16. Dezember 2025 – Bochum Urban Climate Lab at the opening of the Centre for City Futures
Bridging research and practice

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05. Dezember 2025 – Prominent guest scientist gives lecture on urban heat at the GI

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30. Oktober 2025 – Summer heat stress – Initial findings from the WATCH project

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10. Oktober 2025 – New publication from the Bochum Urban Climate Lab: Analysis of nocturnal heat advection in urban areas
Jonas Kittner has published a new study together with colleagues in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. The study investigates the nocturnal advection of urban heat, i.e., the transport of air heated within the city into the surrounding areas, and uses a newly developed approach in which data from thousands of crowd weather stations are utilized.

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24. Juli 2025 – Guest Lecture: Dr. Natasha Picone as Visiting Scholar at the Bochum Urban Climate Lab

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17. Juli 2025 – International Conference on Urban Climate in Rotterdam

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26. Juni 2025 – Final event of the Data2Resilience project in Dortmund
On June 12, the final event of the Data2Resilience (D2R) project took place at the Werkhalle Dortmund. Together with numerous representatives from politics, public administration, and the Regionalverband Ruhr, we looked back on three successful project years and discussed future perspectives for climate-resilient cities.

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26. Mai 2025 – Nathalie Miezal receives funding award for teacher education RUHR

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08. Mai 2025 – Early childhood environmental education: Exploring urban climate at the climate station

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05. Mai 2025 – How warm was it on May 1st?
Urban nighttime overheating: Insights from the D2R Project

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07. März 2025 – Thermal Comfort Bike: Mobile Measurement Bicycle for Urban Climate Analysis
As part of the Data2Resilience project, the Bochum Urban Climate Lab has converted a cargo bike into a mobile measurement station. In the future, the measurement bike will collect climate data to capture thermal comfort in cities and analyze urban heat stress.

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28. Januar 2025 – Bochum Urban Climate Lab at the 5th Children's Environmental Forum: Active together for climate protection!
On January 26, 2025, the 5th Children's Environmental Forum took place at the Anneliese Brost Music Forum Ruhr. Under the motto "Let's do something for the environment together!" the Bochum Symphony Orchestra invited children aged 6 to 12 and their families to an interactive experience focused on the topic of climate change.

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18. November 2024 – Thermal Comfort in Dortmund – Successful Completion of the Second Stakeholder Workshop within the D2R Project
As part of the Data2Resilience (D2R) project, the second workshop took place in Dortmund, during which the progress made so far and the project’s objectives were discussed in collaboration with the stakeholders.

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16. September 2024 – WATCH-Project: Climate Measurements for Optimizing Hydration Recommendations for Young Children
As part of the WATCH project, the initial climate measurements were successfully conducted in September at Städtische Kindertagesstätte Zechenstraße. In collaboration with the Forschungsdepartment Kinderernährung (FKE) at Ruhr University Bochum, the study investigates how changing climate conditions affect water loss in young children.

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25. Juli 2024 – Sensational Walk 2024 in Dortmund: Stadtklima-Tour den Grünen

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27. Juni 2024 – Data2Resilience - Sensational Walk Dortmund 2024

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07.06.2024 – Guest Lecture by Iain Stewart on Urban Climate Science: Insights from the Past

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13. Mai 2024 – D2R - Studienprojektgruppe startet Klimamessungen in Vorgärten in Dortmund

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01.12.2023 – A blind spot in the climate data
Cities are particularly affected by climate change and must take measures to adapt. In order to plan and evaluate them, however, more data must first be collected.

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23. November 2023 – Thermal comfort in Dortmund: First stakeholder workshop held successfully
Bochum Urban Climate Lab Team organizes stakeholder workshop as part of the project Data2Resilience (D2R) in Dortmund and brings together different perspectives.

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23. Mai 2023 – Patricia Glocke wins the prize for the best student paper at JURSE2023

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04. Mai 2023 – Consultation hour climatology and biogeography / landscape ecology colloquium

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