Agrosphere (IBG-3)

Our mission

The sustainable use of the natural resources soil, water and atmosphere.

Our research

Climate change and land use change have significant impacts on terrestrial ecosystems that society will need to manage in the coming decades. However, the development of appropriate management and adaptation strategies to global change is currently severely hampered by our limited ability to predict states and fluxes of matter in terrestrial systems at the temporally and spatially relevant scales. Contributing to the improvement of system understanding and predictive capacity is the central research concern of the Agrosphere Institute.

Our research

[28.04] Yesterday our Director, Prof. Harry Vereecken, has been awarded the Alfred Wegener Medal during the General Assembly of the EGU in Vienna! The Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership of the EGU form one of the three equally ranked most prestigious awards made by the European Geosciences Union (EGU). They are bestowed to scientists who have achieved exceptional international standing in atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences, defined in their widest senses, for their merit and their scientific achievements. Congrats on this great achievement, Harry! #soilresearch #agrosphere #AlfredWegenerMedal2023 #IBG3 #EGU

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[02.05] Check out our commentary that evolved from a workshop at which hydrologists, soil scientists, & plant ecophysiologists came together to discuss open questions & opportunities for collaborative research on water fluxes in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Brief 🧵

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The OrganoRice project scientifically accompanies the conversion from conventional to organic rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta on a multi-scale basis. Learn more about it now here

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Geoverbund

Geoverbund ABC/J is the geoscientific network in the research region of Aachen–Bonn–Cologne/Jülich. The geoscientific institutes of RWTH Aachen University, the University of Bonn, the University of Cologne, and Forschungszentrum Jülich collaborate under its umbrella.

TERENO

TERENO is a network of four terrestrial observatories in Germany for long-term environmental observation (> 15 years).

HPSC-TerSys

The centre of excellence High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems was founded in 2011. In close cooperation with the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, it provides geoscientists in the ABC/J region with support for their research activities with supercomputers.

ISMC

The International Soil Modeling Consortium is a community effort to integrate and advance soil systems modeling.

ICOS

ICOS RI is an organisation of eleven member countries and over 100 greenhouse gases measuring stations aimed at quantifying and understanding the greenhouse gas balance of Europe and neighbouring regions.

The Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC)

Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC) is the competence cluster in integrated bioeconomy research of the Universities of Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf and the Forschungszentrum (56 core groups from many disciplines).

HICAM

As part of the Helmholtz Climate Initiative, scientists will advance their climate research in completely new research projects and network with new contacts to perform comprehensive research on climate change.

MOSES

MOSES comprises highly flexible observation modules operated by the Helmholtz Centres in the research field "Earth and Environment" to investigate the interactions of short-term events and long-term trends across Earth compartments.

BONARES

BonaRes (“Soil as a sustainable resource for the bioeconomy”) is a funding initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) with focus on the sustainable use of soils as a limited resource. BONARESBONARES

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Geoverbund

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HICAM

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