PhD student Si Chen study visit to University of Helsinki

The LiWeFoR Wetland Forest Research Summer School brought together partners from UT, UH, and KIT, as well as collaborators from IIAP/UNAP, TROPI, and guest scholars. During the event, skills, knowledge, and stories were shared on carbon and nutrient fluxes in swamp and bog forests worldwide through lectures and presentations. The event finished with an excursion to several field stations in southern Estonia.

The LiWeFoR Wetland Forest Research Summer School brought together the three LiWeFoR partners, University of Tartu (UT), University of Helsinki (UH), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), as well as mutual collaborators from Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP)/National University of the Peruvian Amazon (UNAP), Sarawak Tropical Peat Research Institute (TROPI), and guest scholars from University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, studying wetland forests and GHGs. During the event, skills, knowledge, and stories were shared on carbon and nutrient fluxes in swamp and bog forests worldwide through lectures and presentations from all participating organizations.

The UT team invited the Estonian Doctoral School to serve as an event partner, broadening the audience of PhD students from other Estonian universities and sharing the experience of the LiWeFoR team. Therefore, PhD students from the Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMÜ) and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) were represented.

The Summer School was held in scenic Pühajärve, South Estonia (Pühajärve Hotel and Conference Centre, https://www.pyhajarve.com/en/conference-centre ) during 25–29 June 2024 (incl. arrival and departure dates). Summer school finished with an excursion to several field stations in southern Estonia, where various experimental approaches and methods were demonstrated.