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Upcoming events

ZALF - Guest Lecture -Prof. Dr. Jörg Overmann, Leibniz Institute DSMZ
14.04.2021, 11:00 Uhr - 14.04.2021, 13:00 Uhr
Category: Guest lecture

Bacterial diversity and its role in soil ecosystems

Prof. Jörg Overmann
Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Culture Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig

Short abstract: Culture-independent studies have revealed that just 1 gram of soil may contain about 50,000 different bacterial species, representing the most diverse microbial communities on Earth. Estimates of the global bacterial diversity even exceed 1 billion species. By comparison, the number of bacterial species that are described and hence available for detailed physiological and biochemical characterization amounts to just 17,000. Microbes are the major drivers of biogeochemical transformations, hence their diversity, functions and interactions need to be resolved in order to arrive at a causal understanding of the soil ecosystem. This has now become possible with the advent of modern molecular, bioinformatics, and cultivation-based approaches.

Wednesday, 14 April at 11 am, virtuell via Go -To - Meeting
Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: Direktorat
Contact person: Anke Hollburg
URL: ZALF Guest Lecture Prof. Overmann - Announcement
patchCROP Field Robotics Workshop 2021
05.05.2021, 09:00 Uhr - 05.05.2021, 16:00 Uhr
Category: Workshop
The field robotics workshop offers presentations by international field robotics experts from science and industry, field demonstrations of robotics for interested parties from science and practice and an ideas competition on future application possibilities in patchCROP.
The aims of the workshop are to present agronomic problems and requirements of field robots in field crops, a discussion on development possibilities of field robotics and digital technologies in diversified cultivation systems as well as opportunities for cooperation and networking for future project applications.
Due to the current situation, the number of participants is limited and registration is required. If you are interested in participating simply register at https://patchcrop.eventbrite.de.
Location: Tempelberg
Organiser: ZALF & Komturei Lietzen
Contact person: Kathrin Grahmann
URL: Registration for participation
Landscape 2021 - Diversification for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture
20.09.2021, 08:00 Uhr - 22.09.2021, 16:00 Uhr
Category: Conference/symposium
The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), together with international partners, is organizing the Landscape 2021 Conference from 20 to 22 September 2021. The conference will focus on the question whether and how diversification in agriculture contributes to resilience and sustainability. The event thus addresses current research topics between the conflicting priorities of climate change, food security and sustainability. The event brings together scientists from various disciplines with multipliers from politics, society, and practitioners.
Location: Erwin-Schrödinger-Zentrum, Rudower Chaussee 26, 12489 Berlin
Organiser: Leibniz Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
Contact person: Heike Schobert
URL: More info on Landscape 2021

Events in the past

International Workshop: Scenarios for legume protein in European agricultural systems
01.10.2020, 08:30 Uhr - 02.10.2020, 15:30 Uhr
Category: Workshop
Diversification with grain legumes could reduce fertilizer and pesticide use and increase domestic plant protein production and consumption in Europe. Besides, legumes could improve the resilience of European farming systems to the socio-economic and climatic variability, enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services, and contribute to novel food systems.
The workshop aims to develop a set of novel future scenarios for better-utilizing grain legumes with a focus on food systems in Europe by addressing the following questions:
- What impact do change consumption patterns have on grain legume production?
- How does climate change affect future protein supply?
- How does global protein demand change resulting from continuous population growth?
Based on the developed scenarios a scientific publication will be developed and all participants are invited to contribute.
Location: Leibniz Association, Chausseestraße 111, 10115 Berlin
Organiser: ZALF
Contact person: Moritz Reckling
URL: Workshop website
PhD Day 2020
10.09.2020, 09:30 Uhr - 10.09.2020, 18:00 Uhr
Category: PHD-Day
Join us during PhD Day 2020 on September 10th 2020!
In its general research strategy, ZALF aims to answer a very important question: “How do we feed a growing world population without harming the climate, the environment and natural resources?”
Yet, are the many PhD projects supervised at ZALF in line with this goal? What are current research gaps? And are there research topics not sufficiently represented in the strategy?
We want to take this year’s PhD Day as an opportunity to reflect these questions in hands-on presentations, workshops and a final discussion.
We will be happy to meet you there!
In order to ensure the corona hygiene measures, PhD Day takes place exclusively virtually. If you are interested in participating, we kindly ask ZALF-external persons to pre-register at ecr-coord@zalf.de

