Climate change has a particular impact on the multiple islands around the globe. This observation is substantiated by a new online data collection, established by geographers of Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN). Available immediately, the Integrated...

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt." Geophysicist Dr. Gholam Ali Hoshyaripour from Hamburg analyzes chemical and physical processes in volcanic eruptions.

How to map out and pursue a career in the sciences? And is that really my aim? These questions are at the heart of the new Mentoring Program, which was officially launched last Tuesday at the Cluster of Excellence. The kick-off event was the first opportunity for mentors and their mentees to meet....

On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 9:56 pm, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will take off from the launch base in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for his six-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Succeeding Thomas Reiter and Hans Schlegel, Gerst is only the third German astronaut ever to be...

Andrea L. Balbo (PhD) joins the CliSAP Research Group “Climate Change and Security” (CLISEC) as a guest researcher for a two-month period, having arrived this week. Born in Italy, Balbo has been working as a geoarchaeologist at the Spanish National Research Council for more than five years now....

On 6 May 2014, the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) and Bull have signed a contract for the delivery of a petaflop/s-scale supercomputer, as well as cooperation on High Performance Computing support for climate research. The contract worth 26 million euro covers the delivery of all the key...

Climate research at CliSAP is interdisciplinary, including the education of junior researchers. This week, seventeen doctoral candidates from eight different academic disciplines have joined the doctoral program at the School of Integrated Climate System Sciences (SICSS).

Since mid-April, the third and last part of the latest Assessment Report has been available to the public. Seven researchers of Hamburg were intensively involved in all three parts – being leading authors of international working groups. On Wednesday, three of them presented key findings from the...

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt. Dr. Daniel Plugge calculates carbon content of Madagascan forests as a basis for climate protection investments by industrial nations.

On Tuesday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third part of its Assessment Report on the current state of knowledge concerning climate change. Professor Hermann Held, Chair of the Research Unit “Sustainability and Global Change” (FNU) and Principal Investigator at the...