General Assembly 2023In-Person Event

15 May 2023, 09:00 → 16 May 2023, 16:30 Europe/Berlin

GenoHotel Karlsruhe

Programm Board Team, Franziska Alberg (GFZ)

Welcome to the annual General Assembly 2023 of the Program "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future" (May 15-16)

Once a year the Program Board invites scientists from the seven Helmholtz Centers participating in and contributing to the research program "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future" with nine topics, Program Objectives, CCAs, InnoPool projects, the SynCom team, the Management Board and the Management-Team to exchange information and ideas, to share developments and advances, to swap insights and strategies.

This year the focus will be on Early Career Researchers. With Poster Sessions, an Ideas Market, Breakout groups, presentations and enough time in-between you will have the chance for discussions, exchanging and crossing new ideas and projects between ECRs and senior scientists. In 2023 you have the opportunity to meet up to 350 participants in Karlsruhe back to back with the meeting of the Strategic Advisory Board (May 17^th).

At the Closing Session, for the first time, there will be the awarding of two prizes for the best scientific posters (submissions to the Ideas Market and for the 2. Poster Session).

*Contributions to the certain sessions are an important component of the General Assembly - as well as for other conferences the Program Board still reserves the right for contributions to be reordered or not to be taken into account.

Our Program Website

https://earthenvironment.helmholtz.de/changing-earth/program/

 

Monday 15 May

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary 1: Opening of General Assembly 2023 (Topics at a glance & Introduction to Program Objectives)

Speaker: Colin Devey (GEOMAR)

10:30 → 10:45 bio-break and pick-up of refreshments

10:45 → 12:45 Poster Session 1: Posters by Program Objectives (PO) & PO Highlights

Poster contributions will be organized by the Program Objectives writing teams, kick-off with Guided Tours
(meet the Program Board and the members of the Program Objective writing teams to discuss and get feedback on the new and in more detail described Objectives of the Program "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future") - A short description of the original Program Objectives you find on the program website.

10:45 PO1: Atmospheric forecast - improved predictive skills of weather and climate

Responsible from Program Board: HaPe Schmid (KIT), Gerrit Lohmann (AWI)

10:45 PO2 & 3: Climate mitigation and adaptation - better cope with the impact of climate change

Responsible from Program Board: Daniela Jacob (hereon), Gerrit Lohmann (AWI), Thomas Jung (AWI), Sabine Attinger (UFZ), Anja Engel (GEOMAR)

10:45 PO4: Geohazard forecast - reduce the negative impact of natural hazards

Responsible from Program Board: Colin Devey (GEOMAR), Fabrice Cotton (GFZ)

10:45 PO5: Urban Risk - increase urban quality of life and resilience

Responsible from Program Board: Fabrice Cotton (GFZ), Bernd Hansjürgens (UFZ)

10:45 PO6: Ecosystem services - sustain ecosystem services and biodiversity

Responsible from Program Board: Anja Engel (GEOMAR), Beate Escher (UFZ)

10:45 PO7: Food, land and water quality - ensuring availability of food and water

Responsible from Program Board: Michael Bott (FZJ)

10:45 PO8: Natural resources - using resources for sustainable circular economy

Responsible from Program Board: Hauke Harms (UFZ), Sarah Gleeson (GFZ), Michael Bott (FZJ)

10:45 PO9: Environmental pollution - protecting the environment and humans from chemical pollution

Responsible from Program Board: Beate Escher (UFZ), Thomas Leisner (KIT)

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:15 Plenary 2: Introduction to Breakout Sessions

Speaker: Beate Escher (UFZ)

14:15 → 15:45 Breakout Sessions

The aim of the Breakout Sessions is to inform about ongoing projects and initiatives and to discuss future goals.
All sessions are open to all participants (no closed sessions).

14:15 Carbon Cycle

A new CTA „Carbon sources and sinks in the Earth’s (Surface) System“
In this breakout session we introduce a new cross-topic activity (CTA) in the research domain Earth&Environment. The major strategic objective of the proposed CTA is to bring together experts on carbon cycling from the full range of relevant fields in the Helmholtz Research Domain Earth & Environment and explore links to the Research Domain Energy.
We aim to focus on two main aspects:
1) Identification of knowledge gaps in understanding of the C-Cycle (budgets, residence times, unknown and unqualified processes)
2) Working towards applying this knowledge to enhance C drawdown mechanisms for potential Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches
In this context we also discuss the new and upcoming SynCom activity on CDR.

Speaker: Dirk Sachse (GFZ)

14:15 CARF MACE

Mainstreaming Environmental Assessment for Complex Exposure
The cross-cutting activity MACE creates a platform to develop overarching activities in the program "Changing Earth" and “Health”. MACE strives to synthesise results of environmental and human health research to support solution-oriented risk assessment and management of novel entities, which are chemicals and other types of materials of anthropogenic origin, including (micro)plastic and man-made particles.

