WaterHub Highlights

For their outstanding contributions to the understanding and mitigation of flood risks and the development of municipal adaptation strategies ...

Most ice-dammed lakes are shrinking due to glacier melt, but Desolation Lake in Alaska has grown considerably. Why?

Peter van der Beek, Professor of General Geology at the University of Potsdam, was elected to serve as EGU President for the term 2025–2027.

The aim is to gain knowledge that can be used for risk assessment in urban regions worldwide.

Leibniz Prize winner Ulrike Herzschuh conducts research on climate history for the future of the planet

The newly appointed physics professor Jan Härter is researching how thunderstorms ‘communicate’ with each other.

Recognising characteristic features in earthquake signals is an important step on the way to predicting potential eruptions and providing early warning.

Prof. Dr Ulrike Herzschuh receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024 for her outstanding work in the field of geoecology.

... for his Nature paper on "How climate change and un-planned urban sprawl bring more landslides".

Kenya's geothermal energy potential is estimated at 10,000 MW, making it the leader in Africa and the eighth largest in the world.

Members of WaterHub have developed a method to precisely localise microplastics in the soil.

In many places today, dykes are being relocated and floodplain landscapes revitalised to give the river more room to spread out during floods.

Based on 1000+ measurements of uplift rates in the Himalayas, a team with participation of the UP were able to show that greater uplift rates and steeper rivers are associated with narrower valleys.

How effective and sustainable is risk management of flood and drought events worldwide? Empirical data show that this obviously depends on the event ...

The scientist works on the basis of flood hazard maps of the 79 major rivers in Germany, which are listed in the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation's floodplain status report from 2021.

Ulrike Herzschuh and her team use drill cores from sediments of Arctic lakes, from which they can read the vegetation history of tens of thousands of years.

In recent decades, runoff or sediment input to rivers in the high mountains of Asia has increased sharply and will more than double by 2050.

The 2021 Chamoli disaster in the Indian Himalaya was triggered by an extraordinary rock and ice avalanche and debris flow, that destroyed infrastructure and left more then 200 people dead or missing.

Graduates of our international master's degree program CLEWS will be trained to become experts in the field of climate science research in order to address the consequences of global warming.