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Registration for the 12th Physics of Volcanoes workshop including two GeoX-hosted discussion rounds is now open: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... It will be hosted at the @geowpotsdam.bsky.social of the @unipotsdam.bsky.social from 18 to 20 February 2026. Everyone interested in volcanoes is welcome.
Physics of Volcanoes 2026 (PoV-12)
Event Timing: 18-20 February 2026
on site, in person, in Potsdam:
18 Feb 2026: 17:00 - 19:00 Icebreaker
19 Feb 2026: 09:15 - 18:15 Scientific Program + discussion, 19:15 Joint Dinner
20 Feb 2026: 09...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Registration for the 12th Physics of Volcanoes workshop including two GeoX-hosted discussion rounds is now open: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... It will be hosted at the @geowpotsdam.bsky.social of the @unipotsdam.bsky.social from 18 to 20 February 2026. Everyone interested in volcanoes is welcome.
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🌍 Call for abstracts for #EGU26: Urban Risk in a Changing World.
📌 Seeking work on multi-hazard interactions & urban vulnerability, innovative data tools, urban governance/resilience, and Transdisciplinary case studies.
🗓️ deadline: 15 Jan 2026
Join our session and share your research! #UrbanRisk
📌 Seeking work on multi-hazard interactions & urban vulnerability, innovative data tools, urban governance/resilience, and Transdisciplinary case studies.
🗓️ deadline: 15 Jan 2026
Join our session and share your research! #UrbanRisk
#egu26 #urban #egu26 #urbanrisk #resilience #hazards #disasterriskreduction #urbanstudies #geoscience | Faith Taylor
We welcome submissions to our #EGU26 session NH9.4: Urban Risk in a Changing World: Dynamics, Disruption & Resilience in Cities
This session brings together research on how evolving socio-environment...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🌍 Call for abstracts for #EGU26: Urban Risk in a Changing World.
📌 Seeking work on multi-hazard interactions & urban vulnerability, innovative data tools, urban governance/resilience, and Transdisciplinary case studies.
🗓️ deadline: 15 Jan 2026
Join our session and share your research! #UrbanRisk
📌 Seeking work on multi-hazard interactions & urban vulnerability, innovative data tools, urban governance/resilience, and Transdisciplinary case studies.
🗓️ deadline: 15 Jan 2026
Join our session and share your research! #UrbanRisk
High Mountain Asia’s surface waters warmed from 1994–2023 (avg +0.1°C, up to +0.3°C), with faster warming in snow-covered areas and clear recent acceleration. Surface water is heating faster than nearby land, driven by rapid cryosphere changes. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Strongly Heterogeneous Surface‐Water Warming Trends in High Mountain Asia
Surface waters are warming significantly in High Mountain Asia Water is warming faster than land in most of the region 30-year warming trends have accelerated over the past decade
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December 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
High Mountain Asia’s surface waters warmed from 1994–2023 (avg +0.1°C, up to +0.3°C), with faster warming in snow-covered areas and clear recent acceleration. Surface water is heating faster than nearby land, driven by rapid cryosphere changes. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Integrating mobile CRNS soil-moisture data into the mHM model greatly boosts its ability to capture spatial and temporal moisture patterns. Forests remain challenging, but results show strong gains and good transferability for better hydrological forecasts.
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Frontiers | On the value of mobile cosmic-ray neutron measurements for spatio-temporal soil moisture simulations
High-resolution soil moisture measurements are indispensable for advancing hydrological modeling and improving environmental risk assessments at regional sca...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Integrating mobile CRNS soil-moisture data into the mHM model greatly boosts its ability to capture spatial and temporal moisture patterns. Forests remain challenging, but results show strong gains and good transferability for better hydrological forecasts.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/wat...
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Extreme rain intensifies faster on warm days mainly because weather shifts from gentle to convective storms. Big systems become more convective above ~14 °C dew point, boosting short-burst rainfall and flood risk.
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Super-Clausius–Clapeyron scaling of extreme precipitation explained by shift from stratiform to convective rain type
Nature Geoscience - Warming-induced changes in extreme precipitation intensity that exceed the Clausius–Clapeyron scaling rate can be explained by a statistical shift from stratiform to...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Extreme rain intensifies faster on warm days mainly because weather shifts from gentle to convective storms. Big systems become more convective above ~14 °C dew point, boosting short-burst rainfall and flood risk.
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Call for abstracts for Session HS8.2.13 Multiscale Perspectives on Groundwater Recharge: From Field Observations to Integrated Models at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2026.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Call for abstracts for Session HS8.2.13 Multiscale Perspectives on Groundwater Recharge: From Field Observations to Integrated Models at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2026.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
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I gave a seminar talk
about the growing threat of #landslides
at Earth and Life Institute - UCLouvain.
