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Where a lightning stroke yesterday it won’t strike again today. People often act upon natural disasters based on this fatal logic. They settle within floodplains or on hillslopes, even if the potential of a future flooding or landslide remains high.…
Today, nine apprentices start their training at the GFZ. For the first time, there are also two students starting with their Dual Course of Study in cooperation with the Technical University of Brandenburg. Also today three volunteers begin their…
Starting on 1 January 2016, Professor Jean Braun becomes Head of the new GFZ section Earth Surface Process Modelling. Jean Braun was successfully recruited for the GFZ by the Helmholtz Recruiting Initiative. He extends the GFZ’s expertise in the…
Last weekend the GFZ Schoollab presented itself as one of five Helmholtz Schoollabs at the Open Day of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Numerous guests as well as the Federal Minister Johanna Wanka were impressed by the „Augmented…
From global sea level rise to extreme events like floods or droughts – even with ambitious climate mitigation, some impacts of climate change will be felt within this century. How to avoid the unmanageable and manage the unavoidable will be the focus…
Dr. Ingo Heidbüchel, GFZ section Hydrology, is co-author of a study that is awarded with the MG Anderson Outstanding Paper of the Year Award 2016. The MG Anderson Award of the scientific journal Hydrological Processes honors “outstanding papers on…
From 2009 to 2016, Dr. Doris Düthmann worked as a scientist at the GFZ in the section Hydrology. During her PhD study, she focused on the hydrological modeling of water catchments in Central Asia. She has now moved to the Technical University of…
The Tarim Basin in Northwest China is a region characterized by an extremely arid climate. Its population – more than ten million people – is supplied with fresh water by the Tarim, the region’s main river. The river is largely fed from the…
A study published in “Science” by Potsdam based scientists offers new insights into the mechanisms of mineralization in micro-organisms. The team led by André Scheffel from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces investigated marine…
The Science Year 2016*17 „Seas and Oceans“, declared by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is dedicated to marine research. The GFZ is the centre for solid earth sciences. There are, however, several points of contact and…