44 Beiträge in Kategorie: What’s new

If you share my passion for books and the dialogue they engage with our lives and our society – and you speak French (or want to improve it!) –  this is a podcast channel for you! I want to explore how books mirror our lives, cultures, and societal crises — and how they inspire alternative ways of thinking, paving the way for innovative change. 

Climate change is putting enormous pressure on biodiversity and ecosystems, including forests. In the first week of March, we gathered high-resolution 3D point clouds of the leaf-off beech forest at Laegern, our living laboratory near Zurich.

How should we monitor biodiversity quickly, affordably, inclusively, and in detail, with limited resources? This challenge is especially tricky for a more hidden and harder to study piece of biodiversity – genetic diversity. But we are making progress.

Have you ever encountered a situation when a colleague or a friend was very stressed, very depressed or had other acute mental health troubles? I always felt unsure about whether to say anything to them and how to help.

The Critical Pony is a project designed to make the field of human geography more approachable and entertaining for a broad audience. Through bite-sized, engaging videos, this initiative tries to turn complex academic ideas into content that resonates on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts.

Zunehmende Wetterextreme wie Trockenperioden und Starkregen zeigen, wie wichtig es ist, dass sich die Landwirtschaft an das veränderte Klima anpasst, um die Lebensmittelversorgung zu sichern. Mehr Vielfalt auf den Feldern, innovative Lösungen und Zusammenarbeit sind entscheidend.

Find out how people bathed in Zurich in Roman times, how the drinking and wastewater systems work and where the city’s hydroelectric power is generated: With the new VoiceMap audio guide, you can explore the city independently and flexibly, leaving your hands and head free to make your own discoveries.

Wie man zur Römerzeit in Zürich badete, wie das Trink- und Abwassersystem funktioniert und wo in der Stadt Strom aus Wasserkraft erzeugt wird: Mit dem neuen VoiceMap-Audioguide kannst du die Stadt unabhängig und flexibel erkunden und hast dabei Hände und Kopf frei für deine Beobachtungen.
Also available in English 🇬🇧

Mit dem Anlass «Next in Geography», bei dem der geographische Nachwuchs im Mittelpunkt steht, hat die diesjährige Vortragsreihe der Geographie Alumni UZH begonnen. Einerseits wurden herausragende Maturaarbeiten im Fach Geographie ausgezeichnet, anderseits hielten Masterstudierende Kurzvorträge.

The new UZH Geography Creative Lab website is a collaborative ‘lab’ space created to showcase creative and engaged research produced in various formats by students at our department. Our aim is to move beyond traditional forms of knowledge production and assessment, and to create a space where students’ ideas, innovation, and creativity are showcased and celebrated publicly.