Opening Presentation at the 2nd AVEC International Summer School, Peyresq, 18-30 September 2005


Speaker: Sabine Lütkemeier
Sabine.Luetkemeier<at>pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg C4, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Title of the talk: General introduction to the summer school


Biosketch

Sabine Lütkemeier is scientific co-ordinator for global change research initiatives at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (currently: AVEC - Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystems under Global Change). She co-organised the highly acclaimed AVEC summer school and several workshops for this EU-funded project. She chaired the German secretariat of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and propagated this research programme in the German scientific community. Her postdoctoral years she spent at New Mexico Tech, USA, funded by a NATO grant. Sabine Lütkemeier was co-editor of the synthesis book of the IGBP core project Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle “Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate” and “Coupled Models for the Hydrological Cycle” published jointly by BAHC, IHP and DWC and both printed by Springer.




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