Awards
Digital Earth: Digital Leader Award 2020
On 10 September 2020, the Helmholtz project ‘Digital Earth’ for integrated geo-research was awarded the special prize for ‘Digital Science’ in the ‘Society’ category of the ‘Digital Leader Awards’. The companies NTT and IDG Business Media, together with other business partners, award these prizes to projects and teams across all industries that are driving digital transformation. The 2020 finalists included corporations such as Infineon, BMW and the Ergo Group, as well as public authorities such as the German Federal Employment Agency. However, the Helmholtz project is the first award winner from publicly funded research.
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Petersen-Preis der Technik 2020 to Julia Zindel:
Julia Zindel was awarded the 1st Bachelor's Prize for her Bachelor's thesis: Development and construction of a mechanically adjustable laser mount for scaling optical images on the seabed, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Mechanical Engineering (2020).
Iason-Zois Gazis
Iason-Zois Gazis was awarded 1st prize in the Energy and Digitalisation in Sustainable Development section at the 12th Russian-German Raw Materials Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia (27-29 November 2019) for his development of a spatial machine learning model for quantitative analysis of manganese nodules.
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Otto-Krümmel-Förderpreis 2017
Karl Heger was awarded 1st prize for his bachelor's thesis ‘Localisation of remotely operated underwater vehicles by merging position data from both ultra-short baseline system and Doppler velocity log’, Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, Maritime Technologies.
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Briese Preis 2016
Dr Timm Schoening is awarded the Briese Marine Prize for his method development for intelligent image analysis. With his development, visual data from the seabed can now be automatically analysed by computer.
