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The Institute of Earth System Sciences (IESW) is concerned with the development of risk assessments and future-oriented solutions for the sustainable use and protection of available natural resources - raw materials of the solid earth, biodiversity, soils, water - as well as with the mitigation and adaptation of climate change and its consequences for our society.

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Prof. Dr. Sabine Chabrillat | Prof. Dr. Georg Guggenberger | Prof. Dr. Stephan Peth

Flower meadow and tree avenue

Flower meadow and tree avenue

Flower meadow and tree avenue

currently vacant | NN

Folded rock layers

Folded rock layers

Folded rock layers

Prof. Dr. Gerald Gabriel | Prof. Dr. Andrea Hampel | Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heimhofer | Prof. Dr. Mike Müller-Petke | Prof. Dr. Jutta Winsemann

Image of sodalites under the fluorescence microscope

Image of sodalites under the fluorescence microscope

Image of sodalites under the fluorescence microscope

© Teresa Zahoransky

Prof. Dr. François Holtz | Prof. Dr. Christian Mikutta | apl. Prof. Dr. Claus Rüscher | Prof. Dr. Stefan Weyer

Cultural landscape in Germany

Cultural landscape in Germany

Cultural landscape in Germany

Physical Geography and Digital Landscape Ecology

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Burkhard | Prof. Dr. Nadja Kabisch

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SELINA project meeting in Ponta Delgada, Azores

© Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heimhofer

Sediment layers in Portugal

The Earth has been blooming for 123 million years

25th April 2025

Co-operation agreement between the PhyGeo Section and the LGLN

15th April 2025

Climate Future Lab: Effects of Microclimate on Health

Participants of the DGK conference at the poster session in the Lichthof

17th March 2025

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Crystallography (DGK) took place at the LUH in 2025

11th March 2025

Safety in the Field and at Work: First Aid Course in the Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology Section

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LIAG-Seminar: Evaluation of Geothermal Reservoir Characterization in the Brussels Sand of the North German Basin

LIAG-Seminar: Dolomite thermoluminescence thermochronometry and its application in central Apennines (Italy)

LIAG-Seminar: Insight into the structural characteristics of the Osning Faut System and its geological evolution based on high-resolution reflection seismic and geological modelling

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