1. The 3 rd Year of CarboEurope - Ernst-Detlef Schulze (Coordinator)) MPI for Biogeochemistry, Jena

2. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze Coordinator‘s report: ED Schulze Management report:A Freibauer Reports –Soil respiration workshop: W Kutsch –Task force meetings: Ciais: Processes Heimann: integrateion Valentini: Kyoto Reichstein: uncertainty Gender committee: M Schrumpf Elections: None Comments by the advisory board: S Dennis Footballgame SEC/Advisory Board Meeting

3. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze Co-ordinator‘s report

4. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze What has happened? Commission: New officer since Nov 2006: Anastasios Kentarchos Science: Advection experiments Consolidation of data & models Cross-cutting workshops Projects: NitroEurope since Feb 06 CarboAfrica ICOS

5. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze What has happened? Administration: The team of the CarboEurope office -Annette Freibauer: overview, strategic decisions, workplan, policy relations -Angelika Thuille: day-to-day management -Yvonne Hofmann: secretary, webpage

6. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze What has happened? Conferences -CarboEurope session at EGU -CarboSchool presentations at EGU and Kentucky, USA Cross-cutting Workshops -Chiotto (Vermeulen), Amsterdam, March 2006 -Croplands/grasslands (Tenhunen/Smith/Soussana), Bayreuth, May 2006 -Wetlands (Choijnicki), Poznan, June 2006 -others

7. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze The Science Review by the Commission Reviewers -Phil Ineson -Timo Karijalainen Recommendations -Critical path analysis -Better integration between components -Systematic approach to uncertainties

8. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze Example of the very detailed review “ The following delays/deviations are noted but are not really raised as major concerns at this stage (but see above). There are sometimes delays in data delivery. On the other hand, there have been also requests from outside the consortium to provide data in the datasets. Workpackage 1.1. has delays in some deliverables 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6 and thereby also in related milestones. Workpackage 1.3. has delays in deliverables 1.3.1 and 1.3.3 and in related milestone. Workpackage 1.4 has delays in deliverables 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and milestones 4, 5, 6 and 7. …”

9. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze Tasks 2007 Task forces: integration between components Progress towards key objectives Synthesis by main PIs

10. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze Future: Towards FP7 ICOS SEC plus some project leaders will have to meet in December/January to cast a paper about the future view of CarboEurope-IP-2 Press event in first half of 2007

11. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze Future: What is expected in 2007?  Ecosystems: Continuation and optimization of ecosystem CO 2 flux network, first synthesis of major ecosystem types and of the soil sampling project  Atmosphere: Multiple gas species attribution to the European C balance and controlling processes, high frequency aircraft profiles  Regional experiment: 2007 campaign  Integration:  First assessment of upscaling techniques from point flux measurements to Eurogrid  Proceedings in Biogeoscience  Initiatives for further Nature/Science papers!

12. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze The Future  Will we close the gap between bottom- up and top-down approaches?  Will we get a handle on the uncertainty of NEE?  Will we incorporate management in ecosystem models?  Can we reward the maintenance of C- stocks?

13. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze Main Events 2007  NitroEurope annual meeting, Paestum, Italy, 5-9 Feb 2007  Fluxnet Workshop, Italy, Feb 2007  EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 15–20 April07  Next CarboEurope annual meeting: October  Poland, Poznan, October 2007!!!  Czech Republic, Prague  France, ???

14. Report of the CoordinatorE.-D. Schulze Thank You.