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04.12.2025

Call for DAAD-Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2026

GSGS announces two PhD Scholarships for international candidates

01.10.2025

Introduction of the new Supervision Agreement

The Steering Committee has approved a new version of the Supervision Agreement that can be used with immediate effect.

23.07.2025

GSSP scholarship holder 2024 - Gibson Gosbert Mulokozi

Gibson Gosbert Mulokozi was awarded one of the two scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in its…

04.04.2025

GSSP scholarship holder 2024 - Raven Quilestino-Olario

Raven Quilestino-Olario was awarded one of the two scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in its…

12.12.2024

Call for DAAD-Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2025

GSGS announces two PhD Scholarships for international candidates

11.09.2024

New student assistant in the GSGS office

Goodbye and hello

After more than two years of excellent work, our much valued student assistant Eileen Becker left us…

10.05.2024

10th anniversary of the GSGS

26th of April

20.12.2023

Call for DAAD-Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2024

GSGS announces two PhD Scholarships for international candidates

24.11.2023

Congrats to 3 GSGS students for receiving a scholarship!

Congratulations to Ahmad Haghi, Justina Tuulikefo Nangolo and Rizwan Khaleel for receiving the GSSP Scholarship!

05.06.2023

Poster Awards at the GSGS Research Conference 2023

The annual GSGS Research Conference took place at the 12 May 2023. Everyone had the opportunity to present their latest…

05.06.2023

10th GSGS Research Conference

12th of May

15.05.2023

Valentin Espert receives PhD Prize of Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V.

The GSGS congratulates Valentin Espert on receiving the PhD Prize of the Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. 

18.01.2023

Invitation to participate in the Nacaps-Study

National Academics Panel Study

11.01.2023

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022

12 - 16 December, 2022, Chicago, USA

07.12.2022

Call for DAAD-Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2023

GSGS announces two PhD Scholarships for international candidates

02.11.2022

The 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography

7 - 10 June, 2022, Dublin, Ireland

21.10.2022

Thank you, Malte!

Today, Malte Hennes came into the GSGS Office to hand in his well-used laptop, which he picked up two years ago. Over…

21.06.2022

Marine Biogeochemistry Training Week

30 May - 03 June 2022, Faro, Portugal/online

07.06.2022

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2022

23-27 May 2022, Vienna, Austria

31.05.2022

New GSGS-careers mailing list!

Mailing list for career opportunities

25.02.2022

Research Conference 2022

The GSGS would like to thank all participants for a great 2022 Research Conference! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic our…

16.11.2021

Call for DAAD-Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2022

GSGS announces two PhD Scholarships for international candidates

12.10.2021

GSGS-student Filip Elekes solves a geophysical key problem!

His paper has now been published by PNAS and the results are applicable to a variety of areas from planetary research to…

03.08.2021

Congrats to 2 GSGS students for receiving a scholarship!

Congratulations to Camila Riffo Contreras and Tiago Menezes Freire for receiving the GSSP Scholarship!

30.06.2021

Congratulations to 2 award winning GSGS alumni!

Congratulations to GSGS alumni Dr. Sabrina Schnitt and Dr. Christoph Böhm for winning the Geoverbund ABC/J Young…

11.05.2021

General Assembly and Steering Committee elections 2021

On 6 May, 2021 from 16:30 (CEST) the first GSGS General Assembly under the new statutes took place via Zoom. 64 Members…

09.04.2021

New GSGS Statutes

Since 12/02/2021 the GSGS has official statutes

25.03.2021

Call for DAAD-Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2021

GSGS announces two PhD Scholarships for international candidates

05.01.2021

Science Communication at AGU Fall Meeting 2020

1-17 December 2020, online

18.08.2020

1st Virtual GESIS Summer School

3-7 August 2020, online

11.08.2020

2nd International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals 2019

30 – 31 July 2019, Penang, Malaysia

06.08.2020

Sebastian Kommescher, Fellowship Grant 2019

Titanium isotope constraints on silicate differentiation and nucleosynthetic heritage of Earth and Moon

04.08.2020

2nd GSGS After Work Hangout Zoom

Working on a Ph.D. can sometimes be challenging. This is especially true in times of the pandemic when data collection…

