Themenvorschläge
Potential research topics suitable for refinement into BSc or MSc theses, along with the main methodologies required for each project:
- Effect of climate extremes on vegetation functioning across different ecosystem types (Methods: data analysis)
- Exploring the link between land-cover change and rainfall patterns (Methods: data analysis)
- Understanding the link between vegetation phenology and carbon fluxes in peatland ecosystems (Methods: data analysis)
- Effect of heatwaves and drought on vegetation phenology across different ecosystem types (Methods: data analysis)
- Effect of more frequent winter warming on the de-coupling of soil and air temperature in snow-dominated forest ecosystems (Methods: data analysis)
- Estimation of soil heat flux from changes in the soil temperature profile (Methods: data analysis)
- Linking satellite-based and ground-based automatic phenological observations across different ecosystem types (Methods: data analysis)
- Understanding tree functioning from sapflow and/or dendrometer measurements across different forest types (Methods: data analysis)
- Quantification of below-ground carbon storage in peatland ecosystems (Methods: laboratory analysis)
- Dissolved organic carbon in peatland ecosystems (Methods: data analysis)
- Soil greenhouse gas measurements with non-steady state chambers across different ecosystem types (Methods: field measurements, data analysis)
- Urban heat island effect in the city of Münster (Methods: field measurements, data analysis)
- Analysis of long-term (30-years) continuous weather observations measured in Münster-Osnabrück (Methods: data analysis)
- Understanding the Irminger sea convection processes (Methods: literature review)
- Why does the Irminger current has 2 cores? (Methods: data analysis)
- Understanding the link between the seasonal variability in the Irminger sea and the ocean overturning (Methods: data analysis)