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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 19h

Congratulations to Abhilasha for winning the Wübben Stiftung Student Grant!

TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 25/09/2026

FynFun studies geo-biosphere interactions in the South African Fynbos biome, a global biodiversity hotspot. Photos by Michaela Dippold

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 24/09/2026

At Monte Verità, researchers from geology, biology & beyond explored how tectonics and geomorphology shape biodiversity. Highlighting a need for cross-disciplinary language to understand how the geo- & biospheres interact across space and time, the workshop built upon the goals of the TERRA Cluster.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 21/09/2026

The science-dialog manager acts at the interface between TERRA researchers, other large-scale research initiatives, and the public-relations and public-engagement team to enhance the visibility of the Cluster of Excellence. Find more on terra-cluster.org -> career or use the qr-code for application.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 31/08/2026

We are looking for an Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d) for the cluster of excellence TERRA. If you are interested in Modeling of Global Biogeochemical Cycles you should join us and become part of the TERRA family. nc-terra.guz.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php/s/...

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 17/08/2026

We are looking for a Public Relations Manager (m/f/d) for the cluster of excellence TERRA. For more information use the QR-Code or go to nc-terra.guz.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php/s/... If you are interested in public-relations activities you should join us and become part of the TERRA family.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 31/07/2026

📣We are looking for a junior research group leader on 'Modeling Global Biogeochemical Cycles' as part of TERRA @unituebingen.bsky.social ! Funding is available for the group lead, a PhD position, expenses and more! For more details scan the QR code or go to www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/tubi... 🌍.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 15/07/2026

Rice feeds over half the world, but paddy fields are increasingly contaminated with toxins. #TERRAnaut Andreas Kappler & an international team propose strategies to cut arsenic, cadmium & mercury uptake into grains, without costly soil replacement. #FoodSecurity #SoilScience #TERRA #Geomicrobiology

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 10/07/2026

The three winners of the #TERRA Poster Award at Pan-GLASS 2026 🏆 Nikolaus Papanikolaou (MPI Jena) María Perez (Geophysical Institute of Peru) Devosmita Sen (IISER Pune) Congrats to all three! Great days of exchange on land-atmosphere interactions in Stuttgart. #PanGLASS2026 #TERRAAward

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 08/07/2026

A short time ago, our speaker @michaeladippold.bsky.social presented TERRA, who we are, what we do, snd what we stand for, at the Geosymposium at the GUZ (@unituebingen.bsky.social).

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 08/07/2026

Come and find TERRA at Pan-GLASS 2026 by @gewex.bsky.social and hosted by @unihohenheim.bsky.social in Stuttgart.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 02/07/2026

A species can be numerous and still be losing genetic diversity. #TERRAnaut Debbie Leigh of @sgn.one and her team have developed a new method to make this invisible loss visible — and a framework of what we can do about it. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biag042 #Biodiversity #Conservation #TeamTERRA

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 01/07/2026

🎙️ TERRAnauts Kira Rehfeld & Andreas Schweiger join „Exzellent erklärt" to talk soils, plants and climate — and the one-of-a-kind field experiment „Diversitorium". 🎧 exzellent-erklaert.podigee.io (German Language) | terra-cluster.org #exzellenterklaert #TeamTERRA #podcast

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 25/06/2026

Members of #TERRA 🌍, including our speaker @michaeladippold.bsky.social and our #FutureLab attended a Syntropic Agroforestry workshop at the Weidenhof Living Lab in Deggenhausertal.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 05/06/2026

Interested in #syntropic #agroforestry? The number of model systems in Germany is rare & co-application of #biochar is unique: The #TERRA #FutureLab supported initative, the #SynWei system, is just now successfully established: join interesting discussions & a field tour on 16.06 vrom 10 a.m. on

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 08/05/2026

📰 #TERRA made the news! The Schwäbische Tagblatt covered our TERRA Cluster of Excellence kick-off. Great to see public interest around what we're building: 7 years of research into terrestrial geo-biosphere interactions, starting now. 🌍 👉 www.swp.de/lokales/tueb...

