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diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-blogdown.yaml b/.github/workflows/deploy-blogdown.yaml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ jobs:
         shell: Rscript {0}
 
       - name: Install hugo
+        # run: blogdown::install_hugo("0.125.4")
         run: blogdown::install_hugo("0.104.3")
         shell: Rscript {0}
 

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -52,10 +52,14 @@ To add a person to the website, create a new directory `content/authors/firstnam
 
 NOTE: Make sure that `firstname-lastname` matches the first and last name as described in the `_index.md` file, otherwise the blog posts and publications by this person will not be linked to their profile.
 
+### Thesis projects
+
+Thesis projects are posted under the menu item 'Join us' and handled as an Hugo "event". To add a new item, create a new directory `content/event/thesis_name`. Inside that directory, create a file named `_index.md` (you can copy an existing one and modify the content about the person) and upload a picture of them with file name `featured.png` (be aware of the file size).
+
 ## Build the website
 
 Building the website and serving it can be done in R.
 ```r
 blogdown::serve_site()
 ```
-This returns a message containing the server address which can be opened with any web browser (copy and paste it into the address line of the browser). 
+This returns a message containing the server address which can be opened with any web browser (copy and paste it into the address line of the browser). 
diff --git a/assets/media/mind_scales.png b/assets/media/mind_scales.png
diff --git a/assets/media/mind_scales_nutrients.png b/assets/media/mind_scales_nutrients.png
diff --git a/assets/media/mind_scales_objectiveC.png b/assets/media/mind_scales_objectiveC.png
diff --git a/assets/media/mind_scales_obs.png b/assets/media/mind_scales_obs.png
diff --git a/assets/media/mind_scales_projectorg.png b/assets/media/mind_scales_projectorg.png
diff --git a/assets/media/needle_trees_panorama.jp2 b/assets/media/needle_trees_panorama.jp2
diff --git a/assets/media/photocold.png b/assets/media/photocold.png
diff --git a/config/_default/menus.yaml b/config/_default/menus.yaml
@@ -31,18 +31,22 @@ main:
     url: https://geco-bern.github.io/agds/
     parent: tutorials
     weight: 41
+  - name: Land in the Earth System
+    url: https://geco-bern.github.io/les/
+    parent: tutorials
+    weight: 42
   - name: A Handful of Pixels - Phenology modelling and land cover classification
     url: https://geco-bern.github.io/handfull_of_pixels/
     parent: tutorials
-    weight: 42
+    weight: 43
   - name: Digital Soil Mapping
     url: https://geco-bern.github.io/tutorial_digital_soil_mapping/
     parent: tutorials
-    weight: 43
+    weight: 44
   - name: Leaf Energy Balance
     url: https://padasch.github.io/leaf_energy_balance_tutorial/
     parent: tutorials
-    weight: 44
+    weight: 45
   - name: Blog
     url: post
     weight: 50

diff --git a/content/authors/francesco-grossi/_index.md b/content/authors/francesco-grossi/_index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+---
+title: Francesco Grossi
+role: MSc Student, co-hosted Universita degli Studi Milano, Italy
+avatar_filename: avatar.jpg
+bio: []
+interests:
+  - Interdisciplinarity
+  - Modelling 
+  - Plant physiology
+  - Ecohydrology
+
+social:
+  - icon: envelope
+    icon_pack: fas
+    link: mailto:[email protected]
+
+organizations:
+  - name: Geocomputation and Earth Observation, Institute of Geography, University of Bern
+    # url: https://geco-bern.ethz.ch/
+
+email: "mailto:[email protected]"
+superuser: true
+highlight_name: true
+user_groups:
+- Master Students
+---
+
+I am a visiting student from University of Milan. My thesis project involves the study of the ecosystem water balance using the P-model developed by the group and the Budyko curve.
+
+Having mainly a molecular biology background, I am very fascinated by how plants directly influence the surroundings environment.
+
+Dynamic vegetation modelling has always amazed me on how is possible to explain a natural phenomenon mathematically and how all the populations follows the same rule, from protein-protein interaction to ecosystems.
+
+During my free time I like to cook, play football, and enjoy the natural landscapes.
+
diff --git a/content/authors/gabriela-sophia/_index.md b/content/authors/gabriela-sophia/_index.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ email: "[email protected]"
 superuser: true
 highlight_name: true
 user_groups:
-- PhD Students
+- Co-hosted PhD Students
 ---
 
