On the 10th of June, 2009, Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer, Director of the Institute of Physical Oceanography and Prof. Dr. Toshiyuki Awaji, Director of the Data Research Center for Marine-Earth Sciences /Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology signed a „Memorandum of Understanding“...

Bogotá, Edmonton, Reykjavik – How do different cities all over the world deal with the challenges of climate change? Starting on 11 June, an exhibition on this topic can be viewed in the Geomatikum (Bundesstr. 55).

Hamburgs Mayor, Ole von Beust, took the occasion of a meeting with students of his party to inform himself about the current work at the KlimaCampus. The president of the University of Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Monika Auweter-Kurtz, and representatives of the Hamburg´s Science Ministry were also present.

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Professor Dr. Jürgen Sündermann received the medal ´SIS QUI ES - PRO PUBLICO BONO´ on 26 May 2009 from the University of Stettin. The medal was awarded for his distinguished merits in the German-Polish Cooperation Project in Oceanography and Engineering in Coastal Waters.

Bremerhaven/Hamburg, June 10th 2009. Climate researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and KlimaCampus of the University of Hamburg participate for the second time in an international scientific competition. Some of the most renowned climate research institutes...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen 6 new European astronauts. On of them is Alexander Gerst from the University of Hamburg.

Prof. Clifford E. Singer is Professor at the Departments of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering and of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a core faculty member and former director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security...

Captain Walter Baschek, the crew and the scientists of the METEOR have something to celebrate. In the course of the the past 23 years, during which the research vessel has carried out operations throughout the world oceans under the coordination of the Control Station Meteor/Merian at the University...

Yesterday the "Initiative Pro Klima" started its second reforestation action in Schleswig-Holstein together with children from the towns of Kummerfeld and Quickborn.

Jochem Marotzke receives the Fridtjof-Nansen-Medaille 2009 today for his pioneering research on the space- and time-dependent thermohaline circulation in the ocean and for the development of new modeling approaches. Marotzke, Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in...