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All Partners | | | Short name | PIK | | | English name | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | | | National name | Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung | | | Addres | Telegrafenberg A 31, 14412 Potsdam, | | | City & Country | Potsdam | | | | Germany  | | | English link | http://www.pik-potsdam.de/pik_web/index_html | | | National link | http://www.pik-potsdam.de/pik_web/index_html_d | | | | |  The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is a
government-funded research institute (approx. 170 scientific staff
members) with the main role of targeting problems related to global
change.
Current projects address questions of the overall stability of the
Earth System, vulnerability of ecological and social systems to
possible change, and the interactions between natural and social
spheres. After ten years of existence, the institute is now widely
recognised as a main contributor to these fields. PIK scientists play
central roles in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
(IGBP), occupy several critical authorship functions for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) and directly advise
the German Federal Government on global change issues. PIK presently
holds several major research grants from the European Union, notably in
the area of ecosystem dynamics.
The PIK Department of Global Change and Natural Systems (about 40
scientific staff) focuses on environmental change impacts on forestry,
agriculture and water resources, and on interactions between such
impacts and the atmosphere at the global scale. Such impacts are
studied under continuous involvement of stakeholders and in the context
of decision-making processes within the coupled-human-environment
systems. Research activities are focused on model development, and on
the analysis of available data from experimental campaigns, data
collection network and satellite remote sensing. EU projects presently
being carried out in the department include ATEAM (Advanced Terrestrial
Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling, http://www.pik-potsdam.de/ateam/), AVEC (Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystems under Global Change, http://www.pikpotsdam. de/avec/), and SilviStrat (Silvicultural Response Strategies to Climatic Change in Management of European Forests, http://www.efi.fi/projects/silvistrat/).
RESEARCH TEAM: Wolfgang Cramer, Franz Badeck, Dagmar Schröter
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Badeck Franz W. | | | | |
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Costa Luis | | | | |
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Cramer Wolfgang | | | | |
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Vohland Katrin | | | | |
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