ELLIS Unit Jena at EGU 2026
Overview of our team mebers with first authorship: posters, presentations including PICO sessions, as well as convened and co-convened sessions.
OUR POSTERS
EGU26-13632 | Posters on site | ITS1.8/CL0.2
Causal discovery from equation discovery
Gustau Camps-Valls, Roger Guimerà, Gherardo Varando, Emiliano Diaz, Kai-Hendrik Cohrs, and Marta Sales-Pardo
Mon, 04 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Hall X5 | X5.79
EGU26-2032 | ECS | Posters on site | GM1.2
Toward High-Resolution Mapping of Desert Pavements: Field Surveys and First Results from Namibia
Mohamed Bourriz and Alexander Brenning
Mon, 04 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Hall X3 | X3.40
EGU26-12073 | ECS | Posters on site | NH6.1
Can we use a Zero-Shot Learning Model for Shallow Landslide Detection? An Application of RemoteCLIP
Florian Strohmaier, Justus Tempel, and Alexander Brenning
Fri, 08 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Hall X3 | X3.16
EGU26-10408 | ECS | Posters on site | BG3.4
Towards Understanding the Inter-Annual Variation of Model Parameters Used to Simulate Gross Primary Productivity
Ranit De, Alexander Brenning, Markus Reichstein, Ladislav Šigut, Borja Ruiz Reverter, Mika Korkiakoski, Eugénie Paul-Limoges, Peter D. Blanken, T. Andrew Black, Bert Gielen, Torbern Tagesson, Georg Wohlfahrt, Leonardo Montagnani, Sebastian Wolf, Jiquan Chen, Michael Liddell, Ankur R. Desai, Sujan Koirala, and Nuno Carvalhais
Thu, 07 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Hall X1 | X1.32
EGU26-20782 | ECS | Posters on site | ESSI1.1
Neural Compression of Remote Sensing Data for the Pre-Training of Geospatial Foundation Models
Sebastian Hoffmann, Markus Zehner, Vitus Benson, Marieke Wesselkamp, Georg Martius, and Markus Reichstein
Mon, 04 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Hall X4 | X4.58
EGU26-19178 | ECS | Posters on site | HS3.5
A scalable, spatially distributed approach to runoff simulation and river routing
Basil Kraft, Martina Kauzlaric, Aeberhard William H., Zappa Massimiliano, and Gudmundsson Lukas
Tue, 05 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Hall A | A.56
EGU26-14168 | ECS | Posters on site | BG3.4
Drivers and patterns of forest above-ground biomass carbon losses in the conterminous USA
Guohua Liu, Shengli Tao, Laura Eifler, Philippe Ciais, and Ana Bastos
Thu, 07 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Hall X1 | X1.42
OUR PRESENTATIONS
EGU26-22994 | Orals | NH6.4
Integrating AI for Climate Resilience
Gustau Camps-Valls
Fri, 08 May, 16:20–16:40 (CEST) Room 1.31/32
EGU26-17483 | Orals | CL2.4
Global shifts in Earth’s seasonal green wave
Miguel Mahecha, Guido Kraemer, Martin Renhardt, David Montero, Fabian Gans, Ana Bastos, Hannes Feilhauer, Ida Flik, Chaonan Ji, Teja Kattenborn, Mirco Migliavacca, Milena Mönks, Johannes Quaas, Sebastian Sippel, Sophia Walther, Sebstian Wieneke, Christian Wirth, and Gustau Camps-Valls
Mon, 04 May, 17:25–17:35 (CEST) Room 0.14
EGU26-1406 | ECS | Orals | HS3.4
Bias-corrected pollution mapping with non-stationary geostatistics and spatial machine learning for environmental decision making: The case of groundwater nitrate
Jonathan Frank, Thomas Suesse, Shijie Jiang, and Alexander Brenning
Fri, 08 May, 11:10–11:20 (CEST) Room 2.31
EGU26-940 | ECS | Orals | BG2.4
