The FAIR site
The Forest-Atmosphere-Interaction-Research (FAIR) site is an interfaculty, interdepartmental forest research platform of the University of Innsbruck situated in a Scots Pine forest some 30 km to the west of Innsbruck (Austria).
Grants
The basic infrastructure at the site was provided in the form of two infrastructure grants by the University of Innsbruck via the
research area Mountain Regions. The basic running costs are covered by the University of Innsbruck within the frame of core facility funding provided to the FAIR site. Actual research activities at the FAIR site are funded on the basis of extramural funding acquired by FAIR researchers (see here for a list of past and current projects).
Steering Committee
Assoc. Prof. Georg Wohlfahrt (FAIR spokesperson - Department of Ecology)
Prof. Mathias Rotach (Department for Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences)
Prof. Thomas Karl (Department for Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences)
Prof. Stefan Mayr (Department of Botany)
ao. Prof. Walter Oberhuber (Department of Botany)
Prof. Ulrich Strasser (Department for Geography)
Site manager
Dr. Albin Hammerle (Department of Ecology)
Researchers
PhD Werner Jud (Department for Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences)
PhD Felix Spielmann (Department of Ecology)
PhD Magnus Bremer (LASERDATA)
Technical support
Philipp Vettori (Department for Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences)
Mario Deutschmann (Department of Ecology)
Herbert Wachter (Department of Ecology)
Birgit Dämon (Department of Botany)
IT support
Christian Posch (Department for Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences)
Sabo Rubner (Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences)
The research activities at the FAIR site currently revolve around five main interlinked research areas:
- ecosystem carbon and water cycle
- forest-atmosphere air quality interactions
- boundary-layer meteorology in complex topography
- remote and proximal sensing
- model development, testing and validation
The basic site infrastructure includes mains power supply (25kW), a 30m meteorological mast, a 2m understory mast and two 10m walk-up towers interconnected by a bridge for access to the tree crowns. An air-conditioned instrument hut at the base of the meteorological mast provides shelter for trace gas analysers and associated hardware and the IT infrastructure (including remote access). Over a 100 unique sensors are continuously operational and acquire over 150 variables; a large number of measurements are made on an episodic basis. See here for detailed information on site characteristics and measurements.
Research at the FAIR site is open and collaborative. We plan at sharing the collected data openly and welcome researchers interested in conducting their own projects at the site.
Publications and student theses associated with the FAIR site can be found here, media coverage of the site here.
Publikationen 2025
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenbeitrag (Correction: Selbstkorrektur)
Platter, A.; Scholz, K.; Hammerle, A.; Rotach, M.W.; Wohlfahrt, G. (2025): Corrigendum to “Agreement of multiple night- and daytime filtering approaches of eddy covariance-derived net ecosystem CO2 exchange over a mountain forest” [Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Volume 356 (2024) 110173].
In: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 362, No. 110173. (DOI) (Weblink)
Publikationen 2024
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
- Platter, A.; Scholz, K.; Hammerle, A.; Rotach, M.W.; Wohlfahrt, G. (2024): Agreement of multiple night- and daytime filtering approaches of eddy covariance-derived net ecosystem CO2 exchange over a mountain forest.
In: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 356, No. 110173. (DOI) (Weblink)
Vorträge 2024
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Konferenzvortrag
Vortragende/r: Wohlfahrt, G.: Recent insights from joint active/passive chlorophyll fluorescence and COS/CO2 flux measurements at a mountain Scots Pine forest.
COS-SIF Workshop, Gif sur Yvette, 04.11.2024.
Posterpräsentation
- Vortragende/r: Keenan, T.F. Co-AutorInnen: Li, W.; Jiang, S.; Reichenstein, M.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Martini, J.; Duveiller, G.; Pacheco-Labrador, J.: B53B-1737 Representing lagged effects of climate extremes on vegetation physiology in SCOPE simulations.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU 2024), Washington, 13.12.2024. (Weblink)
Publikationen 2023
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
- Wohlfahrt, G.; Hammerle, A.; Spielmann, F.M.; Kitz, F.; Yi, C. (2023): Technical note: Novel estimates of the leaf relative uptake rate of carbonyl sulfide from optimality theory.
In: Biogeosciences 20/3, S. 589 - 596. (DOI) (Weblink)
Beitrag in Proceedingsband (Abstract)
- Hammerle, Albin; Spielmann, F.; Scholz, K.; Oberhuber, Walter; Wohlfahrt, G. (2023): Some forests like it cold.
In: EGUsphere: EGU - General Assembly 2023 - Book of Abstracts. 23–28 April 2023, Wien. Göttingen: Copernicus., EGU23-15468. (DOI) (Weblink)
Vorträge 2023
Präsentationen auf Kongressen, Tagungen o.Ä.
Posterpräsentation
- Vortragende/r: Hammerle, A. Co-AutorInnen: Spielmann, F.; Scholz, K.; Oberhuber, W.; Wohlfahrt, G.: Some forests like it cold.
