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Welcome Coffee ☕
8:30am - 9:00am
Aula
Location: Aula
Exploiting Novel Indicators for Vegetation Stress detection
9:00am - 10:30am
Aula
MaPilar Cendrero-Mateo, Albert Porcar-Castell
Location: Aula
Session Chair: MaPilar Cendrero-Mateo, University of Valencia
Session Chair: Albert Porcar-Castell, University of Helsinki
9:00am - 9:15am

SIF to measure actual photosynthesis and vegetation stress - lessons learned from 20 years of research in preparation of the FLEX satellite mission

Uwe Rascher1, Juliane Bendig1, Jim Buffat1, Roberto Colombo2, David Herrera1, Deepthi Konche1, Shizue Matsubara1, Onno Muller1, Juan Quiros1, Saja Salattna1, Bastian Siegmann1

1: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 2: University Milano Biccoca, Italy



9:15am - 9:30am

The Role of Species-Specific Physiology and Diurnal Phase in Interpreting Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence

Sebastian Wieneke1,2, Ana Bastos1,2, Gregory Duveiller3, Teja Kattenborn4, Javier Pacheco-Labrador5, Ronny Richter2,6, Christian Wirth2,6, Miguel D. Mahecha1,2,7

1: Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany; 2: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle–Jena–Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; 3: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), Jena 07745, Germany; 4: Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79106, Germany; 5: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), Spanish National Research Council (IEGD-CSIC), Madrid, Spain; 6: Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 04107, Germany; 7: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig 04318, Germany



9:30am - 9:45am

Activities and outcomes of the FLEX-ITA project airborne and ground campaigns

Karolina Sakowska1, Federico Carotenuto1, Lorenzo Genesio1, Lina Fusaro1, Silvia Baronti1, Francesca Ugolini1, Chiara Torresan1, Aldo Dal Prà1, Jose Luis Pancorbo1, Mustafa Elfahl1, Franco Miglietta1, Loris Vescovo2, Matthew Haworth3, Giulia Atzori3, Uwe Rascher4, Bastian Siegmann4, Patrick Rademske4, Michele Faralli5, Sara Ammanniti5, Sara Venafra6, Alessandro Peressotti7, Jan Hanuš8, Karel Holouš8, Tomáš Fabiánek8, Denise Cinellu9, Roberto Colombo9, Giulia Tagliabue9, Micol Rossini9, Sergio Cogliati9

1: National Research Council, Institute for BioEconomy (CNR-IBE), Italy; 2: Edmund Mach Foundation, TN, Italy; 3: National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Italy; 4: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 5: University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Italy; 6: Italian Space Agency, Italy; 7: University of Udine, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Italy; 8: Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences-CzechGlobe, Brno, Czech Republic; 9: University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences DISAT, Italy



9:45am - 10:00am

Exploring the Nonlinear Relationship Between Photosynthesis and Chlorophyll Fluorescence Dynamics for Early Stress Detection

MaPilar Cendrero-Mateo1,2, Cynthia Chardí-Raga1, J.Cesar Marchante-Cambron1, Shari Wittenberghe1, Sara Pescador-Dionisio1, Adrian Moncholí-Estornell1, MaJose López-Galiano3, Begoña Renau-Morata4, Jose Moreno Mendez1

1: Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Spain; 2: Desertification research center, Department of Ecology and Global Change, Spain; 3: Department of Genetics, University of Valencia, Spain; 4: University Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of Valencia, Spain



10:00am - 10:15am

Tracing Changes in Subsurface Water Storage Through a Novel Satellite-Based Time-Series of Far-Red Solar-Induced Fluorescence Quantum Efficiency

David Herrera1, Uwe Rascher1, Alexandre Belleflamme2, Bastian Siegmann1

1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, IBG-2, Germany; 2: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, IBG-3, Germany



10:15am - 10:30am

Sun-induced fluorescence derived canopy level interactive effects of elevated CO₂ and Cercospora leaf spot on photosynthesis in field-grown sugar beet

