-Datei.
Beginn: 20.09.2007
Ende: 21.09.2007
Im Anschluss findet eine Mitgliederversammlung statt (21.09.2007; 14.00 – 18.00 Uhr; gleicher Veranstaltungsort).
Programm (pdf)
Flugpläne (pdf)
Symposium Ortsbeschreibung (jpg)
A database workshop will take place in Marburg from 13.7.2007 13h until 14.7.2007 12:30h.
Location:
Deutschhausstr. 10
If you arrive by car via the freeway from Giessen, look at this googlemaps route. (You can look for a place to park your car on the "Firmaneiplatz".)
If you arrive by train use this route.
There is an article about the FOR816 and Prof. Bendix in GIS-Business issue 6/2007.
see PDF (in german)