Topics like the Energy Transition or adapting to climate change tend to bring together actors from disparate academic and social groups. The first comprehensive report on transdisciplinarity was recently released on behalf of the Climate Service Center 2.0, a project the sociologist of science Dr....

The recently completed research vessel SONNE will dock in Hamburg, and visitors are welcome to go on board as part of the Open Ship Days: from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, November 21 and Saturday, November 22, they can enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at the cutting-edge research ship and get a feel...

Meet four researchers who share with you their strategies on how they manage their career and family life and get an overview of the legal ramifications of limited work contracts and parental leave. The english-language event by CliSAP and CUI and the Universität Hamburg's Family Services takes...

Richard Larsson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering at the Division of Space Technology, Luleå University of Technology, Kiruna, Sweden. His research interest focuses on utilizing advancements in spectroscopy in radiative transfer...

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt." Prof. Martin Claußen is a Professor of Meteorology at Universität Hamburg and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.

Kamardine Sinane comes from Anjouan, one of the islands of the Comoros archipelago located in the Indian Ocean between northwestern Madagascar and the eastern coastline of Africa. From early October to mid-November the Geographer visits Prof. Beate M.W. Ratter and her team.

Guest researcher Chen Wang’s present research topic is one highly relevant for policymakers: The doctoral candidate in Sociology is exploring carbon emissions trading and – more specifically – strategies used by enterprises under carbon quota constraints. Chen Wang hails from the Beijing Institute...

From southwestern South America all the way to Hamburg: Prof. Juan-Pablo Fuentes has come a long way to support the CliSAP working group “Regional Hydrology in Terrestrial Systems.”

The KlimaCampus Colloquium (KLICK) goes into another round in the winter term 2014/2015.

While extreme heat waves can clearly be considered a result of climate change, the relation isn’t always so clear for other extreme weather events like torrential rains, droughts or storms. These findings were recently published in the international report “Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a...