Deepthi Konche1, Anna Jacobs2, Juan Manuel Romero1, Facundo Ramón Ispizua Yamati2, Naveen Kumar Gangaraju2, Anne-Katrin Mahlein2, Uwe Rascher1, Onno Muller1

1: Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 2 (IBG-2), Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 2: Institute of Sugar Beet Research, Göttingen, Germany

Coffee Break
10:30am - 11:00am
Aula
Location: Aula
Understanding the Carbon and Water Cycles using Fluorescence Data
11:00am - 1:00pm
Aula
Catherine Morfopoulos, Uwe Rascher
Location: Aula
Session Chair: Catherine Morfopoulos, Imperial College London
Session Chair: Uwe Rascher, Forschungszentrum Jülich
11:00am - 11:15am

Monitoring photosynthetic quantum yield through non-photochemical quenching, from laboratory to field: integrating canopy fluorescence, reflectance, and GPP.

Adrián Moncholí-Estornell1, Mª Pilar Cendrero-Mateo1, Eva Neuwirthová1, Clara García-Martinez1, Sara Pescador-Dionisio1, Insu Yeon1, César Guerrero1, Ana López-Ballesteros2, Álvaro Doblas-Rodrigo2, Arnaud Carrara3, Pedro J. Gómez-Giráldez4, Joaquín Cobos4, Marcos Jiménez5, Juan José Peón5, Georg Wohlfahrt6, José Moreno1, Shari Van Wittenberghe1

1: Laboratory for Earth Observation, Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Spain; 2: Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon (CITA), Spain; 3: Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM), Spain; 4: Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), Spain; 5: National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Spain; 6: Department of Ecology, Universität Innsbruck, Austria



11:15am - 11:30am

Beyond Photosystem II: How Photosystem I Dynamics Regulate Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Photosynthesis in a Rice Paddy

Huaize Feng1, Youngryel Ryu1,2, Elias Kaiser3,4, Minseok Kang5, Jeongho Lee1

1: Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; 2: Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3: Wageningen University, Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen, Netherlands; 4: Seoul National University, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul, South Korea; 5: Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University, South Korea



11:30am - 11:45am

Shared light absorption rather than physiological coupling explains the apparent SIF-GPP relationship at canopy scale across diverse ecosystems

Jeongho Lee1, Youngryel Ryu1,2, Huaize Feng1, Nanghyun Cho3

1: Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; 2: Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3: National Forest Satellite Information & Technology Center, National Institute of Forest Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea



11:45am - 12:00pm

Atmospheric dryness effects on canopy chlorophyll fluorescence and Gross Primary Production (GPP) in a deciduous forest during heat waves

Zhaohui Li1, Gabriel Hmimina2, Gwendal Latouche1, Daniel Berveiller1, Abderrahmane Ounis2, Yves Goulas2, Kamel Soudani1

1: Ecologie Société Evolution (ESE), Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Sorbonne Université, IPSL, CNRS, École polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France



12:00pm - 12:15pm

SIF-MIP Phase 2: Multi-Model Evaluation of SIF and GPP Simulations in Evergreen Forests

Haoran Liu

Imperial College London, United Kingdom



12:15pm - 12:30pm

Analyzing the global role of TROPOMI-derived SIF and Sentinel-3 fundamental vegetation traits as proxy predictors in GPP models

Pablo Reyes-Muñoz, Yuxin Zhang, Emma De Clerk, Jochem Verrelst

University of Valencia, Spain



12:30pm - 12:45pm

Tower-Based SIF Monitoring of Drought-Stressed Scots Pine Photosynthesis

Ingo Ensminger1, Kristen Huang1, Vincent Riedel1, Giovanni Bortolami2, Jonas Gisler3, Marcus Schaub3, Tommaso Julitta4, Arthur Gessler3

1: University of Toronto, Department of Biology, Mississauga, Canada; 2: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 3: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland; 4: JB Hypersepctral Devices GmbH, Dusseldorf, Germany



12:45pm - 1:00pm

A Carbon-Water Cycle Reanalysis to Reconcile Earth Observations, Benchmark Models, and Advance Earth Science Understanding and Prediction

