IP Sustainable future land use - Annual Meeting

21 Nov 2024, 11:00 → 22 Nov 2024, 14:30 Europe/Berlin

Hotel Schloss Schweinsburg

Cornelia Baessler (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ), Lotte Korell, Sonja Knapp

We cordially invite all scientists and PhD students working within the Integration Platform 1 - IP Sustainable Future Land Use to the Annual Scientific Retreat 2024.

The meeting will take place at Schloss Hotel Schweinsburg in Neukirchen/Pleiße near Zwickau from 21 to 22 November 2024. 

For more information on IP1 please see here: https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=48644.

Building on the format of our previous IP retreat in 2023, we once again would like to engage with you in discussions on our research within the Research Unit Ecosystems of the Future and across the RUs. The retreat will provide an opportunity especially to further strengthen and expand our collaborations. Besides the interesting scientific discussions there will be ample room to also socialize and have a good time together.

The common targets of the IP Retreat are: 

- Scientific exchange & social life

- Inform and be informed – status and achievements of current DPPs and other projects in the IP

- Information on infrastructures, methods and platforms

- Maintain the exchange across Departments and RUs

- Keynote speeches from other IPs, senior scientists from IP1 or external expertise

   - Planning of 2025 IP1 budget

We would like to invite all of you to register a contribution for I. the session on Thursday afternoon on 'Advancing science with deep learning' or else II. the session on Friday morning on ‘How AND Why to bend the curve of biodiversity loss?'. You can register the contribution together with your personal registration. 

A binding registration is required to assess the need for rooms, chairs and litres of coffee. To register, please log in via Helmholtz AAI. We kindly ask you to register for the retreat until October, 31st, 2024. A successful registration is confirmed by an automatic email reply. If you receive no such e-mail (and it is not in the spam folder), don’t hesitate to contact the organizer.

For questions and suggestions, please contact the IP/TB manager Cornelia Baessler.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Thursday 21 November

11:00 Registration & Coffee

Plenary: Welcome and Introduction

Conveners: Lotte Korell, Sonja Knapp

Plenary: A few insights into PoF

Conveners: Lotte Korell, Sonja Knapp

1 A few insights into PoF

Speaker: Ralf Seppelt

Plenary: Introduction of IP1 Dynamic Platform Projects

Convener: Sonja Knapp

Plenary: Update on status and achievements of Dynamic Platform Projects (DPPs)

Convener: Sara König

2 Mapping soil profiles and measuring horizon properties of the Static Fertilization Experiment Bad Lauchstädt to improve agroecosystem modelling

Speaker: Julius Diel

3 Digitalizing root growth data from the archives of the Static Fertilization Experiment Bad Lauchstädt

Speaker: Julius Diel

4 Soil structure and biochemical properties as function of management in a long-term fallow trial

Speakers: Steffen Schlüter, et al.

5 Root-associated microbial communities at MyDiv

Speakers: Kezia Goldmann, Stephanie Jurburg

6 Towards in-depth characterization of soil micro-environments: eco-indicators and mechanisms driving soil C sequestration

Speakers: Evgenia Blagodatskaya, et al.

12:55 Lunch

Plenary: Update on status and achievements of DPPs

Convener: Thomas Reitz

7 The role of hybridisation and genetic variation in the conservation of the rare and endangered plant species Lupinus tidestroemii

Speakers: Tiffany Knight, Walter Durka

8 Historic composition of bee communities in Leipzig and Halle

Speakers: Hanna Honchar, Tiffany Knight

9 DeepTrees -- Deep-Learning based spatiotemporal tree inventorying and monitoring from public orthoimages

Speakers: Taimur Khan, et al.

10 In which cases does surrounding landscape structure affect agricultural yields?

Speaker: Elina Takola

11 Which agricultural management practices lead to win-win outcomes for biodiversity and yield?

Speaker: Elina Takola

Plenary: Science Policy Interface

Convener: Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth

12 Plenary: Science Policy Interface Platform @UFZ and beyond

Speaker: Marie Vandewalle

15:30 Coffee Break

Plenary: Advancing science with deep learning

Convener: Sonja Knapp

13 AI through the lens of good scientific practice

Speaker: Sonja Knapp

14 Deep Learning in Ecology: Theory and Application

Speaker: Taimur Khan

15 Multispectral imaging flow cytometry for microscopic environmental monitoring tasks

Speaker: Susanne Dunker

16 Passive acoustic monitoring of birds combined with automated recognition: ready to be rolled out?

Speaker: Mark Frenzel

17 Evaluation off soil functions at the scale of Germany

Speaker: Ute Wollschläger

18 Advanced segmentation of X-ray CT images of complex soil structures using nnUNet

Speaker: Mengqi Wu

Plenary: Framing of IP1 Dynamic Platform Projects

Convener: Sara König

Mingle Activity - Marketplace for scientific exchange

Convener: Sara König

19 Plenary: Recap Day 1 and Program Day 2

Speakers: Lotte Korell, Sonja Knapp

18:15 Dinner & Midterm Party

Friday 22 November

Short Recall of 1st Day & Intro into 2nd Day

Conveners: Lotte Korell, Sonja Knapp

Plenary: Keynote speech about 'Science - Science Transfer - Society'

Conveners: Lotte Korell, Sonja Knapp

20 Experiences in Science-Policy Activities in the last decade

Speaker: Josef Settele

21 The work and roles of scientists amidst a polycrisis: Personal accounts from the work on the CAP, NRL and the Green Deal

Speaker: Guy Pe'er

10:15 Coffee Break

Plenary: Discussion on 'How AND Why to bend the curve of biodiversity loss?'

Convener: Elina Takola

22 Optimizing the allocation of agri-environmental practices to minimize trade-offs in multifunctional landscapes

Speaker: Marta Bonato

23 AgriScape - Opportunities to improve ecosystem services in Northwest Saxony and farmer's perspectives

Speaker: Andrea Kaim

24 Land use modulates resistance of grasslands against future climate and inter-annual climate variability in a large field experiment

Speaker: Lotte Korell

25 Human drivers of soil microbial responses to drought

Speaker: Stephanie Jurburg

26 The microbial biodiversity loss

Speaker: Luis Daniel Prada Salcedo

Plenary: Summary of the Meeting

Conveners: Lotte Korell, Sonja Knapp

12:15 Lunch

13:15 End