Here's a link to watch it:
📽️https://lnkd.in/dYRPJraX
It was a very productive visit thanks to Caroline Michellier, Erasmus Zu Ermgassen, and Olivier Dewitte.
about the growing threat of #landslides
at Earth and Life Institute - UCLouvain.
Here's a link to watch it:
📽️https://lnkd.in/dYRPJraX
It was a very productive visit thanks to Caroline Michellier, Erasmus Zu Ermgassen, and Olivier Dewitte.
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I gave a seminar talk
about the growing threat of #landslides
at Earth and Life Institute - UCLouvain.
Here's a link to watch it:
📽️https://lnkd.in/dYRPJraX
It was a very productive visit thanks to Caroline Michellier, Erasmus Zu Ermgassen, and Olivier Dewitte.
about the growing threat of #landslides
at Earth and Life Institute - UCLouvain.
Here's a link to watch it:
📽️https://lnkd.in/dYRPJraX
It was a very productive visit thanks to Caroline Michellier, Erasmus Zu Ermgassen, and Olivier Dewitte.
Open PhD Position (75%, 3 years) in Landslide Research in the Geohazards Group at the University of Potsdam. More information can be found here: topotoolbox.wordpress.com/category/jobs/
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Open PhD Position (75%, 3 years) in Landslide Research in the Geohazards Group at the University of Potsdam. More information can be found here: topotoolbox.wordpress.com/category/jobs/
This study shows that SAR data can map crop phenometrics more accurately than optical data. It’s a promising step for precision agriculture—better resource use, improved yield predictions, and more sustainable farming.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The potential of Sentinel-1 time series for large-scale assessment of maize and wheat phenology across Germany
Monitoring crop phenometrics is crucial for understanding crop conditions and dynamics. Dense time series are needed for accurate information. Recent work has shown that remote sensing data can be ...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This study shows that SAR data can map crop phenometrics more accurately than optical data. It’s a promising step for precision agriculture—better resource use, improved yield predictions, and more sustainable farming.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📣📣📣 We are hiring!!! (Please repost)
3 PhDs in new research group “navigate" on urban-rural resilience in water scarcity crises, co-lead by Taís Carvalho & me at @ufz.de (start: 1 Feb):
PhD 1 (behav. sci./econ.): is.gd/ty0BAX
PhD 2 (data sci./ML): is.gd/Ed07qk
PhD 3 (hydro-econ./ABM): is.gd/KEeESY
3 PhDs in new research group “navigate" on urban-rural resilience in water scarcity crises, co-lead by Taís Carvalho & me at @ufz.de (start: 1 Feb):
PhD 1 (behav. sci./econ.): is.gd/ty0BAX
PhD 2 (data sci./ML): is.gd/Ed07qk
PhD 3 (hydro-econ./ABM): is.gd/KEeESY
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
📣📣📣 We are hiring!!! (Please repost)
3 PhDs in new research group “navigate" on urban-rural resilience in water scarcity crises, co-lead by Taís Carvalho & me at @ufz.de (start: 1 Feb):
PhD 1 (behav. sci./econ.): is.gd/ty0BAX
PhD 2 (data sci./ML): is.gd/Ed07qk
PhD 3 (hydro-econ./ABM): is.gd/KEeESY
3 PhDs in new research group “navigate" on urban-rural resilience in water scarcity crises, co-lead by Taís Carvalho & me at @ufz.de (start: 1 Feb):
PhD 1 (behav. sci./econ.): is.gd/ty0BAX
PhD 2 (data sci./ML): is.gd/Ed07qk
PhD 3 (hydro-econ./ABM): is.gd/KEeESY
PYROPHOB - A research project into the forest of tomorrow
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November 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
PYROPHOB - A research project into the forest of tomorrow
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Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River - Skålevåg - 2025 - Water Resources Research - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River
Streamflow is the primary driver of suspended sediment transport, but its effect is modulated by temperature and freeze-thaw conditions
There is a marked shift in suspended sediment dynamics when...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River - Skålevåg - 2025 - Water Resources Research - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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EGU announces the 2026 awards and-medals
Prof. Thorsten Wagener will receive the John Dalton Medal.
This medal was established by the Hydrological Sciences Division and is awarded for distinguished contributions to hydrological science.
www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...
Prof. Thorsten Wagener will receive the John Dalton Medal.
This medal was established by the Hydrological Sciences Division and is awarded for distinguished contributions to hydrological science.
www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...
EGU announces the 2026 awards and medals!
<p>The European Geosciences Union is honouring 52 people at all stages of their careers who have made substantial contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.</p>
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November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
EGU announces the 2026 awards and-medals
Prof. Thorsten Wagener will receive the John Dalton Medal.
This medal was established by the Hydrological Sciences Division and is awarded for distinguished contributions to hydrological science.
www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...
Prof. Thorsten Wagener will receive the John Dalton Medal.
