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A blind test at the end of the project reveals the sight of AI and scientists

The Thünen Institute of Wood Research was strongly represented at the Charter for Wood 2.0 in Dialogue event on 12.11.2024 in Berlin.

The study analyzed terpene emissions from Pinus sylvestris using NIR and compared them with the EN 16516 method. Prediction models for α-pinene and 3-carene showed good results.

On board the German sail training ship "Gorch Fock", not only sailors are being trained. For some years now, alternatives to natural forest teak have also been tested on the upper deck during operation. An interim assessment was made in Hamburg-Bergedorf.

The effect of changing climates on wood exposed in-ground

Collage of a wooden component, a map and text of the publication.

The publication in Environment International of 24.09.2024 describes dose-dependent positive effects of pine emissions on disease parameters of atopic dermatitis and dysbiosis.

Screenshot of the text of the publication

New review on the potential of nitrogen-enriched lignins and wood fibres as peat substitutes in horticultural substrates

Green City – Favourite Places in Hamburg. Under this motto, the NDR reported in its well-known series "Rund um den Michael" about the arboretum of the Thünen Institute in Bergedorf, a green oasis in the middle of the city.

Mountain sequoia and two other shrubs in the Thünen Institute arboretum

The Thünen Institute of Wood Research and the University of Hamburg present their current research results at the most important European wood chemistry congress.

Hamburg conference participants stand at a conference sign

Forensic biologists from eleven countries learn wood species identification at the Thünen Institute of Wood Research in Hamburg

A publication entitled "Charcoal in Anaerobic Digestion: Part 1-Characterization of Charcoal" was published in the C - Journal of Carbon Research on 26.08.2024.

Continuation of monitoring the test areas on the upper deck of Gorch Fock

Timbers of the future – silvicultural and wood technological considerations

Outcome of a comparative study with wood from Germany, Slovenia, Romania, France, and the United States

Collage of locust leaves, trunk and micrograph

Results from a degradation experiment with beech, English oak and black locust

Thünen Institute of Wood Research represents current fields of research at the IUFRO World Congress

This year's conference of the International Research Group on Wood Protection took place in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2024, four presentations from the field of wood protection were from Hamburg.

Gesa Weber with four People from the the RCA-Committee

Outcome of a comparative study with wood from Ghana

In 2021, a treasure turned up at the Thünen Institute of Wood Research: a collection of insects from the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection had been stored unnoticed in the cellar for years. Now a book has been published with stories about historical personalities, places and special objects…

In einem Holzkasten sind verschiedene Schmetterlinge in Reihen auf Nadeln gesteckt.

Every four years, when the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany and the DBU invite people to the "Woche der Umwelt", an independent jury selects the exhibitors - and Wood Anatomy was there!