Beni Stocker

Is the European 2026 drought unprecedented in the last millennium? The 2026 drought stands out as a rare extreme and can be expected to happen about once every 500 years - if we were still living in the pre-anthropogenic climate-change world. But we don’t. geco-group.org/post/pcwd_20...

AI is changing scientific writing. Everybody can now produce text that looks polished and publication-ready. This makes the distinction between good writing and good science more important, not less. 👇 More in the blog post. geco-group.org/post/writing...

Is the European 2026 drought unprecedented in the last millennium? An answer based on the recently published Master thesis work by Patricia Helpap: geco-group.org/post/pcwd_20...

Are modern droughts unprecedented? Here is our answer (in the paper considering years up to 2024 - things have changed this year in Europe, though) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @aguadvances.bsky.social

Update: Gemessen am kumulativen Wasserdefizit schiessen wir zur Zeit weit über die trockensten bisher gemessenen Werte der Jahre seit 2010 hinaus. Es ist zu erwarten, dass das Wasserdefizit über die noch ausstehenden Sommermonate weiter zunimmt, und dass bisherige Rekorde gebrochen werden.

Benjamin Stocker von der Universität Bern hat zum Thema Trockenheit gebloggt. Er nimmt zu vier Punkten Stellung, die in der öffentlichen Debatte oft genannt werden. #Anpassung #Klimawandel #Schweiz #Alpen #Landwirtschaft 🌞🛘👇🏼 geco-group.org/post/trocken...

🎉Congrats to @stineb.bsky.social et al whose @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Review on C + N cycles has been recognised as one of the Top 10 most viewed papers of 2024! Check out our blog on why it resonated, and how we continue to build on this work 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Benchmarking nine vegetation demographic models: what works, what doesn’t, what’s next... @annemarie-es.bsky.social @george.hurtt.bsky.social ‪

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Incredible ice loss measured again at #Konkordiaplatz on the #Aletsch #Glacier, home to the thickest ice in the #Alps (still about 800 m!). Yesterday’s survey revealed another –4.6 m of ice gone in just one year. :( Measurements by @matthias-huss.bsky.social for GLAMOS

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📢Check out our blog on why modelling plant nutrient strategies is the key to predicting the land carbon sink. @trevorkeenan.bsky.social @stineb.bsky.social Trevor Cambron. 👉🔗 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/th...

💧🌿How does soil moisture shape the land carbon sink? Catch up on highlights from our latest science seminar for new research on plant water stress, ET and GPP under drought conditions. #soilmoisture #evapotranspiration #carboncycle @stineb.bsky.social ➡️🔗 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

How does photosynthesis respond to changing temperatures? In the paper led by Pascal Schneider, we show that the thermal acclimation of photosynthesis can be modelled without making assumptions about plant functional types - ready for adoption in ESMs agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Together with Beni Stocker @stineb.bsky.social we have an open postdoc position (2yr with possibility of extension) in coupled Earth system modelling with a focus on dynamic global vegetation modelling. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... Get in touch if you are interested.

#DeadTreeDetective Last year it was Western Australia, this year South Australia is seeing canopy collapse from drought. If you're in SA, please help us figure out how widespread it is!

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@1t.org any thoughts on this?

5. A big part of the problem, ironically, is that natural regen is much cheaper/free, so there's less money to be made from it. There's an industrial lobby which profits from planting grim rows of trees in plastic tubes. There is no industrial lobby profiting from letting nature do its thing.

I'm teaching this tutorial on global wetland and peatland modelling at a PhD course in Copenhagen, organised by Guy Schurgers. I hope it's useful also for other interested people... geco-bern.github.io/dyptop_tutor... Have a go and let me know about your thoughts and feedback.

📺 📻 🗞️ Petition: SRF Wissensjournalismus stärken! Innovation, KI, Medizin, Klima, Energie... In einer immer komplexeren Welt mit mehr Fakenews ist eine starke SRF Wissenschaftsredaktion unverzichtbar. Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft unterschreiben und teilen! openpetition.eu/!sciencejour...

Looking very much forward to the upcoming symposium on past knowledge and future directions in climate and environmental physics, and celebrating the huge scientific contributions of Fortunat Joos, Markus Leuenberger anf Thomas Stocker

Only about two weeks left to apply to the open postdoc position. Get in touch with @stineb.bsky.social or myself, if you are interested.

Together with @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social, we have an open 2-year postdoc position on Next Generation Bern Earth System Model at University of Bern and the Oeschger Centre. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

N affects the C cycle. But how? Although N cycling is now included in many global vegetation models, C cycle trends remain uncertain. We demonstrate how theory predicts widely observed patterns in experiments and traits data - ready for adoption in models. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

A fantastic summary by Sean McMahon of our recently published work on the Grow-Fast-Die-Young hypothesis: doi.org/10.1029/2023AV… Read the full article about how we investigated the links between tree growth and forest biomass here:agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...59

I'm looking for a Scientific Programmer/Data Scientist to work on a wide diversity of research projects, applying machine learning and data assimilation methods for modelling climate impacts on ecosystems ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

It's come a long way, But it's here to stay. A constraint on the sensitivity of GPP to CO2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...