ICOS

Davos

CH-Dav
CH
1
2019-11-21
1
The station Davos, with ICOS code CH-Dav, is located in the eastern part of the Swiss Alps, in the canton of Graubunden. The site is an evergreen needleleaf forest in a sub-alpine ecosystem dominated by Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.). Trees in the footprint of the station are on average 17.5 m high, while the tallest trees reach 41 m. The average tree age is 119 years, the oldest tree is estimated to be 350 years old. Leaf area index of the forest is about 4 m2 m-2. The understorey vegetation is rather patchy, covering roughly 30% of the forest floor, and is mainly composed of dwarf shrubs, primarily Vaccinium myrtillus L. as well as mosses.
4.3 °C
876.0 mm
152.0 W/m2

Acknowledgements

Funder Award number Award Start date End date Comment
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) 20FI21_148992 ICOS-CH Phase 1 2013-07-01 2017-06-30
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) 20FI20_173691 ICOS-CH Phase 2 2017-07-01 2021-06-30
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) 200021_197357 COCO - COS and below-canopy CO2 fluxes of two Swiss forests: understanding land-atmosphere ecosystem exchange 2021-04-01 2024-04-01
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) 2022-01-01 2025-06-01
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) 20FI20_198227 ICOS-CH Phase 3 2021-07-01 2025-06-30
ETH Zurich 2005-01-01 2030-01-01

Current staff

Name Role (ICOS vocabulary) Start date
Thomas Baur Engineer 2018-11-05
Nina Buchmann Researcher 2022-06-23
Susanne Burri Researcher 2019-01-01
Sophia Etzold Administrator 2020-03-05
Iris Feigenwinter Principal Investigator 2022-09-01
Arthur Gessler Researcher 2018-11-05
Lukas Hortnagl Researcher 2022-09-01
Christian Hug Engineer 2018-11-05
Kathi Liechti Researcher 2018-11-05
Mauro Marty Researcher 2018-11-05
Philip Meier Engineer 2018-11-05
Tanja Stutz Engineer 2018-11-05
Flurin Sutter Engineer 2018-11-05
Anne Thimonier Rickenmann Researcher 2018-11-05
Volodymyr Trotsiuk Engineer 2021-03-16
Peter Waldner Researcher 2018-11-05
Micah Wilhelm Engineer 2024-01-01
Joachim Zhu Engineer 2022-01-01
Stephan Zimmermann Researcher 2017-01-01
Roman Zweifel Researcher 2018-11-05

Former staff

Name Role (ICOS vocabulary) Start date End date
Sophia Etzold Researcher 2018-11-05 2020-03-04
Werner Eugster Researcher 2018-11-05 2022-05-23
Iris Feigenwinter Researcher 2022-02-02 2022-08-31
Mana Gharun Principal Investigator 2018-11-05 2022-02-28
Lukas Hortnagl Researcher 2018-11-05 2022-02-07
Lukas Hortnagl Data Manager 2022-02-08 2022-02-28
Lukas Hortnagl Principal Investigator 2022-03-01 2022-08-31
Mattias Häni Engineer 2018-11-05 2019-12-31
Simpal Kumar Engineer 2018-11-05 2021-03-15
Roger Köchli Engineer 2018-11-05 2018-12-31
Maria Schmitt Oehler Researcher 2018-11-05 2024-01-01
Markus Staudinger Engineer 2021-04-12 2022-10-16
Marco Walser Engineer 2018-11-05 2018-12-31

Location

46.81533, 9.85591
1689 m
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