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2008-08-22 News
Isopore membranes made in Geesthacht - a blessing for humankind?
An article published in December in “Nature Material” receives attention again: The well known american chemist Benny Freeman from the University of Texas thinks that the invention from Geesthacht is sensational. In the recent issue of "Nature Magazine" he invites to a discussion.
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2008-07-02 News
Career and Family Need Not Be Mutually Exclusive
The GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht has received the audit berufundfamilie certificate for its family-friendly human resources policies. The broad range of family-friendly measures at GKSS includes flexible working hours, a company daycare centre and teleworking programs.
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2008-06-23 Quantum Leap School Laboratory
20,000th Pupil Visits Quantum Leap School Laboratory
At the “Quantum Leap” school laboratory of the GKSS Research Centre, schoolchildren from all over northern Germany can spend an entire day experimenting with fuel cells or water analysis systems just like professional researchers.
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2008-05-13 Press Release GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht
Hamburg’s citizens regard climate change as a great threat
61 per cent of Hamburg’s citizens believe climate change to be a great, or very great threat to the city, citing storm surges and flooding as possible climate-related natural disasters. This is the result of the forsa Study, which was commissioned by the scientists from the GKSS-Research Centre in Geesthacht.
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2008-04-24 Press Release GKSS-Research Centre Geesthacht
Palaeoclimate: Linking events across a key climate transition
The Earth experienced a dramatic climate transition some 34 million years ago, when the Antarctic underwent extraordinarily rapid glaciation. A paper in this week's Nature looks into the connection between this glaciation and a deepening of the calcite compensation depth — the ocean depth at which the rate of calcium carbonate input from surface waters equals the rate of dissolution.
Agostino Merico and colleagues used a global model to test competing ideas put forward to explain the events triggering the climate transition.
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2007-12-03 Biomaterialien für einen attraktiven Wachstumsmarkt
Biomaterialien für einen attraktiven Wachstumsmarkt
Im Mittelpunkt der Forschung im Zentrum für Biomaterialentwicklung bei GKSS in Teltow steht die Entwicklung von innovativen, polymerbasierten Biomaterialien für medizinische Anwendungen.
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2007-11-14 Press Release GKSS-Research Centre Geesthacht
Oil spill in the Wadden Sea! Which areas are especially at risk?
Germany’s Wadden Sea is a unique and very sensitive ecosystem that would be severely impacted by a serious shipping accident. That’s why it’s important for response teams to be able to react quickly and effectively to accidents that could cause widespread pollution. To make this possible, comprehensive precautionary measures need to be planned in advance.
Thanks to its extensive precautionary planning activities, the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME) in Cuxhaven can quickly identify which areas of the Wadden Sea should get top-priority protection following an accident. To do so, the CCME uses an operational system developed by the Institute for Coastal Research at the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht. This system has now been upgraded and given the designation "Sensitivity Grid German North Sea II".
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2007-11-05 Pressemitteilung GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht
Neue Graduiertenschule für Lebenswissenschaftler - Berliner Universitätsmedizin feiert Erfolg bei Exzellenzwettbewerb
Mit rund fünf Millionen Euro fördert die Exzellenzinitiative von Bund und Ländern die Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT) bis zum Jahr 2012. Dies gab der gemeinsame Bewilligungsausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und des Wissenschaftsrats heute bekannt. Die Graduiertenschule ist eine gemeinsame Initiative von Medizinern, Biologen und Ingenieuren unter Führung der Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin und der Humboldt-Universität. Ebenfalls beteiligen sich das GKSS-Institut für Polymerforschung in Teltow sowie die Universitäten Potsdam, die Freie und die Technische Universität Berlin.
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2007-10-19 Pressemitteilung GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht
Universität Hamburg gewinnt im Exzellenzwettbewerb
Die Universität Hamburg (UHH) erhielt am 19.10.2007 den Zuschlag zum Ausbau des Kompetenz-Zentrums in der Klimaforschung. Gemeinsam mit ihren außeruniversitären Partnern, dem Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, dem GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht, dem von ihnen gemeinsam getragenen Deutschen Klima Rechenzentrum (DKRZ), sowie dem in Hamburg ansässigen Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, dem Deutschen Wetterdienst und der Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau baut die UHH damit ihr Zentrum für Meeres- und Klimaforschung (ZMK) zu dem KlimaCampus Hamburg und nationalen Kompetenz-Zentrum für Klimaforschung aus.
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2007-08-21 Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region
Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region
Led by the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, an international consortium is compiling and evaluating all the data collected to date about climate change in the Baltic Sea region. The Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) has used these extensive findings as the basis of its own report, which includes recommendations for action.
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