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In early May, I travelled to Oslo for the BVDA Data Week and the SAGE General Assembly. While the initial consolidation phase was not without its challenges, the project to build the Green Deal Data Space (GDDS) is now making good progress on several fronts. To… Read More

Project Details Project run time: Jan 26 to Dec 29, 2026 Aim: Develop a user-friendly, spatially explicit, and probabilistic Decision Support System (DSS) Budget: CHF 400'000 Background Climate change is reshaping forests across Central Europe. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, recurring storms, and large-scale disturbances such as bark beetle outbreaks are… Read More

The effects of climate change create great challenges for our forests. Droughts, fires, storms, and pests are all on the rise, and existing forestry know-how is often no longer enough to set our woods up for a secure and climate-resilient future. This is where the FutureForest project comes in. Read More

Forests are messy, models are wrong. Numerical models are amazing. They are clean, logical, and reassuringly mathematical. But as George Box reminds us, “all Models are wrong, but some are useful”. This is especially true for dynamic, ecological systems such as forests. Forest development is difficult to predict. When… Read More