Speakers: Beate Escher (UFZ), Gunnar Gerdts (AWI), Michael Schloter (HMGU), Ulrich Schurr (FZJ)

14:15 CARF REKLIM

The Helmholtz climate initiative REKLIM is a research network of competence-driven modules. REKLIM produces and disseminates regional climate change information for societal use. REKLIM addresses the complete chain from knowledge generation to action. Here, we invite colleagues to learn more about REKLIM and to participate in its further development.

Speakers: Peter Braesicke (KIT), Klaus Grosfeld (AWI), Renate Treffeisen (AWI)

14:15 CCA MOSES

Presentation of cross-compartment and cross-scale observation for meteorological and hydrological extremes: MOSES deployments are presented using the examples of the Swabian campaigns 2021/2023 and recent campaigns along the continuum river-estuary-ocean.

Speakers: Dietrich Borchardt (UFZ), Peter Knippertz (KIT), Philipp Fischer (AWI), Sergiy Vorogushyn (GFZ), Ute Weber (UFZ)

14:15 Cities and Climate Change

Session organized by KIT, hereon, UFZ

Speakers: Christian Kuhlicke (UFZ), HaPe Schmid (KIT), Jörg Cortekar (Hereon)

14:15 Citizen Science

Citizen science is successfully implemented as a participatory research approach in many Helmholtz Centres and is currently experiencing growing interest and popularity in research, politics and civil society. In our workshop we will present the plan to establish a Helmholtz Cooperation Across Research Fields (CARF) on citizen science and participatory research for social innovation, and discuss its goals, structure and activities at four World Café tables.

Speakers: Aletta Bonn, Julia von Gönner (both: Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)

14:15 Digital Twins for Geohazards

• Presentation of the HE DT-GEO project in which several Geo-Hazard Digital Twin Components have to be developed (Volcanology, Earthquake Physics as well as Tsunami Twin). DT-GEO is an initiative of Geo.8.
• Discussion about the possible coupling between DT-GEO and similar initiatives within the Helmholtz community.
• Further discussion topics: What comes after DT-GEO towards Destination Earth? How can Helmholtz centers strengthen their presence in the future? How do we best integrate ourselves into Destination Earth?

Speaker: Andrey Babeyko (GFZ)

14:15 Digitalization and DataHub

The DataHub of the Research Field Earth and Environment is a joint initiative of all centers of the Helmholtz Association participating in the research program 'Changing Earth'. Three SubHubs assigned to the compartments of the Earth system jointly form the DataHub. Within the DataHub, FAIR data management is practiced to enable data science. Here, we invite colleagues to learn more about the DataHub and to participate in its further development.

Speakers: Jan Bumberger (UFZ), Peter Braesicke (KIT), Sören Lorenz (GEOMAR)

15:45 → 16:00 bio-break and pick-up of refreshments

16:00 → 17:45 Ideas Market

The Ideas Market will be a plattform to networking with the aim to elaborate how to use the competences we have in the Helmholtz centers for connecting existing porjects and to get ideas for new ones.

16:00 "Iceland"

Hazard and Resources in Reykjanes, Hengill, Theistareykir and Krafla, Iceland

Speaker: Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos (GFZ)

16:00 777 - personnel concept PoF IV

On behalf of the Research Field „Earth and Environment“ seven Helmholtz centers have established seven novel joint acitivities for talent management und career development. We are going to pay special attention to the upcoming events and programs with open slots for participation.

Speakers: Peter Bremer (KIT), Tabea Altenbernd-Lang (AWI)

16:00 Advancing AI in Earth & Environment

Over the past years, the Helmholtz AI Consultants for Earth and Environment have provided extensive support to a wide range of research projects across the programme topics, including applications of AI/ML in Earth System Modelling, remote sensing, seismology and marine sciences.

Speakers: David Greenberg (Hereon), Tobias Weigel (DKRZ)

16:00 AWI INSPIRES

AWIs INternational Science Program for Integrative Research in Earth Systems

Speaker: Jessica Kegel (AWI)

16:00 Crossing borders:

The Geo.X/NFDI4Earth Academy’s concept to empower interdisciplinary scientists of tomorrow

Speakers: Hilde Gödde (GFZ), Jonas Kuppler (GFZ)

16:00 DeepDyn

A new DFG Priority Programme to reconstruct Earth’s deep dynamics

Speaker: Monika Korte (GFZ)

16:00 Experimental house

for a bio-inspired, climate and human friendly, resource efficient architecture

Speaker: Christian Hamm-Dubischar (AWI)

