GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany

The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is the national research centre for Earth sciences in Germany. Research at the GFZ focuses on the geosphere within the highly complex System Earth with its further subsystems, its interacting subcycles, and its wide network of cause-and-effect chains. This is done in a close interdisciplinary collaboration with the related scientific disciplines physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology as well as with the engineering sciences disciplines of rock mechanics, engineering hydrology and seismology.

GFZ’s first cooperation in seismological measurements and satellite orbit tracking at Ny-Ålesund began in the 1990s. Today, GFZ operates a satellite receiving station in Ny-Ålesund, which receives data from research satellites in polar orbits since 2001. The satellite receiving station is located about 1 km outside the main settlement, between the airport and Kongsfjorden. Other current long-term GFZ installations in Ny-Ålesund are a GNSS station (since 2000) and a Radio Spectrum Monitoring System (since 2023).

When in Ny-Ålesund, GFZ projects are hosted by AWIPEV.

Webpage
https://www.gfz.de/en/

NySMAC representative
Carsten Falck 
falck@gfz.de

Contact
Carsten Falck 
falck@gfz.de

Location in Ny-Ålesund
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Ny-Ålesund on-site staff
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Satellite receiving station
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