02.07.2020

1st GSGS After Work Hangout Zoom

Working on a Ph.D. can sometimes be challenging. This is especially true in times of the pandemic when data collection…

26.06.2020

GSGS wiki

New Service offered by the GSGS: the GSGS wiki pages

25.02.2020

Research Training Course

15 Jan–17 Feb 2020, Barbados

08.12.2019

Katrin Schwaiger, Fellowship Grant 2019

Destination Commitment of generation Y and Z hospitality employees

18.11.2019

Fabian Reddig, Start-up Honours Grant 2019

Mediterranean cork oak decline in a climate change hotspot: exploration and analysis of hydro-climatological drought…

07.11.2019

Sarah Luft, Fellowship Grant 2019

New Connectivity in Asia: Pioneering border corridors and transnational transformation processes in the Greater Myeik…

25.10.2019

39th International Conference on Radar Meteorology

16-20 September 2019, Nara, Japan

15.10.2019

International Conference on Tourism (CACTUS) 2019

3-6 October 2019, Bucharest/Predeal, Romania

11.10.2019

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie (DKG) 2019

25-30 September 2019, Kiel, Germany

01.10.2019

Juliane Scheder, Fellowship Grant 2019

Holocene relative sea-level reconstructions at the German North Sea coast using microfaunal and sedimentological data

19.09.2019

Masterclass E-Waste Value Chains 2019

10-11 October 2019

16.09.2019

29th Goldschmidt Conference 2019

18-23 August, 2019, Barcelona, Spain

05.09.2019

European Planetary Science Congress 2018

16-21 September 2018, Berlin, Germany

04.09.2019

2nd International Summer Snowfall Workshop

27-30 August 2019, Hyytiälä, Finland

01.09.2019

The 29th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry

1-6 September 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden

28.06.2019

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019

7-12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria

07.06.2019

The 11th International Symposium for Tropospheric Profiling

20-24 May 2019, Toulouse, France

04.06.2019

International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling (ISTP)

20–24 May 2019, Toulouse, France

03.06.2019

European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019

8-12 April 2019, Wien, Austria

26.04.2019

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019

7-11 Apr 2019, Vienna, Austria

25.04.2019

Research Training at Barbados Cloud Observatory

5-19 Feb 2019, Barbardos

18.04.2019

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers

3-7 April 2019, Washington DC, USA

04.02.2019

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU) 2018

10 - 14 Dec 2018, Washington DC, USA

01.02.2019

Styliani Kyrikou, Start-up Honours Grant 2018

Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation history of the Ohrid region and pollen-inferred climate variability May –…

22.01.2019

15th Conference on Cloud Physics/15th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation

9 - 13 July 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada

16.01.2019

28th Goldschmidt Conference 2018

12 June ‐ 17 July 2018, Boston, USA

09.01.2019

7th International Conference on Building Resilience

27-29 Jul 2017, Bangkok, Thailand

08.01.2019

Constantin Lux, Start-up Honours Grant 2018

Is manganese(III) a ubiquitous part of the total dissolved manganese in soil solutions?

03.01.2019

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU) 2018

10 - 14 Dec 2018, Washington DC, USA

13.12.2018

GSGS-Alumni mailing list set up

The GSGS likes to stay in touch with its graduates

28.09.2018

The second ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Measurement) Summer Training and Science Applications event

14 - 21 July 2018, National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, USA

02.09.2018

10th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference (EPPC)

12-17 August 2018, Dublin, Ireland

28.08.2018

Exoplanets II

02 – 06 July 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom

27.08.2018

Ny-Ålesund Science Seminar

25 June – 05 July 2018, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway

09.08.2018

Short course Texture and interface analyses using EBSD

23 – 27 July 2018, Bayerisches Geoinstitut (BGI) Bayreuth, Germany

13.07.2018

The 5th European conference on Permafrost (EUCOP)

22 June – 1 July 2018, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France

03.07.2018

GSGS supports DAAD Summer School on ‘Urban Transformations to Sustainability in South and Southeast Asia’

The DAAD Summer School for PhD students ‘<link https: christianobermayr.wordpress.com call-daad-summer-school-for-phd-students-urban-transformations-to-sustainability-in-south-and-southeast-asia external-link-new-window internal link in current>Urban Transformations to Sustainability in South and Southeast Asia’ will take…

