As part of the initiative 'Research in Germany' UWI was present at the boot 'Geosciences and Environmental Sciences in Germany'at the AGU Fall Meeting 2016 in San Francisco.

https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/

Dr. Gabriel Singer, leader of the research group 'Ecology of Stream Ecosystems' at the IGB, Berlin and supervisor within UWI has received an ERC starting grant 2016 in Life Sciences.

The UWI Kollegiate Seminar took place 22nd September 2016 at the Chair of Water Resources Management and Modelling of Hydrosystems at TU Berlin. Some impressions from the event can be found below.

Programme

From 14 - 16 September 2016 an UWI delegation consisting of the UWI doctoral students students Mikael Gillefalk, Robert Ladwig, Clara Romero and Katharina Teuber and the UWI speaker Prof. Reinhard Hinkelmann joined the 'VI Deutsch-Russischen Woche des Jungen Wissenschaftlers an der Technischen Universität für Bauwesen' in Moscow. Some impressions from the trip can be found below. More information can be found under the following link:

Link

The UWI Annual Summer School took place 13./14. September 2016 at Hotel Sommerfeld in Kremmen. Some impressions from the event can be found below.

Programme

The DFG Research Training Group on Urban Water Interfaces (UWI) invites to a guest lecture by Dr. Maraget Shanafield (Flinders University, South Australia) with the titel 'Chasing the flow: Adventures in capturing streambed flux in ephemeral rivers'. The lecture will take place Thursday, 16th June 2016, 2 pm IGB lecture hall, Müggelseedamm 310, Berlin-Friedrichshagen.

Announcement

The DFG Research Training Group on Urban Water Interfaces (UWI) invites to a guest lecture by Prof. Peter Huck (University of Waterloo, Canada) with the titel 'Drinking Water Treatment and Supply in Developed Countries in 2050 - Where Will We Be?'. The lecture will take place Thursday, 21^st April 2016, 4:15 pm at TU Berlin, Chair of Water Resources Management and Modeling of Hydrosystems, Room 566.

Announcement

The DFG Research Training Group on Urban Water Interfaces (UWI) invites to a guest lecture by Prof. Michele La Rocca (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) with the titel 'Salt-freshwater interfaces in estuarine zones. Models and results'. The lecture will take place Wednesday, 30^th March 2016, 11 am and 2 pm at TU Berlin, Chair of Water Resources Management and Modeling of Hydrosystems, Room 566.

Announcement

The DFG Research Training Group on Urban Water Interfaces (UWI) invites to a guest lecture by Dr. Sarian Kosten, Assistant Professor, Aquatic Ecology & Environmental Biology Group, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) with the title 'CH₄ and CO₂ emissions from inland waters: internal and external processes'. The lecture will take place Wednesday, 24 February 2016, IGB Berlin, Müggelseedamm 310, Lecture hall, 2 - 3 pm

Announcement

As part of the Colloquium Hydrosciences, Prof. Boris Schröder-Esselbach (Institut für Geoökologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig) will give the lecture 'Ecosystem engineers and their effects on hydrological functioning' on January 14th, 2016 at 4:15 pm, in the building TIB13b, staircase 7, room 566, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin.