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18/12/21 - recent Science video covers our Siberian crane study - thanks, Inga, for providing beautiful pictures!
14/12/21 - New postdoc position available in our group on Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning - see details here (PDF, 413 KB)!
14/12/21 - Get a glimpse through this short video into the interdisciplinary Arctic Century Expedition, where Vitalii and Gabriela participated!
14/12/21 - it's already a while that Nils Rietze started as a new PhD student in our research group, working on land surface temperature to assess ecosystem functions in the heterogenous Arctic tundra. Welcome!
17/09/21 - Vitalii and Gabriela are back from a once in a lifetime research trip to the high Arctic Russian islands. Check out the blog and the news report in SRF (in Italian)
24/05/21 - Check out the latest reports on Arctic biodiversity officially released last week by the Arctic Council - in two of the reports our group has contributed State of Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity Report and Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Arctic Mining.
24/05/21 - Congratulations to Jin-Soo for his 2 co-authored papers on Tropical drivers of interannual vegetation variability in eastern Africa and Modulation of land photosynthesis by the Indian Ocean Dipole!
01/05/21 - Gabriela has been elected as new Scientific Director of the Swiss Polar Institute, starting her new part-time position as of today!
09/04/21 - Congratulations to Annabelle for the acceptance of her first PhD paper on mangrove forest change on Aldabra Atoll and it's relation to wave power!
09/04/21 - Congratulations to Elena and Raleigh for the MethodsX paper describing our tundra precipitation experimental setup!
09/04/21 - Interested to know more about vegetation-permafrost interaction? Have a look at the SRF Einstein TV show (in German) about permafrost!
14/01/21 - Congratulations to Elena for her first PhD paper! Check out how leaf diversity contributes to light overyielding
14/01/21 - Lunch event organized by Swiss Academies on the polar expedition MOSAIC - join in on 11 February (and train your German :-) SCIENCE after NOON - Arktis
14/01/21 - Job opportunities in thermal remote sensing TRISHNA positions (PDF, 89 KB)
19/10/20 - Congratulations to Maitane Iturrate-Garcia for our article on tundra shrub trait shifts as a response to permafrost thaw and fertilization!
14/10/20 - Congratulations to Alizée Le Moigne for her paper on microbial communities and their functions in Siberian thermokarst ponds! Such a nice URPP GCB outcome!
06/10/20 - Kick-off meeting of the EU-CHARTER project starting today. We are a project partner in this great opportunity to investigate drivers and feedbacks of changes in Arctic terrestrial biodiversity.
05/10/20 - It was great to see so many at my inaugural lecture on the 'Green Arctic'! Thanks for celebrating with me my professorship. The lecture - in German - is now available online (Die Grüne Arktis - Video) for those who missed it ;-)
08/09/20 - Annabelle featured in a spotlight on early career researchers of the West Indian Ocean Governance Exchange Network - congratulations!
08/07/20 - Gabriela has been interviewed by NZZ am Sonntag and the national radio station SRF Echo der Zeit to discuss the current heat wave in the Siberian Arctic.
15/06/20 - Gabriela got nominated as a teacher of the hour. Thanks very much to the students for the nomination!
12/06/20 - Congratulations to Simone Stünzi for the acceptance of her first paper on Siberian forest fires!
20/05/20 - Congratulations, Jin-Soo, for wining a highly competitive grant for a 'Post-Doctoral Overseas Training', National Research Foundation of Korea!
14/05/20 - Another cool article in Nature Communications on Arctic warming mechanisms related to CO₂ physiological forcing. Congrats, Jin-Soo!
08/05/20 - Congratulations, Cengiz, for your MSc thesis defense! Was a real pleasure to see this final presentation!
08/05/20 - Nice media coverage of Arctic Panel discussion during World Biodiversity Forum today in higgs, but also several regional newspapers Die Arktis wie wir sie heute kennen ist verloren.
01/05/20 - Gabriela is the new chair of the Science and Technology Advisory board of the Swiss Polar Institute, supported by the new vice-chair Björn Dählbeck - looking forward to this new service! https://swisspolar.ch/organisation/
30/04/20 - Art and Science meet at the poles - Barbara Schibli and Gabriela got one out of 4 PolArts grants awarded and will work together on tundra soundscapes over the coming year https://prohelvetia.ch/en/2020/04/polarts-tandems/
22/04/20 - Congratulations to Jin-Soo for the acceptance of his paper on decadal ENSO-global carbon cycle relationships!
01/04/20 - Welcome, Jin-Soo Kim, to our research group! Looking forward to develop new research and teaching with you!
29/02/20 - The Arctic is greening with climate warming - it's not so straight forward! Our recent paper in Nature Climate Change discusses complexities in the greening of the Arctic.