03.07.2018

Imamal Muttaqien, Fellowship Grant 2018

Controlled Source Radiomagnetotelluric (CSRMT) Applications in Near Surface Geophysics

03.07.2018

Linus Kalvelage, Start-up Honours Grant 2018

Coupling rural Africa? The role of Tourism GPNs in growth corridor initiatives for regional development January – May…

26.06.2018

Fachtagung Energiemeteorologie

05 - 07 June 2018, Goslar, Germany

18.05.2018

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2017

11 – 15 December 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

15.05.2018

GSGS Poster Workshop at StuMeTa 2018

10 May 2018, Bonn

27.04.2018

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018

8 - 13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria

24.04.2018

Ascelina Hasberg, Fellowship Grant 2018

“Decadal- to orbital-scale climate variability in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the past ~650,000 years”

17.04.2018

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018

8-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria

17.04.2018

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017

8 - 13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria

14.02.2018

GSGS supports the 3rd Young Economic Geography Network

The GSGS supports the <link https: yegn.wordpress.com yegn-workshop-2018 external-link-new-window internal link in current>3rd Young Economic Geographers Network (YEGN) workshop entitled “Unequal Contours of Development…

09.01.2018

David Strebler, Fellowship Grant 2017

Thermoluminescence dating of heated flints.

23.11.2017

Jasmijn van ´t Hoff, Fellowship Grant 2017

“A Holocene palaeoclimate record from the Laguna Salada, Cádiz, southern Spain”

21.11.2017

Hannes Laermanns, Fellowship Grant 2016

“The Rioni-delta and the settlement mounds of Ergeta and Orulu - a geoarchaeological research on the Black Sea coast of…

08.11.2017

Juliane Adrian, Fellowship Grant 2017

Interpretation of DC and IP Time-Domain Data Observed on a Copper Deposit in Turkey Using a Newly Developed 2D Finite…

08.11.2017

Jan Wittke, Fellowship Grant 2017

“Meshfree modeling and inversion of magnetotelluric data”

27.10.2017

IAPSO IAMAS IAGA Joint Assembly 2017

27 August - 1 September 2017, Cape Town, South Africa

27.10.2017

Swiss Climate Summer School

High-resolution Climate: Observations, Models, and Projections. 3 - 8 September 2017, Ascona, Switzerland

18.09.2017

IAPSO IAMAS IAGA Joint Assembly 2017

27 August - 1 September 2017, Cape Town, South Africa

29.08.2017

Training in phytolith analysis at the STRI

28 July - 14 August 2017, Panama City, Panama

24.08.2017

Matlab Workshop “Matlab Recipes for Earth Sciences”

3 - 7 April 2017, Potsdam, Germany

18.08.2017

Radiation & Climate Gordon Research Seminar and Conference

15 - 16 (Seminar) & 16 - 17 (Conference) July 2017, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA

04.08.2017

Elena Hensel, Start-up honours Grant 2017

Methodological foundations in 3D modelling and autoradiography

27.07.2017

5th Summer School “Soil and Water”

10 - 23 July 2017, Izmir, Turkey

05.07.2017

Maren Brast, Fellowship Grant 2017

„Scale-adaptive Parameterization of Shallow Cumulus Convection“

23.06.2017

The 20th Uddevalla Symposium 2017

‘Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Industrial Dynamics inInternationalized Regional Economies’ 15 - 17 June 2017,…

20.06.2017

Fifth Open Science Meeting of PAGES (Past Global Changes):

´Global Challenges for our Common Future: a Paleoscience Perspective´ 09 - 13 May 2017, Zaragoza, Spain

20.06.2017

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the Argonne National Lab

4 – 17 March 2017, Argonne, USA

16.05.2017

Pia Friend, Fellowship Grant 2017

Mineralogical zonations and chondrule-matrix complementarities in carbonaceous and Rumuruti chondrites

16.05.2017

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017

23 - 28 April 2017, Vienna, Austria

16.05.2017

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017

23 - 28 April 2017, Vienna, Austria

10.05.2017

13th international conference on precision agriculture

31 July – 3 August 2016, St. Louis, USA

10.05.2017

Helge Aasen, Fellowship Grant 2015

“The acquisition of hyperspectral digital surface models of crops from UAV snapshot cameras”

