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In the context of the KNW-Opt research project the area with a special horizontal heat exchanger installed - located in Bad Nauheim - is geologically and pedologically investigated by the very shallow geothermal working group of the GeoZentrum Nordbayern. This double layered heat exchanger is used f... Continue

The lecturers Dr. Johannes Stegner (TenneT TSO GmbH) and Dr. David Bertermann (GeoCentre of Northern Bavaria) introduced the for geologists and soil scientists relevant ground depending coherences and project structures of a major project in the course of energy change, the high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project SuedLink. Continue

The Austrian project GEL-SEP "Spatial Energy Planning for Heat Transition" is part of the research initiative "Green Energy Lab". The aim of the project is to elaborate the potentials of different renewable heat sources, including very shallow geothermal energy, and to present them in the ‘HEATatlas... Continue

The Chair of Geology at GeoZentrum Nordbayern, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg signed a licensing agreement with Petroleum Experts Ltd. under which Petroleum Experts has donated 10 academic licenses for the Move software suite (https://www.petex.com/products) with a commercial value of 1,409,059.98 GBP. MO... Continue

A schoolgirl from Hof wins first prize in the regional competition "Jugend forscht" in Upper Franconia with the support of the Chair of Geology at the Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) in Erlangen. Continue

Our MSc student Diana Hatzenbühler is just back from Cambridge (UK) where she presented (March 06, 2020) the result of the field activities for her MSc thesis project “Forcing controls on sediment generation and erosion rates in the Earth's highest costal range: the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (NE ... Continue

The GeoThermal/GeoEnergy course of study aims to provide state-of-the-art academic education and a link to occupational practice. A first meeting between operators of geothermal plants in the Greater Munich area and the students of the joint degree master course GeoThermal/GeoEnergy took place on... Continue

After the success of the first and second editions, the applied sedimentology group at the GeoZentrum NordBayern (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) in collaboration with Geocosm LLC. are happy to announce the third edition of the International School on Sandstone Diagenesis. Like in the previous years, the s... Continue

Release of the new project video of the GEO4CIVHIC project! Continue

Jan Wagner and Hans Schwarz at the Technical University IUT Robert Schuman in Illkirch-Graffenstaden near Strasbourg, France Continue