GREENCYCLESII: A European Initial Training Network on anticipating climate change and biospheric feedbacks within the Earth system to 2200

GREENCYCLESII is a European Marie Curie FP7 Initial Training Network which aims to improve current understanding of the impacts of climate-biogeochemistry feedbacks on the evolution of the Earth system over the next two centuries and foster the next generation of Earth system scientists. The project started in 2010 and 15 European research centres in 8 different countries are collaborating to provide training for 30 network fellows. Workshops, mini-conferences, and a summer school have brought the fellows together with senior scientists to discuss and learn about the Earth system and current scientific efforts. Each fellow is undertaking a jointly-supervised science project, and these are yielding major advances in our ability to model the coupled Earth system. GREENCYCLESII has a particular focus on the role of biological processes within the global carbon cycle. Work packages cover the themes of global datasets for model benchmarking, marine processes, terrestrial processes, high-latitude feedbacks, and coupled modelling. This poster will highlight a selection of the key scientific findings that have arisen from the network so far.