CTCD connections with ESA Earth Explorer Mission
The European Space Agency recently announced its shortlist of six new mission proposals, from which one will be selected for launch as the fourth Earth Explorer Core mission during the first half of the next decade. Top of the shortlist is the BIOMASS mission, led by Dr Thuy Le Toan of CESBIO and Shaun Quegan, Director of CTCD. This mission aims to provide global measurements of forest biomass using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar. For further information click here.

CTCD is also involved (via members of staff at UCL) in the FLEX (FLuorescence EXplorer) mission, which aims to observe global photosynthesis through the measurement of fluorescence .

Carbon Fusion meeting, Edinburgh
This international meeting was hosted by CTCD in May 2006. The Carbon Fusion project's main objective is to determine how data assimilation can generate improved insights into the processes underlying the terrestrial C cycle, and thence enhance our prognostic capabilities.
See Carbon Fusion website http://www.carbonfusion.org/

GEM Software and Training Courses
GEM-SA is the first stage of the GEM project to develop software for quantifying and analysing the uncertainty in the outputs of complex models. The software is freely available for non-commercial use. A course entitled "Uncertainty in Environmental Process Models" was given twice in March 2005, to train environmental scientists in the use of GEM-SA. We intend to give this course again, depending on demand (and not necessarily to restrict it to environmental models). Anyone who might wish to attend such a course should register their interest with Mari Bullock on m.bullock@shef.ac.uk

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