LPJ-GUESS Education 3.0
was created by Ben Smith of Lund University, Sweden, as a learning aid for intermediate to advanced courses in the environmental sciences. Johan Nord and Joe Siltberg contributed to the present revision.
It incorporates Version 3.0 of the Lund-Potsdam-Jena General Ecosystem Simulator (LPJ-GUESS), originally developed by Ben Smith in a collaboration between Lund University, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany.
Scientists from many institutes have contributed to the testing, refinement and further development of LPJ-GUESS including (alphabetical list): Almut Arneth, Thanos Arvanitis, Alberte Bondeau, Nitin Chaudhary, Wolfgang Cramer, Peter Eliasson, Dieter Gerten, Thomas Hickler, Jennie Holmér, Jed Kaplan, Wolfgang Knorr, Dörte Lehsten, Veiko Lehsten, Mats Lindeskog, Wolfgang Lucht, Marion Martin, Paul Miller, Mikhail Mishurov, Stefan Olin, Anneli Poska, Thomas Pugh, Colin Prentice, Anja Rammig, Sibyll Schaphoff, Guy Schurgers, Joe Siltberg, Stephen Sitch, Martin Sykes, Kirsten Thonicke, Sergey Venevsky, Rita Wania, David Wårlind, Annett Wolf, Anna Wramneby and Sönke Zaehle.