 I am a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern. My research focuses on investigating the implications of a dynamic nutrient resorption scheme in the QUINCY model when we simulate biogeochemical cycles and future plant growth in the face of global changes. My approach includes global meta-analysis of nutrient resorption and ecosystem model development.
diff --git a/content/authors/koen-hufkens/_index.md b/content/authors/koen-hufkens/_index.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ social:
 superuser: true
 title: Koen Hufkens
 user_groups:
-- Researchers
+- Alumni
 ---
 
 As an earth system scientist and ecologist Dr. Hufkens models ecosystem processes, such as vegetation growth or drought / disturbance resistance, using various -retrospective- proxy measurements in a model data fusion approach, including among others remote sensing, dendrochronology and recovered historical data records. Throughout his career he worked interdisciplinary borrowing heavily from fields, outside of ecology, such as image vision processing (computer science), remote sensing and engineering to assist in either field measurements and/or model driven analysis.
diff --git a/content/authors/myriam_terristi/_index.md b/content/authors/myriam_terristi/_index.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ email: "[email protected]"
 superuser: true
 highlight_name: true
 user_groups:
-- PhD Students
+- Co-hosted PhD Students
 ---
 
 I am a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (CEDI group led by Ana Bastos) in Jena, Germany and the Institute of Geography (GECO group led by Benjamin Stocker) at the University of Bern. 

diff --git a/content/authors/patricia-gribi/_index.md b/content/authors/patricia-gribi/_index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: Patricia Gribi
+role: BSc Student
+avatar_filename: avatar.jpg
+bio: []
+interests:
+  - Vegetation water stress trends
+  - Climate projections
+
+social:
+  - icon: envelope
+    icon_pack: fas
+    link: mailto:[email protected]
+
+organizations:
+  - name: Geocomputation and Earth Observation, Institute of Geography, University of Bern
+    # url: https://geco-bern.ethz.ch/
+
+email: "mailto:[email protected]"
+superuser: true
+highlight_name: true
+user_groups:
+- Bachelor Students
+---
+
+TBC
diff --git a/content/authors/patricia-gribi/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/patricia-gribi/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/patricia-helpap/_index.md b/content/authors/patricia-helpap/_index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+---
+title: Patricia Helpap
+role: Master Student
+avatar_filename: avatar.jpg
+bio: []
+interests:
+  - Atmospheric sciences
+  - Climate dynamics
+  - Climate impacts and attribution
+  - Land-atmosphere interactions
+
+social:
+  - icon: envelope
+    icon_pack: fas
+    link: mailto:[email protected]
+
+organizations:
+  - name: Geocomputation and Earth Observation, Institute of Geography, University of Bern
+    # url: https://geco-bern.ethz.ch/
+
+email: "mailto:[email protected]"
+superuser: true
+highlight_name: true
+user_groups:
+- Master Students
+---
+
+
+I am a MSc Climate Science student at the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Berne. For my thesis I am looking at droughts in the last millenium by analysing CWD (cumulative water deficit) from climate model (ModE-Sim) output. My background is in Environmental Earth Science.
+
+Aside from academics, I enjoy the great outdoors, playing music with friends and reading.
diff --git a/content/authors/patricia-helpap/avatar.jpg b/content/authors/patricia-helpap/avatar.jpg
diff --git a/content/authors/samantha-biegel/_index.md b/content/authors/samantha-biegel/_index.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ email: ""
 superuser: true
 highlight_name: true
 user_groups:
-- PhD Students
+- Co-hosted PhD Students
 ---
 
 I am in the second year of my PhD as a Doctoral Fellow at the ETH AI Center. My research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning and Environmental Science. I'm particularly interested in AI for scientific discovery, data-centric machine learning, as well as usability and trustworthiness of machine learning methods in sustainability applications. I am part of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing group led by Konrad Schindler and the Geocomputation and Earth Observation group led by Benjamin Stocker.

diff --git a/content/event/cwd_trends/index.md b/content/event/cwd_trends/index.md
@@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ abstract:
 
 # Talk start and end times.
 #   End time can optionally be hidden by prefixing the line with `#`.
-date: 2023-02-21T08:36:01+01:00
-date_end: 2023-02-21T08:36:01+01:00
+date: 2024-02-21T08:36:01+01:00
+date_end: 2024-02-21T08:36:01+01:00
 all_day: true
 
 # Schedule page publish date (NOT event date).
-publishDate: 2023-02-21T08:36:01+01:00
+publishDate: 2024-02-21T08:36:01+01:00
 
 authors: [Benjamin Stocker]
-tags: [Drought impacts, CMIP, Earth Observation, cumulative water deficit, BSc]
+tags: [Drought impacts, CMIP6, Earth Observation, cumulative water deficit, BSc]
 
 # Is this a featured event? (true/false)
 featured: false
@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ Droughts have major impacts on fluxes between land and the atmosphere, agricultu
 
 ## Aim
 
-You will target seasonal water deficits as an impact-relevant quantity measuring the severity of droughts. Using outputs from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), you will derive simulated cumulative water deficit (CWD) time series across the globe for multiple models and investigate their long-term trends.
+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.
+
+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.
 
