Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium
| Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium Wintersemester 2026/27 |
| Wednesdays 14:00, room 1.101, Geozentrum, if not otherwise noted |
| Download: | Schedule (PDF) |
| Coordinator: |
Tobias Erhardt |
| 21.10.26 | Glenn Gaetani, Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA Experimental Constraints on the Damp Peridotite Solidus and Potential Temperature of the Oceanic Mantle |
| 28.10.26 | - |
| 04.11.26 | - |
| 11.11.26 | Matthew J. Kohn, Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, USA Mohometry gone astray: realistic assignment of uncertainties and reevaluation of calculated paleothicknesses |
| 18.11.26 | Niklas Metzner, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany Earth’s first breath: the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), its aftermath and Paleoproterozoic Snowball Earth: new insights from the Pretoria Group, South Africa |
| 25.11.26 | Josua Pakulla, Universität zu Köln, Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, Germany Preservation of Hadean reservoirs in the lower mantle from the Archean to the Phanerozoic |
| 02.12.26 | - |
| 09.12.26 | Bernado Maffesoni, LIAG-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik, Geozentrum Hannover, Germany A sedimentary and cyclostratigraphic assessment of borehole logging data from Lake NamCo in Tibet |
| 16.12.24 | Matthias Konrad-Schmolke, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden TBA |
| 13.01.27 | Nico Küter, Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen, Germany TBA |
| 20.01.27 | Gesa Ziefle, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany Exploring Coupled THMC Processes in Mont Terri Rock Laboratory: Implications for Nuclear Waste Disposal and CO2 Storage |
| 27.01.27 | Hubertus Fischer, Climate and Environmelntal Physics & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland Beyond EPICA: New ice core insights into biogeochemical changes over the Mid Pleistocene Transition |
| 03.02.27 | - |
| 10.02.27 | Henrik Drake, Linnaeus University, Sweden Detecting and dating paleomicrobial activity in terrestrial meteorite impact structures |
| Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium Sommersemester 2026 |
| Wednesdays 14:00, room 1.101, Geozentrum, if not otherwise noted |
| Download: | Schedule (PDF) |
| 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 |
| Download: | Schedule (PDF) |
| 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 |
| Download: | Programm (PDF) |
| 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" |
| 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" |
