Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is located in Jena, Germany. It was created in 1997, and moved into new buildings 2002.^[1] It is one of 84 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft).^[2]

MPI for Biogeochemistry, weather station

Scientific profile

The research at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is dedicated to the study of global biogeochemical cycles and their long-term interactions with the biosphere, the atmosphere, the geosphere and the entire climate system. We aim to better understand how living organisms - including humans - exchange basic resources such as water, carbon, nutrients, and energy with their environment and how this affects ecosystems and climate at regional to global scales.^[3]

50°54′38″N 11°34′2″E

Departments and research groups

The institute has three departments, with each department consisting of several research groups, and sometimes additional project groups.^[4]

Biogeochemical Processes (Susan E. Trumbore)

• Molecular Biogeochemistry (Gerd Gleixner)
• Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology (Carlos A. Sierra)
• Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO)
• Dryland Ecosystem Processes (Jianbei Huang)
• Soil Biogeochemistry (Marion Schrumpf)
• Plant Allocation (Henrik Hartmann)
• Carbon and water cycling in a changing Amazon (Susan E. Trumbore)

Biogeochemical Integration (Markus Reichstein)

Full research groups

• Model-Data Integration (Nuno Carvalhais)
• Global Diagnostic Modelling (Martin Jung)
• Bio.AI (Jana Wäldchen)
• Atmosphere-Biosphere Coupling, Climate and Causality (Alexander Winkler)
• Eco-Meteorology (Sung-Ching Lee)
• Soil Biogeochemistry (Marion Schrumpf)

Project groups

• Machine Learning for Hydrological and Earth Systems (Shijie Jiang)
• Ecosystem Function from Earth Observation (Gregory Duveiller)
• Cross-Scale Terrestrial Ecophysiology (Jacob Nelson)
• Modeling Interactions in Soil Systems (Bernhard Ahrens)
• Satellite terrestrial ecosystem large-scale analysis (Sophia Walther)
• Adapting Machine Learning for Earth Systems (Christian Reimers)

Biogeochemical Signals (Sönke Zaehle)

• Airborne trace gas measurements and mesoscale modelling (ATM) (Christoph Gerbig)
• Atmosphere-Biosphere Signal Attribution in the Tropics (Santiago Botía)
• Climate and Plant Ecophysiology (Manon Sabot)
• Inverse data-driven estimation (IDE) (Christian Rödenbeck)
• Integrating surface-atmosphere Exchange Processes Across Scales - Modeling and Monitoring (IPAS) (Mathias Goeckede)
• Terrestrial Biosphere Modelling (TBM) (Sönke Zaehle)

Independent research groups

In addition, there are a number of independent research groups that are not integrated into the departments.^[5]

• Biospheric Theory and Modelling (Axel Kleidon)
• Functional Biogeography (Jens Kattge)
• Emeritus group: Carbon Balance, Ecosystem Research and Forest Management (Ernst-Detlef Schulze)
• Emeritus group: Biogeochemical Systems (Martin Heimann)