21/05/2026 News

CREAF research returns for another year at the EGU General Assembly

Communication Technician

Núria Coma Leal

Degree in Biology and master’s degrees in Biodiversity (UB) and Science Communication (VIU). With a vocation for bringing nature and science closer to all audiences with rigor and clarity.

What would happen if all research was kept in a drawer? Sharing scientific knowledge and knowing what is being done around the world is the impetus that pushes us to ask new questions and open up new lines of research.

At CREAF we are committed to collaborative science with the scientific community. And that is why our research staff swaps the laboratory for a 'microphone' at the various conferences and workshops that take place throughout the year.

An example is the General Assembly of the EGU , the European Geosciences Union, which brings together scientists from all over the world in a meeting that encompasses very broad and diverse topics, from climate science, ecology and geosciences, to the study of space and planets. The last congress, which was held in Vienna between 3 and 8 May, brought together many of the CREAF scientific community who were able to present their research through presentations, posters or seminars. Below is a summary:

Maurizio_Mencuccini_150

Maurizio Mencuccini

He has participated in the organization of the session Impacts of climatic extremes on plants and ecosystems across scales.

Smiling man with glasses, outdoors, in front of greenery.

Louis Fisher

He has participated in three sessions: the first, as organizer of the session of short oral presentations on the topic Innovative technologies using remote sensing data for water management applications

He also presented a brief and interactive exhibition of the project A web-based integrated Hydrosphere modeling system for scientists and decision-makers , in which several CREAF researchers participate.

The third participation was the presentation at the ESA stand with The HRLC CCI Project: More Than 30 Years of Time Series of High-Resolution Land Cover Maps for Climate Applications.

Woman with curly hair and glasses, looking at the camera.

Sara Maranon

He gave an oral presentation on the topic When Nitrogen Retention Fails: Carbon Losses in a Warming Arctic.

Woman with dark hair in a striped shirt, looking forward.

Jinyuan Yu

He presented the results of the research Warming enhances nitrogen priming of N20 emissions in subarctic soils under high nitrogen availability where Ana Leticia, Martina González and Sara Marañón also participate.

Woman with glasses smiling, wearing a rust-colored cardigan.

Maria Trinidad

He participated in the session on Drylands under global change with the presentation of Groundwater access does not ensure resilience: climate change effects in a groundwater-dependent ecosystem in the Mediterranean region .

Jordi Martinez Vilalta

Jordi Martinez-Vilalta

Woman smiling, wearing glasses, and a black sweater.

Ivette Serral

He has assisted with the poster How open and restricted data can coexist in a Data Space

She has also been one of the panelists in the session on Land Degradation and Natural Hazards: Entering the Critical Zone.

Guille Peguero

He presented the results of CREAF's E-TRAITS project: Deciphering the mechanisms underlying soil fauna-microbe interactions where other researchers such as Xavier Domene, Stefania Mattana, Dolores Asensio and Josep Pañuelas have also collaborated.

Young woman with long brown hair, smiling.

Margaux Didion-Gency

He took part in the session on Impacts of climatic extremes on plants and ecosystems across scales presenting the study: Predictions of the energy and carbon balance of Mediterranean shrub species under future climate scenarios

Smiling man in black sweater, forest background.

David Chaparro

Guillem Lloberas, CREAF

Guillem Lloberas

He has presented two posters: Reconstructing 400 years of streamflow in the upper Llobregat basin (Catalonia, Spain) using stable isotopes in tree rings and A long-term perspective of floods in the Spanish Mediterranean Basins from historical archives.

Josep Peñuelas

Although he did not attend in person, he participated in up to 13 communications presented throughout the day.