The GFZ awards its highest honour to geophysicist and drilling expert from Stanford University, USA

On the day of bulding culture, join our guided tours at GeoBioLab: How to investigate microbial processes underground? How can computer power heat laboratories? How does sustainable building work?

The GFZ Friends Award honours Smirnov's dissertation on the dynamics of near-Earth space, completed in GFZ section ‘Space Physics and Space Weather’, as the best doctoral thesis of 2023.

With the prestigious EU funding of 1.5 million euros, he will conduct research into past ecosystems and the development of the carbon cycle and complex life in the GFZ section “Organic Geochemistry”.

Data assimilation, a principle known from weather forecasting, can – based on satellite data – significantly improve the prediction of particle dynamics in the electron ring current around the Earth

Borehole-based station at the Sea of Marmara will record an entire range of deformation processes, from slow aseismic creep to classic earthquakes as well as pore fluid pressure data.

Seismologists measure tremors up to 5000 km away for weeks.

As part of an ideas competition, five technology transfer projects and three knowledge transfer projects have been selected for funding.

Why are the tectonically stable core areas of the continents gradually rising? How do some of the most distinctive landforms on our planet form?

From 22 to 24 October, the industry's largest event will take place in Potsdam for the first time. The GFZ will be the scientific partner of the organising Bundesverband Geothermie e.V.