News21 September 2023|newsAs if a ten-kilometer-long clarinet were buried in the groundPhoto: C. HadziioannouLike a very, very low note: Seismologists have been puzzling over vibrations originating beneath the sea in the Gulf of Guinea since the 1960s. The...6 June 2023|newsDouble award for Jonas PreinePhoto: J. PreineOn June 5, 2023, Jonas Preine was awarded the Robert Mitchum Award during the opening ceremony of the EAGE Annual Meeting. Furthermore, Mr. Preine...9 May 2023|newsJapan Excursion of the MSc GeophysicsPhoto: L. ScharffA two-week Japan excursion starts today with seven MSc Geophysics students, two PhD students and two Senior Scientists. The trip will first go to...5 April 2023|newsPetroleum Experts (Petex) Limited donated software licencesThe Institute of Geophysics announces that Petroleum Experts (Petex) Limited has donated software licences amounting to the equivalent of 1,872,218.26...23 January 2023|newsRIMFAX: Initial results from GPR on the Mars 2020 Perseverance RoverPhoto: T. CasademontLecture by Titus Casademont within the Seminar of Geopyhysics on Monday, Januar 23 at 4:15 p.m. Abstract:NASA's Mars Rover Perseverance operates in...5 January 2023|newsScientific Drilling in the Aegean Sea (International Ocean Discovery Project Exp. 398)After several years of preparation, the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES RESOLUTION started the first drilling north of the volcanic island Santorini...5 January 2023|newsOn the way to the eternal ice of AntarcticaTwo geophysicists of the institute left Cape Town/South Africa shortly before Christmas with the research icebreaker POLARSTERN and will participate...22 December 2022|newsNew Paper in Seismica (Diamond Open Access)Photo: Sven SchippkusSeismica is a new community-driven, Diamond Open Access journal publishing peer-reviewed research in seismology and earthquake science. Diamond Open...5 December 2022|newsRV METEOR Expedition to the Azores kicks offSince last week, one technician and six marine geophysicists from the Hamburg Institute of Geophysics have been underway with the research vessel...28 September 2022|newsOrientation week for new students at the Institute of GeophysicsPhoto: UHH/AppeltThe student council of the Institute of Geophysics organizes an orientation week from October 17-22. Here you can download the preliminary program as...15 September 2022|news22/09/2022, 16:15 Open Day at the Institute of GeophysicsPhoto: Annick Ulbrich, DGGOn the occasion of the 100th birthday of the DGG, the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Hamburg introduces itself to the university public...13 September 2022|newsOral Defense of Niklas AhlrichsInvitation to the Oral Defense of Mr Niklas Ahlrichs, open to the University public, on Thursday, September 15 at 10:30 a.m.., Geomatikum Room 1528....6 July 2022|newsColloquium in honour of Dirk GajewskiPhoto: Dirk GajewskiDirk Gajewski, professor at the Institute of Geophysics since 1993, will retire toward the end of the summer semester 2022. To celebrate his life...17 March 2022|newsPetroleum Experts (Petex) Limited donated software licencesThe Institute of Geophysics announces that Petroleum Experts (Petex) Limited has donated software licences amounting to the equivalent of 1,451,332...21 February 2022|newsRegina Maaß wins AGU awardPhoto: Regina MaaßCongratulations to our M.Sc. student Regina Maaß for winning the Outstanding Student Poster Award (OSPA) in the Seismology division of the American...2 December 2021|ForschungSantorini: Gleaning Volcanic History from the Ocean FloorSantorini is a picturesque archipelago in the southern Aegean. The islands encircle a massive volcanic caldera, which the ocean has long-since covered...12 November 2021|ForschungMETEOR Expedition to the Gotland Basin (Central Baltic Sea)From mid-October to mid-November 2021, a sea-geophysical measurement campaign with the research vessel METEOR takes place in the territorial waters of...13 October 2021|ForschungStorm Warnings: When the Seafloor ShakesAs far back as 1920, a unique tool helped to warn of approaching storms in the North Sea region: a seismometer in Hamburg recorded the movements of...5 October 2021|ForschungFormer Institute Director Prof. Dr. Klaus Hasselmann honored with Nobel Prize in PhysicsThis year's Nobel Prize in Physics went to the former director of the Institute of Geophysics, Prof. Dr. Klaus Hasselmann. The Institute was founded...27 September 2021|ForschungMarine seismic survey in GreeceThe Institute of Geophysics, in cooperation with the University of Athens, is conducting a marine seismic survey along the northern coast of the...Show all news