Nicholas Parazoo1, Eren Bilir2, Anthony Bloom1, Junjie Liu1, Renato Braghiere3

1: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2: University of California, Los Angeles; 3: California Institute of Technology

FLEX data for studying Inland and Coastal Waters
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Aula
Marco Celesti, Christiaan van der Tol
Location: Aula
Session Chair: Marco Celesti, European Space Agency
Session Chair: Christiaan van der Tol, University of Twente
2:30pm - 2:45pm

FLEX mission data for inland water research: Insights from studies in Swiss lakes

Alexander Damm1,2, Remika Gupana1,2,3, Loé Maire1,2, Daniel Odermatt1,2

1: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology, Surface Waters – Research and Management, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland; 3: Marine Science Institute University of the Philippines, Quezon City 1101, Philippines



2:45pm - 3:00pm

he PHY2FLEX project: PHYsiology and species mapping of global water PHYtoplankton from FLEX-Sentinel 3 synergy, focus on the top-of-atmosphere hyperspectral signature including the sun-induced fluorescence

Tristan Harmel1, Soham Mukherjee1, Martin Hieronymi2, Rüdiger Röttgers2, Claudia Giardino3, Mariano Bresciani3, Lodovica Panizza3, Vittorio Brando4, Sabine Marty5, Marco Celesti6

1: Earth Observation Unit, Magellium, France; 2: Department of Optical Oceanography, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany; 3: Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, CNR, Milano, Italy; 4: Institute of Marine Sciences, CNR, Rome, Italy; 5: Department of Oceanography, NIVA, Oslo, Norway; 6: European Space Agency, ESA-ESTEC, the Netherlands



3:00pm - 3:15pm

Aquatic product validation of the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission (AquaValiX)

Martin Hieronymi1, Astrid Bracher2, Peter Gege3, Anna Goeritz4, Rüdiger Röttgers1

1: Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany; 2: Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) / University of Bremen, Germany; 3: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 4: University of Freiburg, Germany

Thinking beyond state-of-art: novel applications for FLEX data
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Aula
Marco Celesti, Christiaan van der Tol
Location: Aula
Session Chair: Marco Celesti, European Space Agency
Session Chair: Christiaan van der Tol, University of Twente
3:15pm - 3:30pm

Development and validation of an approach to quantify maximum photosynthetic capacity of terrestrial plants from FLEX mission products

Jennifer Johnson1, Percy Macek1, Danny Campbell1, Hannah Reid1, Brynn Cruce1, David Martini1,2, Ian Baker3, Min Chen4, Christian Frankenberg5, Fabienne Maignan2, Zbynek Malenovsky6, Nick Parazoo7, Tristan Quaife8, Alistair Rogers9, Youngryel Ryu10, Georg Wohlfahrt11, Yelu Zeng12, Yongguang Zhang13, Joseph Berry14

1: University of Kansas, United States; 2: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France; 3: Colorado State University, United States; 4: University of Wisconsin, United States; 5: California Institute of Technology, United States; 6: University of Bonn, Germany; 7: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; 8: University of Reading, United Kingdom; 9: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States; 10: Seoul National University, South Korea; 11: Universität Innsbruck, Austria; 12: China Agricultural University, China; 13: Nanjing University, China; 14: Carnegie Institution, United States



3:30pm - 3:45pm

Linking Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions in low Arctic Tundra: A Field Spectroscopy Approach

Federico Grillini1, Simon Nyboe Laursen1, Amy Samantha Smart2, Peiyan Wang1, Shunan Feng1, Juliane Bendig3, Andreas Westergaard-Nielsen1

1: Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen; 2: Center for Volatile Interactions, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen; 3: Institute for Bio-and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH



3:45pm - 4:00pm

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Coffee Break
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Aula
Location: Aula
Non-Hosted Dinner
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Restaurant Oliveto
Location: Restaurant Oliveto
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Restaurant Oliveto

AMERON Bonn Hotel Königshof
Adenauerallee 9
53111 Bonn
Lunch Break
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Poster Session
4:30pm - 6:00pm