23.10.2024. TROPI receives international Lifetime achievement award !
15.10.2024. Wetland research network established
15.10.2024 Over 100 participants attended the Living Labs for Wetland Research (LiWeFoR) seminar 2024 at Sarawak Tropical Peat Research Institute (Tropi) in Kota Samarahan today
15.10.2024 Succesful LiWeFoR seminar held in Sarawak/Malaysia.
Living Labs for Wetland Research Seminar to address need to raise researchers, decision-makers’ expertise; enhance career awareness
15.05.2024. LiWeFoR Summer School 2024 announcement
The LiWeFoR Wetland Forest Research Summer School invites Estonian doctoral students to study, learn and share stories on carbon and nutrient fluxes in swamp and bog forests across the globe! The lineup includes academics, professors and experienced researchers from the Universities of Tartu, Helsinki, Aarhus, East Anglia, the Peruvian Amazon, Sarawak and Congo, as well as Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The programme is balanced between theoretical lectures, field demonstrations and conversations on eddy covariance and chamber measurements, microbiome and isotopic methods at different layers of wetland forests.
The Summer School lectures will be held at the Pühajärve Spa Hotel followed by an excursion and field demonstrations at study sites across South Estonia during 25–29 June 2024.
Deadline for registration is 24 May 2024. Register here
There are 25 places for doctoral students – first come first served. All participation costs (travel from Tartu to Pühajärve, accommodation, meals, field excursion) are covered by organisers.
The Summer School is organised by University of Tartu in cooperation with the Estonian Doctoral School. Project “LiWeFoR: Living labs for Wetland Forest research” is funded by the European Union. Project “Cooperation between universities to promote doctoral studies” (2021-2027.4.04.24-0003) is co-funded by the European Union.
Tentative program
25 June – arrival to Pühajärve and ice-breaker
26 June – lectures
27 June – lectures
28 June – departure from Pühajärve;
excursion and field demonstrations at the study sites
(Järvselja, Soontaga, Ess-soo);
final dinner and sauna in Pühaste
29 June departure from Tartu
Lecturers
Prof. Ülo Mander (University of Tartu)
Prof. Klaus Butterbach-Bahl (KIT, Aarhus University)
Prof. Mari Pihlatie (University of Helsinki)
Prof. Ivan Mammarela (University of Helsinki)
Dr. Anuliina Putkinen (University of Helsinki)
Dr. Lukas Kohl (University of Helsinki)
Dr. Salla Tenhovirta (University of Helsinki)
Dr. Laura Lehtovirta-Morley (University of East Anglia)
Dr. Mikk Espenberg (Univeristy of Tartu)
Ing. Lizardo Fachín (IIAP, UNAP, Peru)
Dr. Faustina Sangok (TROPI, Malaysia)
Prof. Joël Loumeto (Universite Marien Ngouabi, Congo)
Dr. Ulrich Gaël Bouka (Universite Marien Ngouabi, Congo)
Contact: liwefor@ut.ee
TROPI presented their research with three posters at AGU 2023 !
20.11.2023. The International Peatlands Seminar, held in Peru, officially acknowledged also in Peruvian media.
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18.10.2023. ANNOUNCEMENT:
International Peatlands Seminar, starting on 13.11.2023 in Iquitos/Peru.
