We are delighted to welcome Felix Heptner as a new research assistant at our chair as of today. We look forward to working with him and wish him all the best for a successful start! [Chair of Networked Systems and Communication Networks]

Taherinezhad-Javazm, K., Nosrati, K. & Fiener, P. (2025).

Spatiotemporal variations in aeolian sediment source fingerprinting using geochemical tracers and a Bayesian mixing model.

Aeolian Research, 74, 101008.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2025.101008 [Water and Soil Resource Research]

Dr. Cordula Witzig passed her PhD defense ("Temporal Variability of Microplastic Concentration and Composition in Streams and Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents: Mitigation of Cross-Contamination, Long-Term Mixed Sampling, and Representativeness Assessment") in cooperation between Soil and Water Resource Research and Technologiezentrum Wasser Karlsruhe. We wish her all the best for the future.

[Water and Soil Resource Research]

We are happy to announce that Katharina Dietz received the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2025), held from October 27 to October 31, 2025, in Bologna, Italy. [Chair of Networked Systems and Communication Networks]

Our paper "CoPa-SG: Dense Scene Graphs with Parametric and Proto-Relations" won the Best Paper Award at the 3rd Workshop on Scene Graphs and Graph Representation Learning (SG2RL).

This workshop took place as part of this year's ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

[Chair for Machine Learning & Computer Vision]

We were pleased to welcome members of the Württemberg-Franconian Turkey Producers Association to the Institute of Geography for a constructive discussion on plastic contamination in agricultural soil systems.

[Water and Soil Resource Research]