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"Revolutionary" is a word you hear often when people talk about the GRACE mission. Since the twin satellites of the NASA/German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) launched on March 17, 2002, their data have transformed scientists' view…
Water withdrawal for irrigation led to low levels or even desiccation for lake Lop Nur in western China. It was probably the cause for the decline of Loulan Kingdom.
Today’s International Women’s Day provides an opportunity to ask Ute Weckmann, GFZ’s Equal Opportunity Commissioner, about the situation of women in the geosciences in general and specifically at our centre. Ute Weckmann, GFZ section Near-Surface…
Central-Asia belongs to the regions of the world where the risk of geohazards is particularly high: Earthquakes, landslides or flooding events, e.g. due to glacial lake outbursts, occur here more often than in other places in the world. How these…
Monika Kusiak comes as a Humboldt Research Fellow to the GFZ, section Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials, for eleven months, starting on 1 March. She is an Associate Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. At the GFZ she…
Volcanic eruptions produce great amounts of ash. The fine particles – often called tephra – can cross oceans affecting regions severals hundreds kilometers away. Many Europeans recall, for instance, the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull (Iceland) in…
Geodesy is the science of measuring the surface of the Earth. Today, an important tool is the use of Global Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS). On 22 and 23 February, more than one hundred experts from theory and practice met for the GNSS seminar…
Under what conditions does the underground serve as a supplier for geothermal energy? Within the EU funded project IMAGE „Integrated Methods for Advanced Geothermal Exploration“, the PhD student Jessica Freymark investigates the characteristics of…
Bald rollen wieder die Sämaschinen über die Felder und bringen Saatgut in die Erde. Aber wie viel werden die Landwirte in einigen Monaten ernten? Wie viel zusätzliche Arbeiten, beispielsweise Düngen, sind auf einer individuellen Fläche nötig, um den…
Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam – Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ ist Preisträger des bundesweiten Ideenwettbewerbs „Internationales Forschungsmarketing“. Das vom Internationalen Büro des GFZ eingereichte Konzept "The international Geo-Campus…