On Tuesday, 05.11.2019 Dr. Hamideh Nouri (Senior Research Fellow - Water Engineering and Management Division of Agronomy, University of Göttingen) will give a talk with the title “Evapotranspiration, water demand and water footprint of urban green spaces ” at 10 am at TU Berlin, Geoinformation in Environmental Planning Lab, Room EB414a.

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Congratulations to Katharina Teuber, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the titel "A three-dimensional two-phase model for flow, transport and mass transfer processes in sewers" on Tuesday, 01 October 2019 .

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On 18^th and 19^th September 2019 UWI doctoral students and their supervisors met in Kremmen for the Annual UWI Summer School.

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Congratulations to Fatima El-Athman, who succesfully defended her doctoral thesis with the titel "Reductive deiodination of contrast media and other iodinated organic compounds" on Tuesday, 17 September 2019.

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On Thursday, 12.9.2019 Dr. Soren Brothers (assistant professor, Utah State University in Logan, USA) will give a talk with the title “Applying limnology to the management and restoration of urban lakes ” at 2 pm at IGB, Müggelseedamm 310, lecture hall.

From 1 - 6 September 2019 an UWI delegation presented their research at the IAHR World Congress in Panama City.

Congratulations to Geert Aschermann, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the titel "Desorption of organic micropollutants from activated carbon - Impact of dissolved organic matter and adsorbent characteristics" on Tuesday, 27 August 2019.

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From 20 - 21 August 2019, doctoral students of the 2^nd UWI cohort organized a 2 day retreat to work on ideas of collaborations and progress of individual research projects in Gutshaus Buberow. The chosen resort located in a rural area offered a calm and relaxing environment for maximum productivity. Away from the daily research routine, students gathered to focus on the bigger picture regardind 'Urban Water Interfaces' as the connecting scheme of their individual projects. The schedule included multiple discussion sessions based on individual progress and collaborations within common topic groups as well as the research training group.

A variety of other activities were also incoprporated in this retreat, such as a short excursion to IGB facilities in Neuglobsow, where they were introduced to many interesting ongoing projects as well as a visit to the IGB LakeLab at Lake Stechlin. Additionally, a meditation session was organised, to introduce alternative options to avoid excessive stress during PhD life.​

On 12 August 2019 an UWI delegation visited the IGB Lake Lab at Lake Stechlin.

On 06 August 2019 UWI doctoral students visited the experimental sites at River Erpe.

The Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier has awarded an honorary doctorate to Professor Dr. Mark Gessner for his scientific achievements in limnology. Mark Gessner and his partners in Toulouse can look back on 30 years of collaborative research. Together with other scientists in Europe, they have undertaken pioneering work on leaf litter breakdown in freshwater ecosystems – one of the most important processes in the biosphere, next to the production of plant biomass. Many of his publications on leaf litter in freshwater ecosystems have since become seminal papers in the pertinent literature.

For more information, please see the following link:
https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/igb-acting-director-mark-gessner-receives-honorary-doctorate

On 20^th June 2019 Dr. Moritz Reese (Department for Environmental & Planning Law, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)) will give a talk with the title “Urban Water Governance - Challenges and Approaches in Law, Organization and Finance” from 4:15  to 5:15 pm at TU Berlin, Chair of Water Resources Management and Modeling of Hydrosystems, Room 566  (for details see invitation below).

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Congratulations to Mikael Gillefalk, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the titel "Effects of bank filtration on lake ecosystems" on Wednesday, 19 June 2019.

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The German Research Foundation (DFG) is extending the Research Training group  "Urban Water Interfaces" (UWI) by a further four and a half years. The DFG is funding it with a total of 5.3 million euros from 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2024.

For more information please see the following links:

http://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/menue/tub_medien/publikationen/medieninformationen/2019/mai_2019/medieninformation_nr_762019/parameter/de/

https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/research-training-group-urban-water-interfaces-continued

On 16^th May 2019 Prof. Wolfgang Kinzelbach (Institute for Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich) will give a talk with the title “How to control overpumping of aquifers” from 4:15  to 5:15 pm at TU Berlin, Chair of Water Resources Management and Modeling of Hydrosystems, Room 566  (for details see invitation below).

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Congratulations to Anne Timm, who succesfully defended her doctoral thesis with the titel "Water and heat transport of paved surfaces" on Friday, 05 April 2019.

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The Geological Society of America (GSA) has selected IGB's Prof. Dr. Dörthe Tetzlaff as Honorary Fellow. This fellowship honours international geoscientists who have distinguished themselves in geoscience investigations, promoting environmental awareness, linking science and society, or providing notable service to implementing public policy in natural resource managements.

For further information, please see the following link:
https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/igbs-dorthe-tetzlaff-becomes-honorary-fellow-geological-society-america

Congratulations to Robert Ladwig, who succesfully defended his doctoral thesis with the titel "Adapting the water management to mitigate the impact of multiple stressors on an urban lake: Case study Lake Tegel, Germany" on Monday 25 Februar 2019.

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On 13th/14th February 2019 the On-Site Evaluation of Research Training Group ‘Urban Water Interfaces (UWI)’ will take place.

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