Grow Your Idea
The partners of the Geo.X network hold the scientific expertise and infrastructure to run collaborative projects in many fields of geoscience research including transdisciplinary approaches. We want to trigger a creative scientific process to help research ideas grow into collaborative projects. To support this aim, we regularly open calls to provide financial support and help in the organization of various exchange formats such as round tables, workshops with invited guests, retreats and others.
The call for autumn 2023 is now open! For more information please visit the Grow Your Idea! website.
Supported ideas of the spring call 2023
Please find below a list of the proposed ideas that are financially supported in the spring call 2023. The workshops and round table discussions will take place in summer and autumn 2023. If you are interested in one of the ideas, please get in touch with the contact persons.
Constraining the climate and interior evolution of Mars as recorded by the Martian polar ice caps
Date
29th August 2023
Organizers
Ana-Catalina Plesa (DLR), Volker Klemann (GFZ Potsdam), Tobias Sauter (HU Berlin)
Summary
Martian polar caps provide important clues about the climate evolution and the interior properties of our neighbor planet. The polar caps represent a record of Martian climate history throughout the Amazonian period and a significant load on the lithosphere, whose deformation provides constraints on the present-day thermal state of the Martian subsurface.
Drivers of climate risks in Europe: harmonizing research on impact attribution of past events
Date
22nd September 2023
Organizers
Dominik Paprotny (PIK), Matthias Mengel (PIK)
Summary
Impact attribution is a quickly developing field of research that particularly seeks to discover how much climate change has already increased the losses caused by recent natural disasters. As there is no standard method of carrying out such research, the DisasterDrivers group aims to bring together researchers from Geo.X and beyond in a one-day workshop to discuss and tackle this problem by identifying common approaches, shareable datasets and best practices used to study impacts of different types of hazards such as floods, droughts, wildfires, windstorms and heat waves.
Please find more information about the workshop and registration here.
Coordination meeting for the application of a DFG Forschungsgruppe on the topic "Climate and Water under Change"
Date
6th November 2023
Organizer
Tobias Sauter (HU Berlin)
Summary
Two discussion rounds are planned with scientists from the Einstein Research Group Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC). This transdisciplinary research initiative, which is dedicated to the study of water-related risks of climate change in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, will end at the end of 2024. In the discussion rounds, the possibilities of the continuation of the project will be discussed.
Please find more information about the workshop and registration here.
Reconstructing Environmental Changes in the Swiss Alps
Date
October or November 2023
Organizer
Norbert Marwan (PIK)
Summary
We aim to establish an interdisciplinary research group and develop a project proposal focused on utilizing caves and cave-based palaeoenvironmental records to investigate landscape and environmental changes of the Swiss Alps during the late Quaternary. The Saegistal region in Switzerland provides a unique opportunity to reconstruct glaciation dynamics and geomorphological evolution using a range of techniques, including the use of caves for dating glacier advances and studying topographic and geomorphological development, speleothem-based clumped isotopes for palaeothermometry, trace elements for assessing water availability, and cryogenic carbonates as permafrost time markers. Preliminary studies conducted in the region demonstrate the high potential for environmental reconstructions through cave documentation and speleothem analysis.
Please find here an overview of the funded "Grow Your Idea" events from 2022.