16:00 FUTURO

An all-season multiscale research campaign on the future evolution of the coastal upwelling system off West Africa

Speaker: Björn Fiedler (GEOMAR)

16:00 Geo-INQUIRE

Geosphere INfrastructures for QUestions into Integrated Research

Speaker: Fabrice Cotton (GFZ)

16:00 GeoLaB

Future with Geothermal Energy

Speakers: Bastian Rudolph (KIT), Eva Schill (KIT), Günter Zimmermann (GFZ), Ingo Sass (GFZ), Katharina Schätzler (KIT)

16:00 Gridded Profile Soil Moisture

through Artificial Intelligence

Speaker: Toni Schmidt (UFZ)

16:00 Helmholtz Imaging

Helmholtz Imaging is the overarching platform to better leverage and make accessible to everyone the innovative modalities, methodological richness, and data treasures of the Helmholtz Association. Helmholtz Imaging covers the whole process from data acquisition and data preparation to data management and data analysis.

Speakers: Lukas Klein (Helmholtz Imaging), Sebastian Ziegler (Helmholtz Imaging)

16:00 IAGOS-CARIBIC

High-tech laboratory on board an Airbus A350 by Lufthansa

Speaker: Andreas Zahn (KIT)

16:00 Investigation of the atmosphere with weather balloons

Atmospheric moisture, instability, and lift are the key ingredients necessary for the formation of heavy rain-producing clouds. We will present three different instrument combination (payloads) measuring atmospheric profiles on a weather balloon.

Speaker: Christian Rolf (FZJ)

16:00 Knowledge and Technology Transfer

Speakers: Birgit Schulze (KIT), Lisa Wenzel (GFZ), Lydia Woiterski (UFZ), Ulrike Sylla (GFZ)

16:00 Microplastics and Nanoplastics" (M&Ns)

Speakers: Annika Jahnke (UFZ), Dusan Materic (UFZ)

16:00 MOSES

From heavy precipitation to flood: what measurements and models do we need for successful forecasts? New developments and ideas will be presented using the examples of current MOSES campaigns and recent extreme events in Germany.

Speaker: Ute Weber (UFZ)

16:00 Next generation toxicity tests

Imaging is a central aspect of automation in toxicity testing - supporting the goal to increase the throughput and content in bioanalytical assessment of the many still uncharaterised chemicals in commerce. Both KIT and UFZ have developed tools to support imaging and automation in alternative test systems ranging from automated specimen positioning and video recording, facitlitated labelling and machine learning-driven semantic segmentation to automated workflows to derive effect concentrations and patterns.

Speakers: Jo Nyffeler (UFZ), Markus Reischl (KIT), Stefan Scholz (UFZ), Violeta Stojanovska (UFZ)

16:00 Polar Sounds

50 sound clips from the Arctic and Antarctic oceans have been available to sound artists as well as musicians from all over the world for composition since last late summer. Now, the resulting creatively interpreted pieces have been released at https://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds/.

Speaker: Ilse Van Opzeeland (AWI)

16:00 RIFS

Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research

Speaker: Matthias Tang & RIFS-Team (RIFS)

16:00 SAFAtor

"SMART Cables and Fibre-optic Sensing Amphibious Monitor" investment seeks to revolutionise Earth monitoring capability by harnessing submarine and urban telecommunications infrastructure

Speaker: Frederik Tilmann (GFZ)

16:00 Taking the pulse of the Southern Ocean

An internationally coordinated, circumpolar, and year-round mission

Speaker: Stefanie Arndt (AWI)

16:00 The Helmholtz Earth & Environment DataHub

On a way to FAIR and sustainable data management

Speakers: Christof Lorenz (KIT), Sabine Barthlott (KIT)

16:00 The LandTrans Simulator:

A modular system of SMART terrestrial models

Speaker: Franziska Taubert (UFZ)

17:45 → 18:00 Plenary 3: Summary and discoveries of day 1 & group picture

Speaker: Colin Devery (GEOMAR)

18:30 → 20:30 Conference Dinner & Evening Fun at the GenoHotel

Tuesday 16 May

09:00 → 09:10 Plenary 4: Welcome Day 2

by Deputy Program Spokesperson and Vice President of the Research Field Earth and Environment

Speakers: Colin Devey (GEOMAR), Katja Matthes (GEOMAR)

09:10 → 10:15 Plenary 5: Presentation of InnoPool Projects

09:10 Introduction to InnoPool Project

Speaker: Colin Devey (GEOMAR)

09:15 SCENIC

Storylines of European extremes in warmer climates

Speaker: Helge Goessling (AWI)

