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Five geography students present the many facets of water in Würzburg in a poster exhibition, covering topics ranging from floods and microplastics to water treatment, availability and supply. The exhibition can be visited until October 2026 in the Geography and Geology Building at the Hubland Süd Campus.

Clara Borman has been awarded the 2026 Wilhelm Lauer Prize by the Wilhelm Lauer Foundation for her outstanding Master’s thesis.

Sediments in reservoirs are veritable time capsules: they show how contaminated the environment was and still is with pollutants. Würzburg researchers are now investigating the situation in five reservoirs in the Eifel region.

We warmly welcome Clara Bormann, who is supporting the team of the Chair of Geomorphology in the AReS project, starting at the 01. June.

We warmly welcome Dr. Raphaël Kerverdo, who is supporting the team of the Chair of Geomorphology in research and teaching since April 15th.

During a six-week research visit to New Zealand in February/March 2026, Associate Professor Dr Stefan Winkler from the Chair of Geomorphology at JMU Würzburg attended the 11th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology in Christchurch. In addition to conducting his own fieldwork in the Southern Alps in the Aoraki/Mt Cook area, he also supervised a student project together with colleagues from the Universitiy of Canterbury. In recognition of this long-standing collaboration, he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.

Dr. Janek Walk, together with Dr. Philipp Marr and tutor Hannah Andlinger, received the Univie Teaching Award from the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy at the University of Vienna in June.

On 25 June 2025 at 16:30 there will be an information event in room 222 in the Institute of Geographie and Geology on the new Master GEOSPHERES - Geographic Science Approaches to Environmental Challenges. The event is open to all interested students!

The inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr Georg Stauch from the Chair of Geomorphology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg took place on 23 April. The title of the lecture was ‘Geomorphology in the Anthropocene’

The geomorphology team is delighted to have been accepted for the project proposal 'GEO-XR: XR for geographical spatial analyses'. The project is led by Dr C. Büdel and Dr A. Tintrup gen. Suntrup.

The renovation measures at the Chair of Geomorphology have been completed. We can be reached again as normal.

Due to the current renovation measures, the employees are best reached by e-mail. Please arrange on-site appointments or telephone calls by prior arrangement.

We warmly welcome Dr. Janek Walk, who has been supporting the team of the Chair of Geomorphology in research and teaching since October 1st.

We warmly welcome Katharina Mößlein-Nechwatal, who is supporting the team of the Chair of Geomorphology in the office since 1 September.

The Chair of Geomorphology has recently set up an experimental sandbox. The sandbox enables the simulation of small river courses and thus the practical study of fluvial processes and landforms.