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Zu sehen ist eine schwarz-rote Dampflock die durch ein zerstörtes Waldstück mit auf dem Boden liegenden Bäumen im Harz fährt.

Photo: Inga Janina Sievert

5 June 2025|Research

Sorrow and hope in the Harz: How people are responding to the transformation of their forest

How do you feel when you see the status quo in the Harz? Shock or sadness at the countless withered spruces? Hope, when you see a single green tree? Or nostalgia, because you’ve been atop the Brocken before? Individual perspectives on the dying trees can influence e.g. whether and how people support the forest or climate...

Photo: UHH

24 March 2025|CEN News

Studiengang „Integrated Climate System Sciences“ gewinnt MINTchallenge

Der Studiengang „Integrated Climate System Sciences (ICSS)“ wurde als eines der fünf Gewinnerprojekte der „MINTchallenge plus“ ausgezeichnet. Der Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft und die Dr. Friedrich Jungheinrich-Stiftung honorieren damit die innovative Gestaltung mit einem Preisgeld in Höhe von 5000 Euro.

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Scientist facing the camera and sitting next to the desk with two screens on it.

Photo: UHH/C.Steffens

19 March 2025|Research

Interview with Goran Georgievski, modeler in the MOMENT project

Dr. Goran Georgievski is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology within the “Climate-Biosphere Interactions” working group lead by Prof. Dr. Victor Brovkin. Trained as a physical engineer specializing in meteorology and physical oceanography, Georgievski has acquired significant expertise in data analysis...

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The research vessel Maria S. Merian is moored on the quay with its bow facing the viewer. Its name can be clearly read in white lettering on the dark blue bow.

Photo: Felix Gross

4 March 2025|Research

Mapping the seafloor from the Peloponnese to Crete

On March 5, the research vessel Maria S. Merian will depart from the Spanish port of Málaga for a six-week expedition to the Greek Aegean Sea. Led by the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) at the University of Hamburg, in collaboration with Kiel University, the expedition aims to collect underwater...

A woman watching seagulls at a shore, she has her back to us. The sea is churning, waves are rolling onto the beach.

Photo: D. Solce/unsplash

17 February 2025|Forschung

10-year storm surge forecasts with AI

With the aid of extensive weather data, a climate computational model, and artificial intelligence, Dr. Daniel Krieger from the University of Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) can now predict the average number and intensity of storm surges for coastal cities in the German Bight for the...

Gruppenbild der Graduierten mit ihren Urkunden und Rosen.

Photo: Sven Wied

11 February 2025|Veranstaltung

“You made it!”

Congratulations on your degrees! Last Friday, the CEN Graduation Ceremony, where more than 50 Master’s and Ph.D. students received their diplomas, took place in the Geomatikum.

“You made it!” said Geography Professor Martina Neuburger, who bid farewell to her graduating Master’s students at the ceremony. All told, 39...

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