Vortragende: Dr. Julia Kieslinger (Geographie Erlangen)
Titel: "Die Bedeutung sozialer Ungleichheiten in der transformativen Nachhaltigkeitsforschung am Beispiel (im)mobiler Lebenswelten in Lateinamerika und der Karibik"
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Perdita Pohle
Kurzzusammenfassung: Transform...
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun
I present my ongoing work using the emulator from the Instructed Glacier Model (IGM) (https://github.com/jouvetg/igm) to invert for ice thickness at the 200,000 glaciers in the world outside the polar ice sheets. The basis of the emulator is a convolutiona...
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun
The Antarctic coastline is constantly changing. Three-quarters of the coastline are fringed by ice shelves, the floating extensions of the Antarctic ice sheet. The retreat or disintegration of ice shelves with buttressing forces cause enhanced mass loss of...
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun
TanDEM-X is the first operational spaceborne bistatic SAR system comprising the two twin satellites TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X. The system acts as a large single-pass radar interferometer, nominally acquiring interferometric SAR images in bistatic configurati...
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun
Among the myriad of mitigation strategies for anthropogenic climate warming, Climatic Geoengineering is one of the most controversial proposals to limit projected trajectories of temperature increase for the rest of the 21st century. Numerical models that ...
Vortragender: Ryan Burns, PhD, FRCGS, University of Calgary
Titel: "Relational geographies of labor in the smart city"
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Blake Walker
Kurzzusammenfassung: Digital technologies are reshaping urban life, but in profoundly and meaningfully uneven ways. Recent critic...
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning
The Zagros Mountain range in western Iran serves as a water tower for the surrounding arid and semi-arid basins. The mountain region hosts the largest oak forest biome in western Asia, which has important soil conservation and water regulation functions in...
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and severe droughts, is primary associated with changes in large-scale atmospheric circulation and the jet stream states. Those variations within the leading modes of atmospheric variab...
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning
Alpine ecosystems are considered hot-spots of environmental Change with rapidly warming conditions causing massive alterations in vegetational structure. These changes and their environmental controls are highly complex and variable across spatial and temp...
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning
The Zagros Mountain range in western Iran serves as a water tower for the surrounding arid and semi-arid basins. The mountain region hosts the largest oak forest biome in western Asia, which has important soil conservation and water regulation functions in t...