Component Peatland Management Current members Hanna Silvennoinen, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Component – Peatland Management Current members Hanna Silvennoinen, Norway, (hanna.silvennoinen@nibio.no) • Kristiina Regina, Finland (kristiina.regina@mtt.fi) • Åsa Kasimir Klemedtsson, Sweden (asa.kasimir@gvc.gu.se) • Jagadeesh Yeluripati, UK (Jagadeesh.Yeluripati@hutton.ac.uk) • Bärbel Tiemeyer, Germany (baerbel.tiemeyer@thuenen.de) • Jens Leifeld, Switzerland (jens.leifeld@agroscope.admin.ch) • Jan Verhagen, The Netherlands (jan.verhagen@wur.nl) •

Network aims Aims 1. Develop the Peatlands network (Baltic counties, Indonesia) 2. Develop the mitigation strategy document for boreal, temperate and tropical peatlands 3. Bring together experimentalists, ecosystem and hydrology modellers and policymakers 4. Combining vegetation ecology, hydrology and biogeochemistry

Current status of the network Finances applied for organizing a workshop (Norwegian internal • sources)  Received for organizing costs, not for travel costs  Decisions received late June, organization pending due to summer vacations

Action plan for next year Teleconference meeting (Sept.-Oct.) to get better organized with • new members Decisions about the workshop  A small one in Norway late • autumn 2017/early spring 2018? Organize an EGU (European Geosciences Union) – session spring • 2019, with a scope reflecting the aims of the network (experimental  modelling  policy) Bring Indonesia into the network •