News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt." Prof. Valerio Lucarini is a theoretical meteorologist at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CliSAP. A native Italian, he previously worked in Bologna, Italy...

Genocide researchers can no longer afford to ignore climate science, according to Prof. Jürgen Zimmerer from the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP. The historian, who was also one of the organizers of the Fourth Global Conference on Genocide in Cape Town, South Africa aims to bridge the gap between the...

After six years as head of the CliSAP research group “ Terrestrial Remote Sensing,” Dr. Alexander Löw has accepted a professorship at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, where he will take on the position of Professor of Physical Geography and Microwave Remote Sensing.

Is urban vulnerability to climate phenomena measurable? If so, how? These questions were the focus of CliSAP’s workshop “Urban climate vulnerability.” The event, held at the end of November, was organized for colleagues from Germany and Italy by Prof. Jürgen Oßenbrügge and Dr. Benjamin Bechtel.

Dr. Jonathan Friedemann Donges received this year’s Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize, awarded by the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP. The jury described his dissertation, submitted to Berlin’s Humboldt Universität, as an innovative and outstanding contribution to current climate research.

Unter dem Motto „Klimaforschung zum Anfassen“ informieren am 2. Dezember die Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, die Handelskammer und die zwölf Einrichtungen des KlimaCampus Hamburg über den aktuellen Stand der Klimawissenschaften in Hamburg. Gastgeber ist die Handelskammer.

More than 6,000 visitors toured the brand-new deep-sea research ship SONNE in Hamburg. The SONNE had already entered port on Thursday, accompanied by a small parade, and docked at the Überseebrücke. On Friday alone, ca. 2,100 ship enthusiasts flocked to the Open Ship; on Saturday (and despite the...

Ivan Sudakov is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, USA. His scientific fields lie in mathematical modeling, statistical mechanics and applied dynamical systems for the Earth's Cryosphere. He wants to develop new methods of applied mathematics...

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt." Dr. Liang Yang is a geographer at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CliSAP and has studied at various institutions, including the Chinese Academy of...

Nach mehrwöchigen wissenschaftlichen Erprobungsfahrten und einer Bauzeit von etwa 20 Monaten haben heute Bundesforschungsministerin Johanna Wanka und der niedersächsische Ministerpräsident Stefan Weil das neue Tiefseeforschungsschiff SONNE in Wilhelmshaven übernommen.