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CHANGE at the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Bern!

— Taiqi, Filippo, Felix, and Fred presented our work on T&C-BG-2D, wetland ecogeomorphology, and the SMART-AGRI and SOCscape projects!

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Massimiliano Lippa joins the lab!

— Max just joined CHANGE as a visiting PhD student. He will work on drounght impacts on viticulture! Welcome Max!

For her master’s project, Juliette Salles wanted to project into the unknown future. 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Will corn still be a worthwhile crop in Europe in 2100?

— Juliette Salles set out to answer this question for her EPFL master’s project in environmental sciences and engineering. The project was a perfect fit for the recent graduate, who enjoys gleaning insights from data and believes in conducting research with a purpose.

Conceptual diagram showing the structure of the T&C‐BG‐2D model and the main ecohydrological and soil biogeochemical processes included (from Lian et al., 2025)

T&C-BG-2D: a new model to describe spatial carbon/nutrient patterns

— A recent article, led by PhD student Taiqi Lian and published in Water Resources Research, introduces a novel modeling framework to assess spatial patterns of soil carbon and nutrient dynamics in landscapes of complex topography!

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Career Development Workshop

— On September 8th, before the ENAC Research Day, the ENAC Diversity Office organised the 1st edition of the Career Development Workshop aimed at Doctoral Students and Postdocs.

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Taiqi Lian as ISMC Featured Soil Modeler!

— Take a look at Taiqi's interview as August 2025 Featured Soil Modeler by the Iinternational Soil Modeling Consortium (ISMC)!

© 2025 EPFL - From left to right: Z. Zhang (ICL), R. Gu (ICL), S. Bonetti (EPFL), J. Buckley-Paules (ICL), F. Bauer (EPFL), D. Bartley (ICL), A. Paschalis (UCY, ICL), Q. Sun (EPFL)

Ecohydrological modeling workshop in Cyprus!

— An exciting week at the University of Cyprus discussing ecohydrological modeling and future plans for our SNSF SMART-AGRI project!

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CHANGE Lab at the ISMC – GEWEX SoilWat Meeting 2025

— Taiqi presented our work on assessing the role of topography and small-scale soil features in catchment-scale ecohydrological processes.

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Bejamin Kargère starts his PhD at CHANGE!

— CHANGE has a new PhD student – after completing his master thesis in our lab, Ben started his PhD journey!

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The SOCscape field campaign kicks off in the Swiss Alps!

— With the beginning of the summer season, Fred has started the field campaign in Val d'Arolla and Vallon the Nant as part of the SNSF-funded project SOCscape (assessing soil carbon dynamics in landscapes of complex topography).

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CHANGE Lab showcases FRAME protocol at ORD workshop

— Felix presented our work on applying FAIR principles to hybrid models.

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CHANGE Lab at the 2025 Pint of Science Lausanne!

— In a night dedicated to food and sustainability, Sara gave a talk on sustainable agriculture… and its many shades of green!

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First SOCscape project meeting in Sion!

— The first in-person meeting of the SOCscape project project took place at ALPOLE on 19.05.2025 – a lot of interesting and engaging discussions on soil carbon dynamics in Alpine landscapes!

From Reinecke et al., 2025 - https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70025

Review on global water models uncertainties published in WIREs Water

— Global water models allow us to explore the terrestrial water cycle in Earth-sized digital laboratories. In our review, we identify primary sources of uncertainties and discuss how they can guide future model development.

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CHANGE at EGU General Assembly 2025

— Members of CHANGE lab presented their work at the 2025 EGU General Assembly!

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CHANGE Lab at the 25th Swiss Global Change Day

— Francesca presented our work on climate change impacts on Swiss crop suitability at the 2025 Swiss Global Change Day in Bern!

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Frédéric and Concetta joined the lab!

— CHANGE has two new lab members: welcome Fred and Concetta!

Agrivoltaics pilot plant at Heggelbach Farm in Germany - Tobi Kellner, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Modeling ecohydrological dynamics in agrivoltaic systems

— Our new paper on "Controls of Ecohydrological Grassland Dynamics in Agrivoltaic Systems" has just been published in Earth's Future!

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Felix Bauer and Xinyi Luo join CHANGE!

— Felix joined CHANGE as a PhD student, while Xinyi will stay with us for one year as a visiting PhD student! Welcome both!

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Green Academy seminar: Food, from land to data

— Sara gave a seminar on "Crop Production, Climate, and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities" at the 5th edition of the Green Academy seminar series

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