Bente Tiedje won this year´s "Outstanding Student Poster Award 2011" presented by the Ocean Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) with a poster on the potential predictability of heat transport in the North Atlantic. Bente Tiedje works as a doctoral student in the CliSAP Research...

Hydrogen as an energy source could in future help meet the world´s rising energy demands. But certain bacteria have long since paved the way. In joint research with Hamburg biochemists, scientists from Bremen have discovered a type of mussel living close to deep sea vents which are able to use...

Dr. Valerio Lucarini has been conferred with the title Professor of Theoretical Meteorology by the University of Hamburg in recognition of his international professional standing in the field of theoretical meteorology and climatology. The Italian physicist came to us from Reading (UK), where he had...

"All that we know of the world, we know through the mass media", the sociologist Niklas Luhmann once wrote. The media plays a central role too in perceptions of climate change. The research group based around junior professor Mike S. Schaefer looked into when and how often the most important daily...

Fifty international scientists gathered yesterday for a German-Japanese symposium held at KlimaCampus. Under the heading of "Urban Areas in a Changing Climate", they discussed topics on the interface between technology and the natural sciences, and also that between climate adaption and climate...

At the KlimaCampus in Hamburg, researchers from 16 countries of Europe and overseas meet for three days to discuss the current challenges in urban climate and urban air quality and their relationship to climate change. The workshop is supported by the World Meteorological Organization and the...

How can climate change adaptation succeed in fragile and failed states? This question was the focus of more than 30 international experts and young scientists at the Munich summer academy "Climate Change in Fragile States: Rethinking Adaptation". Janpeter Schilling from the KlimaCampus research...

This month the interview series "Climate research made in Hamburg" will be meeting Dr. Eduardo Zorita. Zorita is a physicist and senior scientist at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht`s Institute for Coastal Research, and heads the department of paleoclimatology. As part of the CliSAP project...

An international conference on aerosol emissions will be held in Hamburg on August 11th and 12th, 2011. Geologists, meteorologists, physicists, and numerous scientists from other disciplines will come to the KlimaCampus to discuss the formation and impact of large-scale particulate emissions and...

The CliSAP excellence cluster at the KlimaCampus is one of the founding partners of www.klimanavigator.de, a new internet portal that was launched on July 25, 2011. The platform collects knowledge on climate change and serves as a guide to the German research landscape in the area of climate, the...