The current issue of the news magazine “Focus” lists the “One hundred most influential Germans”. In its category “Research”, the magazine includes Professor Hans von Storch, Director of the Institute of Coastal Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, describing him as an extraordinary “climate...

Beginning today, the KlimaCampus is presenting a multimedia science exhibit on “Urban Climate” at Hamburg’s Central Station.

Using appropriate management, the negative consequences of climate

change can be limited for forests. Better adapted tree species and the

right cultivation can help make the German forest fit for the year 2100.

Information about the tides is not only important for sailors and bathers: it is also essential for the starting and boundary conditions of climate calculations. The tides mix the seas, contribute to the transports of sediment and plankton and control many physical and biological processes in the...

Is emissions trading THE tool of the future - or might it actually not work after all? This question and others were hotly debated at the KlimaCampus last week. 25 PhD students from 14 nations met for 3 days in Hamburg for the workshop "Carbon Markets and their Future: A Social Science Perspective"....

Under the guiding slogan “We’re no prophets – what climate models really can do” a group of science journalists met here yesterday with climate experts. Freelancers and representatives of the Deutsche Welle, the Neue Züricher Zeitung and the NDR visited the KlimaCampus on an excursion in connection...

Climate change and overfishing are affecting ecosystems all over the world. That was the result of a workshop at the Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science last week. The basis for the deliberations was formed by various long time series of data on 20 different ecosystems, for example in...

Around thirty scientists, software developers, ESA mission managers and financial backers came together at the KlimaCampus on October 20th to exchange information about the current state of the SMOS remote sensing mission of the European Space Agency ESA. The workshop was organized by the...

Society should be protected from nature– not vice versa. While visiting KlimaCampus on November 11, 2010 the renown sociologist Prof. Nico Stehr will elaborate on this provocative thesis (lecture in German).

More than thirty scientists from all over the world met from September 15 to 17 following an invitation of the KlimaCampus to discuss small-scale variability in oceans and the atmosphere.