Uni Bonn on Tour
Even though there is hardly any uncharted territory left on the map, many secrets of times past have now been revealed and modern technologies are making researchers’ lives easier, field trips are still uncovering previously unknown things and exerting a particular fascination on us. In the “Uni Bonn On Tour” feature, researchers reveal details of their unusual workplaces all around the world and provide insights into their day-to-day life (and research). What exactly they talk about depends on what questions they are asked by the general public: You ask the questions!
Starting in September: Excavation in Roman Ostia
In September, archaeologist Professor Sabine Feist and her team will be traveling to Ostia in Italy, where they will be excavating one of the oldest and largest churches of its kind ever discovered. Next door to it is a bishop’s residence complete with sumptuously furnished aula, or “grand hall.” Members of the public are invited to email their questions to the archaeologists at kommunikation@uni-bonn.de or using the university’s Instagram account @universitaetbonn.
IT at 5,600 Meters in the Chilean Atacama Desert
Dr. Reinhold Schaaf and Dr. Christos Karoumpis of the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the will be working in a remote location in the Atacama Desert in Chile to ensure that the IT infrastructure for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is properly functioning.
Visiting the Indigenous Waiwai People in Brazil
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon lives the indigenous Waiwai people. Prof. Carla Jaimes Betancourt of the Department of Ancient American Studies and her research team are working with the Waiwai to explore what cultural heritage means to this indigenous people.
Q&A with geologist Katrin Wagner about her Arctic expedition
Katrin Wagner, a doctoral student at the Institute of Earth Sciences, worked with an international team led by the British Antarctic Survey in southeastern Greenland to study the effects of climate change on interactions between ice and the ocean.
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