Potsdam Climate & Sustainability Lectures | WiSe 2023/2024
The lecture series of the Institute of Environmental Science and Geography is open to everyone! It is organised as a hybrid lecture. Join us at Campus Golm, house 25, lecture hall F0.01 or online. The lecture will provide an introduction and overview of current challenges in researching and addressing global and regional change issues in climate, earth, water and sustainability sciences.
Room & time: Tuesdays, 16:15 to 17:45, lecture room 2.25.F0.01 (+ online)
Online - Access: https://openup.uni-potsdam.de/course/view.php?id=260
Language: english
No | Date | Title of presentation | Speaker (institution) |
| 1 | 17.10.2023 | Climate research in Antarctica: Expedition report from the AWI vessel POLARSTERN | Bernhard Diekmann (AWI) |
| 2 | 24.10.2023 | Uncertainty in Models of the Earth System | Thorsten Wagener (UP) |
| 31.10.2023 | [holiday] | ||
| 3 | 07.11.2023 | Climate Change, Arctic Coasts & Permafrost | Michael Fritz (AWI) |
| 4 | 14.11.2023 | Land-use change as a driver of biodiversity loss | Tobias Kümmerle (HU) |
| 5 | 21.11.2023 | Earth observations for climate and sustainablity | Martin Herold (GFZ) |
| 6 | 28.11.2023 | Physics of the Oceans / The Climate Debate | Stefan Rahmstorf (PIK) |
| 7 | 05.12.2023 | How climate change and un-planned urban sprawl bring more landslides / Co-PREPARE: Natural Risk Assessment and Forecasting in the Himalayan Region | Ugur Öztürk (UP) / Wolfgang Schwanghart (UP) |
| 8 | 12.12.2023 | Climate change impacts on biodiversity | Damaris Zurell (UP) |
| 9 | 19.12.2023 | Investigating microplastics in the environment | Sascha Oswald (UP) |
| [Christmas break from 23.12.2023 till 07.01.2024] | |||
| 10 | 09.01.2024 | Planetary boundaries | Johan Rockström (PIK) |
| 11 | 16.01.2024 | Compound weather and climate events | Jakob Zscheischler (UFZ) |
| 12 | 23.01.2024 | The CO2 balance of energy production and consumption | Dieter Neher (UP) |
| 13 | 30.01.2024 | Carbon Pricing | Matthias Kalkuhl (MCC) |
| 14 | 06.02.2024 | Climate Change Communication | Birgit Schneider (UP) |