IsoCycles 2017

The IsoCycles 2017 Organizing Committee gladly welcomed you to the conference "IsoCycles 2017" (October 15 to 20, 2017), held at the external page Conference Centre Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, the venue of choice for Congressi Stefano Franscini, the international conference platform of ETH Zurich.

The improvement of analytical techniques and the substantial increase in the number of laboratories with the instrumentation required to perform isotopic measurements have boosted the number of studies using stable isotopes.

Stable isotopes of C, N, and S, and recently of oxygen (O) bound to P in phosphate, are powerful tools to trace sources, track transfers, and understand abiotic and biological processes and transformations of nutrients in the environment. However, although the biogeochemical cycles of individual nutrients are closely coupled, only a limited number of studies has attempted to combine stable isotope analyses of multiple nutrient elements.

This combination of stable isotope analyses offers new opportunities to better understand the drivers and consequences of changes in nutrient stoichiometry across ecosystems. Advancing a coupled stable isotope research agenda in the important area of nutrient biogeochemistry is the opportunity we seek to exploit through the proposed conference.  

Organizing committee

This conference is the fruit of the joint effort of an international team of researchers from different fields, but all working with stable isotopes.

The scientific committee is composed by Emmanuel Frossard, Astrid Oberson and Federica Tamburini (Soil and plant nutrition, ETH Zurich), Ben Surridge (Aquatic ecosystems, Lancaster University), Samuel Abiven (Soil science, University of Zurich), and Carsten Schubert (Surface waters, EAWAG Kastanienbaum). Organization by Paolo Demaria (Demaria Event Management, Zurich).

Keynote Speakers and presentations

Nina Buchmann, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Download presentation here (PDF, 4.2 MB))

Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland (Download presentation here (PDF, 4.8 MB))

Christiane Werner, University of Freiburg, Germany

Johan Six, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Download presentation here (PDF, 5.1 MB))

Mathieu Sebilo, University Marie and Pierre Curie, France (Download presentation here (PDF, 2 MB))

Carol Kendall, USGS, USA

Clive Trueman, University of Southampton, UK

Andreas Richter, University of Vienna, Austria (for a copy of the presentation, please directly contact A. Richter)

Thomas Wutzler, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany (Download presentation here (PDF, 11.5 MB))

Emmanuel Frossard, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Download presentation here (PDF, 793 KB))

Final overview and outlook (Download presentation here (PDF, 1.1 MB))