Sommerlicher Ausblick auf die Braunschweiger Innenstadt aus den alten Räumlichkeiten der ZKfN-Geschäftsstelle. Sommerlicher Ausblick auf die Braunschweiger Innenstadt aus den alten Räumlichkeiten der ZKfN-Geschäftsstelle.
© Nora Roesky/ZKfN

The ZKfN year in pictures

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Logo Weltklimakonferenz 2024Logo Weltklimakonferenz 2024
© UNFCCC / Azerbaijan
The members of the Klima.Zukunftslabor climate future labs at the ZKfN together with Falko Mohrs, Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture, at the opening symposium on 20 November in Hannover. The members of the Klima.Zukunftslabor climate future labs at the ZKfN together with Falko Mohrs, Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture, at the opening symposium on 20 November in Hannover.
© Moritz Peters/ZKfN
© Picture Credit: Tatjana Schneider/TU Braunschweig. Transdisziplinäre Aktionsforschung Marseille, 2022.
Map of Lower Saxony showing all settlement units in the federal state as points.Map of Lower Saxony showing all settlement units in the federal state as points.
© Picture credit: SpACE Lab at ISU, TU Braunschweig, 2024; Map data: Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy; own calculations

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Lena Harder – Student Assistant

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Mark Winter – Communications and Marketing Officer

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Dr. Nora Roesky – Network Management Officer

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A portrait of Katharina Zickwolf, managing director of the Lower Saxony Center for Climate Research A portrait of Katharina Zickwolf, managing director of the Lower Saxony Center for Climate Research
An eddy covariance tower taking atmospheric measurements at one of the measurement sites. An eddy covariance tower taking atmospheric measurements at one of the measurement sites.

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Interview with FoResLab spokesperson Prof. Alexander Knohl

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Learning climate resilience from natural forests

Interview with DIVERSA spokesperson Dr. Jonas Hagge

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Heat check for German cities

Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. publishes city ranking on heat protection at high temperatures

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Federal State of Lower Saxony supports research into the microclimate in urban areas

MWK and Volkswagen Foundation fund the establishment of a Climate Future Lab at the Lower Saxony Climate Research Center with up to five million euros

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Dossiers

A page from the Herbarium Ruperti with pieces of nettle glued to it.A page from the Herbarium Ruperti with pieces of nettle glued to it.

Historical Biodiversity Archive

Presenting: Climate research for Lower Saxony

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Transformation Processes of the North Sea Coast

Presenting: Climate Research for Lower Saxony

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