Biogeosciences research

Eco-Omics: Harnessing meta-omics to understand the biogeosciences across scales: from the cell to Earth system.

Lisa Wingate, Elsa Abs and Christoph Keuschnig April 5, 2024

Representation of the diverse ecosystems studied by the Biogeoscience community. Original Artwork provided by Lucia Layritz.

Spatial and temporal changes in environmental conditions over billions of years have driven the evolution of diverse microbial, fungal and plant species that have shaped the ecosystems, atmosphere and climate of our Earth system. Understanding the function and resilience of organisms and our biomes in response to climatic change and their complex feedbacks requires knowledge of its component parts ...[Read More]

The sedaDNA scientific society, a collaborative network of international researchers working with sedimentary ancient DNA

Eric Capo October 26, 2022

Emergence of the field of molecular paleoecology Sequencing DNA of organisms that died a long time ago sounds like the synopsis of the movie Jurassic Park (1993). Let’s make it clear right now, dinosaur DNA has never been collected by humans. To date, the oldest DNA recovered is more than one million years old and comes from mammoths. In addition to the DNA recovered from fossils, aquatic and terr ...[Read More]

The hidden importance of Amazon forests

Laynara F. Lugli, Caroline Miron and Tatiana Reichert September 29, 2022

Figure 1. Minirhizotron image acquisition in the field near Manaus, Brazil (photo credit Caroline Miron From different parts of continental Brazil, now working in different areas of Germany, we, three women scientists, share one more thing in common: our interest in making the hidden importance of the Amazon forest visible. In other words, we are root-nerds! Studying something that cannot i ...[Read More]

World Ocean Day 2021!

Ben Fisher June 8, 2021

Today (8th June) marks World Ocean Day, celebrated annually since 1992 World Ocean Day is a chance to celebrate the 71% of our planet covered by the Ocean and reflect on the actions we need to take to preserve this vital part of our Earth System. Each year, World Ocean Day has a different theme, this year the focus is on Life and Livelihoods, seeking to represent the interconnections between the O ...[Read More]

vEGU21 BG4 Session highlights: Marine environments – past, present and future

Alexandra Rodler January 12, 2021

Picture by Asimina Voskaki (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, https://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/15252/)

The vEGU21 abstract submission deadline is tomorrow, here are a few more session highlights for you to consider submitting abstract to: BG4 – Marine and Aquatic Biogeosciences from paleo-environments to modern settings. With a focus on marine carbonate (bio)minerals as archives of environmental change, (Paleo-)environmental reconstructions from biomineralized carbonates: From the Precambrian to th ...[Read More]

vEGU21 Soils to forest ecosystems sessions in the spotlight

Alexandra Rodler January 10, 2021

Picture by Mikhail Varentsov (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, https://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/13114/)

With the vEGU21 abstract submission deadline so close now, consider submitting to one of the sessions of BG3 – Terrestrial Biogeosciences: BG3 of the upcoming vEGU21 includes a wide range of soil-focused sessions, from Soils and Global Change (Co-organized by BG3.26/SSS12, co-convened by Abad Chabbi and Cornelia Rumpel) – with a focus on biogeochemical cycles, soil processes and feedback mec ...[Read More]

vEGU21 Sessions in the spotlight: Geomicrobiology, extreme environments on Earth and planetary analogs

Alexandra Rodler January 8, 2021

Picture by Donatella Spano (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, https://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/1151/)

As the deadline for vEGU21 abstract submission is getting closer, consider submitting your abstract to one of these two fascinating biogeochemistry-themed sessions of BG5 – Geomicrobiology, extreme environments on Earth and planetary analogs: With Early Earth: Dynamics, Geology, Chemistry and Life in the Archean Earth (Co-organized by GD1.4/AS4/BG5/CL1/GMPV3), Ria Fischer, Peter A. Cawood, Nichola ...[Read More]

vEGU21 BG2 – Methods in Biogeosciences: Stable isotopes & novel tracers

Alexandra Rodler January 6, 2021

Picture by Alicia Correa Barahona (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, https://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/4358/)

The deadline for vEGU21 abstract submission is getting closer and you are still wondering where to submit your abstract before January 13? Why not try one of the stable isotope sessions of BG2 – Methods in Biogeosciences: With Stable isotopes and novel tracers in biogeochemical and atmospheric research (Co-organized by BG2.2/AS4) Getachew Adnew, Jan Kaiser, Alexander Knohl and Lisa Wingate) call f ...[Read More]

vEGU21 BG sessions in the spotlight: deep time to recent past

Alexandra Rodler January 4, 2021

Picture by Renato R. Colucci (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, https://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/5043/)

The deadline for vEGU21 abstract submission is coming closer – here is the second blogpost where we highlight a few sessions across the five BG themes, today from the General Biogeosciences sessions pool and with a focus on deep time and the recent past. To foster a discussion of the reconstruction of ecological baselines and natural range of variability for a better understanding of the lon ...[Read More]

vEGU21 BG sessions in the spotlight: social geosciences, resilience and policy making

Alexandra Rodler January 2, 2021

Picture by John Bruun (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, https://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/13887/)

The deadline for vEGU21 abstract submission is coming closer – over the course of the next two weeks, we highlight sessions across the five BG themes, starting with General Biogeosciences sessions focused on social geosciences, community and earth resilience, health and urban systems and geoscience knowledge transfer to policy and society. With Social Geosciences: A New Paradigm to Character ...[Read More]