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Dr. Christian Schmidt, Senior Scientist in Section 3.3: Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials, has been elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA).
Dr. Kevin Fleming, GFZ Section Centre for Early Warning Systems, is co-author of a study that has been awarded with the 2015 Georisk Best Paper Award. With this award, the editors of the open access scientific journal Georisk: Assessment and…
The effects of flood events on agriculture only received limited attention so far. A new study by a team of GFZ scientists from the section Hydrology, in cooperation with a colleague from the Hessian State Office for Agriculture, assesses the risk…
The Earth’s history is preserved in tree-rings, sediments or layers of ice, to name but a few. How much sediment is accumulated over centuries, millennia or even millions of years depends on the rates with which mountains erode. The more precise the…
Again and again Southeast Asia is affected by natural hazards. The most remembered painful event so far was with no doubt the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean of 2004, triggered by an earthquake, which caused the death of more than 230,000…
Professor Sarah Gleeson is new Head of GFZ Section Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry, starting on 1 October. She succeeds Professor Jörg Erzinger who retires after a successful career at the GFZ. At the same time Sarah Gleeson takes up a joint…
After two terms in office, Professor Reinhard F. J. Hüttl, Chairman of the Board and Scientific Executive Director of the GFZ, will hand over his office as President of acatech, the German Academy of Engineering and Technology, as of February 8, 2017…
Professor Brian Horsfield, Head of the GFZ section Organic Geochemistry, has been elected to the House of Delegates of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, AAPG. He will hold this office from 2017 to 2019 as a representative for the…
A geomagnetic storm on January 17, 2013, provided unique observations that finally resolved a long-standing scientific problem. For decades, scientists had asked how particles hitting the Earth's magnetosphere were lost. A likely mechanism involved…
The PhD student Martin Kutzschbach, GFZ section Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials, was awarded with the Paul-Ramdohr Prize of the German Mineralogical Society, DMG, at the European Mineralogical Conference, EMC 2016 in Rimini, Italy. Like…