Ranked 70th out of 2600 large employers in Germany: The GFZ is one of "Germany's best employers" according to the survey by the market research company Statista.
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This is shown by a study in Science based on a worldwide Citizen Science project on light pollution that has collected data over the last eleven years.
Alina Shevchenko and Jeffrey Paulo Perez have received the scholarships of the GFZ Discovery Fund.
The GFZ satellite receiving station in Ny-Ålesund (Spitsbergen) was upgraded to receive data in X-band. In X-band, significantly higher bandwidths are available for data transmissions.
In focus: Research on the energy supply of the future and satellite-based climate and environmental monitoring
Ancient sediments have recorded the cooling of the solid Earth. This is shown by the analysis of oxygen isotopes. According to this, the early oceans were not as hot as previously thought.
Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger at the GFZ: During her visit to the Potsdam Telegrafenberg, she learned about climate-relevant geo research.
The Board of Trustees appoints Prof. Lars Bernard to the Scientific Advisory Board of the GFZ.
Harald Schuh is recipient of the 2022 “Ivan I. Mueller Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership” of the Geodesy Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
As of 1 January 2023, the IASS has been renamed as the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) and embedded into the administrative structures of GFZ.