Asja Bernd started her MSc on ” A Global Analysis of Grassland Fragmentation” supervised by Neil Burgess (UNEP) and Martin Wegmann. She will use globally available land cover data sets and compute a variety of spatial metrics to derive the fragmentation pattern of grasslands. Methods available in R and GRASS will be applied to allow a semi-automatic global analysis. Asja is a student in the Global Change Ecology MSc program and well trained in journalism as well as natural sciences.
Johannes Mast wins Bernd Rendel Prize
Johannes Mast is awarded the 2026 Bernd Rendel Prize for Geosciences by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for outstanding research as part of his dissertation. Johannes’s highly interdisciplinary work bridges the Geosciences, Linguistics, Data Science, and...







