While human activities have substantially perturbed the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen, our understanding of their impact on and response to Earth's climate have remained limited. This is because these perturbation not only cause atmospheric CO2 to rise, thereby affecting climate, but because they also induce a myriad of other cascading effects in the Earth’s environment, such as ocean acidification, deoxygenation, and changes in oceanic ecosystems and their diversity. Predicting these changes represents a formidable challenge, as they emerge from the complex interactions of physical, chemical, and biological processes.
News & Events
September 18, 2023
CAS ETH in Climate Innovation 2024
The registration period for the next CAS in Climate Innovation is now open! For more information and application please visit the CAS ETH website
September 18, 2023
Ocean acidification in coloured stripes
Our oceans are acidifying rapidly. Climate researchers from our group at ETH Zurich are now illustrating these chemical changes with colour-coded stripes. The web-based visualisation tool external pageOceanAcidificationStripes.infocall_made shows how ocean acidification has developed over the last forty years.
June 16, 2023
UP in the news !
The work of UP senior scientist Meike Vogt on ocean plankton recently earns a lot of public recognition: please read about this extraordinary interesting topic in external pageScience Storiescall_made, external pageSchweizer Familiecall_made (abo necessary), and in a external pagebooklet collectioncall_made of kids' questions and scientists' answers about the ocean created by Meike and her colleagues Fabio Benedetti and Dominic Ericsson for the world ocean day.
upcoming conferences including participants from our group:
Ocean Sciences Meeting: New Orleans, US; February 18-23, 2024
Research
In our research, we aim (i) to uncover the interactions between the physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the Earth System, (ii) to develop an understanding of their inner workings and (iii) to quantify them using observations and models.
In our teaching, we provide the fundamentals, covering the field from basic courses in math and physics, to advanced courses in biogeochemical cycles and modeling.