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Publication of the Month October
We proudly announce the Awardee of the Publication of the Month October: Eva GFRERER
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Kurt Zopf Prize 2020 awarded to the PLUS
For the past 10 years, researchers at the University of Salzburg have benefitted from the Kurt Zopf Prize, a generous bequest from Mr. Kurt Zopf, receiving up to 10,000 euros in prize money annually.
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Environment & Biodiversity – A new department at the PLUS dedicated to the challenges of global change
Our environment is rapidly changing. Humans have fundamentally changed landscapes and interfered with global processes over a very short period of time, and have in some cases brought them into a state of imbalance. We have arrived in the so-called “Anthropocene” era – the geological age shaped by humans.