This medal was established by the Hydrological Sciences Division and is awarded for distinguished contributions to hydrological science.
www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...
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Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit Beteiligung der Universität Potsdam hat nun drei neue Arten von #Baumkröten aus #Tansania beschrieben, die voll entwickelte Jungtiere zur Welt bringen. Die Entdeckung wurde jetzt in „Vertebrate Zoology“ veröffentlicht: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...
Drei neue Krötenarten springen ins Rampenlicht
Medieninformation 06-11-2025 / Nr. 098
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November 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit Beteiligung der Universität Potsdam hat nun drei neue Arten von #Baumkröten aus #Tansania beschrieben, die voll entwickelte Jungtiere zur Welt bringen. Die Entdeckung wurde jetzt in „Vertebrate Zoology“ veröffentlicht: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...
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We will keep underestimating the scale and complexity of cascading #geohazards in high mountains without a fundamental shift in perspective, policies, and their implementation.☝️Developing scenarios to facilitate impact based forecasting schemes is a way forward
doi.org/10.1038/s41561
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doi.org/10.1038/s41561
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November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
We will keep underestimating the scale and complexity of cascading #geohazards in high mountains without a fundamental shift in perspective, policies, and their implementation.☝️Developing scenarios to facilitate impact based forecasting schemes is a way forward
doi.org/10.1038/s41561
@univie.ac.at
doi.org/10.1038/s41561
@univie.ac.at
Impressions from the On Water dialog "Innovations for a water-resilient region" initiated by the Berlin University Alliance. #WasserWissen
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Impressions from the On Water dialog "Innovations for a water-resilient region" initiated by the Berlin University Alliance. #WasserWissen
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NEW PAPER by Eibl et al. in Scientific Reports:
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Pool #geyser #Strokkur, #Iceland reacts to the weather: The higher the wind speed the longer the recurrence intervals. This effect can be observed down to the bubble reservoir at 24 m depth!
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Pool #geyser #Strokkur, #Iceland reacts to the weather: The higher the wind speed the longer the recurrence intervals. This effect can be observed down to the bubble reservoir at 24 m depth!
Winds of change: meteorological influences on Strokkur’s geyser eruptions, Iceland
Scientific Reports - Winds of change: meteorological influences on Strokkur’s geyser eruptions, Iceland
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
NEW PAPER by Eibl et al. in Scientific Reports:
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Pool #geyser #Strokkur, #Iceland reacts to the weather: The higher the wind speed the longer the recurrence intervals. This effect can be observed down to the bubble reservoir at 24 m depth!
rdcu.be/eOcYm
Pool #geyser #Strokkur, #Iceland reacts to the weather: The higher the wind speed the longer the recurrence intervals. This effect can be observed down to the bubble reservoir at 24 m depth!
Prof. Thorsten Wagener introduced the Potsdam WaterHub during his keynote at the Geo.X Annual Meeting 2025. The theme of this year's Geo.X meeting was "Water in Motion".
October 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Prof. Thorsten Wagener introduced the Potsdam WaterHub during his keynote at the Geo.X Annual Meeting 2025. The theme of this year's Geo.X meeting was "Water in Motion".
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😱 Every second person dies from unnecessary risk-taking behavior during #disasters. We need to educate the public to reduce #disaster mortality further.
👉 #ClimateChange is kicking in; we are facing more and more socio-natural #hazards without prior experience.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f
👉 #ClimateChange is kicking in; we are facing more and more socio-natural #hazards without prior experience.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f
September 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
😱 Every second person dies from unnecessary risk-taking behavior during #disasters. We need to educate the public to reduce #disaster mortality further.
👉 #ClimateChange is kicking in; we are facing more and more socio-natural #hazards without prior experience.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f
👉 #ClimateChange is kicking in; we are facing more and more socio-natural #hazards without prior experience.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f
A new study in NHESS investigates the decreasing groundwater recharge rates in Brandenburg.
Francke, T. and Heistermann, M. (2025): Groundwater recharge in Brandenburg is declining – but why?, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2783–2802, doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
Francke, T. and Heistermann, M. (2025): Groundwater recharge in Brandenburg is declining – but why?, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2783–2802, doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
September 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A new study in NHESS investigates the decreasing groundwater recharge rates in Brandenburg.
Francke, T. and Heistermann, M. (2025): Groundwater recharge in Brandenburg is declining – but why?, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2783–2802, doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
Francke, T. and Heistermann, M. (2025): Groundwater recharge in Brandenburg is declining – but why?, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2783–2802, doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950 | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950
Flood impacts in Europe (1950–2020) were driven mainly by changes in exposure and vulnerability, not long-term change in climate.
www.science.org
September 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950 | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A scalable framework for soil property mapping tested across a highly diverse tropical data-scarce region
Reliable soil property maps are essential for environmental modeling, yet conventional mapping methods remain costly and time-consuming. We developed …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...