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Photo: Eivind Senneset

15 April 2024|Interview

View from high above: "We zoom in on the surface to a scale of just one meter"

Welcome to Universität Hamburg! Prof. Dr. Olena Dubovyk came to Hamburg from the University of Bergen, assuming the W2 professorship "Earth System Sciences, in particular Terrestrial Remote Sensing."

Ms. Dubovyk, you last worked as a professor of remote sensing in Norway. What prompted you to return to Germany?
The call...

Ansammlung von Bierdeckeln mit Forschungsfragen

Photo: © DESY und Universität Hamburg

15 April 2024|CLICCS News

Wissenschaft in Hamburgs Kneipen

Wissen frisch gezapft: Am 2. Mai gibt es in den Kneipen Hamburgs nicht nur Bier und Alsterwasser, sondern auch vielfältige Vorträge zu aktuellen Fragen aus der Wissenschaft. Wie können Stadtbäume im Klimawandel überleben? Geht dem Golfstrom die Puste aus? Schaffen wir die Klimawende? Mit diesen und vielen weiteren Themen...

The picture shows the EGU-Booth from 2023. People and experts are talking with each other.

Photo: CLICCS/UHH

11 April 2024|Event

On site EGU 2024

From 14 to 19 April 2024, scientists from CLICCS and CEN are presenting their research in Vienna, at the annual assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). It is the largest European geosciences event, attracting about 18,000 scientists from all over the world. The meeting’s sessions cover a wide range of topics...

View over the snow-covered landscape in the "Blæsedalen" valley, the study site on Disko Island, West Greenland

Photo: Lars Kutzbach

4 April 2024|Research

Winter Expedition to Greenland Launched

Experts from the Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) and the joint project MOMENT are working together to explore which factors affect the carbon cycle in general and the methane concentrations in particular in Blæsedalen (“the windy valley”) on Greenland’s Disko Island. This year’s...

Photo: Hereon/M.Mathis

25 March 2024|CLICCS News

First global study of coastal seas as carbon dioxide reservoirs possible

Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean. Ocean researchers have now succeeded for the first time in investigating the role of the coastal ocean in a seamless model representation. The team led by Dr. Moritz Mathis from the Cluster of Excellence...

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Videoperformance zu verschiedenen Zukunkftsszenarien des arktischen Permafrost.Dabei stehen drei Tänzerinen im Mittelpunkt. Das Bild ist in grautönen gehalten.

Photo: Design by Nielsen/Schurr, Image material: Ketan Rajput/Unsplash

21 March 2024|Transfer

Art and climate research: a collaboration with potential

The transfer project "Portraits of Climate" brings art and science together. In five teams, the artists exchange ideas with one or more researchers over a period of several months. The aim is to jointly create an artwork. Along the way, the teams also explore the process of collaboration. All researchers work at the Cluster...

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