Two Master Defenses on the same Day
03/10/2025 - Master Students finalize their Thesis Project
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Seeing Earth through AI: New initiative tackles global sustainability challenges
26/02/2025 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to address critical sustainability risks and challenges for both people and the planet. To explore this, the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and Google DeepMind have launched Seeing Earth through AI. This initiative will start with the development of an open-access report to guide AI's application in sustainability science.
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What is it like to overwinter at Neumayer III, Antarctica?
02/12/2025 - PhD student shares her experiences of overwintering in Antarctica during POLARSTUNDE seminar series
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"Explain it in two ways" on Tipping
01/30/2025 - New explanatory video on Tipping Elements as part of OCEAN:ICE project
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Pioneering Planetary Boundaries science as key to mitigating rising planetary risks
08.11.2024 - The Planetary Boundaries framework is a pivotal tool for tackling the climate crisis and safeguarding humanity’s future on Earth. For the first time, the full story of the Planetary Boundaries is now being told from its beginning: In a review, researchers highlight the growing influence of the PB framework across disciplines and its impact on society and policy. The article offers a unique overview of how the framework has been adopted across sectors. It also underscores how, 15 years after its initial proposal, PB science has become widely recognised as crucial for advancing the global sustainability agenda in an era of rising planetary risks.
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Jena Science Days
10/08/2024 - Earth Resilience Science Unit from PIK visits its counterpart at MPI-GEA
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At the 29. International Polar Conference in Rauris, Austria
09/20/2024 - PhD student joined regional polar conference in Rauris, Austria
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Juneau Icefield Research Program
08/26/2024 - PhD student joined academical expedition in Alaska and British Columbia
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EGU 2024 in Vienna
05/02/2024 - PIK's Ice Dynamics group at Europe's largest geoscientific conference.
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Amazon rainforest at the threshold: loss of forest worsens climate change
14.02.2024 - The Amazon rainforest could approach a tipping point, which could lead to a large-scale collapse with serious implications for the global climate system. A new Nature study by an international research team including scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) reveals that up to 47 percent of the Amazonian forest is threatened and identifies climatic and land-use thresholds that should not be breached to keep the Amazon resilient.
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Destabilising interactions in the Earth system: How climate tipping elements interact
26.01.2024 - Beyond 2°C of global warming, the risk of one climate tipping element triggering other tipping processes in the Earth’s climate system strongly increases. This is the result of a new study by an international team of scientists. They mapped out the current state of literature on the interactions between tipping elements and find that most of them are destabilising, further weakening the climate system.
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4 of the 10 climate science papers most referred to in news and social media authored by PIK researchers
10.01.2024 - 4 of the top 10 peer-reviewed climate science papers most referred to in news and social media in 2023 featured authors from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), a ranking by the website Carbon Brief based on Altmetric scores reveils. Altmetric tracks how often research papers from academic journals are mentioned in online news media, blogs or on social media platforms. The metric is an indicator for public perception of scientific publications.
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More rain, fewer droughts – rainfall effects from targeted forestation can reduce climate change
10.01.2024 - By prioritizing increases in rainfall, forestation programs may not only mitigate global climate change itself but also reduce its concrete negative effects such as droughts. That is the conclusion of a new study by a team of researchers including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
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Successful and productive TiPMiP Seminar
11/15/2023 - First in-person meeting held within and for the TiPMiP project
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Ice sheet model PISM proposed for natESM
10/25/2023 - Ice sheet model PISM proposed as potential candidate for the German national Earth system modelling (natESM) strategy
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Stability inspection for West Antarctica: marine ice sheet not destabilized yet, but possibly on tipping path
09/07/2023 - Antarctica’s vast ice masses seem far away, yet they store enough water to raise global sea levels by several meters. A team of experts from European research institutes has now provided the first systematic stability inspection of the ice sheet’s current state. Their diagnosis: While they found no indication of irreversible, self-reinforcing retreat of the ice sheet in West Antarctica yet, global warming to date could already be enough to trigger the slow but certain loss of ice over the next hundreds to thousands of years.
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Development of Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) reaches milestone
07/21/2023 - PISM achieves 10,000 commits on github.
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IUGG 2023 conference in Berlin
07/19/2023 - PIK scientists join international geophysics conference
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GIA training school 2023 in Gävle, Sweden
07/12/2023 - PIK scientists join training school on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
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Ricarda Winkelmann appointed Max Planck founding director in Jena
07/07/2023 - PIK researcher Ricarda Winkelmann has been appointed founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Jena, dedicated to understanding the interactions between humans and the Earth system. Winkelmann will take up her full-time position there in a few months time. She will remain affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
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Karthaus Summer School 2023
06/03/2023 - Two PhD students participated in renownded summer school on ice sheets and glaciers
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EGU 2023 in Vienna
04/30/2023 - Many people from the Ice Dynamics group joined this year's EGU General Assembly, with contributions on various aspects of ice modelling in Antarctica and the European Alps.
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Maths on Ice Forum - Tipping Points
02/06/2023 - PhD student talks about cascading tipping in the climate system at online "Math on Ice" forum
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Excellent research: Doctoral prize for Nico Wunderling
01/23/2023 - PIK researcher Nico Wunderling has been awarded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation for his groundbreaking dissertation on tipping elements.
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3 out of 10 climate science papers most referred to in news and social media feature PIK authors
01/06/2023 - In a ranking of climate science papers most referred to in news and social media, no less than 3 out of the top 10 papers feature authors from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The ranking is published by the renowned 'Carbon Brief' newsletter and is based on the papers' so-called Altmetric score. While this metric is certainly not perfect, it is a good indicator to help assess public perception of climate science publications.
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Outreach paper on research funding for polar ECR
12/20/2022 - Early-career researcher publishes a paper on the topic of research funding
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PISM meeting at GEUS in Copenhagen, Denmark
10/25/2022 - Exchange on PISM experience and future project planning
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