Mathias Hoffmann (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®; #IchBinHanna)

Tiny (unimportant but satisfactory) update: new MonksHillLab Logo is ready now better reflecting all the low cost DIY sensor development we do!

Maren Dubbert and Mathias Hoffmann in front of the Agroflux facility at ZALF. © Marten Schmidt / ZALF.

🚜💡Bridging science & practice: Sensors & living labs to speed up agri transformation. @ZALF_Leibniz shows the way. #LivingLab #Agroflux www.zalf.de/en/aktue...

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Maren Dubbert und Mathias Hoffmann vor der Agroflux-Anlage am ZALF. © Marten Schmidt / ZALF.

🚜💡 Forschung trifft Praxis: Sensoren & Reallabore sollen den Wandel der Landwirtschaft beschleunigen. Das ZALF zeigt wie. #LivingLab #Agroflux www.zalf.de/de/aktue...

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Technical note: Pondi – a low-cost logger for long-term monitoring of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide in aquatic and terrestrial systems Abstract. Understanding the complex dynamics of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and the…

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Martino E. Malerba et al. ⬇️

@zalf.bsky.social 🚀 1000+ downloads in just 4 month!! Join & Contribute: Help grow a Living Handbook for low-cost DIY Environ. Science!
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Anna-Kristina Voss presenting her work on ecosystem modelling of perennial crops

Veronika Widengren presenting her work on eddy covarience measurements at both perennial and annual cropping systems

Tim Crews sharing his, and The Land Institute's, extensive knowledge and experience on perennial crops

Inspiring presentations today at our annual Perennial workshop! Huge thanks to our PhD students Veronika and Anna for sharing their research, and to Kernza experts Tim and Doug for their deep insights into perennial grain agriculture.
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Advancing sustainable agricultural transformation through the synergy of automated experimental platforms and living labs - Nature Communications Transforming agricultural landscapes to be more sustainable and resilient requires integrated and multidisciplinary approaches. Linking automated experimental platforms with living labs can accelerate knowledge gain, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and support real-world change by addressing key challenges in current agricultural systems.

Happy to share that our opinion note on experimental platforms like #Agroflux and their potential for aiding sustainable agricultural transformation is now published in nature comms!
Thanks to all co-authors and especially @monkshilllab.bsky.social and @chengchen!
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Advancing sustainable agricultural transformation through the synergy of automated experimental platforms and living labs - Nature Communications Transforming agricultural landscapes to be more sustainable and resilient requires integrated and multidisciplinary approaches. Linking automated experimental platforms with living labs can accelerate knowledge gain, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and support real-world change by addressing key challenges in current agricultural systems.

@zalf.bsky.social (#ZALF ECO) How can sensor platforms like #Agroflux, when combined with #livinglabs accelerate sustainable agriculture? Our opinion piece in @Nature Comms discusses this synergy. Grateful to @marenecohydro.bsky.social, Cheng Chen, Frank Ewert & more!

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In this Working Scientist profile, Kelly Cobey describes to Nature how her early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, which is now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment. #WomeninSTEM #Academicsky 🧪

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@zalf.bsky.social Our Handbook for low-cost DIY systems passed another milestone and 🚀 Just hit 850 downloads in 3 1/2 month!

Soon to come our first long range wireless data transfer option for the mini weather station EVE.

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Impact of plant succession on greenhouse gas fluxes during the transition of a flooded fen peatland - Communications Earth & Environment Plant recolonization after rewetting in a fen results in an intermediate phase with strongly increased net greenhouse gas fluxes due to wave-like changes in methane emissions, indicating underestimati...

🌱Plant recolonization after fen rewetting results in an intermediate phase with strongly increased net CO2 & CH4 fluxes
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A new @zalf.bsky.social (WG ECO; #MonksHillLab) publication using automated chambers in a fen to investigate GHG flux dynamics following rewetting.

... and also progress with @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new automatic window chambers soon to be used in Ghana (Edem Halolo in AquaTrans with CSIR-SARI), Bolivia (Hauke Schmülling in ChazyLoco with University Greifswald) and Brandenburg (Sophue von Witten in FORMULA with University Giessen)!

