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PhD Elena Grace Siegrist has received the 2^nd prize of the Young Academic Award 2024 of the Alpine Convention for her Master's thesis ‘Landscapes in a changing climate – Evaluation and illustration of the impacts of climate change on landscapes in Switzerland using the case study landscape Ramosch (GR)’ (supervised by Matthias Bürgi and Karina Liechti)..
Congratulations to her!

Young Academic Award 2024

This year's prize for the best Master's thesis in Geosciences goes to Daniela Friebel for her work on thermal perception in two districts in the city of Bern. She mapped places of comfort and discomfort during periods of summer heat from the perspective of the residents of the neighborhoods. The resulting maps provide unusual insights into the perception of urban space.

New 3-dimensional climate reconstructions allow studying the variability of the Atlantic-European jet stream back to the 15th century. A study of the climatology group (Link to 'Nature Geoscience') shows that hydroclimatic extremes were often related to excursion in the jet and that recent changes in the jet are within the variability seen over the past 600 years.

Prof. Dr Aurea Chiaia-Hernández received the Faculty Teaching Award for outstanding teaching achievements of young academics in 2024 for her course "Einführung in die Physisch Geographische Laborarbeit". Congratulations!

Dr. Avni Malhotra (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Colloquium in Climate Impact, Remote Sensing, Geocomputation, Cloud Dynamics and Climatology
(14:15 – 15:15, room F022, UniTobler Lerchenweg 36 or Zoom Room: Link)
To participate via Zoom, a password is required. The password can be requested via e-mail.

Prof. Dr. Christian Schulz (University of Luxembourg)
Berner Humangeographisches Kolloquium
(14:15 – 15:45, room 002, GIUB)

Organized by the Units:
Social and Cultural Geography / Economic Geography /
Critical Sustainibility Studies /
Political Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial Development /
Geographies of Disasters
in cooperation with the mLAB of the Institute of Geography