Launch of the ALAMOD targeted project

This project brings together around one hundred people from twenty different laboratories. It is led by Bertrand Guenet (CNRS, LG-ENS), Pierre Barré (CNRS, LG-ENS), Antonio Bispo (INRAE, Info&Sols), Christian Pichot (INRAE, URFM), Tiphaine Chevallier (IRD, Eco&Sols), Philippe Peylin (CNRS, LSCE), Antoine Versini (CIRAD, Recycling and Risk). ALAMOD aims to propose a new generation of models simulating changes in carbon stocks in ecosystems (soil and biomass). The project will start with a survey of sites and networks that can provide datasets showing changes in carbon stocks over a period of more than a decade. These data sets will then, if necessary, be supplemented by new measurements or the use of innovative methods to provide data (infra-red spectroscopy, satellite imagery) and then made available. Their use will enable the models developed by the community to be evaluated, and will open up avenues for devising the new generation of models simulating changes in C stocks in continental ecosystems at local, national and global levels.

This day marked a turning point for the targeted project, as it enabled the scientific community involved to meet, sometimes for the first time, and to discuss the various experimental sites as well as the organisation of the project.

For more information on the ALAMOD project, click here: https://lnkd.in/ef4m95BT