We are happy to welcome two new project coordinators for the GreenGaDe project to our working group. Juliane Christ and Dr. Juliane Helm joined the GreenGaDe team to support the overall coordination and management of the project with team members from West-Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger) and from the University of Kassel.

Juliane Christ completed her Bachelor's degree in the interdisciplinary study program Humans and the Environment - Psychology, Communication, Economics at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU; formerly the University of Koblenz-Landau) and is currently still a student in the Master's programme Ecology, Evolution, Conservation at the University of Potsdam. In her Master's thesis she is investigating the loss of ecological knowledge in the rural areas of Zambia and Namibia. Her main areas of interest are human-wildlife conflicts, greenhouse gas emissions and the implementation of future-oriented nature conservation concepts with the involvement of local population.

Dr. Juliane Helm finished her PhD in Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena (Germany) in June 2023. Her research focused on tree physiology, studying stem respiration and carbon dynamics in mature trees in Germany. Her PhD work was based on a method development, continuous field measurements and laboratory experiments. Juliane finished her Master’s degree in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. During her master thesis, she investigated the recovery of Mediterranean steppe vegetation after cultivation.