Actors
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Peter Braesicke
Managing Director: Dr. Klaus Grosfeld
Advisory REKLIM member and former scientific coordinator: Prof. Dr. Peter Lemke
REKLIM Coordinating Office
The REKLIM Coordinating Office represents the research network’s central control element, and promotes content-based exchanges on regional climate research at the national and international level.
The Office is tasked with consolidating the network’s diverse activities, and with ensuring effective cooperation within the network. In addition, it is responsible for organising the further development of REKLIM’s content and structure. Working in close collaboration with the speakers from REKLIM’s Topics and the regional Helmholtz Climate Offices, the Coordinating Office fosters activities that provide the network with a face to the rest of the world and contribute to knowledge transfer within, and dialogue processes with, society at large. (Contact the Coordinating Office)
The network of regional Climate Offices of the Helmholtz Association
Regional Climate Offices of the Helmholtz Association
Regionally rooted – nationally networked
The research network’s findings can only be disseminated to society at large, and be used to inform decision-making processes on future measures and strategies, when various actors are actively engaged using suitable dialogue and transfer processes. In this regard, the Helmholtz regional Climate Offices serve as key interfaces for REKLIM. Given the constantly growing need for consulting, they are based at four Helmholtz Centres.
The regional Helmholtz Climate Offices are integrated into the Helmholtz Association’s user-oriented climate research activities, which also encompass climate protection, climate impacts and climate adaptation. Their primary goal is to provide actors and decision-makers from the political sector, business sector and society at large with region-specific, easy-to-understand and scientifically sound climate expertise. Since the climate varies from region to region, these differences must be reflected in individual strategies for adapting to climate change.
The four regional Climate Offices of the Helmholtz Association have successfully served as key interfaces between external partners and the scientific community for the past several years. In the course of their work, they employ a spectrum of knowledge transfer activities and dialogue processes tailored to the respective audience.
Dr. Renate Treffeisen (Leiterin Klimabüro für Polargebiete und Meeresspiegelanstieg)
Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise
Through its activities in the areas of knowledge transfer and dialogue processes with society at large, the Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) represents an important pillar for improving the societal impact of scientific findings, both for the AWI and for REKLIM as a whole. The Office is based at the Alfred Wegener Institute and has fulfilled this important “bridge-building” role since 2008. It is responsible for making the outcomes of climate-relevant research in the Earth’s polar regions available to national and international target groups from the political sector, business sector and society at large in suitable and varied formats.In this regard, its activities range from planning and implementing interdisciplinary workshops and innovative knowledge transfer formats, to providing content-based support for long-term school projects, to establishing data and information platforms. Within the REKLIM network, it works closely together with the REKLIM Coordinating Office, Topic 2 (Sea Level Changes at the Global, Regional and Local Scale) and Topic 3 (Regional Climate Change in the Arctic: Management and long-term effects at the land-ocean frontier). Detailed information on the work of the Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise can be found in the following REKLIM Newsletters / Reports:Report 2017 ...
Report 2016 ...
Report 2015 ...
Newsletter 2013 ...
Newsletter 2012 ...
Newsletter 2011 ... Contact:
Dr Renate Treffeisen
Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven
E-mail: renate.treffeisen@awi.de
Tel: 0471/4831-2145
Fax: 0471/4831-1797
Dr Insa Meinke (Head of the North German Climate Office)
North German Climate Office
The North German Climate Office has set itself the goal of making climate and coastal research available and applicable for North Germany. Climate change is often perceived as a global problem, and information on its various regional consequences is often lacking. Nevertheless, region-specific measures must be implemented in a timely manner so as to avoid the negative impacts of climate change.Since climate change differs from region to region, scientifically sound information on potential climate changes in the respective regions is particularly important. With this objective in mind, the North German Climate Office focuses on making this information from climate research available for North Germany.
Thanks to the Office’s cooperation with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research (HZG) and KlimaCampus Hamburg, this information always reflects the latest state of research. Within REKLIM, this collaboration can be seen in Topics 1 (Coupled Regional Climate Models), 2 (Sea Level Changes at the Global, Regional and Local Scale) and 6 (Modelling and Understanding Extreme Meteorological Events).
Detailed information on the work of the North German Climate Office can be found in the following REKLIM Newsletters / Reports:
Report 2017 ...
Report 2016 ...
Report 2015 ...
Newsletter 2013 ...
Newsletter 2012 ...
Newsletter 2011 ... Contact:
Head of the North German Climate Office at the HZG:
Dr Insa Meinke
Dr Andreas Marx (Head of the Climate Office for Central Germany)
Climate Office for Central Germany
The Climate Office for Central Germany is based in Leipzig at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. In addition to its regional focus on Central Germany and the challenges it will face, the Office chiefly offers expertise in the areas of climate impacts for the environment and society, and in exploring climate-change adaptation strategies.With regard to climate impacts, we especially examine water quantity and quality, biodiversity and socioeconomic aspects. Translating our predominantly scientific findings into accessible forms for society at large is fostered by means of socioeconomic adaptation research. In this regard, particular attention is paid to interaction processes between the surface and atmosphere at the regional scale.
Gathering, preparing and disseminating this information with a regional focus on the federal states Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt is one of the Climate Office’s most central goals. In the process of this work, information needs are also determined in practice, ensuring that research priorities are more closely oriented on concrete needs.
The Climate Office for Central Germany significantly contributes to REKLIM Topics 1 (Coupled Regional Climate Models), 4 (Land Surfaces in the Climate System) and 7 (Risk Analysis and Risk Management for Integrated Climate Strategies).
Detailed information on the work of the Climate Office for Central Germany can be found in the following REKLIM Newsletters / Reports:
Report 2017...
Report 2016 ...
Report 2015 ...
Newsletter 2013 ...
Newsletter 2012 ...
Newsletter 2011 ... Contact:
Head of the Climate Office for Central Germany at the UFZ:
Dr Andreas Marx
Dr Hans Schipper (Head of the South German Climate Office)
South German Climate Office
The South German Climate Office at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology represents an important interface between research and society. Since being launched in 2007, the Office has established itself as a regional contact partner for climate-relevant concerns, and maintains – in addition to its ties to the scientific community – an extensive network of contacts in the business, media and political sectors. With a regional focus on South Germany, its activities include proposing and implementing interdisciplinary research projects, organising events, engaging in committee work, and highlighting regional climate issues in the form of presentations and information materials. Major focus areas include regional climate modelling, trends regarding extreme weather events like downpours and hail, and aspects concerning agricultural and construction.The South German Climate Office supplies important contributions to REKLIM Topics 1 (Coupled Regional Climate Models) and 6 (Modelling and Understanding Extreme Meteorological Events).
Detailed information on the work of the South German Climate Office can be found in the following REKLIM Newsletters / Reports:
Report 2017...
Report 2016 ...
Report 2015 ...
Newsletter 2013 ...
Newsletter 2012 ...
Newsletter 2011 ... Contact:
Head of the South German Climate Office at the KIT:
Dr Hans Schipper