Hybrid modeling of the active root zone storage and its capacity
Georgios Blougouras, Shijie Jiang, Alexander Brenning, Mirco Migliavacca, Louise Slater, Jialiang Zhou, Rohini Kumar, Lu Tian, Chao Wang, and Markus Reichstein
Wed, 06 May, 17:05–17:15 (CEST) Room 1.31/32
EGU26-12263 | ECS | Orals | HS2.4.3
Active root zone water storage dynamics reveal changes in ecosystem access to subsurface water
Shijie Jiang, Georgios Blougouras, and Markus Reichstein
Fri, 08 May, 14:25–14:35 (CEST) Room 2.17
EGU26-16670 | ECS | Orals | CL2.4
A novel data-driven phenology model reveals how and why seasonal timing shifts under climate change
Christian Reimers, Guohua Liu, Markus Reichstein, and Alexander Winkler
Mon, 04 May, 16:55–17:05 (CEST) Room 0.14
EGU26-20910 | ECS | Orals | BG9.7
Mechanistic Interpretability for Mapping Ecosystem Functioning
Vitus Benson, Martin Jung, Sebastian Hoffmann, Christian Reimers, Alexander Winkler, Qi Yang, and Markus Reichstein
Thu, 07 May, 15:35–15:45 (CEST) Room 1.14
EGU26-13111 | ECS | Orals | BG1.11
Simulating Forest Carbon-Water Fluxes in Land Surface Models through Eco-Evolutionary Optimality Principles
Jialiang Zhou, Nuno Carvalhais, Anke Hildebrandt, Sujan Koirala, and Shijie Jiang
Mon, 04 May, 11:55–12:05 (CEST) Room 1.85/86
EGU26-12361 | ECS | Orals | CL4.4
Causal disentangling of soil moisture and temperature feedbacks on surface climate extremes under vegetation change
Feini Huang, Gustau Camps-Valls, Alexander Winkler, Christian Reimers, Nuno Carvalhais, and Andrei Gavrilov
Wed, 06 May, 09:25–09:35 (CEST) Room F1
EGU26-1823 | ECS | Orals | BG9.4
Balancing Spatial, Spectral, and Temporal Information: Which Dimension Drives Deep Learning Performance in Forest Disturbance Classification?
Franziska Müller, Ana Bastos, and Gustau Camps-Valls
Fri, 08 May, 17:50–18:00 (CEST) Room N1
OUR PICO (Presenting Interactive Content) SESSIONS
EGU26-14584 | PICO | HS2.4.6
Event-based Attribution of the April 2022 Durban Flood
Sophie Biskop, Fabian Schreiter, Sven Kralisch, and Francois Engelbrecht
Fri, 08 May, 08:53–08:55 (CEST) PICO spot 4 | PICO4.9
EGU26-5757 | ECS | PICO | ITS1.15/NH13.1
Uncertainty-aware Spatiotemporal Inference of Landslide Events by Fusing Multimodal Social Media Information with Geographic Features
Bing Xu and Alexander Brenning
Thu, 07 May, 16:28–16:30 (CEST) PICO spot 4 | PICO4.5
OUR CONVENED SESSIONS
HS3.6
Explainable and hybrid machine learning for hydrology and land surface processes
Co-organized by ESSI1/NP4
Convener: Shijie JiangECS | Co-conveners: Ralf LoritzECS, Boen ZhangECS, Marieke WesselkampECS, Sanika BasteECS
Orals | Mon, 04 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) Room 2.17
Posters on site | Attendance Mon, 04 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) | Display Mon, 04 May, 08:30–12:30 Hall A
Posters virtual | Thu, 07 May, 14:21–15:45 (CEST) vPoster spot A, Thu, 07 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) vPoster Discussion
CL3.1.3 Attributing climate change, extreme events, and their impacts: quantifying contributions from external forcing, internal climate variability, and/or other drivers
Convener: Aglae JezequelECS | Co-conveners: Robin NoyelleECS, Paula RomanovskaECS, Rupert Stuart-Smith, Sebastian Sippel
Orals | Thu, 07 May, 08:30–12:25 (CEST), 14:00–15:40 (CEST) Room F1
