Esteemed partners, including the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, California Institute of Technology with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, and Columbia University, bring unparalleled expertise and commitment to this groundbreaking initiative.
Steering Board
Our Steering Board consists of representatives from each partner institution, aiming at a balanced representation of all involved partners and research fields.
Principal Investigators
Besides our Steering Board, the Principal Investigators from each institution build the core of the center. They are leading the different work packages, supervise PhDs and PostDocs and foster collaboration between the partners. The PI’s are grouped by institution and listed in alphabetical order.
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Institution for Science
Columbia University
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
PhD students
Topic: Fast Feedbacks in the Earth System: Land Surface Fluxes’ Influence on Low-Cloud Formation and the Earth Energy Balance
Supervisor: Alexander Winkler
Topic: Tree-Ring Signatures of CO2 Fertilization and Altered Drought Resilience
Supervisor: Alexander Winkler
Topic: Decadal Variations in Ecosystem Exchange Carbon Fluxes Informed by a Global Hybrid Data-Driven Model
Supervisor: Alexander Winkler, Martin Jung
Topic: Insights into Vegetation Dynamics from Large-Scale Earth Observation
Supervisor: Nuno Carvalhais
Topic: Fast Microbial Processes and the Long-Term Soil Carbon Feedback
Supervisor: Bernhard Ahrens
Topic: Bioclimatic Shifts of Vegetation and Their Role in Past and Future Climate Change
Supervisor: Alexander Winkler
Coordination
The day-to-day work of the Center is coordinated by two members of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. If you have any questions about the Center, please contact Dora Kelemen.
The MC³ 4 Earth Center is a collaboration of the Max-Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institution for Science (Department of Global Ecology) and Columbia University. It's coordination and Max-Planck research is funded by the Max Planck Förderstiftung.
Contact: Dora Kelemen (dkelemen@bgc-jena.mpg.de)