Progress regarding @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new low-cost DIY CO2, ET and CH4 autochambers (video and Prototype by our PHD Milan Kretzschmar)!

Tag der Vielfalt am Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) 2025. Workshop "Diversität erleben" Foto: Hendrik Schneider / ZALF

Tag der Vielfalt am Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) 2025. Workshop "Diversität erleben" Foto: Hendrik Schneider / ZALF

Tag der Vielfalt am Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) 2025. Sommerfest für Mitarbeitende. Foto: Hendrik Schneider / ZALF

Tag der Vielfalt am Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) 2025. Sommerfest für Mitarbeitende. Foto: Hendrik Schneider / ZALF

Gestern war Tag der Vielfalt am ZALF! 🌍🌈
Wir haben Diversität gefeiert – ein zentraler Wert für freie, kreative & exzellente internationale Forschung.

Vielfalt bedeutet für uns nicht nur Unterschiedlichkeit, sondern ist eine Quelle der Innovation, Offenheit & wissenschaftlichen Stärke.

@zalf.bsky.social Our Handbook for low-cost DIY systems 🚀 Just hit 500 downloads!

Now with software tools, incl. a first chapter with the "MonksHillLab Logger App":
📱 Collect data via Android + Bluetooth
📝 Directly digitize field measurements

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Simple water vapor sampling for stable isotope analysis using affordable valves and bags Abstract. Water-stable isotopes are commonly used in hydrological and ecological research. Until now, most measurements of soil or plant water isotopes have been made by taking a sample from the field...

Finally, our water vapor isotope bag paper is out. Congrats to Adrian for his patience!

His next chapter will be water isotopes of ET and machine learning based modeling…

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@zalf.bsky.social 🚀 250 downloads in just 11 days!
Thanks to everyone who explored "Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Field Ecophysiology" – our open handbook for DIY environmental measurement systems.

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Hit >100 downloads in just 3 days! Thanks to everyone supporting the open handbook on low-cost field sensor systems. v1.5 coming soon with new content and improvements. 🌱🔧📘

🚜🌍 Just released version 1.4 of "Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Field Ecophysiology". Our Open Handbook for DIY Environmental Measurement Systems.

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#MonksHillLab news! The #AgroFlux component #SensorWeb has a new family member. Our "MonksHillLab Bluetooth App" allows to connect to our Low-Cost DIY sensor devices (e.g. for CO2, ET and NDVI) used for ecophy. research. The App visualize received data, saves it and allow for easy charing/transfer.

Evaluation of my TT stage passed. And I got a traditional present.

"I've never heard of them being raised to match the height of the crop over time - plant material is often trimmed inside the chamber". Is it just me or does the quality of reviews for scientific journals (here soil&tillage research on use of chamber volume extension) sharply decreases?

@zalf.bsky.social starting into 2025 with more proffessionalized (not accounting for the baby blanket in the back) variants of our low-cost DIY GHG measurement systems!

Technical note: A low-cost, automatic soil–plant–atmosphere enclosure system to investigate CO2 and evapotranspiration flux dynamics Abstract. Investigating greenhouse gases (GHGs) and water flux dynamics within the soil–plant–atmosphere interphase is key for understanding ecosystem functioning, as they reflect the ecosystem's resp...

Check out the new paper by #MonksHillLab (@waelalhamwi.bsky.social) in #Biogeoscineces (bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...) presenting our novel low-cost, do-it-yourself gas exchange measurment system for e.g. pot experiments (@zalf.bsky.social).

Ackerbau auf Schwamm: Wie es mit der Wiedervernässung in Paulinenaue im Havelland vorangeht Moor ist ein regelrechter CO₂-Sauger. Ein Besuch in Paulinenaue im Havelland, wo Forscher das Wasser steigen lassen und Landwirte ausprobieren, was dann noch wächst.

Many thanks to Julia Haak from Berliner Zeitung for covering our new project at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), #WetNetBB

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