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Welcome to the Environmental Physics (UP) Group

Enlarged view: UP group 2023

 The group is chaired by Prof. Nicolas Gruber and is composed of five subgroups that work on a wide array of topics in ocean biogeochemistry, ecology, and climate. We are part of the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP) at the Department of Environmental System Sciences (D-USYS).

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

CAS_climateinnovation

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

 

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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.info shows how ocean acidification has developed over the last forty years.

 

Meike Vogt

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 Stories, external pageSchweizer Familie (abo necessary), and in a external pagebooklet collection 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

   

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