Kühlungsborn, 20.05.2025 - On May 15, 2025, the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics took part in the Long Night of Science in Rostock. Under the title “Research at the edge of space”, we presented our work in the boundary region between the atmosphere and space - an altitude range of around 100 km that is of great importance for understanding climate-relevant processes and for space travel.

The information stand in the physics research building was well attended throughout. Numerous visitors came to learn about our measurement methods with lidars, radars, sounding rockets and satellites and asked many interested questions.

Dr. Staszak also gave a public lecture in Lecture Hall 3 of the Physics Department on the topic
“Insight into the Ignorosphere - Growing Challenges at the Boundary to Space”. The current state of knowledge on the little-understood interface between the atmosphere and space was highlighted and new challenges posed by the industrial use of near-Earth orbit were discussed.

We would like to thank all guests for their keen interest and are already looking forward to the next Long Night of Science.

The Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics is one of the German main centers for Middle Atmosphere research and maintains active cooperations with several international research organizations. The institute is located near the Baltic Sea resort Kühlungsborn, owns a separate site on the island Rügen, and is a major partner of the ALOMAR observatory in northern Norway. As associated institute of the Rostock University it is part of the teaching programme in physics. A total of about 90 persons is employed at IAP. The institute realizes an equal-opportunity and family-friendly human resource policy and is certified with the audit "berufundfamilie"  ('career and family').

Contact: Director Prof. Claudia Stolle cstolle@iap-kborn.de