Storing summer heat for winter: two new studies show how reused basins and natural aquifers can be used as seasonal heat stores, and what determines their…
The working group explains how caverns in solid rock can store heat on a seasonal. The focus is on VECTES near Helsinki, the world’s largest storage facility…
27-28 July 2026 | The research group is supporting a research project by monitoring temperatures in geothermal collectors to advance research on dual-source…
A new paper entitled ‘Abiotic Drivers of Groundwater Fauna Across Aquifer Types and Urban–Rural Gradients in the City of Halle (Saale), Germany’ on the subject…
30 June – 2 July 2026 | The Department of Applied Geology was represented by Dominik Müller at the PUSH-IT Summer School.
The DAS project focuses on research on dewatering and hydraulic control of groundwater by air sparging and is funded by the BMFTR as part of the German-Israeli…
Hands-on groundwater research: During the Long Night of Science, the Department of Applied Geology offered fascinating insights into current research and the…
29 June – 3 July 2026 | Anika has been awarded a PhD scholarship by the German Federal Environmental Foundation for her research into the sustainable storage…
8–11 June 2026 | Applied Geology was represented at the conference by Prof. Dr Peter Bayer, Dominik Müller and Jenny Weise.
The Applied Geology department was once again represented at this year’s MLU Company Run – with no fewer than two teams competing under the name ‘Aquiflash’.
19–21 May 2026 | At this year’s Symposium Zukunft Wärme in Marburg, the Applied Geology research group shared its know-how in the field of monitoring…
12 May 2026 | At Erdwärme-Forum Bayern 2026, Applied Geology presented the RECOIN project and highlighted efficiency potential through intelligent real-time…
03.05.-08.05.2026 | Applied Geology was again represented with various contributions at the annual EGU General Assembly 2026 conference
Elisa took part in the training event in Grottaminarda and developed concepts for energy geostructures and sustainable campus energy planning with…
24–26 April 2026 | At the 8th International Symposium on Opto-electronic Sensor-based Monitoring in Geo-engineering in Suzhou, Peter participated in…
Under the topic “Groundwater and Water Security in Transformation", the working group participated with various contributions.
Networking, innovation and project acquisition were the focus of the Applied Geology working group's visit to the GeoTHERM trade fair in Offenburg.
In Frankfurt, the Applied Geology research group participated in the final event of the BMFTR funding initiative LURCH. There, the successful completion of the…
New publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2026.106725
26.–28.02.2026 | Two important workshops of the Horizon Europe project INTERSTORES in Ingolstadt brought partners together and enabled an intensive exchange on…
An exciting excursion to the SEED site of the RECOIN project took place as part of the German Geothermal Congress.
Hesm Soltan Mohammadi received an award for his dissertation on the optimisation of geothermal probe fields from the German Geothermal Energy Association at…
Our working group was represented at the European Geothermal Congress 2025 in Zurich (Switzerland) with several technical contributions.
