Eftychia Vasileiou has successfully defended her Master's thesis on the topic "Investigation of Transient Low-Level Cloud Darkening due to the Hunga Tonga Lamb Wave." Congratulations! Her work sheds light on new aspects of cloud darkening caused by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano. Her thesis will be published soon.

Jakob Deutloff has successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Evidence for a Positive Tropical High-Cloud Feedback."

You can learn more about his research in his publications:

Deutloff, J., S. A. Buehler, J. Windmiller, and A. K. Naumann (2026), Facets of the tropical high-cloud feedback in a global storm-resolving...

A new study published in Global Change Biology reveals how belowground phosphorus recycling may help Amazon forests sustain growth under rising atmospheric CO₂—while potentially increasing their vulnerability to future climate disturbances.

The researchers simulated carbon and phosphorus cycling across Amazonian forests...

Climate change is driving more frequent and intense heavy rainfall, increasing pluvial flooding hazards in densely built cities. Researchers at TUHH and Universität Hamburg have developed a high-resolution framework for assessing pluvial flood risk at the building level, following the IPCC risk concept that defines risk as...

On Tuesday, 15 September, the return of the final participants marked the end of this year’s “Soil Science Field Course Greenland” of University of Hamburg. Twelve Master’s students from the Geosciences and Integrated Climate System Sciences programmes of the Department of Earth System Sciences spent around two weeks in...

On 10 September 2026, the Scientific Advisory Board of the project "Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands" came together for the second time. Members joined from a range of different regions and across multiple time zones.

At the centre of the meeting was a policy paper, which we presented for discussion. The...