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The Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) is
a new research institute of the German Max-Planck Society, founded
in 1997. Its research mission is the investigation of the global
biogeochemical cycles and their interaction with the climate
system. The institute combines strong observational (soil carbon,
plant community structure, nutrition and growth,
vegetation-atmosphere fluxes) and process-based studies (convective
boundary layer, vegetation-atmosphere interface) and data
integration (e.g. satellite observations, paleo-ecology studies)
with global scale modelling (e.g. vegetation dynamics, Carbon
Cycle, aerosol modelling). The institute currently has a scientific
and technical staff of ca 150 people. MPI-BGC has been key
contributor to the FP5 CarboEurope project cluster and is now
coordinator of the follow-up FP6 CarboEurope-IP, which unites 92
European institutions. MPI-BGC regularly advised policy makers and
has frequent contacts with media and the broad public.
Dr. Martin Heimann, is part of the core team of
CarboEurope-IP leading the „Continental Integration“
component of that project. He is one of the directors of MPI-BGC
leading the Biogeochemical Systems department. He is a physicist by
training, and has been active in the modelling and analysis of the
global Carbon Cycle and its interaction with the climate systems
for over 20 years. He has considerable experience in global
atmospheric modelling. He was lead author of the global Carbon
Cycle chapter of the IPCC assessment reports in 1994, 1995 and
2000. He is a member of the international task force on Global
Analysis, Interpretation and Modelling (GAIM) of the IGBP, and the
Academia Europea.
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