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7 February 2018|Pressemitteilung

Wind data for urban planning

People with umbrellas in a storm

Photo: 123rf madrabothair

Extreme gusts of wind of more than 40 km per hour are common on Hamburg’s footpaths. Measurements undertaken by Professor Felix Ament and Dr. Sarah Wiesner from the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) at Universität Hamburg demonstrate this. Their current measuring campaign has...
29 January 2018|Pressemitteilung

Anneliese Maier Research Award: Sociolinguist Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller to research at Universität Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller

Photo: Marcin Debski

Third Anneliese Maier Research Award for Universität Hamburg: the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded an Anneliese Maier Research Award worth 250,000 euros to Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller. The sociolinguist researches at Australia’s Macquarie University in the field of intercultural...
26 January 2018|News

New spider species named after Bob Marley

Spinnenforscher Danilo Harms

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

The Desis bobmarleyi is a new species of spider discovered in the corals of Australia. The spider has now been described for the first time in Evolutionary Systematics, the scientific journal published by the Center of Natural History (CeNak). We asked spider researcher Dr. Danilo Harms why the...
10 January 2018|Campus

How do mangroves protect our climate? Students of Universität Hamburg conducting research on the Fiji Islands.

Mangroven-Inventur auf Fidschi

Photo: Brielmaier/Reimer

Mangroves, salt-water tolerant trees with characteristically high root systems, grow all along the coast of the South Pacific island of Fiji. Yet the data we have on how these mangrove forests store carbon is sparse. Fiji, the Pacific nation taking the lead in climate change, is at pains to close...