Posters on site | Attendance Wed, 06 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) | Display Wed, 06 May, 08:30–12:30 Hall X5
ITS1.8/CL0.2 Machine Learning for Climate Science
Convener: Katharina HafnerECS | Co-conveners: Duncan Watson-ParrisECS, Tom BeuclerECS, Blanka BaloghECS, Gustau Camps-Valls
Orals | Mon, 04 May, 14:00–17:55 (CEST) Room C
Posters on site | Attendance Mon, 04 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) | Display Mon, 04 May, 08:30–12:30 Hall X5
CL5.10 AI-driven Forecasting for Weather, Climate, Extreme Events, and related Impacts
Co-organized by AS5
Convener: Ramon Fuentes-Franco | Co-conveners: Gabriele Messori, Sonia Seneviratne, Gustau Camps-Valls, Leonardo OlivettiECS
Orals | Wed, 06 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Room 0.31/32
Posters on site | Attendance Wed, 06 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST) | Display Wed, 06 May, 08:30–12:30 Hall X5
BG2.4 Novel methods for bridging understanding of carbon, nitrogen, and water fluxes from leaf to continental scales
Convener: Mana Gharun | Co-conveners: Pramit Kumar Deb BurmanECS, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Alexander J. WinklerECS, Kazuhito Ichii, Davide AndreattaECS, Inke Forbrich Orals | Wed, 06 May, 14:00–18:00 (CEST) Room 1.31/32
Posters on site | Attendance Wed, 06 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST) | Display Wed, 06 May, 08:30–12:30 Hall X1 Posters virtual | Tue, 05 May, 14:09–15:45 (CEST) vPoster spot 2, Tue, 05 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) vPoster Discussion
HS3.5 Deep Learning in Hydrology
Convener: Riccardo Taormina | Co-conveners: Frederik KratzertECS, Eduardo AcunaECS, Basil KraftECS, Maria-Luisa TaccariECS
Orals | Tue, 05 May, 08:30–12:30 (CEST) Room C
Posters on site | Attendance Wed, 06 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST) | Display Wed, 06 May, 08:30–12:30 Hall X1
Posters virtual | Tue, 05 May, 14:09–15:45 (CEST)
vPoster spot 2, Tue, 05 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) vPoster Discussion
ITS2.6/BG10.9 Climate change impacts on ecosystems: Disturbance regimes, extreme weather, vulnerability, and resilience
Convener: Chahan M. Kropf | Co-conveners: Sarah HülsenECS, Carmen B. SteinmannECS, Lina TeckentrupECS, Guohua LiuECS
Orals | Fri, 08 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Room 2.24
Posters on site | Attendance Fri, 08 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) | Display Fri, 08 May, 14:00–18:00 Hall X1
ITS4.4/CL0.11 Interdisciplinary approaches to addressing complex climate risks
Convener: Timothy Raupach | Co-conveners: Vitus BensonECS, Ben Newell, Jana Sillmann
Orals | Tue, 05 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Room -2.62
Posters on site | Attendance Tue, 05 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) | Display Tue, 05 May, 08:30–12:30 Hall X5
ITS1.10/BG10.6 Machine learning and hybrid modelling for carbon cycle science, monitoring and carbon market policy
Convener: Carlos Rodriguez-PardoECS | Co-conveners: Kasia Tokarska de los Santos, Amirpasha MozaffariECS, Vitus BensonECS, Kai-Hendrik CohrsECS
Orals | Thu, 07 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) Room -2.62
Posters on site | Attendance Thu, 07 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) | Display Thu, 07 May, 14:00–18:00 Hall X1