On July 7, 2026, Farimah Abdolzadeh successfully defended her Master's thesis at the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC), University of Würzburg. Her research explored one of the central questions in urban climate science: which factors shape land...

Next week's the big one. Twenty five years of EORC and ten years of EAGLE, all in one event, and we're expecting around 250 people through the door. Sabine Oppmann's been leading the prep meetings, and we've split things into clear teams: setup, catering, AV and...

A film crew from RTL showed up in the Oberpfalz this spring, and joint a field campaign by the Habitrack BMFTR funded project. Dr. Ariane Droin, who leads the Würzburg side of the MONID HABITRACK project at EORC, walked the RTL team through what the project is...

Once a year, or at least that's the idea, the Institute of Geography packs up and heads out to a remote place, this time Burg Rothenfels, an old castle not far from Würzburg, to spend a weekend doing something that almost never happens in the day to day grind:...

Last week the faculty held its formal graduation ceremony, and EORC and EAGLE were well represented on stage. Two of our PhD students, Dr. Ariane Droin and Dr. Johannes Mast, both joint the ceremony for their doctoral degrees, and it was great to see them walk across...

Last weekend, EORC PI Florian Betz has partipated in an excursion to the source of the Lech River in the Austrian Alps, where a mixed group of mucisians, river activists and people interested in music, water or both came together to explore how music can...