News Archive
News 2019
ICOS-CH has published an excursion guide for the CLASS 1 Ecosystem Monitoring Station – Davos Seehornwald. Download the excursion guide Downloadhere (PDF, 7.9 MB)vertical_align_bottom and come visit the site in Davos. (28 November 2019)
Six years of hard work, a roller coaster of emotions, new instrumentation, a completely new data acquisition, a Premium solution, an analogue test, near real-time data submission, new plots being measured in the cold, but now: Davos has been labelled, it is a Class 1 Ecosystem Site of ICOS RI!!! Davos is one of five Ecosystem Class 1 sites and one out of 4 forest Class 1 sites. (21 November 2019)
ICOS-CH team member external pageMartin Steinbachercall_made from Empa has been elected MSA Chair at the ICOS Atmospheric Monitoring Station Assembly in Bologna. Congratulations Martin! (18-20 November 2019)
Yesterday, this year’s Annual Meeting took place at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL in Birmensdorf. The ICOS-CH consortium was updated on newest developments within external pageICOS RIcall_made and ICOS-CH, discussed on the next steps in the labelling process and made plans for the future of ICOS-CH. Eight scientific talks, both from the ICOS-CH Ecosystem and Atmosphere Community, completed the interesting program of the day. (12 September 2019)
What a day! The ICOS-CH consortium (almost complete) visited the Jungfraujoch, an ICOS Class 1 atmospheric station at 3571 m asl. We learned about the history of the site, about newest results from atmospheric sciences and also enjoyed the view. (18 June 2019)
On 5 June 2019, about 45 members of the Society of Experts of the German State Institutes for Forestry (external pageDVFFAcall_made) visited our Candidate Class 1 ICOS Site Davos during their bi-annual meeting held in Davos.
News 2018
A newspaper article about the greenhouse gas observations at Jungfraujoch has been published in DownloadLa Liberté (PDF, 676 KB)vertical_align_bottom (27.12.2018)
The ICOS-CH Consortium and some invited guests met again for the Administrative ICOS-CH Annual Meeting, this year in Berne at the House of Academies on 30 November 2018. As last year, the ICOS-CH Annual Meeting was linked to the external pageSwiss Geoscience Meetingcall_made (30 November / 1 December 2018) and the ICOS-CH community discussed newest scientific results at the ICOS-related session “Atmospheric Processes and Interactions with the Biosphere” which was chaired by Christof Ammann, Martin Steinbacher, Susanne Burri and Stefan Brönnimann.
The new info board in Davos is finally installed (15 November 2018)
Many ICOS-CH members attended the 3rd ICOS Science Conference in Prague and presented their latest research to the ICOS Community in excellent talks and posters (11-13 September 2018)
The next step towards the Class 1 labeling of our ecosystem site is done: we submit near-real time data from our forest site Davos to the Ecosystem Thematic Center of ICOS RI!! A big thank you to all who made this possible!! (27 August 2018)
Congratulations to the ICOS-CH atmosphere team – Jungfraujoch has been external pageofficially labelledcall_made as ICOS Class 1 site! (31 May 2018)
On 17 May 2018 ICOS-CH people working at Davos-Seehornwald met for an informal meeting where the upcoming field season and especially the last steps in the ICOS labelling process were discussed. As last year this event was very fruitful and necessary in order to all pull together towards the ICOS label.
The external pageICOScapes Photo Campaigncall_made visited our station Jungfraujoch in March 2018. See this impressive external pagevideocall_made of our ICOS Candidate Class 1 station!
A big thank you to Martin Steinbacher who warmly welcomed the campaign team.
The external pageNational Climate Observing Systemcall_made (GCOS Switzerland) report was released. For the first time, greenhouse gas fluxes were mentioned as a GCOS data series within an own chapter where also ICOS was mentioned. (February 2018)
News 2017
For the first time, the ICOS-CH Annual meeting was linked to the Swiss Geoscience Meeting and many ICOS-CH members participated actively in the external page15th Swiss Geosciences Meetingcall_made in Davos: Find the corresponding abstracts external pageherecall_made. (17/18 November 2017)
The ICOS-CH Annual National Meeting took place in Davos to inform all participants about the newest developments, upgrades and the next steps in the labelling process of the ecosystem site Davos and the external pageatmospheric site Jungfraujochcall_made (17 November 2017)
At the same day, the observer status of Switzerland was continued at the General Assembly of external pageICOS-RIcall_made.
