Finally, a retreat in person! We met on 15 July, discussed pro and cons of the lock-down situation (e.g. zoom meetings enabling more people to join than personla meetings) and had a barbecue.

Hurra! Renata Pinto defended successfully her PhD about UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF HYDROLOGY ON NUTRIENT CYCLING & GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN RIVERINE LANDSCAPES on 30 June. We congratulate!

Lisa-Maria has successfully defended her Master thesis „Effects of desiccation on heterotrophic microbial activity in hyporheic sediments“ at Boku on 22 June. We congratulate

Interested? See Graeber et al (2021) Bioavailable DOC: reactive nutrient ratios controlheterotrophic nutrient assimilation—An experimental proof of the macronutrient-access hypothesis. Biogeochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00809-4

Congratulations to David Ramler and Paul Meulenbroek for the 2021 Liepolt award by the ÖK-IAD (Austrian committee for Danube research)

We congratulate Damiano for his successful defensio of his PhD „Modeling multi-scaled effectiveness of nature-based solutions in river systems“ at Boku. The thesis was conducted within the international DOC-School at Boku Vienna.

Bioavailable DOC: reactive nutrient ratios control heterotrophic nutrient assimilation—An experimental proof of the macronutrient-access hypothesis

The article is available online here https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00809-4 or as a PDF here https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10533-021-00809-4.pdf.

We congratulate her and wish her all the best for the future

Together with other colleagues, we will measures CO2 outgassing from dry river beds with and without vegetation.

https://www.ufz.de/dryflux/

Is phosphorus uptake coupled to organic carbon availability? And how do algae change this? Our uptake flume experiments in our RIBUST project have started.