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NEWS and EVENTS Recent PhD, BSc. and MSc. Thesis |
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You are warmly invited to join our events and seminars. The venue for the colloquium will be published below.
Upcoming events
25 July 2016 10:00, A31, Cupola
Micheal Eschweiler (DAAD) |
Michael Eschweiler will present the DAAD`s activities in Central America. |
Past Events
15 Mar 2016 14:00, A31, Cupola
Marian Dörk (Insitute for Urban Futures, Potsdam University of Applied Science) |
Visualizing urban complexity - designing new perspectives on the city
We are a visualization research group at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences focusing our work on the design, development, and evaluation of novel data visualization techniques primarily in the context of cities. At the urban scale we witness how global challenges such as climate change have their primary causes, but also find their most likely solutions. Data visualization promises insightful perspectives on complex, dynamic, and comprehensive datasets. Our mission is to conceive visualization techniques that help to untangle urban complexity and inform collective and personal decision-making. In this talk I give a brief overview of our current research efforts on visualizing urban data related to mobility, historic planning, and literature. We are now starting an initiative on creating visualizations representing current scientific insight on urbanization with particular focus on the climate goals and sustainability. The visualizations are scheduled to be presented at Habitat III later this year. I am happy to speak to PIK researchers who are interested in collaborating with us on this. |
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21 Jan 2016 14:00, A31, Cupola
Thomas Esch (DLR Earth Observation Center) |
"The Global Urban Footprint - A Key Step in Characterizing the Global Human Settlements Pattern from Space" |
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5. October 2015 14:00
Dr. Yannis Bistinas Reading University |
"Contemporary controls of fire frequency and the footprint of fire in the earth system"
This talk aims to give a better insight into the spatial variability and the controls of fire incidence at global scale using satellite derived datasets with a focus to the anthropogenic land use activities. Exploring partial relationships can contradict several modeling assumptions. When isolating the influence of population density and assuming spatial non-stationarity, the human impact is very detailed and reflects the main land use activities with emphasis on cropland and rangeland management. Finally, results show that the contribution of fires in the Earth system, in terms of radiative forcing, is significant. |
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22. September 2015 15:30
Martin Juckes Coordinator of the CLIPC project
The NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre |
"A Climate Information Platform for Copernicus (CLIPC): Mission and current work"
The CLIPC project is developing an integrated platform of climate data services portal to provide a single point of access for authoritative scientific information on climate change and climate change impacts. This ambitious objective supports the Copernicus Earth Observation Programme for Europe, which will deliver a new generation of environmental data for Europe’s citizens, decision-makers in the public and private sector, and academics. CLIPC services will support access to climate information of direct relevance to a wide variety of users, from scientists to policy makers and private sector decision makers. Information will include data from satellite and in-situ observations, climate models and re-analyses, transformed data products to enable impacts assessments and climate change impact indicators. The platform will complement existing GMES/Copernicus pre-operational components, but will focus on datasets which provide information on climate variability on decadal to centennial time scales from observed and projected climate change impacts in Europe, and will provide a toolbox to generate, compare and rank key indicators. Expanding climate data volumes will be supported with a distributed, scalable system, based on international standards. Guidance information on the quality and limitations of all data products will be provided. An on-going user consultation process will feed back into all the products developed within the project. |
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28. August 2015 14:00
Michael Prytula Fachhochschule Potsdam Forschungsprofessur Ressourcenoptimiertes und klimaangepasstes Bauen |
Der urbane Metabolismus |
See an overview of past colloquia in [2011/2012] [2013/2014]