05.05.2017

Annual Meeting of the British Society for Geomorphology (BSG)

5-7 September 2016, Plymouth University, Great Britain

12.04.2017

1st Cloudnet Training School

27 - 31 March 2017, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

10.04.2017

Sebastian Fastenrath, Fellowship Grant 2017

Urban sustainability transitions in the building sector

31.03.2017

88° Congresso della Società Geologica Italiana

7 - 9 September 2016, Naples, Italy

31.03.2017

1st International Workshop on Geophysical Elektromagnetics

20 ‐ 24 February 2017, Bandung, Indonesia

28.03.2017

Juliane Scheder, Start-up Honours Grant, 2016

The Wadden Sea as an archive for landscape evolution, climate change and settlement history: Exploration – analysis –…

27.03.2017

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

12 - 16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA

03.02.2017

Goldschmidt Conference 2016

26 June - 1 July 2016, Yokohama, Japan

05.01.2017

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2016

12 – 16 December, 2016, San Francisco, USA

28.12.2016

49th Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)

12 - 16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA

21.10.2016

Annual Meeting of the German Working Group for Geomorphology

5 – 8 October 2016, Jena, Germany

09.09.2016

The 23rd Electromagnetic Induction Workshop (EMIW 2016)

14 - 20 August 2016, Chiang Mai, Thailand

06.09.2016

The 23rd Electromagnetic Induction Workshop (EMIW 2016)

14 - 21 August 2016, Chiang Mai, Thailand

04.08.2016

The Exoplanet I Conference

3 - 8 July 2016, Davos, Switzerland

19.07.2016

David Schubert, Fellowship Grant 2016

Environmental and Water Protection Technologies of Coastal Zones in Vietnam – EWATEC-COAST

22.06.2016

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016

17 - 22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria

17.06.2016

Héctor R. Hinojosa-Prieto, Fellowship Grant 2016

The scientific, professional, and extracurricular activities performed during the GSGS Fellowship Grant 2016A period…

29.04.2016

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016

17 - 22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria

28.04.2016

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016

17 - 22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria

31.03.2016

Rebecca Keulertz, Start-up Honours Grant, 2015-2016

The geomorphological application of cosmogenic nuclides from iron oxides

30.03.2016

33rd Winter School in Theoretical Physics – Exoplanets

28 December 2015 - 8 January 2016, Jerusalem, Israel

19.03.2016

Meteorologentagung DACH 2016

14 - 18 March 2016, Berlin, Germany

19.01.2016

The 48th Annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting

14 - 18 December 2015, San Francisco, USA

14.01.2016

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015

14 - 18 December 2015, San Francisco, USA

14.01.2016

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016

17 - 22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria

14.01.2016

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015

14 – 18 December 2015, San Francisco, USA

11.01.2016

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015

14 - 18 December 2015, San Francisco, USA

06.01.2016

Maximilian Maahn, Fellowship Grant 2015

Potential of higher order moments of the radar Doppler spectrum for retrieving microphysical and kinematic properties of…

05.01.2016

Fabian Sonnenburg, Fellowship Grant 2015

Large Airports and Urban Economies in Australian Metropolitan Areas

23.12.2015

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015

14 - 18 December 2015, San Francisco, USA

28.11.2015

Katharina Molitor, Start-up Honours Grant, 2015

Food price change and Food and Nutrition Security of smallholder farmers in the Global South

19.11.2015

Natalie Pickartz, Start-up Honours Grant, 2014-2015

Multi-method Investigation of the Archaeological Site of Elusa (Israel) and Development of a new Joint Inversion…

09.11.2015

The 6th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM 2015)

14 - 17 July 2015, Auckland New Zealand

01.09.2015

The 25th Annual Goldschmidt Conference

16 - 24 August 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

27.08.2015

Goldschmidt 2015

16 - 21 August 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

26.08.2015

Christiane Schnabel, Start-up honours Grant 2014/2015

Development of the 138La-138Ce Geochronometer

26.08.2015

Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography 2015

19 - 23 August 2015, University of Oxford, UK

30.06.2015

Marina Kemperle, Start-up honours Grant 2015

Crystallization and deformation mechanisms in multiphase aggregates of lower crust and upper mantle

