3-7 May 2010
EGU conference in Vienna. CLIMAITE will present results.

7-9 March 2010
CLIMAITE internal workshop at Kullen (Sweden).

21-23 October 2009
CLIMMANI workshop on effects of precipitation change in Basel. See programme

13-15 October 2009
NSF, TERACC, PRECIPNET and CLIMAITE workshop at Biosphere 2, Arizona, US on effects of precipitation change. See programme

29 june - 3. july 2009
BIOGEOMON, Helsingki, Finland. www.environment.fi/syke/biogeomon2009. Claus Beier to chair session on experimental manipulations. Louise Andresen and Klaus Steenberg Larsen provide oral presentations

24 juni 2009
Kristian Albert defended his PhD at Copenhagen University

7 May 2009
Krisitine Maraldo defends her PhD - "Enchytraeidae in a changing climate"

10 November 2008
New PhD in adaptation of soil fauna has been initiated

20 September 2008
The scientific advisory committee will be gathered in Copenhagen 23-24th September.

10 September 2008
3 papers based on the EPRECOT workshop held in 2006 in Helsingør has now been published. See papers by Knapp et al, Gerten et al. and Lou et al under Publications

10 September 2008
a Danish paper describing preliminary results have been published in Flora & Fauna - see "Schmidt et al" paper under Publications

1 september 2008
CLIMAITEs første PhD studerende, Louise Andresen, har forsvaret sin PhD afhandling på Københavns Universitet.

4 june 2008
CLIMMANI kick off meeting in Strassbourg. CLIMMANI is an ESF project, aiming to build databases on results from climate related experiments and to support meetings , workshops and exchange related to experimentel climate change studies. CLIMAITEs centreleader Claus Beier is the coordinator.

25-28 february 2008
RUBICODE meeting in Helsingborg, Sverige on “Ecosystem Services and Drivers of Biodiversity Change”. Claus Beier invited to participate.

10-14 december 2007
American Geophysical Union Fall 2007 meeting, San Francisco, CA (US), 10-14 Dec 2007. Teis N Mikkelsen presented CLIMAITE: "CLIMAITE - a three factor climate change ecosystem manipulation experiment"

5-7 december 2007
ESF-meeting in Rome on "Future CO2 experiments". Claus Beier invited to participate and lead discussion on multi factor experiments

25 September 2007
Copenhagen Climate Solutions conference in Copenhagen. CLIMAITE presents its concept.

10-12 september 2007
Half year status meeting at Kattinge Værk, Roskilde

July 2007
Claus Beier will present CLIMAITE and climate manipulations at the Gordon Conference: Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology, and Geochemistry. July 8-13 2007 in New Hampshire, USA

May 2007
Post doc on modelling starts

March 2007
VKR foundation has decided to continue the support for CLIMAITE for additionally 3-years 2009-2011

January 2007
Teis N. Mikkelsen - participate in "National global change research initiativ: Climaite at Geographic Institute, Copenhagen Universitet.

January 2007
PhD-project on root studies
A PhD project has been initiated to study root responses

December 2006
Midterm report
Midterm report - in December 2006 we submitted a midterm report to the VKR foundation, including a midterm scientific assessment report

September 2006
Visit by Scientific Steering Committee
The Scientific Steering Committee will vist the project for a midterm assessment

August 2006
Internal meeting 2006
The CLIMAITE group will meet for 2 days at LO-Skolen in Elsinore to discuss the results from the first year.

August 2006
ESA 2006
Teis Mikkelsen presented the project at the ESA - Ecological Society of America's meeting in Memphis, USA

August 2006
Visit by collaborators from Victorian Department of Primary Industries i Australia
The Australian institutte is developing plans to initiate a similar project and visited Brandbjerg to see the site and learn from our experience. The CLIMAITE site at Brandbjerg has been apointed by Franco Miglietta from IBIMET in Italy, who design FACE systems, to be the best of its kind in the world

Juni 2006
BIOGEOMON 2006
Centreleader Claus Beier chaired a session at the 5. BIOGEOMON meeting in Santa Cruz, US, where results from leading manipulationexperiments in the world were presented

June 2006
Ph.D. project 6 starts
See detailed description here.

May 2006
Brandbjerg is visited by 70 international environmental scientists Tuesday the 23^rd.

During the international workshop EPRECOT (Effects of PREcipitation Change On Terrestrial ecosystems) the participants visited CLIMAITE's experimental site. Claus Beier were later interviewed (Danish only) about the workshop conclussions.

October 2005
The Biological time machine at Brandbjerg was started Monday 3rd October by Environmental minister Connie Hedegaard
Building the site has ended, and the manipulations has started. This was celebrated at an opening event 3rd October where the Environmental minister Connie Hedegaard turned on the time machine and the involved researchers presented the work we intent to do over the course of the project.

Environmental minister Connie Hedegaard, CLIMAITE Centre leader Claus Beier and director of Risø, Jørgen Kjems

September 2005
Ph.D. project 5 starts
See detailed description here.

August 2005
Ph.D. project 2 starts
See detailed description here.

June 2005
Acid rain 2005
Claus Beier was invited to give a presentation on "Effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems studied by field scale manipulation experiments" at the Acid Rain 2005 conference in Prague 14-17 June - here CLIMAITE was presented.

May 2005
Ph.D. project 1 starts
See detailed description here.
Ph.D. project 4 starts
See detailed description here.

April 2005
Ph.D. project 3 starts
See detailed description here.

Sponsor
VILLUM KANN RASMUSSEN FONDEN is the main sponsor of CLIMAITE.

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