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Ana Stritih successfully completed her PhD on “Risk-Based Assessments of Ecosystem Services. Addressing Uncertainty in Mountain Forest Management”
In her thesis, Ana developed methods to account for uncertainty in assessments of ecosystem services (ES) using Bayesian Networks. She integrated remote sensing data, existing process-based and empirical models, and expert knowledge to model and map forest ES in the Swiss Alps.
Reto Spielhofer successfully completed his PhD on «Optimal Swiss Renewable Energy Landscapes»
The goals of Reto’s PhD project were to conduct a physiological laboratory experiment to better understand people’s perception of landscape changes through renewable energy systems, and to show how an evolutionary optimization algorithm can inform policy-makers in leveraging various planning policies to optimize wind energy production.
Another PLUS writing week in Saas Almagell
After one-and-a-half year of intermittent home office and Covid-lockdowns, the PLUS writing week could finally take place again. In the last week of June 2021, 25 PLUS members returned to the Saas Valley for a great week of writing proposals or publications, discussions and social events.