Register for Wetlands in Action Webinar 6

Registration for the Wetlands in Action Webinar Session 6 “Tools for Climate-Resilient Wetland Restoration” is now open!
The webinar takes place on 06 May 2026 from 10:00 – 11:30 CEST.

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This Webinar´s presentations and experts are:

ALFAwetlands: From Leaves to Litter: Measuring Aboveground Carbon Inputs and Losses in Wetland Soils – Jyrki Jauhiainen from Natural Resource Institute Finland, Luke, is a soil and peatland researcher whose career began with studies on nitrogen and carbon dioxide impacts on peat moss productivity across boreal and temperate regions. Since 1998, he carried out research in Southeast Asia, quantifying GHG fluxes, organic soil properties, and ecosystem dynamics in natural, drained, and restored tropical peatlands. His present research interests are on water management challenges in agricultural soils under a changing climate and the role of plant litter in sustaining peat carbon stores in hemiboreal and boreal regions.’
RESTORE4Cs: Interactive Platform and Toolbox – Christoph Schröder and Anis Guelmami. Christoph Schröder is project manager and geo-data specialist at the European Topic Centre for Spatial Analysis and Synthesis of the University of Malaga. With a background in Geography, he has expertise in Geographic Information Systems and land use/cover change analysis from local to global scale with particular interest in the Mediterranean. In the context of wetland research, he has managed different project related to wetland mapping, monitoring and assessment, most recently leading the work package on upscaling and data integration of the Horizon Europe Project RESTORE4Cs where he co-authored a pan-European coastal wetland ecosystem condition assessment and co-developed the European Coastal Wetlands Interactive Platform. Anis Guelmami is the coordinator of the Mediterranean Wetlands Observatory (MWO), based in the Research Institute for the Conservation of the Mediterranean Wetlands of the Tour du Valat (France). He has more than 15 years of experience in the development of Earth Observation (EO) based tools for the assessment and monitoring of wetlands in all Mediterranean countries. He is also involved in supporting national and local wetland practitioners in the implementation of global and regional conventions and policy frameworks related to these ecosystems (Ramsar, Sustainable Development Goals, The Convention on Biological Diversity, EU directives etc.). Last but not least, he is actively committed to promoting and transferring the tools developed by the MWO for monitoring wetlands (EO and non-EO), in particular through the organisation of training and capacity-building workshops with wetland practitioners, in English, French and Arabic.

Jyrki Jauhiainen

Christoph Schröder

Anis Guelmami

REWET: Improving the information available for the management of natural areas and ecological restoration to make them resilient to climate change – Dr Jaime Ribalaygua Batalla is the President and founder of the Climate Research Foundation and director and founder of Meteogrid, S.L. He holds a PhD in Forestry with an International Distinction and was awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Master’s degree in Environmental Impact Assessment and Remediation and Master’s degree in Theoretical and Applied Meteorology. 35 years’ experience in climate research and weather forecasting. He has participated in and/or coordinated dozens of national and international projects on climate research and its impacts on various sectors, such as biodiversity, hydrology, agriculture, urban planning and energy, amongst many others. He has extensive experience in climate research across Europe, in almost all Latin American countries and on all five continents.
WET HORIZONS: ServiPeat decision support tool / app for visualising spatial data products – Marta Stachowicz and Alessandro Gimona. Marta Stachowicz is a researcher affiliated with the Centre for Climate Research at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. She specializes in peatland hydrology, restoration, and the analysis of wetlands using field and remote sensing data. Her work focuses on assessing the effects of peatland drainage and rewetting in the context of climate change. Alessandro Gimona is an ecologist and a geographer, and works as Senior Landscape Scientist at the James Hutton Institute (UK). He is interested in understanding and modelling socio-ecosystems in a changing climate: therefore he deals with several components such as Ecosystem Services, Decision Support Tools, Woodland Expansion, Carbon Stocks, Digital Soil Mapping, Species Distributions, Spatial Planning, Earth Observation.