I haven’t been to conferences for a while, but this year it was about time. The EGU is the biggest conference across geosciences - thousands of mad scientists talking nerdy stuff for one week.

It’s been two weeks now since the workshop, and after taking some time to recover, it’s time to reflect a bit. What a great time we had in Pratolino, Tuscany! For the ones who have not been: The second workshop on water partitioning is an international workshop for researchers interested in soil-plant-atmosphere interactions and isotope methods to study them.

In this post I would like to explain how leaf replica can potentially be used to estimate boundary layer conductance and transpiration. Or put differently, what is up with those crazy leaves and why are they up in that tree?

Namid Krüger studies environmental sciences at the TUBS. He is a hobby botanist, involved into the scientists for future campaign and highly motivated student. In this blog, he writes about his field experiments he conducted in 2021 on a potentially highly relevant topic for future agricultural management: water provision from deep soil layers to shallow soils via deep rooting plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Kathi’s first PhD paper comparing in situ and destructive water stable isotope data with the aim of further developing novel measurement approaches