Biodiversity - more than counting daisies?
| When |
Oct 12, 2011
from 05:00 PM to 06:30 PM |
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| Where | PIK, Building A31, Cupola |
| Contact Name | Science & Pretzels team |
| Attendees |
PIK PhD students and guests |
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As only a limited number of places are available, we ask guests to register via the email address science-and-pretzels@pik-potsdam.de , giving your name, status (PhD, postdoc, etc) and scientific discipline by 7th October 2011. Successful applicants will receive a confirmation email. Further applicants will be put on a waiting list and informed two days prior to the event whether they have been allotted a place.
Dr. Kirsten Thonicke is speaker of the flagship project "Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Climate Change" at PIK. She is a leading expert on fire ecology, an area she has been involved in since 1997. In this context she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK, between 2005 and 2007. As a post-doc at PIK Kirsten Thonicke has worked on various EU projects dealing with fire, biodiversity, the carbon balance and greenhouse gas emissions.
In the seminar she will examine the definition of biodiversity and possibilities to model it and report on experiences in the GEO-BON (Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network) process.
