30.10.2017Online course on water in Switzerland

A new public online course of the Department of Geography teaches in German how the element water shapes the daily life in Switzerland. Join in! UZH News (in German)

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“Biodiversity is our life insurance”
“Climate change and biodiversity are closely connected”
Das Berner Seeland versinkt
Keine Erholung für den Permafrost in der Schweiz
«Bei Halbzeit an die Zukunft denken!»
New Beech Trees for Switzerland’s Forests
UZH Team Effort Award for the GIUZ Air Miles Group
"The loss of biodiversity cannot be glossed over"
European State of the Climate 2023
«Ja Meitli, wa häsch?»
Exploring our water digitally?
"What if ... ": A world without glaciers
Experience Ice Ages and Climate Change Up Close
Teaching Turned Upside Down
Researching in the Wild
New Assistant Professorship in Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes
A massage with images of nature
Beyond the blue dot: Try to get lost!
Grönländisches Eis für Drinks?
"People in Japan believe in the future, but they also love the retro design of their internet"
Sniffing out imminent danger
Greenland, on the edge of a melting world
Campus Irchel as real-world laboratory
"Frighteningly beautiful pictures"
Two catastrophic years obliterate 10% of Swiss glacier volume
Geography Film Club
Climate change will force hundreds of millions of people to flee their homes
Accessible Zurich
"We live in a time crisis"
"Everything is out of balance"
"In future, we will have to think about how to survive the summer months"
Is the battle against climate change lost?
«Ein Wald mit Fussbodenheizung»
Genes from space
Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize to Sara I. Fabrikant
Greenlandic fjord ecosystems in a changing climate: Socio-cultural and environmental interactions
«Das Zuhause-Wohnen bis ans Lebensende wird verklärt»
Wie ist Sprache entstanden?
SNSF Professorships: Call to identify and offer support to selected candidates
Fehlen den Studentinnen tatsächlich die Karriereambitionen?
Je mehr Insekten, desto mehr Holz
European State of the Climate 2022
“Think blue!”
Share your mountain landscapes
Fleeing climate disasters
Can trees predict volcanic eruptions?
Wie viele Menschen verträgt die Erde?
«Wir müssen unsere Platzbedürfnisse komplett überdenken»
Water – a human right
IT services at GIUZ: a look behind the scenes
Prof. Klaus Itten (1944-2023)
Crossing boundaries
«Wir verändern unseren Planeten nachhaltig»
Kinder zum Entdecken, Nachdenken und Staunen über Landschaften motivieren
Why nature is important to us
Trees as witnesses of time
(In)visible work in the early mornings
Moderne Taglöhnerei
Checking the pulse of society
Das Blätterorakel
Die Schweiz schützt die Artenvielfalt nicht genug
«Wir wiegen uns in falscher Sicherheit»
Wem gehört der Raum?
Ehre für die Engadiner Blockgletscher – und für die Permafrostforschung
Pflegen grenzenlos
Klimakonferenz COP27: Wer bezahlt die Folgen von Klimaschäden?
GIUZ @ Berlin Science Week: Nov 4-8
Erschreckend schöne Bilder
Rockglaciers of the Engadine are one of 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites
Prof. Harold Haefner (1933-2022)
Worse than 2003: Swiss glaciers are melting more than ever before
Longer, Hotter and More Frequent Heat Waves in Swiss Cities
Ein letzter Rest Zukunft für die Alpen-Gletscher
Gletschererlebnis nur für Mädchen
Extreme Heat and Drought Events Require More Systematic Risk Assessment
Sri Lanka am Abgrund – wie kam es dazu?
«Es braucht eine Trendwende»
Eating plants
NEW: Organic Food Hub at Irchel
Scientific images that ask questions
Making landscape services tangible
Climate and biodiversity: Parliament meets science
Ein Labor, das die Grenze schafft
Die goldenen Jahre sind vorbei
Digitalisierung zum Anfassen
Studying fjord ecosystems in Greenland
Oben mitspielen
IPCC Report: Taking action now can secure our future
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Faire Arbeitsbedingungen in der Gig-Economy
Gletscher - Gradmesser der globalen Erderwärmung
Sustainable and climate-resilient management of high-Andean ecosystems
"Almost like mission impossible"
Rund um die Uhr auf Abruf
«Enorme Anstrengungen nötig»
Missed the inaugural lectures?
The Miner and the Neon Fish: Decolonizing Alpine Ecologies
Thinking locally to solve the climate change and biodiversity crises
GIUZ Researchers at COP26
Running a world class database on glaciers
Sind die Alpengletscher noch zu retten?
