The junior research group GRUSS (Geoinformatics for climate Resilient Urban SystemS) is funded by the Volkswagen foundation as a Freigeist Fellowship for six years, starting fall 2022. Our work combines (big) data science with geospatial data to study the impacts of urbanization and climate change on society and nature. Particular interest is on the role of the built environment on atmospheric, surface, and subsurface temperature disparities.
The Summer Academy in Baden-Württemberg is an educational program designed to provide exceptional students bevor their graduation a unique opportunity to enhance their skills and interests across various disciplines. The program targets talented individuals, particularly those from challenging backgrounds, offering them a platform to advance their abilities and knowledge. This includes individuals from socially disadvantaged circumstances, low educational backgrounds of parents, or those who have faced significant challenges such as fleeing from wars and conflict zones.
The program offers participants the chance to delve deeply into specific topics from diverse fields such as medicine, psychology, robotics and AI, literature, economics and climate and environmental science, that extend beyond the standard school curriculum.
In addition to theoretical knowledge, the program emphasizes practical application through workshops and projects. This hands-on approach helps students apply the concepts they have learned in a practical context.
Course Highlights
Patricia Glocke and Svea Krikau had the privilege to teach the climate and environmental sciences course, guiding students over eight days. The course encompassed a wide range of topics, including:
Fundamental Climate Science: An introduction to the basic principles of climate science.
Data Processing: Instruction in data processing using Python and Google Earth Engine. Students developed projects on topics such as the evolution of nightlights over recent years and forest fire monitoring.
Sensor Technology: An introduction to sensor technology, where students had the opportunity to conduct their own measurements and analyze the data collected.
Furthermore, each evening, experts were invited, and discussions extended late into the night, fostering a rich exchange of ideas among all participants.
The Summer Academy Talent in Baden-Württemberg not only provides valuable academic enrichment but also encourages personal growth and interdisciplinary learning, making it a significant opportunity for young talents in the region.
We Love Science! Patricia Glocke at the Summer Science Slam 2024 by VolkswagenStiftung in Hannover
The Summer Science Slam 2024, organized by the VolkswagenStiftung, focused this year on topics related to climate, environment, and energy. Held on July 12th at the Explanatorium Herrenhausen, the event featured seven scientists presenting their research to an engaged audience of approximately 400 attendees. Due to the high level of interest and limited seats, many spectators had to be turned away, and follow the event via livestream.
The challenge of the Science Slam is to communicate complex scientific concepts in an engaging and comprehensible manner within a ten-minute timeframe.
Patricia Glocke presented her research in a talk titled “Hot Secrets: How the Subsurface Heats Up Air Temperatures and Why We Can Still Stay Cool - A Turbulent Affair with the Atmosphere.” In her presentation she examined how variations in ground temperatures influence energy flows and air temperatures, while also discussing the modeling techniques employed to analyze these phenomena and the everyday challenges faced by researchers in this domain.
To conclude her presentation, Patricia distributed ice pops to the audience, providing a literal and figurative cooling effect after the intense discussion. This event offered a valuable opportunity to make scientific research more accessible to the public and to highlight the significance and implications of subsurface heat.
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Krikau, Svea | krikau ∂ kit edu | |||||||
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Dohmwirth, Verena | verena dohmwirth ∂ kit edu | |||||||
Chawla, Jayati | jayati chawla ∂ kit edu |
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Dr. | Khan, Basit | basit khan ∂ nyu edu | https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/faculty-labs-and-projects/access/basit-khan.html |
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Large scale assessment of the effects of sustainable heat recycling in the shallow sub-surface on above ground temperature | 2022 |
2028 |
Freigeist-Fellowship der Volkswagen Stiftung |
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Biodiversitäts-Bewertung von Biotoptypen durch Maschinelles Lernen anhand von Citizen-Science-Tonaufnahmen und Satellitenbildern (Bio-O-Ton) | 2023 |
2024 |
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CoolTree - The cooling potential of city trees at the local scale in parks and streets | 2024 |
2024 |
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JustMap - Eine Kartierung der (Un)gleichverteilung von urbaner Hitzebelastung auf lokaler, landesweiter und nationaler Ebene | 2024 |
2024 |
KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt - Matching Funds; Umweltstiftung der Kreissparkasse Karlsruhe |
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Erfassung kritischer Auswirkungen von Hitzeperioden im urbanen öffentlichen Raum | 2023 |
2026 |
Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) |
Publication Record
Glocke, P.; Holst, C. C.; Khan, B. A.; Benz, S. A.
2024. Copernicus. doi:10.5194/egusphere-2024-1234
Benz, S. A.; Irvine, D. J.; Rau, G. C.; Bayer, P.; Menberg, K.; Blum, P.; Jamieson, R. C.; Griebler, C.; Kurylyk, B. L.
2024. Nature Geoscience, 17, 545–551. doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01453-x
Glocke, P.; Holst, C. C.; Khan, B. A.; Benz, S. A.
2024. EGU General Assembly 2024, Copernicus. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-3967
Smith, K. A.; O’Sullivan, A. M.; Kennedy, G.; Benz, S. A.; Somers, L. D.; Kurylyk, B. L.