10.06.2015

Marie Pahl, GSGS Fellowship Grant 2015

Understanding Migration of High-skilled Chinese in the Context of Governmental Attraction Strategies in the Pearl River…

29.05.2015

Shaping the Mediterranean basin: islands, coastlines and cultures across time

14 - 15 May 2015, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

19.05.2015

Claudia Funk, Fellowship Grant 2015

Development of analytical techniques to investigate abundance and distribution of volatile elements in the early solar…

06.05.2015

Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting 2015

21 - 25 April 2015, Chicago, Illinois

05.05.2015

Michael Hintz, Fellowship grant 2015

Theoretical Analysis and Large-Eddy Simulations of the Propagation of Land-Surface Heterogeneity in the Atmosphere

05.05.2015

Roxana Leitold, Start-up Honours Grant, 2015

Livelihood strategies of Indian smallholder farmers between global and domestic value chains for organic and fair trade…

30.04.2015

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical Commission VII Mid-Term Symposium, Istanbul

29 September - 2 October 2014, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

23.04.2015

75th Annual Meeting of the DGG (Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft)

22 - 26 March 2015, Hannover, Germany

21.04.2015

Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting

21 - 25 April 2015, Chicago, Illinois, USA

16.04.2015

Corinna Földi, Fellowship grant 2014/2015

Mercury in blast furnace sludge – Fractionation and Volatilization

13.04.2015

The African Quaternary: environments, ecology and humans conference and workshops

30 January – 7 February 2015, Capetown, Southafrica

01.04.2015

Fortran for scientific computing, High performance computing center (HRLS)

9 - 13 March 2015, University of Stuttgart

24.03.2015

Invited Speakers Report, GIS and remote sensing group, 2014

Dr Arko Lucieer, TerraLuma, University of Tasmania, Australia

02.03.2015

Kang Yu, Fellowship grant 2014

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Crop Canopy Chlorophyll and Nitrogen

27.02.2015

Jakub Surma, Start-Up honours Grant 2014

17 O-excess in waters from arid regions

24.02.2015

Innocent Forba Nsorfon, Fellowship grant 2014

Exploring Social Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in Urban Informal Settlements in Lagos, Nigeria

18.02.2015

Sarah Esteban Lopez, Start-up honours Grant 2014

Geological Research of the Lower Alum Shale in Belgium and Wuppertal, Germany

23.01.2015

Congratulations to our award winners of this year's Research Conference

After careful judging, our three international guests awarded the prizes for the best three posters

22.01.2015

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2014

15 - 19 December 2014, San Francisco, USA

16.01.2015

Zhuoqun Li, Fellowship Grant 2014

Momentum and mass transfer from atmosphere to rough surfaces

13.01.2015

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2014

15 - 19 December, 2014, San Francisco, USA

12.01.2015

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2014

15 - 19 December 2014, San Francisco, USA

02.01.2015

Michael Eickmeier, Start-up honours Grant 2014

Geographic Research of Chinese Region

29.12.2014

Christian J. Nyhuis, Fellowship Grant 2014

Prospectivity of black-shale microfacies

09.12.2014

23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies

23 - 26 July 2014, Zürich, Switzerland

08.12.2014

Internationale Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung, Technical Commission VII Mid-Term Symposium

29 September - 2 October 2014, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

25.11.2014

European Planetary Science Congress 2014

7 - 12 September 2014, Cascais, Portugal

11.11.2014

IGCP 610 project, 2nd plenary meeting

12 - 20 October 2014, Baku, Azerbaijan

30.10.2014

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Thirteenth International Conference

24 - 29 August 2014, Aix-en-Provence, France

21.10.2014

Indonesia-Australia Forst Carbon Partnership, Final Seminar

5 June 2014, Indonesia, Jakarta

21.10.2014

Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (92nd Annual Meeting)

21 - 24 September 2014, Jena, Germany

20.10.2014

Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (92nd Annual Meeting)

21 - 24 September 2014, Jena, Germany

10.09.2014

Aarhus University, PhD course Assessing Soil Erosion Risk

30 August - 6 September 2014, Aarhus University, Denmark

09.09.2014

8th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD)

3 August - 1 September 2014, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

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