American ecologist Camille Parmesan received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Climate Change and Environmental Sciences. The award recognizes Parmesan's pioneering work in demonstrating the geographic displacement of flora and fauna due to global warming, which has profound implications for public health, agriculture, and fisheries. The laureate was announced in April by Bjorn Stevens, chair of the selection committee and director at the Max Planck Institute…
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology celebrated its 50th anniversary with a festive symposium and a reception at Hamburg City Hall. In addition to institute members, guests from academia, politics, and the general public, as well as companions and supporters, attended the events.
Carbon dioxide removal techniques (CDR) address the root cause of climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere: e.g. technical capture of carbon from the atmosphere. ocean fertilization to enhance uptake by biological systems, increasing the alcalinity of the ocean or afforestation on land.
Carbon dioxide removal techniques (CDR)
Solar Radiation Management techniques (SRM) reflect sun light and heat back into space. They attempt to offset effects of increased greenhouse gas…
Research interest
My research interests encompass understanding the interaction between marine biogeochemical processes and the underlying physical conditions. My current focus is on quantifying the contribution of oceanic processes to the atmospheric CO2 rise during the last deglaciation (21,000 years ago to present) using the state-of-the-art Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM). For this, I have been improving the representation of the global ocean biogeochemical processes in…
Academic training
1994 Ph-D, Physical Oceanography, Hamburg University, Germany
1989 Diploma, Physical Oceanography, Hamburg University, Germany
Professional experience
since 2004: Senior Scientist, MPI-M, Ocean in the Earth System Department, Research Group Leader
1999-2004: Scientist, MPI-M, Physical Climate System Department
1996-1999 Post Doc Scientist, Institute for Marine Sciences, Kiel, Ocean Physics Department,
1994-1996 Post Doc Scientist, Program in…
Research interests
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, interested in land-atmosphere interactions within storm-resolving Earth System Models. My research explores questions such as which soil moisture conditions—wet or dry—can trigger precipitation in these high-resolution models. Additionally, I’m interested in how the estimation of carbon stocks and fluxes in storm-resolving models differs from current understandings.
Beyond my core research, I enjoy…
We investigate the full methane cycle over timescales of millennia. Within the Palmod, we developed a full representation of the natural methane cycle in MPI-ESM: We consider wetlands, wildfires, termites and herbivores as methane sources, and also determine the soil and atmospheric sinks of methane, the latter together with the MPI for chemistry.
We have investigated methane from the LGM to a millennium into the future, leading to two superb publications.
Modelling the global methane…
(*"Der rote Faden" is a German idiom which refers to a common theme or thread that runs through a story (or a CV). It translates to "the red thread" in English)
I arrived at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg by a roundabout way. Nature, our Earth, and the universe have always interested me. That's why I started studying physics, in order to understand what holds the world together at its core. Physics is magnificent: armed with a toolbox of mathematics, physicists look out into the world…
Name: Jochem Marotzke
Date and place of birth: 27 November 1959, Nister (Germany)
Education: Promotion (Ph.D.), Physical Oceanography, 1990, University of Kiel (Germany) Diplom (M.S.), Physics, 1985, University of Kiel (Germany)
Studies of Physics in Bonn (Germany, 1977-1980), Copenhagen (Denmark, 1980-1981), and Kiel (Germany, 1981-1985) Abitur (High School Degree), 1977, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium Betzdorf (Germany)
Education
Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck…
My name is Friedhelm Jansen and I have been working as a graduate engineer (FH) in the field of active and passive remote sensing of the atmosphere in the department of climate physics, working group observation of tropical clouds for more than 25 years now
Since the establishment of the Cloud Observatory BCO on Barbados I am the engineer responsible for the operation of the station.
For the campaigns with the research aircraft HALO I work for the technical installation and…
Daniel Klocke et al., 2025: Computing the Full Earth System at 1km Resolution. SC '25: Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 125 - 136. DOI: 10.1145/3712285.3771789
Ioan Hadade et al., 2025: Destination Earth: The Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin. SC '25: Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 99 - 110. DOI: 10.1145/3712285.3771790
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