Since 1st June 2026, Tina Niemann has been supporting the coordination of RTG 2530, and as of 1st August this year, she has officially taken on the role. She follows Dr. Susanne Stirn, who had coordinated the Research Training Group since its establishment and has now retired.

Linda Kochniss and Maxi Bergmann, from the Functional Forest Ecology Research Group at the University of Hamburg, won first prizes for the best poster and best picture, respectively, in the field of woody roots research. These prizes were awarded by international experts at the University of Insubria in Italy, based on...

From 1st to 3rd June 2026, the RTG 2530 hosted a workshop on the topic “Carbon Budgeting in the Elbe Estuary: From Microbe to Landscape”. The invited speakers were Prof. Dr. Roxane Maranger, holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Aquatic Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at the Université de Montréal, and Dr...

Miriam Beck has been part of the RTG 2530 team as a postdoctoral researcher since 1s of June 2026. We are delighted to introduce her as part of our portrait series and asked her three questions.

From 12 to 16 May 2026, Julia Golebiowska, Max Lambrecht, Sahed Ahmed Palash, and Diana Nicole Puerto Rueda attended the ASLO-SIL Aquatic Confluence – one of the largest international conferences for aquatic sciences. Around 1,900 researchers in freshwater and marine science travelled to Montreal to participate in the...

The RTG 2530 has grown, and for the new doctoral researchers, this means getting to know everything that makes up the RTG – and that’s a lot, the people, the institutes, the topics, the methods, the working groups... Since its inception in October 2020, the RTG has been driven by many scientists. Now, we’re looking forward...