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Mars BBQ
Last week the MARS team got together for a socializing event. We had a barbecue to celebrate the end of the past semester. As special guests we had Gabriel and Devotha from South Africa, who Read more…
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MARS Redesign
As you might have realized, our site has been redesigned. The new site has a completly new look, the pages have been restructured and texts edited. All this has been done to better present ourselves Read more…
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Visit from Rick McKenzie PhD, Old Dominion University
This week, we were visited by Rick D. McKenzie, PhD from the “Old Dominion University in Virginia, USA”. Rick is professor and chair at the department of “modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering”. The reason Read more…
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Happy faces after successful short course run in South Africa
Another short course on social-ecological modelling was successfully conducted by members of the Ars Africae project and the MARS team at Witwatersrand University, South Africa (Wits Rural Facility). The general aim of this course is Read more…
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Research funding from the City of Hamburg received
This week, we have been granted research funds from the city of Hamburg. The funds have been granted to the SmartOpenHamburg project which is part of the information platform ahoi.digital. Members of the MARS group Read more…
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Visit from Ph.D. Student Gwendoline Traisnel
For the last two weeks, Gwendoline Traisnel has been visiting the MARS team. She is a Ph.D. student at Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Her studies focus on the behavioral ecology of African penguins. She analyses between-individual Read more…
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Visit from the Senckenberg Research Institute
Dr. Simon Scheiter and Carola Martens from the Senckenberg Research Institute at the University of Frankfurt visited the MARS lab between August, 14th and 17th. Both groups are currently working on different approaches for modelling Read more…
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Visit by Partners from University of Florida
Last week, professor Greg Kiker and his PhD student Tori Morgan from the University of Florida (UF) visited us in Hamburg. The purpose of this visit was to deepen the partnership in ecological agent-based modelling, that Read more…
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Congratulations, Dr. Hodabalo Pereki
[:de] Wir gratulieren unserem früheren Doktorstudenten Hodabalo Pereki (University de Lomé, Togo, West Africa) zu seinem Doktortitel. Am Freitag, den 12. Februar verteidigte er seine herausragende Dissertation “Estimation of Tropical Forest’s Above Ground Biomass: Application of Remote Sensing Read more…