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

17th March 2025

33rd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Crystallography (DGK) at LUH

11th March 2025

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

25th February 2025

We stand with an open scientific communitiy: PhyGeo's section is leaving X

© Axel Hofmann

An example of the stromatolites investigated in this study from the Cheshire Formation (Belingwe, Zimbabwe).

24th February 2025

New insights on the impact of volcanic activity on early marine life

29th January 2025

Landscape Sciences Alumni Network Meeting: successful exchange of information on activities and professional fields

16th December 2024

New research project to develop species distribution models in cooperation with the NLWKN

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Prof. Dr. Emma Sayer: How litter inputs shape soil carbon and nutrient dynamics in a tropical forest

Dr. Collin Weber: Microplastics in Soils

LIAG-Seminar: Imaging fault zones with 3D modeling and inversion of SAEM data

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)

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Last Change: 03.04.25; Christian Ronny Singer