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20.03.2014: We have the pleasure to announce the call for applications for the first Potsdam Summer School PSS 2014 on the “Arctic in the Anthropocene” in partnership with the City of Potsdam, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar…

What sculpted Africa’s margin?
01.03.2014: Break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana about 130 Million years ago could have lead to a completely different shape of the African and South American continent with an ocean south of today’s Sahara desert.

GRACE Follow-On Mission: GFZ signs agreement with NASA
11.02.2014|Potsdam: GFZ signs MoU and provides launcher - Today the Board of the German Research Centre for Geosciences has signed the Memorandum of Understanding with NASA Administrator Charles…

07.02.2014|Potsdam: Underground coal gasification (UCG) allows for the development of deep-seated coal seams not economically exploitable by conventional coal mining. However, based on the principle of the borehole mining, underground coal…

30.01.2014|Potsdam:The relative motion of tectonic plates is generally accompanied by earthquakes, slow slip or creeping. On mature divergent plate boundaries however, it is magma intrusions that compensates for the missing volume due to crustal…

23.01.2014|Potsdam: An innovative remote sensing technique, which was developed together with GFZ scientists utilizes GPS signals, reflected from ground, for soil moisture measurements in Morocco. Successful initial field experiments were performed…

Predatory organisms at depth
21.01.2014|Potsdam: In the current issue of the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME Journal, 20.1.2014) scientists from the University of Oldenburg and from the GFZ German Centre for…

The water cycle amplifies abrupt climate change
19.01.2014|Potsdam: The role of the hydrological cycle during abrupt temperature changes is of prime importance for the actual impact of climate change on the continents. In a new study published in…

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