Senckenberg up close

SGN, Krister T. Smith

A big and very challenging puzzle

Interview with Dr. habil. Krister T. Smith

How does climate (change) influence ecological cycles and what can fossils teach us about the climate of past times? Paleontologist Dr.Smith is fascinated about the roots of life. In this interview, he explains the origins of his excitement for Paleoherpetology and sheds light on the secrets hidden in the Messel Pit.

Auslesen einer archäobotanischen Probe auf bestimmbare Taxa im Labor für Archäobotanik

Simone Riehl Uni Tübingen

Why are we the way we are?

An Interview with archaeologist Bárbara Rodriguez Álvarez

Since Bárbara Rodriguez Álvarez got a fossil of an ammonite by her dad when she was a kid, she has been studying the traces of the past as an archaeologist.

SGN Senckenberg

The Hidden Beauty of the Deep Sea

Interview with Dr. Gritta Veit-Köhler

Her first expedition to Antarctica happened more than 20 years ago. Since then, Gritta Veit-Köhler has been researching the peculiarities of organisms in the seafloor that are smaller than one millimeter and represent the so-called meiofauna.

Anél van Dyk, Unsplash

Oceans in Climate Change

An Interview with Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt

Plastic pollution and acidification are changing the oceans. But about 70 percent of our planet is covered by seas, which are thus the largest living space on earth. Our oceans have an enormous influence on the climate, the metabolic cycles and therefore our daily environment!

Michael Larosa Unsplash

Wolf monitoring at Senckenberg

Interview with Dr. Carsten Nowak

There have been wolves in Germany since they returned twenty years ago. This has caused controversy in politics and the media to this day. Dr. Carsten Nowak from the Senckenberg Research Institute speaks about wolf monitoring and Senckenberg's role as a reference center in Germany.