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content/event/cwd_trends/index.md

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-title: "Bachelor or Master thesis - Trends in seasonal water deficits"
+title: "Master thesis - Trends in seasonal water deficits"
 event:
 event_url:
 location: Institute of Geography, University of Bern
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 publishDate: 2024-02-21T08:36:01+01:00
 
 authors: [Benjamin Stocker]
-tags: [Drought impacts, CMIP6, Earth Observation, cumulative water deficit, BSc]
+tags: [Drought impacts, CMIP6, Earth Observation, cumulative water deficit, MSc]
 
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 ## Aim
 
-You will target seasonal water deficits as an impact-relevant quantity measuring the severity of droughts. Using outputs from multiple models of the the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), you will derive simulated cumulative water deficit (CWD) time series across the globe and investigate their long-term trends and differences in model projections.
+You will target seasonal water deficits as an impact-relevant quantity measuring the severity of droughts. Using outputs from multiple models, scenarios, and model ensemble members of the the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), you will derive simulated cumulative water deficit (CWD) time series across the globe and investigate their long-term trends and differences between model projections.
 
-This project builds on a completed BSc thesis and extends its focus to a larger set of model outputs and scenarios. If addressed as a MSc topic, there is a clear possiblity for a publication as a thesis outcome.
+This project builds on a completed BSc thesis and extends its focus to a larger set of model outputs and scenarios. Addressed as a MSc topic, there is a clear possiblity for a publication as a thesis outcome.
 
 ## Requirements
 

content/event/ecosystem_waterbalance/index.md

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-title: "Bachelor or Master thesis - Ecosystem water balance"
+title: "Bachelor thesis - Ecosystem water balance and subsurface hydrology"
 event:
 event_url:
 location: Institute of Geography, University of Bern
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 publishDate: 2024-02-21T08:24:51+01:00
 
 authors: [Benjamin Stocker]
-tags: [Extreme event impacts, ET, FLUXNET, BSc, MSc]
+tags: [Extreme event impacts, ET, FLUXNET, BSc]
 
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 This thesis will perform data analyses to relate measured annual mean evapotranspiration to site characteristics. Additional data will be prepared for characterising sites in terms of hydrological, topographic, soil, vegetation, and other aspects. The hypothesis to be tested is that sites that exhibit a high ratio of mean annual evapotranspiration over precipitation are located in topographic depressions, where subsurface water flow supplies water for evapotranspiration.
 
-If addressed as a MSc topic, there is a clear possiblity for a publication as a thesis outcome.
-
 ## Requirements
 
 - The student is motivated to work with large datasets of the terrestrial biosphere.

content/event/treerings/index.md

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+title: Master thesis - Unlocking the power of tree-ring data for modelling forest carbon dynamics
+
+# event: Wowchemy Conference
+# event_url: https://example.org
+
+location: Institute of Geography, University of Bern and WSL Birmensdorf
+# address:
+#   street: 450 Serra Mall
+#   city: Stanford
+#   region: CA
+#   postcode: '94305'
+#   country: United States
+
+# summary: Modelling biophysical limits to forest production
+# abstract: "Vegetation models underlying climate projections predict that forests will offset a large proportion of human CO2 emissions, but these models omit important biophysical controls of tree growth. Based on a mechanistic vegetation model, you will investigate how to implement such biophysical controls and how these might impact carbon fixation by forests in the future."
+
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+publishDate: "2024-09-18T00:00:00Z"
+
+authors: [Benjamin Stocker]
+tags: [tree-rings, BiomeEP, growth modelling, MSc]
+
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+**Context**: Tree-ring data is available in spades but has only marginally been used in the context of climate impacts on the land carbon cycle.
+
+**Aim**: This project will develop methods to use information of annual tree-ring anomalies for constraining modelled tree growth and forest dynamics in response to climate variability.
+
+**Methods**: Vegetation modelling (BiomeEP model) and model-data evaluation and calibration.
+
+**Main supervision:** Prof. Dr. Benjamin Stocker
+**Co-supervision:** Dr. Stefan Klesse, WSL Birmensdorf