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UHH / Ohme

9 October 2019|Interview

Living with Climate Change: Soils are key

Several new professors have been appointed at the Department of Earth Sciences. Here we are introducing the new colleagues. Today: Christian Beer

Soapbox Science

2 October 2019|Interview

Taking science to the people

Dr. Elisa Schaum is a Junior Professor at the CEN, where she is currently investigating how marine phytoplankton can adapt to future climate changes. She is also passionate about public outreach. In the name of science, she sometimes takes to the streets, explaining her research to passersby. In the following, she discusses...

unsplash - Emma Francis

25 September 2019|Forschung

The IPCC confirms it: The time to act is now!

Extreme events are now becoming more and more commonplace: The sea level is rising faster than projected in the last IPCC report, glaciers and permafrost regions are melting and thawing faster than expected, and cyclones are growing in intensity. These are among the key findings of the IPCC’s third Special Report, which...

UHH/CEN/H. Konow

17 September 2019|Interview

Getting Closer to the Clouds with HALO

Heike Konow explores one of the last great mysteries of our climate system: the clouds. To do so, in several campaigns over a period of three years she and her colleagues investigated the sky over the North Atlantic – on board the research aircraft HALO, which took off from Iceland and Barbados. And so an enormous treasure...

M. Hartig/Meyer Werft

4 September 2019|Forschung

Research vessel SONNE heads for little-known coral reefs

On September 6, 2019, the German research vessel SONNE embarks on a 2-month expedition, headed by geologist Dr. Sebastian Lindhorst from Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability. The destination is an underwater system of coral reefs the size of Switzerland in the Indian Ocean, which due to...

Tony Webster

3 September 2019|Forschung

Simulations uncover cause of "surprising" tsunami 2018 in Sulawesi

An international team of geologists, geophysicists, and mathematicians show how coupled computer models can accurately recreate the conditions leading to the world’s deadliest natural disasters of 2018, the Palu earthquake and tsunami, which stroke western Sulawesi, Indonesia. Jörn Behrens, an expert in tsunami modelling...