09:30 High - CO2

High-CO2 Metabolic Responses and Bioeconomic Opportunities

Speaker: Daniel Lipus (GFZ)

09:45 P-LEACH

overview presentation of the status and some highlights for P-LEACH

Speakers: Daria Bedulina (AWI), Mara Römerscheid (UFZ)

10:00 CASCO

Overcoming challenges towards a common multi-hazard workflow

Speakers: Cecilia Nievas (GFZ), Laurens Bouwer (Hereon)

10:15 → 10:30 bio-break and refreshments in the poster area

10:30 → 12:00 Plenary 6: SynCom

SynCom mission and aims, presentations of SynCom pilot projects and new SynCom projects, panel discussion “SynCom: Better together” with Antje Boetius, Kathleen A. Mar, Sabine Attinger, and Laurens Bouwer, Q&A

Speakers: Beate Escher (UFZ), Christian Kuhlicke (UFZ), Dirk Sachse (GFZ), Dorothee Hodapp (AWI), Katja Matthes (GEOMAR), Marie Heidenreich (Head of SynCom Coordination Office), Pia-Johanna Schweizer (RIFS), Sergiy Vorogushyn (GFZ), Thomas Jung (AWI)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:20 Poster Session 2: Posters grouped by Program Objectives (open session)

Like on day1 in Poster Session 1 contributions are organized by the Program Objectives
A short description of the original Program Objectives you find on the program website.

Best poster competition day 2

13:00 PO1: Atmospheric forecast - improved predictive skills of weather and climate

Responsible from Program Board: HaPe Schmid (KIT), Gerrit Lohmann (AWI)

13:00 PO2 & 3: Climate mitigation and adaptation - better cope with the impact of climate change

Responsible from Program Board: Daniela Jacob (hereon), Gerrit Lohmann (AWI), Thomas Jung (AWI), Sabine Attinger (UFZ), Anja Engel (GEOMAR)

13:00 PO4: Geohazard forecast - reduce the negative impact of natural hazards

Responsible from Program Board: Colin Devey (GEOMAR), Fabrice Cotton (GFZ)

13:00 PO5: Urban Risk - increase urban quality of life and resilience

Responsible from Program Board: Fabrice Cotton (GFZ), Bernd Hansjürgens (UFZ)

13:00 PO6: Ecosystem services - sustain ecosystem services and biodiversity

Responsible from Program Board: Anja Engel (GEOMAR), Beate Escher (UFZ)

13:00 PO7: Food, land and water quality - ensuring availability of food and water

Responsible from Program Board: Michael Bott (FZJ)

13:00 PO8: Natural resources - using resources for sustainable circular economy

Responsible from Program Board: Hauke Harms (UFZ), Sarah Gleeson (GFZ), Michael Bott (FZJ)

13:00 PO9: Environmental pollution - protecting the environment and humans from chemical pollution

Responsible from Program Board: Beate Escher (UFZ), Thomas Leisner (KIT)

14:20 → 14:30 Plenary 8: Introduction to ECR presentations

Speaker: Michaela Hegglin (FZJ)

14:30 → 16:01 Presentations by Early Career Researchers (ECRs)

Seven invited talks by ECRs (one from each participating center in the program "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future")

14:30 AWI: PhD Student Prize Winner 2022

"Breaking the ice" - How important are sea ice dynamics for the thickness of Arctic sea ice?

Speaker: Luisa von Albedyll (AWI)

14:43 FZJ: ERC Starting Grant 2022

Household Chemicals Amplifying Urban Aerosol Pollution

Speaker: Georgios Gkatzelis (FZJ)

14:56 GEOMAR: Emmy Noether Programm

Revealing deep-sea biodiversity and foodwebs in a changing ocean

Speaker: Henk-Jan Hoving (GEOMAR)

15:09 GFZ: Helmholtz PdD Prize Winner RF EaE 2022

Real-time earthquake assessment: How machine learning improves earthquake early warning

Speaker: Jannes Münchmeyer (GFZ)

15:22 Hereon: Helmholtz Young Investigator Group

Uncertain Water Resources under Global Change

Speaker: Peter Greve (Hereon)

15:35 KIT: ERC Starting Grant 2022

ASPIRE - Advancing Subseasonal PredIctions at Reduced computational Effort

Speaker: Julian Quinting (KIT)

15:48 UFZ: Helmholtz PhD Prize Winner RF EaE 2022

Merging the carboxylate and syngas platforms to solve the biorefinery dilemma

Speaker: Flávio Baleeiro (UFZ)

16:00 → 16:30 Plenary 9: Summary & Closing of the General Assembly 2023

incl. the (Sur)Prize Award Ceremony for the best two posters donated by Gerrit Lohmann (AWI)

Speaker: Colin Devey