The Digital Twin approach provides the ability to observe changes in the ecosystem in near real-time and to digitally predict future changes – both allowing for immediate action in case of undesired developments. This also incorporates to implement management strategies and visualise their outcomes. Digital Twin frameworks are characterised by frequent updates and feedbacks between the real...
Extreme events threaten settlements, ecosystem services and human wellbeing. Under ongoing and projected climate and environmental change, improving our understanding and prediction of extreme events and their impacts is essential to increase preparedness and system resilience. This session brings together researchers who work on the broad topic of extreme events (including different types of...
The session is intended to discuss potential natural and anthropogenic events which occurred during the Holocene until today in the Central European Elbe catchment. We would like to discuss and determine (geo)chemical, biological, sedimentological and mineralogical indicators which may be applicable to trace such events, changes and breakpoints in fluviatile archives.
Human activities are critical determinants of many sustainability challenges faced by human-Earth systems, such as climate change mitigation or adaptation. Yet, human decision making is still underrepresented in Earth system science models. This break-out session will explore opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration within Topic 5, aiming to harness its wide range of social and...
Monitoring data drives models in different ways - such data is needed for model development, parametrization and calibration; but also for validating model results.
The latter is especially important for increasing the acceptance of potential stakeholders: by using current observations, we can demonstrate the predictive power of our simulations models.
In this breakout session, we would like...
Landscapes undergo continual transformations, necessitating observation and monitoring across various disciplines and scales to understand their dynamics shaped by both natural and anthropogenic factors. In this regard, remote sensing technology plays a key role, allowing for multi-sensor observations with high spatial and temporal resolution. We invite contributions to demonstrate this...
This breakout session will explore the latest innovations and significant advancements within our long-term monitoring initiatives at the Northeast German Lowlands and the Harz/Central German Lowland Observatories. We will present and discuss our latest publications and continuing experiments in the field of long-term environmental monitoring and assessment of climate change impacts, including...
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is an important additional concept for the longer-term reduction of greenhouse gases. Many different approaches (from natural to technical solutions) are currently being developed, with different economic, environmental and social impacts, but also different potential contributions to climate change mitigation and wider societal goals (Borchers et al. 2022). In our...
Forests are a key component of our earth's system, providing essential landscape function for climate, water balance and biodiversity. This session aims at bringing together researchers investigating forest ecosystem functionality and responses to our changing earth system from different perspectives. However, the grand challenges posed by climate change add a layer of complexity,...
Sustainable, multifunctional and climate-resilient agricultural landscapes can play an important role for achieving many of the SDGs and for mitigating global crises. The Subtopic 5 (mainly UFZ integrated platform project IP 6.1.) deals with political and socio-economic sphere of the agri-food system, and the overall quest to govern a transformation towards sustainable agricultural landscapes....
In this breakout session we will present the current activities of the Helmholtz E&E DataHub in general and specifically highlight the developments in community-proven workflows for the ingest, management and provision of time series, biodiversity and geospatial data. The new research data infrastructure solutions will be interactively demonstrated based on concrete scientific use-cases...
Cities are increasingly exposed to complex risks in the face of climate change. They also provide spaces of opportunities to build systemic solutions for achieving greenhouse gas neutrality targets while adapting to climate change impacts. How can co-creative processes between science and society accelerate climate action in cities, how can model- and data-driven approaches support systemic...
