News (2024)3 May 2024|CLICCS NewsHamburg Hosts Climate Modelling SummitPhoto: Esfandiari/UHHCollaboration instead of academic competition: More than 100 experts attended the World Climate Research Program’s (WCRP) meeting for the first...30 April 2024|ResearchHamburg-based geophysicist awarded with Helmholtz Doctoral PrizePhoto: David MarschalskyOffshore wind turbines affect local ocean and wind currents in the North Sea – as, drawing on simulations, Dr. Nils Christiansen from the Helmholtz...25 April 2024|CLICCS NewsVisitors flock to Hamburg’s climate research boothPhoto: UniHH/CEN/S. JanssenThe team from Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CLICCS returned from Vienna with empty boxes and a wealth of new insights. In their view...15 April 2024|InterviewView from high above: "We zoom in on the surface to a scale of just one meter"Photo: Eivind SennesetWelcome to Universität Hamburg! Prof. Dr. Olena Dubovyk came to Hamburg from the University of Bergen, assuming the W2 professorship "Earth System...15 April 2024|CLICCS NewsWissenschaft in Hamburgs KneipenPhoto: © DESY und Universität HamburgWissen frisch gezapft: Am 2. Mai gibt es in den Kneipen Hamburgs nicht nur Bier und Alsterwasser, sondern auch vielfältige Vorträge zu aktuellen...11 April 2024|EventOn site EGU 2024Photo: CLICCS/UHHFrom 14 to 19 April 2024, scientists from CLICCS and CEN are presenting their research in Vienna, at the annual assembly of the European Geosciences...4 April 2024|ResearchWinter Expedition to Greenland LaunchedPhoto: Lars KutzbachExperts from the Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) and the joint project MOMENT are working together to explore...25 March 2024|CLICCS NewsFirst global study of coastal seas as carbon dioxide reservoirs possiblePhoto: Hereon/M.MathisCoastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean. Ocean researchers have now...Contribution from the university's newsroom21 March 2024|TransferArt and climate research: a collaboration with potentialPhoto: Design by Nielsen/Schurr, Image material: Ketan Rajput/UnsplashThe transfer project "Portraits of Climate" brings art and science together. In five teams, the artists exchange ideas with one or more researchers...7 March 2024|CLICCS NewsEcosystem loss: Subsequent costs far higher than expectedPhoto: UHH/R.HansenGovernments the world over are looking for novel approaches to evaluating ecosystem benefits and value. This is to illustrate the impacts of...Contribution from the university's newsroom6 March 2024|InternationalNew UNESCO Chair in HamburgPhoto: UHH/GöttlingUNESCO and Universität Hamburg have now created a UNESCO Chair “Societal Climate Change Research and Resilience”, headed by Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter...6 March 2024|Research“Grasping climate change takes a personal experience”Photo: Beate RatterFor the past several years, geographer Prof. Beate Ratter has been investigating adaptation measures on small islands that are especially endangered...23 February 2024|ResearchHow to Best Motivate Personal Climate ActionPhoto: Unsplash/Tyler NixSetting a good example, stirring fear, advocating scientific facts, or imparting self-efficacy—what is the best way to encourage people to take...13 February 2024|ResearchFrequent marine heatwaves in the Arctic Ocean will be the normPhoto: UHH/CLICCS/A. BarkhordarianMarine heatwaves will become a regular occurrence in the Arctic in the near future and are a product of higher anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions...30 January 2024|ResearchGreen resilience: Fighting climate risks with plants and treesPhoto: Delf RotheHow do plants and trees contribute to public security in times of multiple crises? In the face of the growing climate crisis and other complex risks...26 January 2024|EventPodiumsdiskussion: Welche Rolle sollte Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Klimadebatte einnehmen?Photo: UHH/VogiatzisWirkt Wissenschaftskommunikation bei einem so drängenden Thema wie dem Klimawandel ausreichend in die Politik und in die Gesellschaft hinein? Bedarf...Contribution from the university's newsroom