Category: HIGH-Tech

There are only a few instruments used at ATTO that have a story as exciting as this one. A story full of ups and downs, full of success, but also full of problems, challenges, and many lessons learned. It involved so many people from the first idea, to planning, construction, testing, troubleshooting, and finally scientific measurements. I am talking about the Robotic Lift, also called RoLi, a research platform for vertical profile measurements on the ATTO Tower.

Stefan Herdy is a Data Scientist and Software Developer at this University Graz. At ATTO, he set up small, remote stations to monitor the rainforest’s microclimate and atmospheric dynamics.

Nelson Dias shares how using the programming language Chapel helps him to analyze atmospheric turbulence above the Amazon rainforest. Chapel is a programming language designed for productive parallel computing at scale.

The Amazon rainforest has an enormous turnover of greenhouse gases. The only way to find out how this turnover will develop over time is to measure it regularly. Therefore, my colleagues and I, recently installed a flask sampler set-up to automatically collect air samples to establish a time series of greenhouse gas measurements at ATTO. My name is Markus Eritt, I am a laboratory head at the ICOS Central Analytical Laboratory in Jena, which is located at the MPI-BGC.

Hello, I am Adriana Simonetti. I just finished my Master in Tropical Forest Sciences at the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA). I quantified canopy gaps in the Amazon from aerial photographs collected during repeated drone flights. I deeveloped this techinque in the scope of the ATTO project, under the supervision of Dr Daniel Marra.