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Wien, 27.04.2023. (Weblink) - Vortragende/r: Scholz, K. Co-AutorInnen: Hammerle, A.; Wohlfahrt, G.: Methane flux measurements above a Scots Pine forest in Austria.
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Wien, 25.04.2023. (Weblink) - Vortragende/r: Spielmann, F. Co-AutorInnen: Hammerle, A.; Scholz, K.; Wohlfahrt, G.: Interannual variability and seasonality of carbonyl sulfide fluxes of an Austrian Scots pine forest.
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Wien, 27.04.2023. (Weblink) - Vortragende/r: Tommaso, Julitta Co-AutorInnen: Burkart, A.; Colombo, R.; Cremonese, E.; Damm, A.; Dondina, O.; El-Madany, T.; Griessbaum, F.; Miller, B.; Burba, G.; Kittler, F.; Migliavacca, M.; Rascher, U.; Roland, M.; Rossini, M.; Brümmer, C.; Schuettemeyer, D.; Segers, J.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Papale, D.: Field Spectroscopy versus GPP. A test case using JB Devices at flux sites.
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Wien, 25.04.2023. (Weblink)
Publikationen 2022
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
- Rotach, M. W.; Serafin, S.; Ward, H. C.; Arpagaus, M.; Colfescu, I.; Cuxart, J.; De Wekker, S. F. J.; Grubišić, V.; Kalthoff, N.; Karl, T. G.; Kirshbaum, D. J.; Lehner, M.; Mobbs, S.; Paci, A.; Palazzi, E.; Bailey, A.; Schmidli, J.; Wittmann, C.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Zardi, D. (2022): A collaborative effort to better understand, measure and model atmospheric exchange processes over mountains.
In: Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 103/5, S. E1282 - E1295. (DOI) (Weblink)
Vorträge 2022
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Konferenzvortrag (Keynote)
- Vortragende/r: Wohlfahrt, G.: The leaf relative uptake rate of COS – past, present and future.
3rd International COS workshop, Utrecht, 19.09.2022.
Konferenzvortrag
- Vortragende/r: Schwarz, M. Co-AutorInnen: Hammerle, A.; Julitta, T.; Migliavacca, M.; Wohlfahrt, G.: Seasonal dynamics of active and passive chlorophyll fluorescence in a mountain Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forest.
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022, Wien, 24.05.2022. (Weblink) - Vortragende/r: Wohlfahrt, G. Co-AutorInnen: Hammerle, A.; Duveiller, G.; Migliavacca, M.: Early stress detection in Austrian ecosystems with sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (AustroSIF).
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022, Wien, 24.05.2022. (Weblink) - Vortragende/r: Zhang, Q Co-AutorInnen: El-Madany, T.; Pacheco-Labrador, J.; Biriukova, K.; Brümmer, C.; Buchmann, N.; Damm, A.; Dechant, B.; Delorme, J.P.; Ju, W.; Paul-Limoges, E.; Rossini, M.; Ryu, Y.; Schrader, F.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Yakir, D.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, Y; Migliavacca, M.: Monitoring vegetation responses to heatwaves using novel remote sensing techniques.
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022, Wien, 24.05.2022. (Weblink)
Gastvorträge
Gastvortrag
- Vortragende/r: Wohlfahrt, G.: Gross primary productivity: quantifying the unmeasurable using flux measurements of carbonyl sulfide.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis / St. Paul / Duluth / Morris / Crookston / Rochester, 05.10.2022 (Online).
Publikationen 2021
Medienbeiträge
Medienbeitrag
- Wohlfahrt, G.; Hammerle, A.; Mayr, S.; Vettori, P.: Welchen Beitrag leisten Wälder zum Klimaschutz: CO2-Messungen an der Forschungsstation Mieming.
In: ORF Tirol Heute vom 04.06.2021.
Vorträge 2021
Präsentationen auf Kongressen, Tagungen o.Ä.
Posterpräsentation
- Vortragende/r: Martini, D. Co-AutorInnen: Sakowska, K.; Wohlfahrt, G.; ..., ...; Migliavacca, M.: Sun-Induced and Active Fluorescence as a Tool to Understand Plant’s Transpiration.
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, online, 14.12.2021. (Weblink)
Publikationen 2020
Selbstständige Veröffentlichungen
Monographie, wissenschaftliche
- Serafin, S.; Rotach, M.W.; Arpagaus, M.; Colfescu, I.; Cuxart, J.; De Wekker, S.F.J.; Evans, M.; Grubisic, V.; Kalthoff, N.; Karl, T.; Kirshbaum, D.J.; Lehner, M.; Mobbs, S.; Paci, A.; Palazzi, E.; Raudzens, Bailey A.; Schmidli, J.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Zardi, D. (2020): Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains. Programme and experiment. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press (IUP). ISBN 978-3-99106-003-1. (Volltext) (DOI)