Marcus Schiedung

Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2...
@teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications

@Soil Scientist & Soil Lovers: Early bird deadline of the #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social is approaching: 4th May. Check our exciting programm about #HealthySoilsClimateProtection at www.dbg2025.de/en/programme... + many offered excursions www.dbg2025.de/en/excursion... by @soilsdbg.bsky.social

Are you at #EGU25 next week?

Join our soil sessions and meet us there 😊

I will also present our first German Agricultural Soil Inventory results.

See you soon and I am looking forward to all the discussions.

Highlighted event: Opening up about Mental Health across Career Stages in the Geosciences EGU 2025 is almost upon us! While a highlight of the year for many scientists, a big conference like this can also come with feelings of stress or anxiety for many. (If that’s you – you are not alone!...

Attending #EGU @egu.eu & care about mental health & diversity in academia? Join our Union Symposium Monday, 16:15–18:00 in Room E1. Co-organized with @polarocean.bsky.social @geocarolina.bsky.social Sabine Hörnig and Anita Di Chiara. Read more on @lucialayr.bsky.social blog post @egubg.bsky.social

I am looking forward #EGU25!

Join us on "Soil Carbon and Global Change" - Tue meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Discuss respiration rate pitfalls X4.191 - Wed meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

Meet the editors! - Thu meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

YouTube video by Life in academia Toxic labs: what are they and why you should avoid them. #phdlife #academia #mentalhealth

About two years ago I made a series of three videos about toxic workplaces in academia.

Consider the possibility that you might end up in such a place as real, plan accordingly, and do your research to avoid getting into such a situation.

Hope this helps someone...

youtu.be/VUXz9EJMAbo

Finally, managed to get my bsky account online: looking forward to sharing exiting news - from cool publications and projects of our #GeoBioInt group @unituebingen.bsky.social up to the upcoming #DBG2025 of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, taking place @unituebingen.bsky.social in Sept 25. Stay tuned!

Willkommen Michaela!

DWD-Fakten zur aktuellen #Trockenheit in #Deutschland: Noch nie seit Beginn der Auswertung 1931 war es in Deutschland im Zeitraum von Anfang Februar bis Mitte April so trocken wie 2025. Mehr Details auch zu #Europa in der heutigen Pressemitteilung unter www.dwd.de/presse

Congratulations to Xavier Dupla, Ph.D. candidate in our institute, for successfully defending his thesis and coming up with the sentence "Soil fertility is like love: everyone knows what it means but no one can define what it is"

Yesterday was future day and it was great fun to show our work at @thuenen-som.bsky.social to the future generation of scientists.

We explored soil respiration before we went to a soil pit for soil characterisation. Finally, we counted our most important soil engineers, earthworms. 🪱🪱🪱

Barley growing on ground suffering from drought, with cracks in the soil. Credit: Wayne Hutchinson / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Global soil moisture in ‘irreversible’ decline due to climate change, study says | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/rFU8bL3

I joined with @sebdoetterl.bsky.social the AfroGrow kick-off meeting in Nairobi.

Exciting work on sustainable agroforestry in Africa to come. I am looking forward to being partially part of this after starting this adventure during my time at @eth-soilres.bsky.social

afrogrow-project.eu

✨Meet the Soil Resources group! ⛏️✨
We study soil biogeochemical cycling in remote regions, the effects of enhanced rock weathering on soil health and impacts of management on soil functioning and crop production.
#SoilResourcesETH #ETHZurich #EnvironmentalSciences #SoilScience #Biogeochemistry

It's #DarwinDay. He was a father of #soilscience #pedology, by combining his knowledge of #geology and #biology, he published “The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.” In this book you can see one of the first #soilhorizon designation A,B,C.

We are still looking for a #peatland researcher with experise at the interface of #GHG exchange, vegetation & remote sensing:
👉 literatur.thuenen.de/stellenmarkt...

Collaboration with @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social and the Thünen Earth Observation Group (www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-i...)

Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Environmental Modelling:Whiteknights Reading UK

We're recruiting a 10 month PDRA in spatial (GIS) modelling of soil carbon and water quality at the UK scale: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Job Available: Knowledge Transfer Associate in soil carbon analysis and accounting at Uni Edinburgh and Plan Vivo

To build a tool that combines model estimates and field data, provides outputs, and quantifies uncertainty in the voluntary carbon market.

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📢workshop “Molecular modeling in soil science – achievements and perspectives”
Registration (by 07/18/25): members.cecam.org/workshops/pa...
Website: www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

Thanks for posting our study and your opinion, Andrew.

I am not sure what the angry comments mean….

Tree planting is no climate solution at northern high latitudes - Nature Geoscience Planting trees in high-latitude regions can be counterproductive to climate change mitigation, according to a synthesis of the biophysical and ecological impacts of planting trees.

New Perspective: Tree planting is no climate solution at northern high latitudes - led by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen @jeep4x4.bsky.social of @aarhusuni.bsky.social #soilcarbonstorage #climatecrisis #Arctic #naturebasedsolutions #herbivory #Permafrost
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Figure C from paper showing Grain yield vs soil health index. R2=0.01, p=0.219

Highlights of recent paper:
1. Compost (here) and manure benefit soils. How many times do we need to show this?
2. Soil health matters, but is not a major yield factor. Organic farming often shows better soil health but lower yields, -21% here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002...

Schwarz-Weiß-Porträt von Folkhard Isermeyer in einem formellen Anzug mit Krawatte. Er trägt eine Brille mit dunklem Rahmen und hat kurzes Haar. Er lächelt dezent in die Kamera und hat eine professionelle, selbstbewusste und freundliche Ausstrahlung. Im Hintergrund ist ein abstraktes Kunstwerk zu sehen, das aus dunklen und hellen Flächen besteht. In der unteren linken Ecke befindet sich der Hinweis „Foto: Klaus G. Kohn, BS

Wir trauern um unseren Präsidenten Prof. Dr. Folkhard Isermeyer.
Der langjährige Präsident des Thünen-Instituts verstarb am 14. Januar 2025. Wir sind sehr traurig. Unser Mitgefühl gilt seiner Familie.

Hier finden Sie unseren Nachruf sowie ein digitales Kondolenzbuch.
thuenen.de/Nachruf-Isermeyer

Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL): Building reproducible soil calibration models through open development and community engagement Soil spectroscopy is a widely used method for estimating soil properties that are important to environmental and agricultural monitoring. However, a bottleneck to its more widespread adoption is the n...

Soil spectroscopy is a powerful tool for accurately estimating a set of soil properties, like organic carbon and particle size distribution. It is also cheaper, faster, and more scalable than conventional analysis methods, which can be a game changer for soil MRV.

In dieser Woche spricht Katrin mit Franz Bender von Agroscope über das Potenzial von Citizen Science und darüber, was uns vergrabene Unterhosen über den Boden verraten können.

#CitizenScience #Interview #Bodenleben #Forschung #Wisskomm

The EGU 25 abstract deadline is 15th January. Please consider submitting to our session on soil carbon. We would love to have your contribution!!!

@mschiedung.bsky.social @schweizer.bsky.social

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

In this Perspective, we outline how #soil formation processes and complexity at the landscape scale can inform predictions of soil organic matter (SOM) cycling and soil #carbon sequestration.
Check out our new, invited paper on Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Call for Papers: Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow <em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences</em> is an AGU journal publishing papers on the biogeosciences of the Earth system and the extension of this research to planetary studies.

"Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow: @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social Special Collection on Emerging Scientists" - spotlighting research from emerging biogeoscientists acknowledged by their peers as future leaders in their field. Nominations are open!

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

From the department of in-case-you-missed-it, 2024 edition: "Reconciling carbon quality with availability predicts temperature sensitivity of global soil carbon mineralization" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...