Overall, 12 student reporters are blogging, tweeting and taking pictures of the Tropentag 2012. We are from countries around the globe and have diverse research backgrounds. In the following you can find more information about us and our responsibilities: The editors are mainly writing this blog here , are blogging on facebook or tweeting on twitter . The members of this team are: Divya Rajeswari Swaminathan (India), PhD student in Developmental Studies, Centre for Developmental Research in Bonn Minette Flora Mendoza De Asis (Philippines), PhD student in Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-University Berlin Reginald Tang Guuroh (Ghana), PhD student in Vegetation Geography, UNU-EHS in Bonn Pamella Akoth Ogada (Kenya), research assistant in Plant Pathology and Entomology, University of Hannover Tina Atieno Omuombo (Kenya), PhD student in Quaternary Geology in Paleo-climate, University of Nairobi and University of Paris 6 Vincent Archibald Schmitt (Switzerland), master student in International Organic Agriculture, University of Kassel-Witzenhausen Raissa Ulbrich (Germany), bachelor student in Environmental Resource Management, Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus The pictures which you can find on flickr are taken and selected by the following photographers : Manuel Hilscher (Germany), research assistant in Urban Green Infrastructure, University of Hohenheim Terry Ansah (Ghana), PhD student in Animal Nutrion, Harper Adams University College Martha Ataa-Asantewaa (Ghana), Agroforestry and Plants Entomology, Bangor University The videos uploaded on youtube with impressions of the conference or interviews are recorded and edited by the video team : Hamid Reza Sharifan (Iran), master student in Environmental Engineering, University of Stuttgart Birgit Zipf (Germany), master student in Geography, Durham University