The macroMIP organizing team at the Research Group Climate Extremes at FNK (Jana Sillmann, Benjamin Blanz, Arnaz Dholakia, and Vito Avakumović) traveled to Potsdam to present initial results of macroMIP at the Cross-Sectoral CROSS-CASCADE and ISIMIP Workshop 2026 and collaborate with the modelling community on future...

The Earth rotates on its own axis–but not as uniformly as one might think. Changes in mass on and within the planet, such as the shifting of water by the tides and the melting of ice sheets at the poles, influence this rotation. Measuring these fluctuations is the goal of a new research group that will receive approximately...

The arctic expedition season has started! Friederike Neiske, Carolina Voigt, and Christian Knoblauch will conduct field work in the Kilpisjärvi region, Finland, during June to explore greenhouse gas sinks and the effects of rapid permafrost thaw on carbon and nutrient cycling. Field work in Kilpisjärvi will continue...

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...