It’s almost EGU time — always a highlight of the year! And as always, the conference is set in beautiful Vienna. The team will arrive on Sunday 3rd May for a week of science.

Once again, our team has a fantastic line-up of talks and presentations.

Attending the conference this year are three PIs, four PDRAs, four PhD students, and six collaborators involved in our EEO research.

Here’s what’s happening throughout the week. Click the links to view the abstract and find more details for each talk.

Monday 4^th May

It’s a busy start to the week with 10 members from the LEMONTREE team involved in presentations. Five members giving oral presentations and five giving poster presentations. Great start to the week. Here’s the line up for Monday:

Who	Title	Session details
Oral presentations
Sandy Harrison	An eco-evolutionary approach to modelling wildfire regimes	BG1.11 Room 1.85/86 09:00
Ruijie Ding	Predicting forest dynamics and biomass production efficiency based on optimality principles	BG1.11 Room 1.85/86 09:30
Wenjia Cai	Improving Gross Primary Production estimates by integrating eco-evolutionary optimality modelling with high-resolution sentinel-2 observations	BG1.11 Room 1.85/86 10:45
Nick Smith	Optimal photosynthetic strategies	BG3.3 Room 1.85/86 14:30
Ning Dong (LT Associate)	Phosphorus fractions allocation patterns based on optimality theory: a global analysis	BG3.3 Room 1.85/86 16:15
Poster Presentations- Hall X1
Ananda Kurth	Attributing global carbon and water cycle trends using factorial ecosystem simulations	BG3.3 08:30-12:30
Daniil Scheifes	Leaf trait responses to soil nutrient gradients across contrasting rainfall regimes in Western Australia	BG3.3 10:45-12:30
Mendgi Gao (LT Associate)	Separating stomatal and non-stomatal responses of gross primary productivity to soil moisture	BG1.11 14:00-18:00
Jaideep Joshi (LT Associate)	A parsimonious and interpretable model of plant dimensional scaling	BG1.11 14:00-18:00
David Sandoval	Right answers for the wrong reasons? Testing water use efficiency responses in terrestrial biosphere models	BG1.1 1 16:15-18:00

Tuesday 5^th May

In the morning, three members of the team will be involved in session BG3.5: “Improving model representation of ecosystem processes and climate response”. PI Beni Stocker will be chairing the session and we have 2 presentations in the session. LEMONTREE science coordinator and PhD student, Sophia Cain will also be presenting her talk in the afternoon. Here’s the line up for Tuesday:

Benjamin Stocker	Co-convener and chair of session: Improving model representation of ecosystem processes and climate responses	BG3.5 Room 2.95 08:30-12:30
Fabian Bernhard (LT Associate)	Model-data fusion of daily ecosystem fluxes (GPP) and forest inventories (DBH) with the process-based dynamic vegetation model BiomeEP	BG3.5 Room 2.95 09:25
Jierong Zhao (LT Associate)	High-temperature responses of photosynthetic parameters	BG3.5 Room 2.95 10:05
Sophia Cain	Annual litter fuel load estimation from optimality-derived litterfall and decomposition dynamics	BG1.1 Room N1 14:50

 

Wednesday 6^th May

A quieter day on Wednesday, with Akash presenting his talk bright and early:

Akash Verma

Tropical forest canopy thermoregulation observed from space

CL4.4 Room F1 09:05

 

Thursday 7^th May

Finishing up the week, we have 2 final talks in session BG3.2

Guilia Mengoli (LT Associate)	A simple approach to apply an eco-evolutionary optimality model with a global climatological aridity function to predict the spatial and seasonal dynamics of net ecosystem exchange	BG3.2 Room 2.95 16:45
Helin Zhang	Towards multi-tracer constraints on photosynthesis: unifying solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, carbonyl sulfide flux and carbon isotope discrimination in BESS framework.	BG3.2 Room 2.95 17:45

 

Of course, talks and presentations are only part of what makes conferences like EGU so valuable. On Tuesday evening, the team will be getting together for dinner — a great chance to catch up, network, and socialise, and a rare opportunity for this international team to spend time together in person.

We’re looking forward to a fantastic week of science, collaboration, and new connections. If you’re also at EGU, do come and say hello!

And finally, here’s a flashback to some of the team at EGU 2022!

Back row left to right:  Remko Nijzink, Jan Lankhorst, Astrid Odé, Jaideep Joshi, Giulia Mengoli, Jaize Li, Ruijie Ding, Yunke Peng, Sandy Harrison, Colin Prentice