“Our eye into the underground” inaugurated
The new TrueTriax high-pressure testing system can simulate a wide range of processes on rock samples down to 10 km depth. This provides important data for geoenergy research & applications.
View ArticleHow climate change is altering the Earth's rotation
Using simulation and AI, it was possible for the first time to break down the mass change responsible for polar movement into individual components – including the melting of large ice masses.
View ArticleOliver Bens appointed to the Brandenburg Climate Council
The Head of ‘Operational Management’ at the GFZ is a member of the newly founded Brandenburg Scientific Climate Council, which advises the state on how to achieve its climate targets.
View ArticleGeothermal Congress 2024: GFZ scientific partner
From 22 to 24 October, the industry's largest event will take place in Potsdam for the first time. The GFZ will be the scientific partner of the organising Bundesverband Geothermie e.V.
View ArticleFederal Building Minister Klara Geywitz honours the GFZ
The Minister presented the two GFZ board members with a plaque bearing the silver certificate for sustainable building. The GeoBioLab was honoured for its innovative energy concept.
View ArticleHidden forces cause continents to rise
Why are the tectonically stable core areas of the continents gradually rising? How do some of the most distinctive landforms on our planet form?
View ArticleNew innovation and knowledge transfer projects selected from the GFZ Ideas...
As part of an ideas competition, five technology transfer projects and three knowledge transfer projects have been selected for funding.
View ArticleLandslide triggers megatsunami in narrow fjord
Seismologists measure tremors up to 5000 km away for weeks.
View ArticleKyrgyz Ambassador at the GFZ
On July 15, 2024, the Kyrgyz Ambassador Omurbek Tekebaev visited the GFZ. Further possible fields of cooperation in research, education and training were discussed.
View ArticleGeothermal Congress 2024: GFZ scientific partner
From 22 to 24 October, the industry's largest event will take place in Potsdam for the first time. The GFZ will be the scientific partner of the organising Bundesverband Geothermie e.V.
View ArticleUnique multi-parameter borehole station along the Istanbul-Marmara seismic gap
Borehole-based station at the Sea of Marmara will record an entire range of deformation processes, from slow aseismic creep to classic earthquakes as well as pore fluid pressure data.
View ArticleNew approach for better space weather forecasts
Data assimilation, a principle known from weather forecasting, can – based on satellite data – significantly improve the prediction of particle dynamics in the electron ring current around the Earth
View ArticleVisit of the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
Kanat Bozumbayev and his delegation met with the Scientific Director and other experts at the GFZ to discuss natural hazards and options for protecting the population.
View ArticleDistinguished Lectureship for Prof. Sarah A. Gleeson
The Head of the Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry Section has been awarded by the European Association of Geochemistry and will give lectures in Eastern Europe on Cu and Zn deposit formation.
View ArticleDark ice melts faster
Public lecture by GFZ researcher Liane G. Benning at GDNÄ meeting: What algae have to do with the ice melt on Greenland
View ArticleStart of the 2024/2025 training year at GFZ
On 2 September, eleven trainees in scientific/technical and commercial fields and two volunteers started their training with an induction day. A warm welcome!
View ArticleERC Starting Grant for Dr. Ilya Bobrovskiy
With the prestigious EU funding of 1.5 million euros, he will conduct research into past ecosystems and the development of the carbon cycle and complex life in the GFZ section “Organic Geochemistry”.
View ArticleFriedrich Robert Helmert Prize 2023 for Artem Smirnov
The GFZ Friends Award honours Smirnov's dissertation on the dynamics of near-Earth space, completed in GFZ section ‘Space Physics and Space Weather’, as the best doctoral thesis of 2023.
View ArticleEnergy efficiency meets GeoBio research
On the day of bulding culture, join our guided tours at GeoBioLab: How to investigate microbial processes underground? How can computer power heat laboratories? How does sustainable building work?
View ArticleDr Ludwig Stroink new IUGS Secretary General
The head of GFZ’s “Projects & International Affairs” has been elected on the 37th World Congress of the “International Union of Geological Sciences” (IUGS) in South Korea by the General Assembly.
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