We are happy to welcome you to the annual DGGV2021 conference in Karlsruhe. The conference will be 19-23 September in Karlsruhe. We kindly ask to submit topics for sessions until December 2nd. Regardless of corona, we will run the conference either physical or digital. Further information can be obtained here.

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Prof. Nico Goldscheider can be seen in a report on the P.M. Wissen programme on Servus TV. Here he gives insights into our research in Kleinwalsertal in Austria, one of the test regions of our KARMA project. The World Karstaquifer Map (WOKAM) can also be seen. To the whole episode.

"Ten years ago we could have solved the whole problem to a large extent simply by changing land use. Today we need enormous amounts of negative emissions, i.e. CO2, which is actively removed from the atmosphere." 3SAT movie link

While the world holds its breath because of the corona crisis, Valentin Goldberg is on the remote volcano Tolhuaca in Chile - and at first, he doesn't notice anything.

Industrial resources strategies and resilient supply chains of raw materials is our topic for a podium discussion at the annual congress on resources efficiency. The discussion is online here, the related booklet here. 

Researchers have developed a new method to investigate groundwater resources more cost-effectively, more simply and more comprehensively than before. To the article.

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Lithium - One of the most important raw materials for batteries, could be mined in the Upper Rhine Graben in the future. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) now want to install a pilot plant for the extraction of silicon in the Upper Rhine Graben.

Geosciences at KIT in the ranking by U.S.News (2020) in first place nationwide.

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