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The Ocean works as a gigantic heat sink and thereby is an important factor in mitigating global warming. Since warming water expands, warming oceans cause a rise in sea-level. This poses a significant risk to coastal areas. Existing methods of global…
How can a community be enabled to protect against future floods or insurers calculate flood losses? Data sets are needed. These data are now provided by the OASIS community with the OASIS data hub. With the participation of the GFZ section Hydrology…
The volcanic islands of Hawaii represent the youngest end of a 80 million years old and roughly 6,000 kilometres long mountain chain on the ground of the Pacific Ocean. The so-called Hawaiian-Emperor chain consisting of dozens of volcanoes is well…
„In den Städten der Zukunft ist die Nutzung von Erdwärme unverzichtbar.“ So lautet eine der Thesen, die wir als Zwanzig20-Forum Wärmewende nun in der Broschüre „Wärmewende am Beispiel Quartier – Ein Beitrag zur Energiewende“ veröffentlicht haben. Wir…
On the meeting of the executive committee of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP in Kiruna, Sweden, Brian Horsfield, former Head of the GFZ section Organic Geochemistry, hands over the position of chairman of the executive…
The Alpine Fault – a transform fault in the western South Island of New Zealand – is highly interesting to geoscientists. Here, alongside the fault between the Australian and the Pacific plate, plates move with an average speed of about three…
The recently released documentary movie "La Gran Ola" (The Great Wave), with its apocalyptic scenarios makes one sit up and think. According to this film there is great danger of tsunamis in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters. We talk to Alexander…
The city of Istanbul is focus of great concern for earthquake researchers. This 15-million metropole is situated very close to the so-called North Anatolian Fault Zone which runs just outside of the city gates below the Marmara Sea. Here in the…
Die Geoforschung hat in Potsdam eine lange Tradition. Insbesondere für die Erdvermessung spielte und spielt die Stadt eine maßgebliche Rolle. Hier lag das Zentrum der preußischen Landvermessung, hier wurden abenteuerliche Forschungsreisen wie die…
Benedikt Soja, a former PhD student of the GFZ section Space Geodetic Techniques, now NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California/USA, is today decorated with the Ring of Honor of the Republic of Austria.