Business Type: Education. University Industry type: Research, Education
Activity: The earth is subject to constant change: sometimes imperceptibly slow when oceans open or the proverbial steady drop levelles entire mountains, sometimes suddenly when volcanoes explode or earthquakes trigger huge floods and landslides. While many such processes are quite well understood in detail, their influence in the overall system is less well known. It is these intersystemic relationships that are investigated in the research focus “Earth and Environmental Systems”.
The Institutes of Geosciences and the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Geography at the University of Potsdam focus together on questions about the interactions between the processes in the Earth system, which take place on different space and time scales. They aim to enable a profound understanding of the interaction of the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, especially taking into account the influences of humans.
Contact: Institutes of Geosciences Location: Germany