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.
As of October 1, Christopher Kyba has taken up a new post as Heisenberg Professor for Nighttime Lights Remote Sensing. The working group will advance European capabilities in this expanding subfield of remote sensing through both research and teaching activities.
In der Fakultät für Geographie und Geowissenschaften der RUB ist im Institut für Geographie zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Universitätsprofessur W2 [m/w/d] für Humangeographie mit dem Schwerpunkt Governance urbaner und regionaler Transformationsprozesse zu besetzen.
Die Sprechstunden am 23.09., 30.09. und 07.10. bei Herrn Edler (Studienfachberatung Geographie) entfallen. Die nächste Sprechstunde findet am 14.10. (15-17 Uhr in IA 6/75) statt.
Eight international scholars from the social sciences and humanities have started their fellowships at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities of the University Alliance Ruhr in Essen where they will spend the next six months working on collaborative research projects.
Gleich zweimal hieß es Ende August und Anfang September: Welcome to the team of geography didactics of the Ruhr University - und zwar in der Hauptstadt Dänemarks sowie in der drittgrößten Stadt Schwedens.
To start off the new academic year, we went on a two-day retreat in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia. On the programme were reflections and discussions as well as our new research and funding strategy, and, of course, we visited some interesting places – such as an area of a species endemic to NRW!
Die Summer Schools zur „Vergleichenden Metropolenforschung“ greifen 2025 erneut das Leitmotiv der Partneruniversität Tsukuba auf: „Design the Future, Together“.
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