Tag: HCE
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New Project: GeCO: Generating high-resolution CO2 maps by Machine Learning-based geodata fusion and atmospheric transport modelling
Recently a new project has been starting in the context of Climate Change Action research: GeCO: Generating high-resolution CO2 maps by Machine Learning-based geodata fusion and atmospheric transport modelling The spatiotemporal distribution of greenhouse gases and their sources on Earth has so far been considered mainly at relatively coarse resolutions. There is a lack of…
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This Monday HCE Talk on: Ökologische Dienstleistungen und Zielkonflikte von Landnutzungsentscheidungen (Dr. Lautenbach)
As a founding member of Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) we want to share this important date of the HCE’s “Heidelberg Bridge” Colloquium series. This semester the Institute of Geography is involved with two presentations and one of these is from the GIScience group with Dr. Sven Lautenbach talking about his work on ecosystem…
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Talks at Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) “Heidelberg Bridge” Colloquium SoSe 2018
As a founding member of Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) we want to share the dates for the HCE’s “Heidelberg Bridge” Colloquium series. This semester the Institute of Geography is involved with two presentations and one of these is from the GIScience group with Dr. Sven Lautenbach talking about his work on ecosystem services.…
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Stellenausschreibung für Studentische Hilfskraft für Online-Umfragen / Webentwicklung
Das Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) verfügt über zahlreiche inhaltlichen und methodischen Kernkompetenzen im Bereich „Umwelt“ an der Universität Heidelberg. Diese sollen über einen Online-Fragebogen systematisch erfasst und anschließend auf einer interaktiven Webseite visualisiert und zugänglich gemacht werden. Für die technische Umsetzung der Online-Umfrage zur Datenerfassung und für die graphische und dynamische Darstellung der…
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Heidelberg Center for the Environment: Call for Project Ideas (Deadline: 17 Sept 2017)
The funding program HCE-START of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) for the developement of major interdisciplinary projects dealing with environmental research questions has been extended. The new application deadline is 17.09.2017. HCE-START will be run and hosted at Heidelberg University only. HCE-START aims to support two interdisciplinary research lines: 1) the initiation of externally…
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Heidelberg Center for the Environment: Bernhard Höfle joins the Board of Directors
The Executive Committee of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) – the interdisciplinary research center for Environmental Sciences at Heidelberg University – has appointed Prof. Bernhard Höfle as new Vice-Director for Natural Sciences. Prof. Thomas Meier was appointed new Executive Director and Prof. Jale Tosun new Vice-Director for Social Sciences. The directors are responsible…
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Colloquium of Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) starts with GIScience
The interdisciplinary colloquium series of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) starts with GIScience by a talk of Bernhard Höfle about “3D Geodata in Environmental Research” on 24 October 2016 and was now announced via press release. Furthermore, Alexander Zipf will give a talk about “Crowdsourcing of Geodata for Humanitarian Aid” on 14 November…
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HCE/IWR presentation: Feature Extraction of Discrete Manifolds from Archaeological Findings to Cultural Landscapes (Dr. H. Mara, IWR)
As a member of both HCE (Heidelberg Center for the Environment) and IWR (Interdiciplinary Center for Scientific Computing) we are happy to make you aware of todays public presentation in the HCE colloquium series “Heidelberger Brücke”: Title: Feature Extraction of Discrete Manifolds from Archaeological Findings to Cultural Landscapes Lecture and discussion with Dr. Hubert Mara,…
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Press release about our new project 4DEMON
The Heidelberg University reports in a current press release (in German) about our new project 4DEMON: 4D Near Real-Time Environmental Monitoring, which is funded by the highly competitive Junior Professorship Funding Scheme of the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, Baden-Wuerttemberg.
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Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition
Malnutrition is a challenge to the health and productivity of populations and is viewed as one of the five largest adverse health impacts of climate change. Nonetheless, systematic evidence quantifying these impacts is currently limited. Our aim was to assess the scientific evidence base for the impact of climate change on childhood undernutrition (particularly stunting)…
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Colloquium Series Summer 2015 of Heidelberg Center for the Environment
As a funding member of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) at Heidelberg University the GIScience Research Group wants to make you aware and invite you also to the open lecture series “Heidelberg Bridge” of the HCE in addition to our GIScience colloquium series. The HCE “Heidelberg Bridge” programme offers topics from different areas…
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Methods to measure potential spatial access to delivery care in low- and middle-income countries
A case study in rural Ghana Access to skilled attendance at childbirth is crucial to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. Several different measures of geographic access are used concurrently in public health research, with the assumption that sophisticated methods are generally better. Most of the evidence for this assumption comes from methodological comparisons in high-income…