Siyu Huang, Christoph Schulze und Karoline Hemminger
Doctoral representatives 2020
Location: virtuell
Organiser: PhD Representatives & Direktorat
Contact person: Lea Nitz
URL: Poster & Programme PhD Day 2020
How to make the best of your data
19.08.2020, 13:00 Uhr - 19.08.2020, 15:00 Uhr
Category: Workshop
Science heavily relies on data, and research generates a lot of data. However, managing research data is often deemed an unpleasant and tedious task. ZALF staff is invited to learn how the Research Platform Data Analysis and Simulation (RDS) service groups can help
- to manage your data in an efficient way;
- to safeguard your data;
- to fulfil the requirements of funding organisations;
- to select appropriate licences;
- to increase reputation;
- to gain visibility and the credit that you deserve;
- to research and to assess existing data.
Online access on request. Please contact Daniel Thiel
Location: Konferenzraum 1, Haus 4
Organiser: FDS ZALF
Contact person: Daniel Thiel
Webinar: Participation in NFDI4Agri - Community Workshop
15.07.2020, 10:00 Uhr - 15.07.2020, 15:00 Uhr
Category: Workshop
On 15th July 2020, NFDI4Agri will organize the first virtual workshop with and for the agricultural science community. NFDI4agri would like to introduce itself and engage in a direct exchange with you to learn about your needs for research data management and to involve you in our developments.
Content of the workshop:
● 10-12 am.: Presentation of the consortium NFDI4Agri
● 13-15 pm.: Opportunities for participation

The consortium NFDI4Agri (National Research Data Infrastructure for Agricultural Sciences) is a cooperation of various agricultural science research institutions in which ZALF is involved. The consortium is concerned with the development of a research data infrastructure for agricultural sciences that is unique worldwide. Prof. Dr. Frank Ewert (ZALF) is the spokesman of NFDI4Agri.
Location: Webinar
Organiser: NFDI4Agri
Contact person: Nikolai Svoboda
URL: For participation, please register online before 10th July 2020.
ZALF Guest Lecture
11.03.2020, 11:00 Uhr - 11.03.2020, 13:00 Uhr
Category: Guest lecture
The Third Wave of AI: Closing the Gap between AI and the Domain Experts
Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Group, TU Darmstadt
Deep neural networks have shown excellent performances in many real-world applications such as plant phenotyping. Unfortunately, they generally do not know when they do know and may show "Clever Hans"-like behaviour — making use of confounding factors within datasets — to achieve high prediction rates. In this talk, propose to not "go down the full neural road." Instead I shall argue to use e.g. sum-product networks, a deep but tractable architecture for probability distributions. They "know when they duo not know" and even pave the way towards automating density estimation, making machine learning accessible to a broader audience of non-experts.
Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: ZALF
Contact person: Anke Hollburg / Ulrike Hagemann
URL: Guest Lecture Prof. Kristian Kersting
ZALF Guest Lecture
12.02.2020, 11:00 Uhr - 12.02.2020, 13:00 Uhr
Category: Guest lecture
Presenter: Dr. Katja Klumpp
French National Institute for Agricultural Research | INRA Department of Forest, Grassland and Freshwater Ecology
Title: Grazing management for soil organic matters

