Environmental Geography UBT

29/03/2020

Applications are now possible for wintersemester 2020/21. Please find more information on the study program and the application process on our website https://www.envigeo.uni-bayreuth.de

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29/09/2019

In the Geographical Colloquium in the winter term 2019/20 we will have a focus on the global agricultural crisis. Four colleagues will present different aspects of the topic.

24/09/2019

J. Heisig is working in his master thesis on the effect of the drought 2018/19 in Germany on forests. He is using satellite images of various resolutions and a special campaign with a multispectral camera mounted on an aircraft for high resolution images.

24/09/2019

24/09/2019

Beside mapping the vegetation, microclimatic surveys were conducted in order to explain niche effects of the vegetation. Herders were interviewed about grazing management in the region as well.

16/07/2019

Interesting paper on the climate shift of data in 2050, e.g. Munich will have the climate of Milano

Combating climate change requires unified action across all sectors of society. However, this collective action is precluded by the ‘consensus gap’ between scientific knowledge and public opinion. Here, we test the extent to which the iconic cities around the world are likely to shift in respons...

16/07/2019

Thursday, July 18, 2019 is the last talk in the BayCEER Colloquium with a "hot" topic

Burning pixels, points, and polygons: The role of spatial data in wildfire research and management in the United States

29/06/2019

Talk in the BayCEER colloquium

Biotic controls of ecosystem functioning in global drylands

29/06/2019

https://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/bayceer/en/aktuelles/news/detail.php?id_obj=151352

SPACED: Using Earth Observations to Protect Natural Landscapes

29/06/2019

The application for the next semester is closed. We are in the process of evaluating the applications.

17/03/2019

The application for winter semester 2019/20 starts soon! It will end on June 15. Applications are only possible via the online portal

Universität Bayreuth

27/11/2018

Additionally to the blogs about the field work in Namibia a paper about the influence of humans on wildlife in African savannas

New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers argue that long-term environmental change drove the extinctions, mainly in the form of grassland expansio...