The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) has eight research institutes and three natural history museums conducting earth system research in bio- and geosciences. Senckenberg is one of the internationally most renowned research institutions focusing on biodiversity in all its dimensions: from genomes to organisms and ecosystems and the interactions of climate, biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere – in the past, present and the future. Moreover, its mission is to make science accessible to a broad public via teaching, publishing and the use of natural history museums.