There are still uncertainties on the magnitude of C sequestration poten-tial, and their use in climate initiatives (i.e. 4p1000). Average values of 0.2 to 0.7 tC ha-1yr-1 been cited, while soil inventories reported only 0.05 tC ha-1yr-1 (e.g. Soussana et al., 2010). These discrepancies can be attributed to differences in pedo-climatic conditions, intensity and type of management, but also to age and live-time of grasslands. To analyse in detail C sequestration potential of French grasslands, a national study “4p1000 France“ was conducted (see Pellerin et al., 2019) to identify promising C "storing" practices, to be adopted as mitigation option.
Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: ZALF
Contact person: Anke Hollburg / Ulrike Hagemann
URL: ZALF Guest Lecture - Dr. Katja Klumpp
ZALF Guest Lecture
13.11.2019, 11:00 Uhr - 13.11.2019, 13:00 Uhr
Category: Guest lecture
Presenter: Dr. Miguel D. Mahecha
Leader of the research group: Empirical Inference of the Earth System at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Titel: Towards a global multivariate understanding of climate extremes
Abstract: Today we have the opportunity to analyze and understand the Earth system with a variety of in-situ and Earth Observations (EO). But before we can tap into the full potential of these data streams we need to overcome many practical hurdles. In this talk I will first discuss novel data-analytic approaches to explore multivariate dynamics in the Earth system. Then I will specifically discussion the question how climate extremes affect terrestrial ecosystems. We will present a global scale, multivariate view on climate extremes and discuss the potentials and limitations of our approach to disentangle the underlying ecological processes.
Link: https://www.earthsystemdatalab.net
Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: ZALF
Contact person: Anke Hollburg / Ulrike Hagemann
URL: ZALF Guest Lecture
ZALF PhD Day 2019
18.09.2019, 08:00 Uhr - 18.09.2019, 19:00 Uhr
Category: PHD-Day
On 18th of September 2019 it is time again: ZALF warmly invites you to the PhD Day!
The PhD Day is an important date of the annual ZALF events calendar. It is a great occasion for cur-rent and recently graduated ZALF PhD researchers to get connected. The PhD Day also explicitly invites interested doctoral researchers of other institutions and students, who would like to inform themselves about agricultural landscape research as well as the career path of doing of a PhD.
PhD Day Programme
Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 2 - Haus 4 & Konferenzraum 3 - Haus 4 & Tagungsraum - Haus 4 & Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: Doctoral representatives & Direktorat
Contact person: Katharina Brüser
URL: Link to News
Award ceremony of the Müncheberg Research Prize
14.08.2019, 14:00 Uhr - 14.08.2019, 16:00 Uhr
Category: Other
In the name of Müncheberg and the ZALF we cordially invite you to the Award ceremony of the Müncheberg Research Prize on Wednesday, 14 August from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Conference Centre (Building 4, Room 1) on the ZALF Campus.
Everybody is invited. The event will be held in German.
Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: DIR/ K. Brüser
Contact person: Katharina Brüser
URL: event poster
COLOMBIA DAY at ZALF: “Understanding rural development and sustainable land-use systems in the complex Colombia post-conflict scenario”
24.05.2019, 09:30 Uhr - 24.05.2019, 14:00 Uhr
Category: Conference/symposium
The event carries out in the context of the visit of Nacional University of Colombia and the launch of SLUS ZALF Project (Implementing sustainable agricultural and livestock systems for simultaneous targeting of forest conservation for climate change mitigation (REDD+) and peace-building in Colombia). The objectives are to consolidate institutional partnership and to debate Colombia complex scenario regarding further research collaboration, but it is carried out also to socialize and plan the different activities to be implemented within the SLUS project framework. This project is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI). The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) supports this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag.
https://www.international-climate-initiative.com/
The visit is funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
For more information and to register, please contact: susland@zalf.de
Location: ZALF Müncheberg, Konferenzraum 1
Organiser: ZALF und National University of Colombia
Contact person: Michelle Bonatti und Katharina Löhr
URL: Colombia Day Programme
Guest Lecture
11.04.2019, 11:00 Uhr - 11.04.2019, 12:30 Uhr
Category: Guest lecture
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Hannes Feilhauer, Professor of Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Institute of Geographical Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Topic: Assessment of ecosystem services and properties in grasslands using remote sensing

