Geosystem: The Changing Earth Involved Helmholtz-centres: GFZ,
UFZ, FZJ, AWI and DLR Responsible: Prof. Dr. Onno Oncken (GFZ)
The fundamental challenges mankind faces in the 21th century are
safeguardingsociety from natural desasters, sustaining economic
growth without threatening the environment, supplying an ever
growing world population with industrial raw materials, energy,
and clean drinking water, meeting the challenges posed by global
change, and developing efficient urban infrastructures for
transport and shelter. The top-level long-term goals of
programme “Geosystems” are: • observing and modelling key geo-
processes with the highest possible resolution, and accuracy, •
recognition and assessment of the impact of these processes on
the human habitat, • development of solutions and strategies for
disaster reduction and risk mitigation, • design of concepts and
technical protocols for exploring and utilising the subsurface.
A key component in addressing these goals is GFZ's Modular Earth
Science Infrast