09/01/20 - Exciting times with two substantial papers out within just 2 days by our group members:
1. Terrestrial land-cover type richness is positively linked to landscape-level functioning in Nature Communications and the related UZH press release - congratulations, Jacqueline!
2. Relation of fires in Siberia with preceding Arctic Oscillation patterns in Science Advances - congratulations, Jin-Soo!
09/12/19 - Enjoy a short movie about the Siberian tundra by our MSc student Cengiz Akandil, screened at the Science Film Festival in November. Very well done, Cengiz and great music by your band!
12/09/19 - A warm welcome to Vitalii Zemlianskii, our new PhD student who is working on plant species distribution in the Russian Arctic, combining legacy relevée data and species distribution modelling!
Excited to start a new BSc course in collaboration with Prof. Maria Santos - an introduction to Earth System Science, ESS101!
01/09/19 - Julia's paper on the effect of the latest El Nino on the coral reef benthos cover of Aldabra Atoll is accepted! Congratulations to Julia and big thanks to all co-authors!
20/08/19 - Big congrats to Annabelle for her WIOMSA award! Contributes towards unprecedented data on sea level and salinity on Aldabra - but still much work and thinking ahead for installation of sensors!
20/08/19 - Our tortoise habitat use study, including a high-resolution habitat map for Aldabra, is finally out! Check it out!
20/08/19 - Proceedings of the Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA) workshop in Arkhangelsk are published by CAFF - they demonstrate progress made in archiving Arctic plot data!
22/07/19 - Congratulations to Annabelle for her award for best poster of the day (Friday) during the Island Biology conference 2019!
01/04/19 - Gabriela is starting her professorship in Earth System Sciences today!
19/03/19 - Congratulations, Elena Plekhanova, for your IASC travel award to the Arctic Science Summit Weekin Arkhangelsk, May 2019!
05/03/19 - Happy to announce my appointment as professor in Earth System Science at UZH, starting 1 April 2019! Looking forward to lots of continued and new interactions and collaborations with students and colleagues at UZH, in Switzerland, and internationally!
20/02/19 - Congratulations to Annabelle Constance for her best poster award at Biology'19!
04/02/19 - Welcome to Jacqueline Oehri, starting her postdoc today with us!
01/18/19 - Welcome to Cengiz Akandil, looking forward to supervise you on your MSc thesis on Arctic land surface changes!
02/12/18 - Welcome to our research group, Raleigh Grysko!
26/11/18 - Congratulations to Stas for the paper on perception of biodiversity changes in Arctic Yakutia by indigenous people!
24/10/18 - Follow the live stream of the Science Forum, 2nd Arctic Science Ministerial tomorrow, 25/10/18! Theme is the co-operation in Arctic Science!
24/10/18 - Gabriela participated in the Arctic Biodiversity Congress of the Arctic Council - a true Science-Policy experience, high-level and highly interesting discussions on the co-production of knowledge by indigenous people and scientists! Check out the congress summary! All presentations will also be available soon.
27/09/18 - Check out our contribution to a Nature article - plant height in the tundra has increased with temperature, but other traits are co-limited by soil moisture Nature article UZH Science news
24/09/18 - Welcome to our two new group members - Raleigh Grysko will start his PhD on 1 Dec, Jacqueline Oehri a postdoc on 1 Feb!
26/07/18 - Our Science Advances article on the accelerating carbon cycle in the Arctic is out here
26/07/18 - Field work season in Kytalyk coming to an end - a windy and cold campaign this year, but successful. Thanks to all students for a great and productive time out there! Pictures to follow soon.
03/05/18 - Gabriela will travel to Greenland to explore collaboration opportunities with the planned Science Hub. UZH news article
21/03/18 - Gabriela is now a member of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) working group, representing Switzerland as an observer of the Arctic Council.
26/01/18 - Gabriela is now an Editorial Advisor of the Board of Polar Record.
10/01/18 - Our article on the fishing resources in the Yakutian Arctic is listed as Polar Record Editor's pick https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/editor-s-picks
08/01/18 - Stas Ksenofontov has received an IASC fellowship 2018. He was one out of only 5 recipients from 135 applicants! Congratulations, Stas!
Gabriela received an award by the parliament of the Republic of Sacha (Yakutia) for her contributions to climate and biodiversity research! https://www.mnf.uzh.ch/de/news/Republic-of-Sacha-honors-ecologist-Dr.-Gabriela-Schaepman-Strub.html
Coverage of Beat Glogger's talk show with Gabriela now online and printed in many regional newspapers in Switzerland https://wissenschaft-persoenlich.ch/oktober-2016-gabriela-schaepman-strub/
Visit our blog on the field work during summer 2013 in Siberia!

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