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The European Geosciences Union, EGU, runs series of scientific blogs that shed light on latest scientific development in the divisions. Written for a larger public, they offer a unique opportunity to get in touch with a wide range of geosciences topics. Bettina Schaefli is the editor in chief of the Hydrology Blog, which nominated their blog post on "Water walks for gathering social sciences data".
Hydrology Blog: see here

Please have a look on the nominated posts from all divisions and vote for your favourit post here: Link

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.

Dr. Jana von Freyberg (Federal Office for the Environment FOEN)
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.

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