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Embankment dams are built to form water reservoirs, to supply hydro power stations or for flood control. Depending on the volume of water stored the dams are exposed to enormous hydraulic pressure. Due to this, about ten severe damages occur globally…
Every year the GFH honors outstanding scientists with the GFZ Prize for Senior Scientists. The Senior Scientist Price for 2016 is awarded to Sebastian Hainzl, GFZ section Physics of Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Anja Maria Schleicher GFZ section…
Presseinformation | Vom 3. bis 5. Mai finden die Berliner Energietage 2017 statt, die sich dem Stand und den künftigen Herausforderungen der Energiewende widmen. Die Leitveranstaltung zu diesem Thema in Deutschland findet statt im Ludwig-Erhard-Haus…
Satellite data have an enormous potential for commercial users and authorities. For instance, they are useful in farming, monitoring of building projects or mapping of changes in urban areas. The Copernicus Programme of the European Commission…
On the first of April Kai Mangelsdorf became provisional Head of the GFZ section Organic Geochemistry. He succeeds Brian Horsfield who was Head of section since 2001. Brian Horsfield was given a ceremonial farewell colloquium on last Friday.
27.04.2017: The permafrost landscapes in the northern hemisphere are regarded as key regions for global change and are, thus, of particular interest for research. As a result of global warming, large areas are gradually thawing and hereby large…
Personalia | Climate science in the bathing lake – Theresa Grunwald takes part in the FameLab finals
Theresa Grunwald, PhD student in the GFZ section Geomorphology, won the preliminary round of FameLab Berlin/Brandenburg that was taking place on Telegrafenberg in Potsdam at the beginning of April. The audience was impressed by her talk on "How to…
Assessing the hazard of volcanic eruptions requires knowledge on where exactly eruptive fissure will be located. Scientists from the Institut des Sciences de la Terre, France, and the GFZ have developed a method to forecast how fast a volcanic dike…
24.04.2017: On this year’s annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union EGU, 24 to 29 April in Vienna, Bruno Merz, Head of the GFZ section Hydrology, is awarded with the Plinius Medal. Further GFZ awardees are XingXing Li, Dirk Scherler, Stefanie…
By the help of GPS signals cars, airplanes and farm tractors find their way. By now the technique has reached our everyday life. But it is also useful for detecting soil moisture or vegetation from space and for measuring volcanic ash plume density…