2023. Hydrological Processes, 37 (9), Art.-Nr.: e14975. doi:10.1002/hyp.14975
Grudzielanek, A. M.; Lemoine-Rodriguez, R.; Glocke, P.; Scholz, T.; Zepp, H.
2023. Berichte Geographie und Landeskunde, 96 (3), 189–214. doi:10.25162/bgl-2023-0010
Noethen, M.; Hemmerle, H.; Menberg, K.; Epting, J.; Benz, S. A.; Blum, P.; Bayer, P.
2023. Science of The Total Environment, 903, Art.-Nr.: 166572. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166572
Glocke, P.; Bechtel, B.; Sismanidis, P.
2023. 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), Heraklion, Greece, 17-19 May 2023, 1–4, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/JURSE57346.2023.10144137
Hare, D. K.; Benz, S. A.; Kurylyk, B. L.; Johnson, Z. C.; Terry, N. C.; Helton, A. M.
2023. Water Resources Research, 59 (4), e2022WR033912. doi:10.1029/2022WR033912
Glocke, P.; Scholz, T.; Grudzielanek, A. M.
2023. Atmosphere, 14 (10), Art.-Nr.: 1492. doi:10.3390/atmos14101492
Glocke, P.; Bechtel, B.; Sismanidis, P.
2023. Atmosphere, 14 (6), Art.Nr.: 1025. doi:10.3390/atmos14061025
Benz, S. A.; Menberg, K.; Bayer, P.; Kurylyk, B. L.
2022. Nature Communications, 13, Article no: 3962. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31624-6
Bluhm, R.; Polonik, P.; Hemes, K. S.; Sanford, L. C.; Benz, S. A.; Levy, M. C.; Ricke, K. L.; Burney, J. A.
2022. Nature Sustainability, 5 (6), 509–517. doi:10.1038/s41893-022-00856-1
Benz, S. A.; Burney, J. A.
2021. Earth’s Future, 9 (7), e2021EF002016. doi:10.1029/2021EF002016
Benz, S. A.; Davis, S. J.; Burney, J. A.
2021. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (6), Article no: 064093. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac0661
Tissen, C.; Menberg, K.; Benz, S. A.; Bayer, P.; Steiner, C.; Götzl, G.; Blum, P.
2021. Renewable energy, 167, 1–19. doi:10.1016/j.renene.2020.11.024
Blum, P.; Menberg, K.; Koch, F.; Benz, S. A.; Tissen, C.; Hemmerle, H.; Bayer, P.
2021. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 239, Art.-Nr.: 103791. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2021.103791
Blum, P.; Menberg, K.; Koch, F.; Benz, S.; Tissen, C.; Bayer, P.
2019, September 9. 10th International Conference on Groundwater Quality (2019), Lüttich, Belgien, 9.–12. September 2019
Benz, S.; Park, H.; Li, J.; Crawl, D.; Block, J.; Nguyen, M.; Altintas, I.
2019. 15th International Conference on eScience (eScience), 243–251, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/eScience.2019.00034
Hemmerle, H.; Hale, S.; Dressel, I.; Benz, S. A.; Attard, G.; Blum, P.; Bayer, P.
2019. Geofluids, 2019, Article ID 5246307. doi:10.1155/2019/5246307
Tissen, C.; Benz, S. A.; Menberg, K.; Bayer, P.; Blum, P.
2019. Environmental research letters, 14, Article no: 104012. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab4240
Benz, S. A.; Blum, P.
2019. Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 19 (7), 1433–1444. doi:10.5194/nhess-19-1433-2019
Benz, S. A.; Bayer, P.; Blum, P.; Hamamoto, H.; Arimoto, H.; Taniguchi, M.
2018. The science of the total environment, 643, 1127–1136. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.253
Benz, S. A.; Bayer, P.; Winkler, G.; Blum, P.
2018. Hydrology and earth system sciences, 22 (6), 3143–3154. doi:10.5194/hess-22-3143-2018
Benz, S. A.; Bayer, P.; Blum, P.
2017. Environmental research letters, 12 (3), Art. Nr.: 034005. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa5fb0
Tissen, C.; Benz, S. A.; Keck, C. A.; Bayer, P.; Blum, P.
2017. 19th EGU General Assembly - Abstracts (EGU2017) Wien, A, 23.-28. April 2017, 14086
Benz, S. A.; Bayer, P.; Blum, P.
2017. The science of the total environment, 584-585, 145–153. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.139
Benz, S.
2016. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000065105
Benz, S. A.; Bayer, P.; Göttsche, F. M.; Olesen, F. S.; Blum, P.
2016. Environmental science & technology, 50 (1), 70–78. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b03672
Benz, S.; Bayer, P.; Goettsche, F.-M.; Olesen, F. S.; Blum, P.
2016. Grundwasser - Mensch - Ökosysteme : 25. Tagung der Fachsektion Hydrogeologie in der DGGV 2016, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 13.-17. April 2016. Hrsg.: P. Blum, 249–250, KIT Scientific Publishing
Benz, S. A.; Bayer, P.; Menberg, K.; Jung, S.; Blum, P.
2015. The science of the total environment, 524-525, 427–439. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.003