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 07/05/2026

TERRA was at #EGU26, organized by @egu.eu, in Vienna, Austria. While several of our members were present, our speaker @michaeladippold.bsky.social and postdoc @khatababdalla.bsky.social presented some aspects of #TERRA and our approach to the wider scientific audience.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 30/04/2026

Day two of our amazing #TERRA 🌎 Kick-Off, meeting old and new friends and colleagues for a second day in a row.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 29/04/2026

Some impressions from our first day of the #TERRA Kick-Off. It was an amazing day. And day two is coming up.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 29/04/2026

Our #TERRA 🌎 Kick-Off is today and we're so giddy. The past couple of days and weeks have been a bit stressful but now we're finally there! We'll keep you posted! It's going to be #Excellent 💚

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 28/04/2026

Something excellent is launching tomorrow. 🌍 #TERRA — our Cluster of Excellence at @unituebingen.bsky.social — officially kicks off its first chapter. Can you guess what we plan to do with these soil samples at our Kick-Off?

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 15/04/2026

❄️The Arctic is thawing — and the plants moving in are making it worse. A research team within #TERRA🌍 studied the #Stordalen mire in #Sweden across a full growing season. As permafrost melts, grasses replace shrubs. They absorb CO₂ in summer — but drive far more methane by late season.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 09/04/2026

🌍 Come work with us! We're hiring a #Postdoc at the intersection of #TERRA and @mackelab.bsky.social — using deep learning & LLMs to model fire dynamics in regional-to-global vegetation models 🔥🌲

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 08/04/2026

We're hiring! The Faculty of Science at the @unituebingen.bsky.social is seeking candidates for a W1 Tenure-Track Professorship of Mineralogy of Weathering — embedded in our Cluster of Excellence #TERRA🌍. 🗓️ Application deadline: 01 June 2026 👉 Full posting: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 02/04/2026

🌱 Exciting news – @eco-future.bsky.social launched yesterday, April 1! Our #TERRA Future Lab is part of an effort to develope EcoFuture KAP4, a sustainable biochar-based fertilizer that closes local nutrient cycles for organic farming – funded by the @mwk-bw.bsky.social MWK Baden-Württemberg.🚜

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 14/03/2026

🌍 📰 Our friend and #TERRAnaut Madelaine Böhme was featured in the Mediengruppe Allgäuer Zeitung. She talked about an excavation at the Hammerschmiede, an ancient antilope skull, its significance, and about our cluster #TERRA. 👀 Highly recommended to read!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 13/03/2026

Do you want to join #TERRA? You're in luck, because the @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! The complete offer can be found under shorturl.at/0Aju0 We're looking forward to work with you!

Job Offer for a W3-Professorship of Experimental Biodiversity Research

The Faculty of Science at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a tenured
W3-Professorship.
If you work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes then you should join us and become a member of the TERRA family!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 11/03/2026

Our friend and #TERRA colleague Andreas Kappler and one of his PhD. students, Carolin Dreher, have published work on O2-producing Cyanobacteria and how they helped enriching the earths atmosphere with oxygen some 2,5 billion years ago. Amazing work!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 27/02/2026

The research shows how silicate and natural light–dark cycles helped early cyanobacteria survive iron-rich oceans — steadily producing the oxygen that changed our planet forever. Image source: Carolin Dreher, Jeremiah Shuster

Scanning electron microscope images of the spherical cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp. PCC7002 and the precipitated iron minerals.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 20/02/2026

Cute, isn't it? Now it's clear, the spiny dormouse was also in Europ. The site Hammerschmiede hosts an incredible enigmatic biodiversity amongst them the rodent with the bushy, spiny tale TERRA will fund the ongoing journey with @sgn.one to unravel the geo-drivers for this high vertebrate diversity

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 18/02/2026

Congratulations to Madelaine Böhme on being named Geoscientist of the Month in January 2026! The #TERRA team congratulates Madelaine on this well deserved recognition. We are proud to have her in our scientific community! www.dvgeo.org/kommunikatio...

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 13/02/2026

Don’t miss your chance to be part of #INQUA2027 in #Lucknow, India! We invite you to submit your abstract — especially for our scientific session on the #TERRA approach. 🗓 Submission deadline: February 15, 2026 🔗 Submit here: inquaindia2027.in/call-submissions Hurry up — time is running out!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 09/02/2026

there is another chance to #join #TeamTERRA! We have a nice longer than 3 years position in Frankfurt: #hiring Doctoral or postdoctoral position in Global Vegetation and Biome Modelling. For more information, see position 11-26003 at www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 14/01/2026

#hiring again, #JobAlert, #AcadmicJobs: you are looking for a #postdoctoral position in the field of machine learning? You love #biogeoscience? You want to understand the impact of #fire on #ecosystem processes? Your chance to join #TeamTERRA! Find the full job ad at uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483 😀