Location: Konferenzcenter
Organiser: Prof. Dr. Frank Ewert
Contact person: Ulrike Hagemann/Anke Hollburg
URL: Invitation Guest Lecture
Guest Lecture - Prof. Dr. Peter Feindt
13.03.2019, 11:00 Uhr - 13.03.2019, 13:00 Uhr
Category: Guest lecture
Prof. Dr. Peter Feindt,
Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt University at Berlin

Title: What does resilience mean in the CAP? A reflexive policy design perspective

The resilience of Europe’s farming systems has become a major concern in current discussions about the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). At the same time the policy design of the CAP has come under increased scrutiny, e.g. by two recent reports from the European Court of Auditors. This presentation combines the ‘new policy design’ perspective and reflexive policy analysis to develop a critical assessment of the current CAP and of pro-posals for its development post-2020
Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: ZALF
Contact person: Anke Hollburg / Ulrike Hagemann
URL: Announcement GuestLecture Peter Feindt
Final Conference of the BMBF funding program "Innovation Groups for Sustainable Land Management": Impulses from science and practice for future landscapes
14.02.2019, 13:00 Uhr - 15.02.2019, 13:00 Uhr
Category: Conference/symposium
The societal demand for land remains high and is expected to increase further in the future. Especially in metropolitan regions and their surrounding areas, strategies are needed to deal with the increasing pressure of competition for land. Landscape change is also progressing in rural areas. Thus, new opportunities are needed which link public services and value creation without losing precious, culturally influenced landscapes.
The final conference of the BMBF funding program "Innovation Groups for Sustainable Land Management" will present results of five years research on innovative approaches to sustainable land use.
Location: Tagungswerk in der Jerusalemkirche, Lindenstraße 85, 10969 Berlin
Organiser: ZALF, Co-Design von Wandel und Innovation (Landnutzung und Governance)
Contact person: Jana Zscheischler, Sebastian Rogga
URL: Event website (German)
Guest Lecture - Dr. Adrian Chappell
14.02.2019, 11:00 Uhr - 14.02.2019, 13:00 Uhr
Category: Guest lecture
Global implications of neglecting soil (organic carbon) erosion dy-namics for Earth’s future.
Dr. Adrian Chappell
Reader in Climate Change Impacts,
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Global carbon (C) cycling models assume that soil organic carbon (SOC) is lost by respiration and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, but erosion by wind and water may substantially contribute to SOC stock loss particularly in environments disturbed by humans. Adrian is a Reader in Climate Change Impacts at Cardiff University, UK. His primary interest is in measuring and modelling wind and water erosion (in drylands) and his focus on soil organic carbon (SOC) erosion is because erosion processes are omitted in Earth System Models which increases uncertainty in climate change projections. He worked previously in Australia as a Senior Research Scientist on national C erosion, C sequestration, sampling and mapping daily rainfall amongst other projects. He has around 100 publications mainly on wind and water erosion modelling and geostatistical modelling and mapping.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Aeolian Research and was President(-elect) of the Interna-tional Society of Aeolian Research (2014-2018).

Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: Direktorat, PB1
Contact person: Anke Hollburg
URL: Download PDF
ZALF Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Bernd Lennartz
09.01.2019, 11:00 Uhr - 09.01.2019, 13:00 Uhr
Category: Guest lecture
Intensive agriculture and healthy waters – wishful thinking or realistic future?
Prof. Dr. Bernd Lennartz Prof. of Soil Physics Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Rostock University, Germany
The European Commission is taking Germany to court because of high nitrate levels that have been detected in its water. How does the current situation of nutrient input into waters look like and what are the operational processes? Has a decades-long discussion on eutrophication changed the quality of surface and groundwaters? In his talk Bernd Lennartz from the University of Rostock is target-ing the many questions around diffuse pollution of water resources from agricul-tural sources reporting from ongoing experimental and modelling studies from lowland catchments in Northern Germany. Selected water quality management options are evaluated.
Location: ZALF, Konferenzraum 1 - Haus 4
Organiser: ZALF
Contact person: Anke Hollburg / Ulrike Hagemann
URL: Download PDF