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Visiting (EN)

07.03.2023

Currently visiting: Sandra Guinand

During the summer term 2023, Sandra Guinand is back at the Department of Geography and Regional Research as visiting professor. Her research focuses...

Public

24.11.2022

Entrance COP27, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt 2022

COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh

A report from the UN Climate Conference by Lukas Brunner from the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics. For him, the inclusion of young people is...

International (EN)

23.11.2022

In the background a coastal glacier in an arctic environment, closer to the viewer the ice sheet floats on the the sea, in the foreground a calved iceberg.

Interview with Bethan Davies: Melting glaciers and their future

Due to climate change, glaciers and ice-sheets worldwide are shrinking. Glacial geologist Bethan Davies, currently Ida Pfeiffer Professor at our...

International (EN)

21.11.2022

Tamara Đorđević showing the OeAD group the Geological Centre at the University of Vienna. Photo: OeAD/Casado Gillet

S&T and Earth Sciences: A long-standing cooperation

A group from the OeAD in charge of the Scientific & Technological Cooperation programmes (S&T, in German WTZ) visited Tamara Đorđević, senior...

Forschung (DE)

08.11.2022

Dinosaurier auf roter Erde - CC, Dariusz Sankowski on Pixabay

Astronomische Zyklen veränderten Treibhausklima vor 200 Millionen Jahren

Internationales Forschungsteam modellierte astronomisch angetriebene Klimaschwankungen in der Erdgeschichte - Paläoklimaforscher Jan Landwehrs vom...

Public

07.11.2022

Hitze, Dürre, Flut: Sind Katastrophen das neue Normal?

Die UN-Klimakonferenz COP27 steht im Zeichen der Extreme: Lukas Brunner schreibt im Gastbeitrag über die Notwendigkeit Lösungen zu finden, um Schäden...

International (EN)

03.11.2022

Anna Kajosaari. Photo: Archè Photography

Currently visiting: Anna Kajosaari

In her research Anna Kajosaari is using digital participatory mapping methods to understand how urban environments support pupulation health and...

International (EN)

10.10.2022

Shahid Iqbal before mountain view. Photo: Shahid Iqbal

Currently visiting: Shahid Iqbal

Since his childhood in Pakistan, Shahid Iqbal has been interested in geology, especially in sedimentology. Nowadays, he is an expert on Paleoclimates...

Forschung (DE)

28.09.2022

Moldawien: Projekt zu Migration als Anpassung und ländlicher Entwicklung

Ein Projektteam um Harald Sterly vom Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung erarbeitet geeinsam mit dem IOM eine Strategie, wie Migration in...

International (EN)

19.09.2022

Her background in Evo-Devo and marine biology leads Fidji Berio to collaborate with European teams to understand the evolution of cartilaginous fish. Photo: © Fidji Berio

Currently visiting: Fidji Berio

The marine ecologist Fidji Berio is "passionate about chondrichthyans" and the broad range of methods to reveal often unsuspected histological and...

International (EN)

23.06.2022

Currently visiting: Dorian Abbot

"Cool problems" and mathematics as an "Ode to Joy": Dorian Abbot works on "big picture" problems about Earth and other planets. The climate scientist...

Visiting (EN)

14.06.2022

Currently visiting: Michela Biasutti

In her research climate scientist Michela Biasutti looks “under the hood” of complex models and identifies simpler models of regional phenomena,...

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