 ## Requirements
 

diff --git a/content/event/ecosystem_waterbalance/featured.png b/content/event/ecosystem_waterbalance/featured.png
diff --git a/content/event/ecosystem_waterbalance/index.md b/content/event/ecosystem_waterbalance/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+---
+# Documentation: https://wowchemy.com/docs/managing-content/
+
+title: "Bachelor or Master thesis - Ecosystem water balance"
+event:
+event_url:
+location: Institute of Geography, University of Bern
+address:
+  street:
+  city:
+  region:
+  postcode:
+  country:
+summary:
+abstract:
+
+# Talk start and end times.
+#   End time can optionally be hidden by prefixing the line with `#`.
+date: 2024-02-21T08:24:51+01:00
+date_end: 2024-02-21T08:24:51+01:00
+all_day: true
+
+# Schedule page publish date (NOT event date).
+publishDate: 2024-02-21T08:24:51+01:00
+
+authors: [Benjamin Stocker]
+tags: [Extreme event impacts, ET, FLUXNET, BSc, MSc]
+
+# Is this a featured event? (true/false)
+featured: false
+
+# Featured image
+# To use, add an image named `featured.jpg/png` to your page's folder. 
+# Focal points: Smart, Center, TopLeft, Top, TopRight, Left, Right, BottomLeft, Bottom, BottomRight.
+image:
+  caption: "(a) Ecosystems in the AET vs. PET space. (b) Ecosystems in the Bukyko space (AET/P vs. PET/P). Each point represents a site from which flux measurements are available. A selection of sites from which data were used in this and previous chapters are highlighted. AET, PET, and P are multi-year means of annual sums."
+  focal_point: ""
+  preview_only: false
+
+# Custom links (optional).
+#   Uncomment and edit lines below to show custom links.
+# links:
+# - name: Follow
+#   url: https://twitter.com
+#   icon_pack: fab
+#   icon: twitter
+
+# Optional filename of your slides within your event's folder or a URL.
+url_slides:
+
+url_code:
+url_pdf:
+url_video:
+
+# Markdown Slides (optional).
+#   Associate this event with Markdown slides.
+#   Simply enter your slide deck's filename without extension.
+#   E.g. `slides = "example-slides"` references `content/slides/example-slides.md`.
+#   Otherwise, set `slides = ""`.
+slides: ""
+
+# Projects (optional).
+#   Associate this post with one or more of your projects.
+#   Simply enter your project's folder or file name without extension.
+#   E.g. `projects = ["internal-project"]` references `content/project/deep-learning/index.md`.
+#   Otherwise, set `projects = []`.
+projects: []
+---
+
+**Supervision:** Prof. Benjamin Stocker
+
+## Background
+
+Exchange fluxes of water vapour between ecosystems and the atmosphere are commonly measured using eddy-covariance technique. This gives information about how much water is transpired by plants and evaporated from soil and plant surfaces. Such fluxes are measured across a hundreds of sites globally, data is available and regularly used in our group, and interesting patterns emerge. For example, some sites appear to evaporate a large fraction of annual precipitation. Some even more than annual precipitation. This raises important questions: Is this a data artefact? Or are there topographic and hydrological patterns that can explain differences between sites?
+
+## Aim
+
+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.
+- Experience working with R or other data science tools are an advantage.
+- The student writes the thesis in English.
+
+## Literature
+
+- [Land in the Earth System Chapter Ecohydrology](https://geco-bern.github.io/les/ecohydrology.html)
+- Williams, C. A., Reichstein, M., Buchmann, N., Baldocchi, D., Beer, C., Schwalm, C., Wohlfahrt, G., Hasler, N., Bernhofer, C., Foken, T., Papale, D., Schymanski, S., and Schaefer, K.: Climate and vegetation controls on the surface water balance: Synthesis of evapotranspiration measured across a global network of flux towers, Water Resources Research, 48, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR011586, 2012.
+- Thompson, S. E., Harman, C. J., Konings, A. G., Sivapalan, M., Neal, A., and Troch, P. A.: Comparative hydrology across AmeriFlux sites: The variable roles of climate, vegetation, and groundwater, Water Resources Research, 47, https://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009797, 2011.
+
diff --git a/content/event/frost_gpp/index.md b/content/event/frost_gpp/index.md
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ abstract:
 