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 14/01/2026

#hiring again: you are looking for a postdoctoral position in the field of machine learning? You love Biogeoscience? Your chance to join #TeamTERRA! Find the full job ad at: www.terra-cluster.org -> career

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 14/01/2026

Next option to join #TeamTERRA: You are looking for a postdoctoral position in the field of machine learning? You are interested in Biogeoscience? Than find your option with TERRA!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 23/12/2025

Great Christmas opportunity if you search for a #PhD position in environmental sciences: #TERRA is searching for 15 doctoral students filling our first 5 Focus Unit (FUN) projects with life. Full post with all links here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483. MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR from #TeamTERRA

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 18/12/2025

#hiring again: We are looking for a Science-Dialog Manager (m/f/d; E 13 TV-L, 50%). You like to built networks? You are interested in large scale initiatives? You can communicate science? Become part of our #TeamTERRA! Find the full application also at www.terra-cluster.org -> career

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 23/11/2025

Great Event: 25 years Geoecology @unituebingen.bsky.social: Thanks @bossdorf.bsky.social for 👍 organization, V. Mosbrugger (@sgn.one) & @chriswernerlab.bsky.social (@uni-freiburg.de) for their inspiring talks on systems solutions & R. Drews @geophys-tuebingen.bsky.social for Department introduction👏

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 22/11/2025

#hiring again! We are looking for the Technical Assistant to make our field experiment of the #Diversitorium running. Located at #IhingerHof at the @unihohenheim.bsky.social you can take the chance to join #TeamTERRA!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 11/11/2025

#TERRAnauts on a field trip to Schröcken (Vorarlberg, Austria) to investigate a site for a collaborative TERRA project on greenhouse gas emissions from Alpine #peatlands. This is one of 6 consortia preparing so-called Focus UNits (FUN) for TERRA's first round of internal projects to start next April

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 08/11/2025

Event of the Day: Brewing the TERRA Kick-off Beer with, at & by Ronny Schöneberg: A dark stout - perfect for the cold season - and just ready when #TERRA will come to life in January. Very much looking forward to tasting this product of TERRA's first "microbial incubation at intermediate scale" 🍻🍺

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 20/10/2025

90 participants at the Groundwater Symposium Tübingen OAC60 @unituebingen.bsky.social have celebrated our speaker Olaf Cirpka on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The #TERRA Team is wholehearted congratulating 🍾 (& wishes Olaf a lot of future fun guiding our @terra-cluster.org to a success).

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 10/10/2025

Just wrapped up our DIVERSITORIUM advisory meeting – thanks to our guests: Scott Collins, @clausbeier.bsky.social, @panemma.bsky.social, Bernhard Schmid, @inesmulder.bsky.social, Kai-Uwe Totsche, @holgerpagel.bsky.social, Hans-Peter Piepho & Christian Poll THANKS for all your great suggestions!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 09/10/2025

JOB ALERT: Become our #TERRA #DIVERSITORIUM manager @unihohenheim.bsky.social. If you have extraordinary coordination skills & feel dedicated to bring the first large-scale #geodiversity manipulation experiment to a global success: Please apply & become a #TERRAnaut, see uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 08/10/2025

Really cooool: our first #TERRA science event - the FUN workhop: With lots of fun we just work out our FUNs (Focus Units) for collabortive PhD projects at the interface of Geo- and Biosciences in Gäufelden. Stay tuned which FUNs will be positively reviewed & will soon start the #PhD hiring process!

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 05/10/2025

To all potential future #TERRAnauts: keep in mind that our next cluster-call for positions has less than 2 weeks till deadline: We search for dedicaded writer, geoscientific lab rats & researchers, who's heart beats for bioinformatics. Apply, and @unituebingen.bsky.social may become your new home 😀.

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 20/09/2025

What a crazy week: While Ronja Ratzbor introduced TERRA at the @unituebingen.bsky.social PostDoc days, Olaf Cirpka went to the #Geo4Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de, and Kira Rehfeld & @michaeladippold.bsky.social introduced TERRA to the @soilsdbg.bsky.social at the #DBG2025. Tasks perfectly shared 👍

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 14/08/2025

Bringing research fields together on a TERRA field trip to the fossil-rich site 'Hammerschmiede' (udo.pforzen.de) in Bavaria/Pforzen. M. Böhme from @unituebingen.bsky.social and SHEP @sgn.one and her team guided us through the excavation site with fossils from an extraordinary biodiversity.

M. Böhme explaining the excavation site.

A view into the clay pit with the excavation site.

Steep face of the clay pit with different layers visible.

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