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Open Call for Companies to Access Free Analytical Research
The Baltic TRAM project offers companies free access to state-of-the-art analytical research facilities across the Baltic Sea Region, providing technical and scientific expertise to help solve challenges associated with developing new products or services. The project now accepts applications. more
Time Lapse of the Sea
The North and Baltic Seas are habitats that are always changing over the course of time—such changes are also occurring even today. Currents, temperatures and winds change and with them the living conditions for sea animals and plants. To understand how intense this variability is and how it is triggered, researchers from the Institute of Coastal Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) have run a sixty-year computer simulation for the first time for the North and Baltic Seas. The results are, in part, astonishing and not least vital in understanding the consequences of climate change. more
Summer School for Materials Researchers – Platform for Emerging Scientists
The first “ZHM Summer School 2017” for doctoral candidates at the Centre for High Performance Materials (ZHM) will take place from May 8th to 12th in Soltau. more
March for Science on April 22nd
On Saturday April 22nd, people around the world are taking to the streets to demonstrate for free science. Science Marches are also planned in Hamburg and Berlin. more
Hamburg Scientists Develop Novel Nanomaterial with Controllable Optical Properties
Recent publication in the journal "Nature Scientific Reports more
Adaptations to Climate Change: 5th Conference on Climate Services in Africa
With about 200 participants the 5th International Conference on Climate Services (ICCS5) will take place in Cape Town from February 28th to March 3rd 2017. A goal of the international conference is to establish new networks and to build partnerships. more
Silent Eddy Hunters
Large regions with wind parks have been cropping up in the German North Sea for several years. The foundation structures work like gigantic mixing rods that swirl the tidal current. Using underwater gliders, researchers from the Institute of Coastal Research now measure the strength of the turbulence so that they can assess consequences of offshore wind energy development on biological and chemical processes in the sea. more
Helmholtz International Fellow Award goes to Professor Xiang Zhang
Prof. Zhang is an internationally renowned expert in the field of structural integrity of aircraft structures more
Three elements in one sweep
Where does the sediment in the Wadden Sea and the silt in the harbour of Hamburg come from? How are pollutants in the environment distributed? Questions like these can, for example, be answered today though chemically analysing trace elements in sediment or water samples. These methods, however, are still often very time-consuming because the analysis samples must be processed with a great deal of effort. A HZG doctoral candidate, Tristan Zimmermann, has therefore developed a method that vastly speeds up sample preparation. His method will help ease everyday laboratory work for researchers all over the world. His endeavours have now been awarded a prize at a scientific conference. more
TUHH and HZG: 1st Symposium of the Materials Science Graduate School
Junior scientists meet junior scientists: The Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) offer a two-day symposium for professional exchange and networking to 30 graduates of the Materials Science Graduate School. more
Regionally noticeable change: First extensive climate report published for the North Sea Region
The “North Sea Region Climate Chance Assessment (NOSCCA)” report presents current knowledge for the first time in its entirety and shows how individual regions near the North Sea could be altered due to climate change. more
International Exchange on Environmental Problems in Chinese Coastal Waters
Environmental problems caused by human activity are a challenge afflicting many nations across the globe. Approximately forty scientists from both Germany and China will discuss the current coastal water conditions of both countries beginning August 30th. more
Fivefold increase in performance through gentle treatment
Scientists from the Institute of Polymer Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) develop tailor-made membrane materials based on thermally rearranged polymers. more
Paleoclimate – Learning from the Past
The future lies in the past. This statement may sound technically incorrect or, at best, like a paradox. For some scientists it is, however, one hundred percent accurate. They investigate periods in the past to better understand the “here and now”. more
Carbon Is Cleverly Joined with Metal: HZG Scientist Receives Henry Granjon Prize for New Methodology
Since 1948 the renowned International Institute of Welding (IIW) awards annually the most emerging young professionals and scientists award in the area of joining technology: the Henry Granjon Prize. On July 10th 2016, Dr. Seyed Goushegir is awarded this year’s prestigious prize at the IIW's 69th annual meeting in Melbourne. He received the prize for his work within the Institute of Materials Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht.Geesthacht. more