Tag: Climate Change
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Advancing Climate Action: HeiGIT’s New Climate Action Team
HeiGIT is embarking on an initiative to address one of the most critical challenges of our time — climate change. We are proud to announce the commencement of the Climate Action Readiness Initiatives funded by the Klaus-Tschira Stiftung. These initiatives aim to bridge the gap between knowledge and action by providing decision-makers, citizens, and active…
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf hält Vortrag zum Thema “Klimaschutz und humanitäre Hilfe: Unterstützung aus der Geoinformatik”
Am 23. September 2023 hält Herr Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf, Scientific and Managing Director bei HeiGIT und Professor für Geoinformatik / GIScience (GIS) an der Universität Heidelberg, einen Vortrag zum Thema “Klimaschutz und humanitäre Hilfe: Unterstützung aus der Geoinformatik”. Staatliche Institutionen und humanitäre Organisationen benötigen möglichst detaillierte Informationen zur Lage und Situation vor Ort. Nur…
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New paper “Urban Heat Island Intensity Prediction in the Context of Heat Waves: An Evaluation of Model Performance”
Aner Martinez-Soto, Johannes Fürle and Alexander Zipf published the paper „Urban Heat Island Intensity Prediction in the Context of Heat Waves: An Evaluation of Model Performance“. It was presented at the 9th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting in Gran Canaria, Spain, on 12th – 14th July 2023. Due to Climate Change urban heat…
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Upcoming Public Lecture May 16: Climate Change, Mobility, and the Increasing Risk of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Germany
On Tuesday, May 16, visitors to the public lecture “Climate Change, Mobility, and the Increasing Risk of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Germany” will be treated to insights from five experts currently pioneering research into one of the greatest threats to Germany’s public health. The event will occur in both German and English on the ground…
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New Paper: Carbon Fluxes Related to Land Use and Land Cover Change in Baden-Württemberg
Featured Image: Figure 1. Total carbon fluxes related to LULCC in Baden-Württemberg between March 2018 and October 2019 (LaVerDi, OSMlanduse+), and March 2018 and March 2020 (OSMlanduse, OSMlanduse cleaned). The upper plot shows the relative difference of carbon fluxes [%] with respect to LULC transition and carbon flux attribution method. The carbon fluxes of method…
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UndercoverEisAgenten auf Social-Media
Permafrost ist gefrorener Boden und in der Arktis weit verbreitet. Gebäude und Straßen werden auf ihm gebaut. Doch was passiert, wenn diese Böden durch die Klimaerwärmung zunehmend auftauen? Zusammen mit jungen Bürgerwissenschaftler*innen in der kanadischen Arktis und Deutschland gehen wir auf Spurensuche! Wir freuen uns sehr über den Start unserer Social-Media-Kanäle! Erfahrt mehr über das…
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We are Hiring! Several new GIScience Jobs in sight in Heidelberg at HeiGIT
You are interested in contributing to research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainability, mobility and humanitarian aid? You want to achieve a better society and environment by improving open geoinformation and geoinformation technology? Help us to accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our…
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Stellenausschreibung Geoinformatik Heidelberg – Project GeCO: Generating high-resolution CO2 maps by Machine Learning-based geodata fusion
Stellenausschreibung Universität Heidelberg – GIScience Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:in Geoinformatik – Projekt GeCO GeCO: Generating high-resolution CO2 maps by Machine Learning-based geodata fusion Du hast Interesse an Klimawandel, Treibhausgasemissionen und innovativen Geoinformatik-Methoden? Im Rahmen des vom Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) durch die Exzellenzstrategie geförderten Kooperationsprojektes GeCO suchen wir baldmöglichst nach einer wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter:in (m/f/d). Die…
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HGG-Vortrag Di 30.11.: Hangrutschungsmodellierung unter dem Einfluss von Klima- und Landnutzungswandel mit Data-Science-Methoden, Prof. Brenning
Der nächste Vortrag der Heidelberger Geographischen Gesellschaft HGG findet am Dienstag, 02. November 2021, 19:15 Uhr ONLINE statt: Dienstag, 30. November 2021, 19:15 Uhr Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning (Universität Jena) Hangrutschungsmodellierung unter dem Einfluss von Klima- und Landnutzungswandel mit Data-Science-Methoden Regionalskalige empirische Gefährdungsanalysen für Naturgefahren nutzen Innovationen der Datenwissenschaften, um gefährdete Reliefeinheiten präziser und effizienter zu…
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Alexander Zipf selected as Marsilius Fellow 2021/2022 – Project with HIGH on Climate Change and Health
Many pressing problems of our time – climate change, aging societies, questions of modern medicine – cannot be solved by one discipline alone. It is becoming ever more urgent for scholars to collaborate across disciplines – natural sciences, life sciences, and social sciences, law, and humanities. The Marsilius Kolleg at Heidelberg University is an institutional…
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Kick-off workshop for the research program “Innovation for adaptation to climate change” by Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
The project HEAL (HeiGIT, GIScience, TdLab Geographie) is funded by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung as part of the research program “Innovation for adaptation to climate change“. HEAL aims at an extension of the openrouteservice to allow the generation of heat avoiding routes, using Heidelberg as a test case. The project aims specifically at vulnerable groups such…
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A safe way through the heat: Transdisciplinary project HEAL makes everyday life easier for at-risk groups
(in Deutsch unterhalb) Aerial view of Heidelberg’s old town with the university square. This was a site of the study on climate change adaptation of public spaces (Foshag et al. 2020). (Photo: Kathrin Foshag). As part of a transdisciplinary collaboration, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT), the GIScience research group and the TdLab Geography at…