Current Research Highlights

Research and teaching cover a wide range of topics and are firmly embedded in both regional and international networks.

Important topics - An overview

Research Forest Sciences

Topics of global importance are within the research focus of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences. These comprise adaptation to climate change, renewable energy systems, environmental monitoring and geoinformation technologies, forestry, hydrology, physics of limnology, risk and water resources management.

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Research Geo Sciences

Many research projects at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences are conducted cooperatively. Thus intern partners and especially external partners at the national and international level are involved. To foster cooperation in research, additional potentials are analysed, e.g. in the project ÖBIN (Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Sustainable Spatial Development).

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Research Hydro Sciences

Current as well as finished research projects of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences are archived in the Research Information System of TUD. There you can search individually for special research topics of the Faculty. Please use this tool for a first guidance and then specify the selection.

Resarch at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences

The Forest Sciences focus on various aspects of creating added value in rural areas and of designing forests as multi-functional ecosystems. Sustainable land-use concepts, for instance, integrate the production of woody biomass for energy generation purposes with the protection of biodiversity, water resources, soil and climate.

The Geosciences are focused on the development and utilisation of information technology to model and visualise the “Earth System” and to create accessible geodata infrastructures. Cross-faculty research is pursued in the field of measurement, analysis and management methods within the context of environmental monitoring. Further topics include settlement development, spatial planning and demographic change.

The Hydrosciences focus on water research in natural and technical systems and on the feedback of dynamic processes within the bio- and hydrosphere. This holistic focus on all aspects of the water cycle is unique in Germany.