It feels like planting a small apple tree of a rare variety, nurturing it for years, watching the first apples grow, only to cut it down, including the unripe fruit.
#stopthecuts#Science
The funding cut not only has a strong impact on #BioTip scientists in Germany. Competence building and qualification of our international (PhD) students is jeopardized and the confidence of our project partners is damaged. #StopTheCuts@BMBF_Bund@starkwatzinger
Offener Brief an Bundesministerin @starkwatzinger: 7 internationale Forschungverbünde der @BMBF_Bund -Programmlinie #BioTip erforschen seit 2019 sozial-ökologische #Kipppunkte und #Biodiversität. Nun wird die Förderung überraschend eingestellt. https://t.co/Q9DPIymbZ4
Mechanismen der Wüstenbildung, die wir im @namtip_project in Trockengebieten untersuchen, können künftig auch in Europa auftreten: https://t.co/dD7DPGcbAb
Das zum Thema Impact. #StoptheCuts#Biotip@starkwatzinger
@JBrandenburgFDP: Unser @namtip_project in #Biotip erforscht Mechanismen der #Desertifikation, u.a. mit ökologischem Kipppunkt-Experiment zu gemeinsamen Effekten von #Dürre & Überweidung. Müssen wir jetzt abbrechen weil Phase 2 gekippt wurde.
"Namsed, a rangeland decision-making game being played with local farmers at Ombooronde and Ozongarangombe communal areas in the greater Waterberg landscape, to understand their management strategies in a changing world" @heitahndeshie#pastoralists#rangelandconservation#biotip
After the long-anticipated @IGRCKenya2020 congress in Kenya, we are excited to have a chance to present our work🎉Unfortunately, due to the covid pandemic, we did our talks with Dr. Katja Brinkmann and @SaraHeshmati7 and posters @MelinisRepens@VAmputu through a virtual platform
Our near surface remote sensing PhD student (@VAmputu) currently conducting dry season drone flights in the study area to obtain better Digital Terrain Models 🤞🏻
The 3rd @ESPartnership Europe Conference is accepting abstracts until January 17, 2021. We at @isoewikom have a session on grassland & savannah ecosystems (B4) & would be happy to receive your submission! More info here: https://t.co/aeSXnXDYH9 @namtip_project
@MatiasDMargaret@ESPartnership@isoewikom Thank you for the invitation! That looks like a very interesting session & conference and we will definitely consider submitting an abstract!
First update in a long time! Today we started our annual project meeting - fully virtual, of course. But we are lucky & grateful that 28 participants from Germany & Namibia are able to meet, discuss & share first results!