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  • #flood #hochwasser — Social Media and Disaster Mapping

    The current flood in Germany is the prominent proof: Social Media, Web 2.0 and Crowdsourcing play a more and more important role in organizing volunteers in humanitarian help. Crowdsouring has shown to be useful for collecting relevant geographical information in natural disasters. This is the very “on spot” topic of our current seminar on VGI…

  • We congratulate Dr. Tobias Törnros for receiving his PhD!

    Today Dr. Tobias Törnros has successfully defended his PhD on hydrological modeling in the Jordan river region that was conducted within the group of Prof. Menzel (Physical Geography). Congratulations Dr. Törnros! We welcome him as new PostDoc in our group!