Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium



Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium Sommersemester 2026
Wednesdays 14:00, room 1.101, Geozentrum, if not otherwise noted
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Coordinator: 
Tobias Erhardt
   
15.04.26  -
22.04.26 Anders Sevensson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Bipolar ice-core synchronisation, volcanic eruptions and oldest Greenland ice
29.04.26 Nina Wichern, University of Münster, Germany
Searching for the oldest Milanković cycles in Paleoarchean rocks
06.05.26  -
13.05.26  -
20.05.26 Carolina Giorgetti, CNRS, ENS-PSL, Paris, France
The role of the tectonic stress field and fault damage zone in earthquakes: bridging laboratory and field perspectives
27.05.26 Thomas Steuber, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi (retired)
The southeastern Arabian Gulf: Quaternary environmental change in extreme marine and continental depositional environments
03.06.26 Jochen Kolb, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Lithium resources in geothermal brines of the Upper Rhine Graben and possible extraction technologies
10.06.26 Maximilian Bittens, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany
Uncertainty Propagation and Sensitivity Analysis in THM Modelling of Deep Geological Repositories
17.06.26 Rachel Racicot, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturkundemuseum, Germany
TBA
24.06.26 Sota Nikki, Nagoya University, Japan
U–Th geochronology based on LA-ICP-MS
01.07.26 Juliana Troch, RWTH Aachen, Germany
TBA
08.07.26 Mara Murri, University of Pavia, Italy
Raman Elastic Geobarometry for Host-Inclusion Systems: State of the Art and New Frontiers
15.07.26 Estibalitz Ukar, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, USA
Reimaging mining for a net-zero future
   


Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium - Wintersemester 25/26
Wednesdays 14:00, room 1.101, Geozentrum, if not otherwise noted
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Coordinator: 
Tobias Erhardt
   
15.10.25 Mario Coiro, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Germany
The birth of the modern world: understanding floral dynamics during the late Mesozoic
22.10.25 Ross John Angel, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Italy
Inclusion geobarometry: what can go wrong?
29.10.25 Sora Kim, University of California, Merced, USA
Deeper dives into shark paleoecology with geochemistry, morphometrics, & modelling approaches
05.11.25 Jean-Arthur Olive, LG-ENS/CNRS, France
Anatomy of a seafloor spreading event
12.11.25 Vidar Jakobsson, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Impact of intragrain chemical heterogeneities on 40Ar / 39Ar and 87Rb / 87Sr white mica dates
19.11.25 Hartwig Frimmel, Universität Würzburg, Germany
The onset of the crustal gold cycle
26.11.25 Stefano Bernasconi, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Constraining burial histories of sedimentary basins with carbonate and methane clumped isotopes
03.12.25 Andreas Ertl, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Östereich
Interesting tourmalines from metamorphic and igneous lithologies
10.12.25 Denis Scholz, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Speleothems as archives of millennial scale climate variability and volcanic eruptions
17.12.25 Daniel Birgel, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Is the 13C-depleted molecular fossil lycopane indicating freshening in the Muschelkalk Sea
14.01.26 Márta Berkesi, HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, Hungary
Tracing mantle degassing at the Carpathian-Pannonian region: lithosphere-scale fluid migration at nano-, micro- and macroscale
21.01.26 Wolf-Achim Kahl, University of Bremen, Germany
Sneak Peeks into 3D X-ray imaging
28.01.26 Levke Kööp, Chemetall/BASF, Deutschland
Mineralogy Meets Surface Engineering – Insights into Industry Applications and Career Paths for Geoscientists
04.02.26 Martin Kihoulou, Charles University, Czech Republic
Tectonic breathing of icy moon Europa: Could subduction- and rifting-like processes support habitability in the outer solar system?
   


Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium Sommersemester 2025
Mittwochs | Wednesday 14.00, room 1.101
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Coordinator: 
Dr. Johannes Pohlner
   
07.05.25 Dr. Yannick Bussweiler (Universität zu Köln)
"A tale of the Delitzsch carbonatite complex in Saxony, as told by its
ultramafic lamprophyres"
21.05.25 Dr. Moritz Schroll (Universität Heidelberg)
"Methane across ecosystems: unveiling pathways, sources and sinks from
organisms to vegetation, lakes and glaciers using stable isotopes"
28.05.25 Dr. Christoph Nitsche (Université de Fribourg)
"Petro-Archaeology: Metamorphic rocks and the settlement history of
Madagascar
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04.06.25 Dr. Alessia Tagliaferri (Universität Heidelberg)
"Unravelling the metamorphic heat budget of the Lepontine dome: a
conversation between structural geology, geochronology, petrology, and
numerical modelling"
11.06.25 Dr. Marina Martínez-Jiménez (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
"Optimizing Lunar and Martian Sample-return Missions: Lessons from the
Mars Desert Research Station"
02.07.25 Prof. Dr. Matthias Hinderer (TU Darmstadt)
"A 600 years pollution history reconstructed from lake sediments – an
interdisciplinary case study from southern Germany"
   


Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium Wintersemester 2024/25
Mittwochs | Wednesday 14.00, room 1.101
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Coordinator: 
Dr. Johannes Pohlner
   
16.10.24 Dr. Niels Meijer (Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum, Frankfurt)
"Continental paleoclimates during the Paleogene revealed by clumped isotope
thermometry"
23.10.24 Dr. Jean Furstoss (CNRS, Institut PPRIME, Université de Poitiers)
"Multiscale modeling approaches for microstructural evolutions in mantle rocks"
30.10.24 Prof. Dr. James Scott (Universität Aarhus)
"Just how on Earth we know what Mars is made of"
06.11.24 Prof. Dr. Jody Webster (University of Sydney)
"The response of coral reef systems to sea level rise: how/why do reefs drown"
13.11.24 Dr. Jan Schönig (Universität Göttingen)
"Detrital garnet petrology"
20.11.24 Dr. Tashia Dzikowski (Schweizerische Stiftung für Edelstein-Forschung, Basel)
"Spectroscopic methods in gemmology"
27.11.24 Prof. Dr. Kun Wang (Washington University, St. Louis)
"NASA OSIRIS-REx mission and sample analysis on Asteroid Bennu"
04.12.24 Dr. Or Bialik (Universität Münster)
"Miocene Oceanographic Reorganization – a Tethyan Perspective"
18.12.24 TT. Prof. Dr. Nevena Andrić-Tomašević (Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie)
"Did the Dinarides contribute to an arid climate and promote speciation during the
Miocene Climatic Optimum?"
15.01.25 Prof. Dr. Graham Shields (University College London)
"Giant carbon isotope anomalies: Causes and consequences of imbalance in the global sulfur cycle"
22.01.25 Lena Kempf (Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG)
"Wieviel Geowissenschaft steckt in der Feuerfestindustrie?"
29.01.25 Dr. Federico Casetta (Universität Wien)
"Using olivine chemistry to reconstruct the chemical log of the sub-cratonic lithospheric mantle and the evolution of kimberlite melts"