News8 July 2026|NewsGreenhouse gas measurements live: Live stream from HimmelmoorPhoto: UHH/D. HollOn July 8, starting at 11 a.m., a livestream featuring science communicator Sofia Kats will be broadcast from Himmelmoor.Students Robin Totzek and...1 July 2026|NewsSchool Class on a Soil TrailPhoto: K. StegmannOn June 29, Lars Kutzbach and Anne Brockmann led a field trip with a third-grade class from a nearby elementary school along the Soil Nature Trail in...26 June 2026|NewsField season kick-off in Finnish Lapland 2026Photo: UHH/C. VoigtThe arctic expedition season has started! Friederike Neiske, Carolina Voigt, and Christian Knoblauch will conduct field work in the Kilpisjärvi...2 June 2026|NewsLecture: "Peatlands in the Climate System"Photo: Dan ZelckOn 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...18 May 2026|NewsCombining biochar and basanite rock powder affects nutrient dynamics of a sandy agricultural soilPhoto: UHH/E.AlbrechtMaria Ansari, Annette Eschenbach, and Joscha N. Becker from Soil Science at the University of Hamburg, together with colleagues from the University of...20 April 2026|NewsFinal meeting of the MOMENT consortium took place at the GFZ Helmholtz-CentrePhoto: Heinrich Hecht, GFZOn March 17th and 18th, the final meeting of the MOMENT consortium took place at the GFZ Helmholtz-Centre for Geosciences. Beside the presentation of...10 April 2026|NewsBooks for the storage libraryPhoto: UHH/A. BrockmannNow that the most frequently read books, journals, and series in soil science have been moved to the new MIN Forum at the start of the year, the final...30 January 2026|News16th DACH Permafrost ConferencePhoto: UHH/GFZ/Torsten SachsIn January 2026, soil science researchers presented their latest research findings on work in permafrost at the three-day DACH conference near...12 January 2026|NewsRelocation of the Soil Science LibraryPhoto: UHH/A. BrockmannThe books, journals, and series of the Soil Science Library were the first to move to the new MIN Forum, Bundesstraße 56a, opposite the Geomatikum, on...28 November 2025|NewsNodule Senescence: A Key Process Shaping Biogeochemical Dynamics in Legume RhizospheresPhoto: UHH/IfB/E. AlbrechtElisa Albrecht and Joscha Becker from the Soil Science, University of Hamburg, and Maire Holz from the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape...21 November 2025|ForschungCongratulations, Fay Lexmond!Photo: UHH/RTG2530/GrebeOn 10 November 2025, the RTG 2530 celebrated another graduate — this time at the Institute of Soil Science (IfB) at the University of Hamburg. Over a...Contribution from the news channel Blog GRK253010 October 2025|NewsPeTCaT project field site visits in the Canadian Arctic 2025Carolina Voigt and Christian Knoblauch, researchers in the newly established Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle project PeTCaT – Rapid Permafrost...8 October 2025|ForschungWhen permafrost thaws rapidlyPhoto: Christian Knoblauch/ UHHRapidly thawing permafrost can accelerate climate change. Researchers want to determine to what extent the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane...Contribution from the news channel ESRAH News1 October 2025|NewsSimran Sekhri Wins 2025 Best Soil Science Case Study AwardPhoto: image courtesy of S. SekhriSimran Sekhri from the Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg, has been awarded the best 2025 CABI & EUROSOIL Soil Science Case Study. Her...1 October 2025|NewsStudents on a field course on soil diversity in the HahnheidePhoto: UHH/IfB/C. FienckeFrom September 29 to October 1, 2025, bachelor's students in the geosciences program studied the diversity of soils in the Hahnheide Forest and worked...30 September 2025|NewsPlant Survival under Drought: Water Vapor Uptake in Sandy SoilsPhoto: UHH/IfB/S. SekhriSimran Sekhri, Volker Kleinschmidt, Annette Eschenbach and Joscha N. Becker from the Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg, recently...22 September 2025|ForschungLabelling-experiment to investigate the carbon cycle in Elbe marsh soilsPhoto: UHH/RTG2530/LorkResearchers of the RTG 2530 have developed a labelling experiment to investigate the effects of climate change on the carbon cycle in marsh...Contribution from the news channel Blog GRK253019 September 2025|NewsCOLDSPOT expedition to the Canadian Arctic 2025Photo: UHH/IfB/C. VoigtAimée Pellissier-Tanon, Friederike Neiske, and Carolina Voigt of the newly formed ERC bridge group COLDSPOT (UHH & Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar...5 September 2025|NewsCOLDSPOT field campaign in Finnish Lapland 2025Photo: Maren JenrichThis summer, the newly formed ERC bridge group COLDSPOT (UHH & Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) carried out its first field...28 August 2025|NewsHeatwave lag effects in the ArcticIn 2020, Siberia experienced a severe, record-breaking heatwave. This unprecedented heatwave affected the carbon cycle in both 2020 and 2021. See the...Show all news
