German-Russian Summer School: New Monitoring Technologies for environmental research and their application
August 26 until 31, 2018
Potsdam, Germany

Organizing institutions
The summer school will be organized by the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research, Centre for Geosciencs and the Russian V.I. Vernadsky and Nongovernemental Ecological Foundation.

Background
Global change has triggered a number of environmental changes, such as alterations in climate, land productivity, water resources, atmospheric chemistry, and ecological systems. Finding solutions to the impact of global
change is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century.
The observatory TERENO (TERrestrial ENvironmental Observatories) is embarking on new paths with an interdisciplinary and long-term research programme. TERENO spans an Earth observation network across Germany that extends from the North German lowlands to the Bavarian Alps. This unique large-scale project aims to catalogue the long-term ecological, social and economic impact of global change at regional level.
In Germany the northeastern lowlands are one of the regions most affected by climate change. The regional TERENO observatory „Northeastern German Lowland“ operated by the GFZ, analyses the impact of climate and land-use change on terrestrial ecosystems and serves as a platform for the monitoring, analysis and prediction of changing environmental conditions.

Application deadline: 1 July 2018

For more information, please see the flyer.