Glacier observation from space
Towards integrative water management policies in the Andes
New Assistant Professorship in Labour Geography
GIUZ postcards: colourful, diverse and practical
Zu gut, um wahr zu sein
Schleicher's Dream
Scientifica 2021: "Synthetic naturally"
Wasserschloss mit Meeranschluss
Welche Verantwortung trägt die Schweiz?
Encapsulating the ecosystem for soil research
"Embracing Diversity of Opinion"
Chamoli Disaster Could Happen Again
«Das Anwendungspotential ist riesig»
Science and Nature Festival auf dem Campus Irchel: 22. - 30. Mai 2021
The WGMS contributed to the European State of the Climate report
Pandemics, biodiversity and climate
Geografische Daten der Schweiz für alle verfügbar
Today is World Water Day
Swiss water bodies in a changing climate
Live-in-Betreuung in der Krise
Landscape services and basic landscape knowledge
Schutz vor Extremhochwasser an der Aare
Chamoli disaster in India
#WomenInScience
How remote sensing can help protect biodiversity
Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
The first 125 years
2020 WDS Data Stewardship Award
«Expedition 2 Grad» gewinnt den Bundespreis Ecodesign
UZH signed the “Climate Alliance Declaration to G20 Leaders“
Boost for polar research
On the river
Würdigung der «Teachers of the Hour»
Risk guidelines for glacial hazards in the Indian Himalaya
Transnationale Altenbetreuung im Lockdown
Glaciers are retreating unabated
"Reversing the Gaze": A new research project in Political Geography
Environmental Data from Space
Wenn die «Stimme des Berges» warnt
Honorary professorship at University of Nottingham to Christian Berndt
Eminent Ecologist 2020: Bernhard Schmid
GIUZ alumna is the new SDC director general
Erwärmung des Permafrosts in der Schweiz
“We’re pioneers in Switzerland”
Precision Predictions for Hydropower Plants
On Thin Ice
“Giving people room for creativity”
1.5 Billion People Will Depend on Water from Mountains
How can local populations be won over to protected areas?
Alpine-wide observation of glacier mass loss from space
Teachers of the Hour
ValPar.CH - Values of the ecological infrastructure in Swiss parks
Teaching award nomination for Hendrik Wulf
Sustainable Research, Teaching and Operations
WGMS contributing to European State of the Climate 2019
Additional e-media for geography
Neuer CrowdWater Kurs online
COVID-19: Information for students
Public events cancelled until 31 May 2020
Risks in the tropical Andes
Mercator Award for Simon Etter and Barbara Strobl
New Assistant Professorship in Social and Cultural Geography
«Wir bräuchten eine Greta Thunberg für die Biodiversität»
The Underestimated Threat
Disappearing glaciers: UZH media highlight 2019 comes from GIUZ
Swiss polar expeditions
The "Geographie Alumni UZH" society: a platform for people interested in Geography
Swiss Data Cube at the WEF in Davos
New unit "Space, Nature and Society"
GIUZ experts for the federal administration
Saving the World
WGMS Letter of Concern to COP25
Alexander von Humboldt: Trailblazer of Science
Grassroots ideas to halt biodiversity loss
To space and back again: mapping Earth to save it
The world's highest mountains hold vital climate change lessons
GIUZ treasures on Swiss television
Problematic 24-hour care at home
Fertile Ground
Biochar could be the solution to crop burning in India
Why your tweets can really matter in a natural disaster
Local experts for global reports
Blogging political geography
Crossing Borders
Talk show «Zoom Persönlich»: Working Mom
Forscher simulieren auf dem Klausenpass den Ernstfall
Scientifica 2019: Science Fiction – Science Facts
1894–2019: 125 years of internationally coordinated glacier monitoring
Monitoring the Matterhorn with Millions of Data Points
Reise bis zum Ende der Eiszeit
GEO 401: Integrative Project in the "Berner Seeland"
Conflict Minerals, Inc. – Transnational Regulation, Fragmented Authority and Violent Resource Networks in Eastern Congo
At a Glacial Pace
Fostering permafrost research and scientific exchange
Four Scientific Institutions will Monitor Switzerland from Space
Klimaindikator Gletscher
Land Talks
Ideal Backdrop for Projections
Liberale Kräfte geraten ins Kreuzfeuer
Struggling for the golden mean
Sri Lanka, Muslims and violence
Scientific Image Competition: Distinction for "Rainfall Simulation in the Alps"
Gender and Space
Global warming is shrinking glaciers faster than thought
Dangerous glacial lakes across Tibetan Plateau
Den globalen Zusammenhang vermitteln
Auch die Betreuerin braucht mal Pause
Der Permafrost in der Schweiz erwärmt sich wieder
Tauender Permafrost: Eine tickende Zeitbombe
Panta rhei - everything flows
Our research page now in a new look
