The ÉCLAIRE project [Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems] is a four year project funded by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7). The project will be running for 4 years, from October 2011-2015 and involves 39 partner institutions across Europe.

9th APGC Symposium "Plants and the Changing Environment"

Monterey Bay, California, USA

8–12 June 2014, hosted by the University of California at Riverside and the U.S. Department of Agriculture/ARS in Raleigh, North Carolina.

International Conference on Ozone and Plants

May 18-21, 2014, at Xijiao Hotel, Beijing, China, jointly hosted by State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the IUFRO Research Group 7.01.00 “Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems” and ICP-Vegetation.

WP9 data mining database

The Work Package 9 data mining database is now available for download to your desktop. This is a first working version and is complete with a full pdf user guide. At present you will need to contact Sue Owen (susa1@ceh.ac.uk) if you would like a copy.

The ÉCLAIRE Winter School 2014 is now confirmed

Title: Measurement and modelling of biosphere-atmosphere exchanges of trace gases and aerosols

The registration deadline is 30 November 2013.

Please use the web forum for any questions or comments regarding this event or contact the organisers directly at summerschool@bcgn.grignon.inra.fr with a copy to Mark Theobald (mrtheo@ceh.ac.uk).

There will be an opportunity to discuss the details of the event at the ÉCLAIRE meeting in Zagreb. 

Location

Apply until 15 October for the EU Prize for Women Innovators!

Apply until 15 October for the EU Prize for Women Innovators!

After a successful first edition in 2011, the European Commission has launched the second edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators to reward three women who have developed outstanding innovations and brought them to market.

ECLAIRE 3rd General Assembly, 22-24 October 2013, Zagreb

The 3rd ÉCLAIRE General Assembly will take place in a Hotel Dubronik, located in the city centre of Zagreb, Croatia between 22nd and 24th of October, 2013. We would like to thank Sonja Vidic and her team for agreeing to host the GA this year.

Programme Overview

We are planning to start the first session at 9.00 on Tuesday, 22nd and finish the last session around 16.00 on Thursday, 24th. The registration will take place from 8.00 on Tuesday morning.

A seperate session on Bosco Fontana will be held on the MONDAY from 13.00-17.30.

ÉCLAIRE Summer School - POSTPONED TO NEXT YEAR - 2014

Dear ECLAIRE Participant,

 

we are sorry to announce that due to an insufficient number of students the summer school on "Measurement and modelling of biosphere-atmosphere exchanges of trace gases and aerosols" will be postponed to early 2014.

The new date will be circulated shortly.

 

Best regards

Benjamin Loubet and Mark Theobald

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9th Summer School on Atmospheric Aerosol Physics, Measurement, and Sampling, Hyytiälä, Finland

Announcement

9th Summer School on Atmospheric Aerosol Physics, Measurement, and Sampling

Hyytiälä, Finland, May 4-10, 2013

This summer school is advanced course to deeper train aspects for atmospheric aerosol measurements: Physical, mechanical, and electrical properties, sampling, particle filters, impactors, mobility and aerodynamic size spectrometers, particle counters, integrating nephelometer, absorption photometers, online mass measurements, aerosol mass spectrometer

Lecturers:

EGU 2013: Session on GHG fluxes in managed ecosystems and regions

Dear all,

we would like to invite you to submit your abstract to the EGU sessions BG2.11 Greenhouse gas fluxes in managed ecosystems and regions co-sponsored by GHG-Europe, link at: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/12696 .

Keynote speakers:

Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, BOKU Wien (Austria), Dave Reay, University of Edinburgh (UK)

Convener: Annette Freibauer

Co-Conveners: Han Dolman, Werner Leo Kutsch, Pete Smith, Lutz Merbold, Barbara Michel

Acknowledging ECLAIRE publications

Dear colleagues, we would kindly ask you to add the following acknowledgement to any publication that emerges from ECLAIRE or where ECLAIRE funding has provided support for the work underlying the publication:

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We gratefully acknowledge support from the project "Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems" (ÉCLAIRE), funded under the EC 7th Framework Programme (Grant Agreement No. 282910).

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Thank you

ÉCLAIRE Secretariat

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