An article about ICOS Switzerland (and the funding for the next four years) has been published in the current external pageProClim Newscall_made (20.04.17)
Great news! ICOS-CH Phase 2 got funded by the SNF for the next four years! Another 4 years into the 20 years of ICOS RI!! We especially liked one statement of the reviewers when asked about scientific relevance, originality and topicality: "It is a no brainer that the observational efforts like this are absolutely essential during Anthropocene" .... We could not agree more! (30.3.17)
ICOS-CH people working at Davos Seehornwald met for an informal meeting on 22 March 2017. We planned the up-coming field season, informed each other about ongoing work and some of us, who had not even met before, got to know each other. All in all, this was a very positive experience and we will for sure do this more often in the future.
Where the greenhouse gases go? was the major question addressed in the SNF Magazine of March 2017 (PDF, 878 KB). ICOS-CH and the flux measurements at our site Davos give some answers. (4 March 2017)
News 2016
The external pageICOS RIcall_made labeling procedure is continuing: our flux site Davos is the first forest Ecosystem Class 1 site for which the Step 2 has been started (application on 12 Oct 2016, official start on 16 Nov 2016).
During the 2nd external pageICOS RIcall_made external pageconference in Helsinkicall_made (27-30 September 2016), members of ICOS-CH provided insights into their latest research (Downloadoverview poster (PDF, 732 KB)vertical_align_bottom).
The ICOS-CH Annual Meeting 2016 took place at Empa in Dübendorf on 1st September. Scientific results were presented and ongoing as well as future activities were discussed.
April 2016: Our flux site Davos is one of the first European ecosystem sites within external pageICOS RIcall_made for which the Step 1 of the labeling procedure has been finished. Now Step 2 can start ....
April 2016: New article by Lutz Merbold on ICOS-CH "Quantifying and understanding Europe's greenhouse gas balance" published in external pageProClim-Flashcall_made
March 2016: Long external pageinterviewcall_made with ICOS-CH team members about their activities, experiences but also challenges working at the ecosystem site Davos, the first European ecosystem site for which the ICOS-RI labeling procedure has been started.
February 2016: Both external pageICOS-CHcall_made stations (Jungfraujoch and Davos Seehornwald) have fully applied for the external pageICOS Station Labelingcall_made procedure to become official ICOS stations. The Davos ecosystem site - run by the GL-group and partners - is the first ecosystem station in Europe that has submitted the application. external pageread more here >>call_made
February 2016: external pageMartin Steinbachercall_made and Lutz Merbold currently attend the external pageICOS Research Infrastructure Committeecall_made meeting at the external pageInstitute of Environmental Physicscall_made at University of Heidelberg, Germany. During the three-day meeting all entitites within ICOS discuss about the future of this external pageresearch infrastructurecall_made as well as the overall functioning of ICOS.
News 2015
December 2015: The importance of ICOSSwitzerland and the establishment of external pageICOS ERICcall_made was highlighted via the external pageHigh Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch & Gornergratcall_made as well as via an article by Prof. Markus Leuenberger on the aim of ICOS at external pageUniversity of Berncall_made (in German).
November 2015: Between 25-27th November the external pageICOS ETCcall_made invited all external pageICOS Station PIs to Todi Italycall_made. During the workshop the currently existing ecosystem network with its associated observation sites was discussed. Lukas Hörtnagl and Lutz Merbold represented external pageICOSSwitzerlandcall_made as site delegates for the Davos Seehornwald.
November 2015: The European Commission has officially established the external pageIntegrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS ERIC)call_made, a new pan-European environmental research infrastructure, which aims to provide long-term carbon and greenhouse gas observations across Europe. Read the Downloadofficial press release (PDF, 72 KB)vertical_align_bottom including a link to ICOS Switzerland here.
September 2015: The 4th round of hemispherical pictures were taken in the Davos Seehornwald by Anita Nussbaumer (WSL) et al..
September 2015: The 2nd ICOS Ecosystem Monitoring Station Assembly took place 14th-16th September in Brno (hostet by Czechglobe and Mendel University), Czech Republic. During the meeting the standardization of greenhouse gas measurements across Europe was discussed. Philip Meier, Lukas Hörtnagl and Lutz Merbold contributed to the development of several standardization protocols.
September 2015: The 2nd ICOS-CH Annual Meeting tool place in Bern 10th September to discuss the achievements reached since last year. Presentations: DownloadDownload (PDF, 18 MB)vertical_align_bottom (password needed)
July 2015: external pageICOS Head Officecall_made visited the CLASS 1 Atmospheric Monitoring Station - Jungfraujoch in June. See a short external pagevideo about the High Altitude Research Station herecall_made.