During its General Assembly on 21 April 2023, the members of IRI THESys elected a new directorate and a new member of the IRI Board. Tobias Krüger, former deputy director, has been elected as new director. He is joined by Sandra Jasper, who serves as new deputy of IRI THESys. In addition, Gretchen Bakke has…
Christoph Schneider, Vice President for Research at Humboldt-Universität, congratulates the IRI THESys on its tenth anniversary. The geographer and physicist, who is specialized in glaciology and urban climatology, is a THESys member hilmself. If you did not exist, we would urgently have to invent you! “IRI THESys’ special voice and diversity of voices in the…
The project Climate and Water under Change is looking for a student assistant with expertise in qualitative methods. The job advertisement is available for download here.
In March, the research team of the Water security for Whom? project spent two weeks in Colombia for the first in-person project workshop. A press release about their research has now been published. Who loses, who wins? The pros and cons of mega-dams “Colombian mega-dams are creating a new hydro-social reality,” says Prof. Tobias Krüger,…
THESys Member Robert Arlinghaus (IGB & HU Berlin) and his colleagues have ecologically enhanced 20 lakes in Lower Saxony. The transdisciplinary study on their large-scale experiment was published in the journal Science. Berlin researchers argue for ecosystem-based management The loss of biodiversity in inland waters is a cause for concern. Many conservation concepts aim to…
From 18-22 September 2023, IRI THESys will host a summer school for doctoral researchers. The call for participation is now open. Application is possible until 16 April. How to situate hydrological modelling? Let’s do some research on research! Hydrological modelling is central to attempts at better understanding and predicting the uneven water distributions that increasingly…
On 3 February 2023, THESys researcher Anna Frohn Pedersen has successfully defended her doctoral thesis “In the Search for Gold: Hope, Power and Precarity in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining”. Congratulations! Anna’s doctoral project explored the global-local entanglements within the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector of Tanzania, and how these connections enable, disturb and disrupt flows…
Together with colleagues, THESys doctoral researcher Marie Pratzer has published a paper on agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests in Nature Sustainability. “Higher yields are often assumed to lead to less deforestation, because more can be produced on less land. We find that this assumption is wrong, especially where market-oriented…
Mario A. Heredia S., THESys guest scientist, and Ina Säumel, THESys Member, have together published a paper that involves indigenous communities of the Andes Highlands, a science-based start-up in Ecuador and the European Committee for Training and Agriculture CEFA. Mario A. Heredia S., THESys guest scientist, and Ina Säumel, THESys Member, have together published a paper that involves indigenous…
The winners of the THESys Award 2022 have been chosen. Congratulations to Colin Lehmann, Sophie Vermeulen, Sarah Felix, Eva-Maria Kachold and Alexander Meinert for their outstanding Bachelor and Master theses! With this prize, the IRI THESys annually honours talented students of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin who have written a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis in the field…
