MdM Seminar Series: “The global carbon balance of forests based on flux towers and forest age data” by Philippe Ciais

Title: “The global carbon balance of forests based on flux towers and forest age data”

Speaker: Philippe Ciais, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), France.

Date: Monday, December 10th 2018

Time: 12h

Venue: Z/022- Z/023

Philippe Ciais is a researcher of the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), the climate change research unit of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL). He is a physicist working on the global carbon cycle of planet Earth, climate change, ecology and geosciences. His work has mainly focused on the relationships between ecosystem CO2 fluxes and climate, combining terrestrial biosphere models with satellite and eddy-covariance observations. He took part in the set up and interpretation of one of the first coupled carbon-climate simulation with the IPSL climate model, and pioneered the incorporation of cultivated ecosystems into a terrestrial biosphere model. He became co-chair of the Global Carbon Project in 2009, and acted as co-chair of the Global Carbon Observation Strategy of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) task force on integrated carbon observations. He has worked for the IPCC in the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report, and coordinated the Chapter 6 "Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles" in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. He is also one of the principal investigators of the ERC-Synergy 2014-2019 grant IMBALANCE-P project, dealing with phosphorus and nitrogen imbalance of organisms, ecosystems and the earth system.