Welcome at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Welcome at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry


Focus on the Earth

Our research is dedicated to the study of global biogeochemical cycles describing the interactions between the biosphere, the atmosphere, the geosphere and the entire climate system. We aim to better understand how living organisms - including humans - exchange basic resources such as water, carbon, nutrients, and energy with their environment and how this affects ecosystems and climate at regional to global scales. 

Lise Meitner Excellence Program

Lise Meitner Excellence Program

The Lise Meitner Excellence Program shall help to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.
Every new researcher in the Lise Meitner Excellence Program receives the offer to take part in the tenure track process, which – following a positive decision by the tenure committee – will lead to a permanent W2 post with group equipment.
For this years call for application the deadline is April 8.

We support the initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen!

We support the initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen!

We are committed to ensuring that people from different backgrounds live and work together respectfully.

News

Multiple small satellites orbiting Earth, captured against a backdrop of clouds and the blue atmospheric edge, viewed from space.
Thanks to FLUXCOM-X, the next generation of data driven, AI-based earth system models, scientists can now see the Earth’s metabolism at unprecedented detail – assessed everywhere on land and every hour of the day.
Aerial view showing significant land erosion with exposed soil and vegetation, with soil draining into the bordering ocean.
New study on the Arctic carbon cycle provides important insights and highlights research needs
Groundwater threatened by droughts and heavy rainfalls
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods.

Events

Scientific events

EGU 2025: European Geosciences Union General Assembly

Apr 27, 2025 - May 2, 2025
Vienna, Austria

EEBIOMASS Summer School 2025

May 12, 2025 - May 16, 2025
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Room: Hörsaal

AquaDiva Final Symposium

May 28, 2025 09:00 AM - 11:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Altes Schloss Dornburg

Public events

Was bewegt die Atmosphäre? Von den Grundlagen bis zur Energiewende

Jul 8, 2025 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Stiftung Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald Martin-Luther-Straße 14 17489 Greifswald

Seminars & colloquia

Seminar: Nuno Carvalhais

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May 8, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Seminar: Arina Ivanova

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May 15, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Kolloquium: Ana Bastos, Nora Linscheid

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Jul 17, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Recent Publications

Winkler, A.; Sierra, C.: Towards a new generation of impulse‐response functions for integrated earth system understanding and climate change attribution. Geophysical Research Letters 52 (8), e2024GL112295 (2025)
Engel, F.; Hoek van Dijke, A. J.; Roebroek, C. T. J.; Benedict, I.: Can large-scale tree cover change negate climate change impacts on future water availability? Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 29 (7), pp. 1895 - 1918 (2025)
Knorr, W.; Williams, M.; Thum, T.; Kaminski, T.; Voßbeck, M.; Scholze, M.; Quaife, T.; Smallmann, L.; Steele-Dunne, S.; Vreugdenhil, M. et al.; Green, T.; Zaehle, S.; Aurela, M.; Bouvet, A.; Bueechi, E.; Dorigo, W.; El-Madany, T. S.; Migliavacca, M.; Honkanen, M.; Kerr, Y.; Kontu, A.; Lemmetyinen, J.; Lindqvist, H.; Mialon, A.; Miinalainen, T.; Pique, G.; Ojasalo, A.; Quegan, S.; Rayner, P.; Reyes-Muñoz, P.; Rodríguez-Fernández, N.; Schwank, M.; Verrelst, J.; Zhu, S.; Schüttemeyer, D.; Drusch, M.: A comprehensive land-surface vegetation model for multi-stream data assimilation, D&B v1.0. Geoscientific Model Development 18 (7), pp. 2137 - 2159 (2025)
Tang, G.; Nicholls, Z.; Norton, A.; Zaehle, S.; Meinshausen, M.: Synthesizing global carbon–nitrogen coupling effects – the MAGICC coupled carbon–nitrogen cycle model v1.0. Geoscientific Model Development 18 (7), pp. 2193 - 2230 (2025)
Tang, G.; Nicholls, Z.; Jones, C.; Gasser, T.; Norton, A.; Ziehn, T.; Romero-Prieto, A.; Meinshausen, M.: Investigating carbon and nitrogen conservation in reported CMIP6 Earth system model data. Geoscientific Model Development 18 (7), pp. 2111 - 2136 (2025)
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