 # Talk start and end times.
 #   End time can optionally be hidden by prefixing the line with `#`.
-date: 2023-02-21T08:24:51+01:00
-date_end: 2023-02-21T08:24:51+01:00
+date: 2024-02-21T08:24:51+01:00
+date_end: 2024-02-21T08:24:51+01:00
 all_day: true
 
 # Schedule page publish date (NOT event date).
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ Climate warming is driving an advance of leaf unfolding in trees, promoting long
 
 The goal of this project is to identify when the frost events happen after the SOS and quantify their impact on carbon fluxes. The student will characterize the SOS using phenological measurements and ecosystem-level photosynthesis (gross primary production, GPP). Daily minimum temperatures will be used to calculate the number of frost events. The project design includes combining ground observations, eddy covariance flux measurements, remote sensing data and global climate datasets.
 
+If addressed as a MSc topic, there is a possiblity for a publication as a thesis outcome.
+
 ## Requirements
 
 - The student is motivated to work with large datasets of the terrestrial biosphere.

diff --git a/content/event/global_biomee/index.md b/content/event/global_biomee/index.md
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ abstract:
 
 # Talk start and end times.
 #   End time can optionally be hidden by prefixing the line with `#`.
-date: 2023-02-21T08:38:39+01:00
-date_end: 2023-02-21T08:38:39+01:00
+date: 2024-02-21T08:38:39+01:00
+date_end: 2024-02-21T08:38:39+01:00
 all_day: false
 
 # Schedule page publish date (NOT event date).
-publishDate: 2023-02-21T08:38:39+01:00
+publishDate: 2024-02-21T08:38:39+01:00
 
 authors: [Laura Marqués]
 tags: [growth, tree rings, FLUXNET, MSc]

diff --git a/content/event/gpp_extremes/index.md b/content/event/gpp_extremes/index.md
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ abstract:
 
 # Talk start and end times.
 #   End time can optionally be hidden by prefixing the line with `#`.
-date: 2023-02-21T08:32:52+01:00
-date_end: 2023-02-21T08:32:52+01:00
+date: 2024-02-21T08:32:52+01:00
+date_end: 2024-02-21T08:32:52+01:00
 all_day: true
 
 # Schedule page publish date (NOT event date).
-publishDate: 2023-02-21T08:32:52+01:00
+publishDate: 2024-02-21T08:32:52+01:00
 
-authors: [Pascal Schneider]
+authors: [Benjamin Stocker]
 tags: [FLUXNET, GPP, extreme event impacts, BSc]
 
 # Is this a featured event? (true/false)
@@ -91,5 +91,4 @@ The goal of this project is to quantify the role of GPP extremes on an ecosystem
 
 ## Supervision
 
-- Pascal Schneider
 - Prof. Benjamin Stocker
diff --git a/content/event/hires_cwd/index.md b/content/event/hires_cwd/index.md
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ abstract:
 
 # Talk start and end times.
 #   End time can optionally be hidden by prefixing the line with `#`.
-date: 2023-02-21T08:46:40+01:00
-date_end: 2023-02-21T08:46:40+01:00
+date: 2024-02-21T08:46:40+01:00
+date_end: 2024-02-21T08:46:40+01:00
 all_day: true
 
 # Schedule page publish date (NOT event date).
-publishDate: 2023-02-21T08:46:40+01:00
+publishDate: 2024-02-21T08:46:40+01:00
 
 authors: [Benjamin Stocker]
 tags: [Earth Observation, cumulative water deficit, MSc]
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Seasonal water deficits, caused by the imbalance of water from the land surface
 
 ## Aim
 
-Novel data resources now provide analysis-ready data at field-scale resolution. This provides an opportunity to extend the analysis of Stocker et al. (2023) to the hillslope-scale. You will develop a workflow to access cloud-hosted Earth Observation data and perform analyses for deriving cumulative water deficits. This will generate crucial insights for a better understanding of the role of terrain in shaping plant water availability and for informing land managers about the sustainability of water resource use.
+Novel data resources from [OpenET](https://etdata.org/) now provide analysis-ready data at field-scale resolution. This provides an opportunity to extend the analysis of Stocker et al. (2023) to the hillslope-scale. You will develop a workflow to access cloud-hosted Earth Observation data and perform analyses for deriving cumulative water deficits. This will generate crucial insights for a better understanding of the role of terrain in shaping plant water availability and for informing land managers about the sustainability of water resource use.
 
 ## Requirements