To prepare for the Einstein Telescope, a large-scale geophone array now listens to the subsurface in the so-called Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR) region, helping evaluate its suitability for hosting a future gravitational wave detector. Working alongside colleagues from Belgium, the Netherlands, and RWTH Aachen University — and...

Our warmest congratulations to Valentino Neduhal on the successful defence of his PhD on 19 June!
His thesis, entitled “Vertical Momentum Fluxes Associated with Rossby, Mixed Rossby-Gravity, Inertia-Gravity, and Kelvin Waves on the sphere”, provides a novel quantification of the contribution of vertical momentum fluxes to...

An international research team, including scientists from the University of Hamburg, has identified fossils of bryozoans from the Early Cambrian period for the first time. The exceptionally well-preserved specimens demonstrate that this group of animals existed as early as 520 million years ago—and that the formation of...

On May 29, at the invitation of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Torfbahn Himmelmoor e. V., Dr. David Holl gave a lecture at the Nissenhütte on the role of peatlands in the climate system. In Himmelmoor, the working group "Soils in the Climate System" has been investigating for many years to what extent the restoration of peatlands...

PhD student Luisa Gensch, funded by the Übersee-Club e.V, was invited on 26 March 2026 to speak about her dissertation project. She started the event of the Übersee-Club e.V., after which the keynote speaker, Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, gave his talk. Her presentation was appreciated by Cramer, who said that he was grateful...