Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium



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"
   


Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium Sommersemester 2024
Mittwochs  | Wednesday 14.00, room 1.101
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Coordinator: 
Dr. Johannes Pohlner
   
08.05.24 Prof. Dr. Anna Nele Meckler (Universität Bergen)
"Cenozoic evolution of deep ocean temperature from clumped isotope thermometry"
Chair: Jens Fiebig
14.05.24 Prof. Dr. Andréa Tommasi (Université de Montpellier 2)
"Role of (reactive) fluids on the deformation of the lithospheric mantle"
Außerordentliches Kolloquium der Heraeus-Gastprofessorin 2024
Chair: Sonja Aulbach
15.05.24 Prof. Dr. Claudia Trepmann (LMU München)
"High-stress crystal-plasticity versus creep – evidence from the Silvretta basal thrust"
Chair: Gernold Zulauf
22.05.24 Prof. Dr. Evangelos Moulas (Universität Mainz)
"Rates of metamorphic processes – adding constraints in geodynamic problems"
Chair: Alan Woodland
05.06.24 Dr. Yaakov Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ONLINE
"Sources and ages of diamond-forming fluids in the lithospheric mantle"
Chair: Avishai Abbo
12.06.24 Dr. Nobuaki Fuji (Institut de physique du globe de Paris)
"MuseSeLFiE: ready to hear the music of the Earth or ready to compose it?"
Chair: Thibault Duretz
19.06.24 Prof. Dr. Shuhei Ono (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Potential of abiotic methane generation in hydrothermal settings"
Chair: Jens Fiebig
26.06.24 Dr. Renée Tamblyn (Univrsität Bern)
"In-situ Lu-Hf geochronology using LA-ICP-MS/MS"
Chair: Axel Gerdes
03.07.24 Dr. Paul Rustemeyer (mineral exhibitor, Gundelfingen)
"Fascinating Structures within Slices from Dark Tourmaline Crystals"
Chair: Horst Marschall
10.07.24 Prof. Dr. Barbara Dutrow (Louisiana State University)
"The petrogenetic utility of tourmaline: from provenance to geologic DVD”"
Chair: Horst Marschall