Universität studiert die Katzenseen
Science Info Day 2019
Old and alone in Nepal
Listen to the landscape
Farewell to Prof. Ulrike Müller-Böker
Mountain glaciers: Vanishing sources of water and life
Training fürs "Bio-Navi"
HILLSCAPE project: Movie about the 2018 fieldwork
GIUZ-Alumnus Ruedi Haller wird neuer Nationalparkdirektor
Ein fliegender Wächter für die Ökosysteme der Erde
Boost to UZH’s Climate Research
Ein Jahr der Extreme für Schweizer Gletscher
Zum Klimabericht tragen viele bei
«Es sind mehrere Gründe, die zur Ablehnung führten»
«Das Nachtleben bietet eine Gegenwelt zum Leistungsdruck»
Variety from above
Tackling global problems together
Im Zeppelin auf der Suche nach Plastik
Tango into the abyss
Professor Shahul H. Hasbullah
(3 September 1950 - 25 August 2018)
NASA lands at UZH
Sarah Speck receives the 2018 BioOne Ambassador award
Scientists set out to explore microbial life in glacier streams
The Alpine Journey - Live from Grindelwald
GIUZ Open Doors Event
Charcoal: Major Missing Piece in the Global Carbon Cycle
IPA Lifetime Achievement Award to Wilfried Haeberli
Malerberuf im Wandel
How the Alps inform polar research
Greater Zurich Area – a Center of Competence for Geographic Information Display
Towards an operational glacier monitoring service: Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service
In the Engine Room of the World
First UZH Space Hub Research Flight Campaign
How Pizzas Went Online
Virtual cities
Eine Ausstellung auf Reisen
CrowdWater: An App for Flood Research
Summerschool on Governance at the Edge of the State
Creative, bold, innovative
Pictures of research
WGMS contributed to European State of the Climate report
Short break in the warming of the alpine permafrost
Geochronology Summer School
Was Landschaften leisten, wird nicht immer respektiert
Frequently cited comment on glacier mass loss
Interdisciplinary Master's thesis topics
Wie ein Dübendorfer Experiment zur Internationalen Raumstation geflogen ist
Summer school "Gender and Space"
New Assistant Professorship in Earth System Science
“The state functions according to its entirely own logic”
When Olga from Poland takes care of grandpa
“The army plays a double role”
Sara Fabrikant and former PhD Student Marco Salvini win Breheny Prize
Second issue of the Global Glacier Change Bulletin series
Volunteer work in Guarda
Digital pathfinders
What Swiss landscapes need to be worth to us
Nature protection in times of climate change and globalisation
Mapping Functional Diversity of Forests with Remote Sensing
Mysterious underground streams in the Ybrig mountains
Online course on water in Switzerland
Machine-Vision Drones Monitor Animals in the African Savanna
Warning of rockslides due to research
The rockslide of Bondo and the global warming
The Oberaarglacier's bleak future
New Assistant Professorship in Remote Sensing of Water Systems
Deglaciation in Switzerland
Identification of forest vegetation
The five most beautiful projects for hobby researchers
Michael Schaepman named Vice President
Alumna Andrea Scheller profiled
Mapping for remote places
Asian glaciers - water source for millions of people
How language shapes our sense of place
Climate data for countries of the global south
Medical tourism: Critically ill africans undergo medical treatment in India
Lack of snow in winter season 2016/2017
No more lonely cowboys
Distinguished dissertation
The underrated engagement of teaching staff
A tipping point for Greenland and its ice caps
Bacteria, deadwood and climate change
EU funding for a GIUZ research project
Just being like everybody else
“Our object of interest is about to melt away”
Migration in Val Müstair
Alumna Maria Lezzi profiled
Precipitation radar in the Peruvian Andes
Global center for biodiversity research
Lost talents
The night’s liquid gold
Nature conversation in flux
Why microinsurances don't work as a private market
Glacier stories from Grindelwald
The virtual butler
When passer-by search for traces
Taking stock of charcoal in the world's soil
Rock glaciers crawl slowly down the slope
Internally displaced persons in Eastern Congo
The voice of the dark sides of the Olympic Games
The ways cartographers create the illusion of depth on maps
UZH launches Digital Society Initiative
Medically disenfranchised people find hope in India
Care Migration - A part of the family?
Prix Média for research on sponsoring at universities
WGMS Jubilee
Animated graph shows rise of temperature
Indigenous peasant organizations in Latin America
War waste in greenland
For smaller Olympic Games
Max Maisch interviewed in the Glattaler journal

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