Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 25/26
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 24, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Antonio Checa | Arms race in the sea: Phanerozoic escalation and macroevolutionary impactt | Prof. Schmahl |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Carsten Münker | The early geodynamic evolution of the Earth: new clues from new geochemical tracers | Bill Orsi/ Sandro Jahn |
| Nov 07, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Sina Schorn | Methane oxidation in oxygen-depleted waters: rates, pathways and responses to environmental change | Bill Orsi |
| Nov 14, 2025 | 13:00 – 14:00 | Dr. Ronald Cohen | Atomistic simulations for deep planetary interiors: Machine learning as a tool to break time and distance barriers | Sandro Jahn |
| Nov 21, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Stephen Mojzsis | After the Moon | Bill Orsi |
| Dec 05, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Liane Benning | ‘Seeing’ the making and breaking of minerals with electrons and X-rays | Guntram Jordan |
| Jan 16, 2026 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr Tarje Nissen-Meyer | The Earth Rover Program – a seismic shift in monitoring soils | Heiner Igel |
| Jan 30, 2026 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Juliane Dannberg | The Journey of Subducted Slabs and Its Impact on Earth’s Magnetic Field | Bernhard Schuberth |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 25
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| May 09, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Susannah Porter | Early Eukaryote Diversity: A Review and a Reinterpretation | Bill Orsi |
| May 16, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Liane G. Benning | ‘Seeing’ the making and breaking of minerals with electrons and X-rays | Guntram Jordan |
| May 23, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Tom Battin | Microbial biogeochemistry of glacier-fed streams | Aaron Bufe/Bill Orsi |
| Jun 06, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Sophie Warken | Discovery of Speleothem sulfur spike from Laacher See Eruption c. 13ka BP synchronizes climate records from Central Europe and Greenland | Stu Gilder |
| Jun 13, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Jeremy Rugenstein | Cenozoic cooling and the role of erosion, weathering, and a variable silicate weathering feedback | Aaron Bufe |
| Jun 27, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Frank Schilling | Sustainable Energy Supply for Tomorrow: The Viewpoint of a Mineralogist | Sandro Jahn |
| Jul 11, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Dr. Armin Dielforder | How weak are rocks? | Claudia Trepmann |
| Jul 18, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Laura Wehrmann | Fjord sediments as key biogeochemical reaction zones at the cryosphere-ocean interface in high latitudes | Bill Orsi |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 24/25
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Nov 08, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Dr. William F. Martin | “The origin of life at serpentinizing hydrothermal vents: The chemistry is working.” | Bill Orsi |
| Nov 15, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Sarah Pederzani | “Understanding the evolution of human climate resilience” | Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich |
| Nov 22, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Uli Harms | The Thrill to Drill: Success and Challenges in Scientific Drilling | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
| Nov 29, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Anne Mather | Quaternary Perspectives on Bedrock Landslides: Landscape Context and Impacts on Flood Dynamics | Aaron Bufe |
| Dec 06, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Liviu Giosan | Geomorphodynamic Foundations of the Mesopotamian Civilization | Bill Orsi |
| Jan 10, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Christine Heim | Microbial interactions with mineral matrices – implications for extreme environments | Sandro Jahn |
| Jan 17, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Aurélien Gourrier | The mineral nanocrystals of bone, how much do we really know ? | Elena Sturm |
| Jan 31, 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Benjamin Van Wyk de Vries | Humans on Volcanoes: geoheritage, perception and preparing for visitor safety | Anthony Lamur |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 24
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 26, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Thomas Böttcher | Microbial Metabolites Mediating Interactions in the Environment | Prof. Wolfgang Schmahl |
| May 03, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Kelly Russell | Pleistocene to Holocene volcanism in the Canadian Cordillera | Dr. Ulrich Küppers |
| May 17, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Jens Kallmeyer | Carbon makes the world go round – elemental transformations between geosphere and biosphere | Bill Orsi |
| Jun 14, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. James Bradley | Microbial survival and carbon transformations in the warming Arctic: > from ice to land to ocean. | Bill Orsi |
| Jun 28, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Sarah Pederzani | verlegt auf Herbst | Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich |
| Jul 05, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Matthias Greb | The Permian Basin of West Texas & New Mexico – Unlocking Resource Potential with Subsurface Models | Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 23/24
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 27, 2023 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Chris Hilgers | Climate, raw material supply and energy transition | |
| Nov 10, 2023 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Anthony Watts | Mountains in the sea | Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich |
| Nov 24, 2023 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Lothar Ratschbacher | Steady-state plate tectonics – unsteady orogeny: a view from Pamir-Tibet | Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Bunge |
| Dec 01, 2023 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Hugo Delgado | Volcanic activities in Mexico | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
| Dec 15, 2023 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Michael Drews | Integration of basin analysis, tectonics and regional geomechanical investigations in the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Bavarian Molasse Basin) – implications for drilling, exploration and production | |
| Jan 19, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Jarosław Tyszka | Biomineralization of foraminifera: a biological perspective | Prof. Wolfgang Schmahl |
| Feb 02, 2024 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Daniel Farinotti | Glaciology in a time of vanishing glaciers |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 23
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 21, 2023 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Andrew Wickert | Southern Laurentide Ice Sheet advance and retreat: ~2000-year cycles paced by meltwater–climate feedback | |
| May 05, 2023 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Manuel Aranda | Exploring selective breeding as a strategy to increase the thermal resilience of reef-building corals (joint Munich Geocenter and GeoBio-CenterLMU seminar) | Gert Woerheide, Bill Orsi |
| Jun 16, 2023 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Thomas Kenkmann | Earth on collision course: What happens during an asteroid impact? | |
| Jun 16, 2023 | 15:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Olaf Eisen | Polar Research in the 21st century – new advances, remaining challenges | |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Andrea Erhardt | Changing Sub-Surface Chemistry Resulting from a 26-Million-Year Unconformity: Porewater Chemistry from IODP Site U1553 in the South Pacific | Prof. M. Elsner |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 22
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| May 20, 2022 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Marie-Amélie Boucher | Ensemble Flood Forecasting | Where: Luisenstr. 37, C106 |
| Jun 10, 2022 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Alexander Shtukenberg | Twisted crystals | ZOOM |
| Jun 17, 2022 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. David Misch | A new workflow for top seal evaluation: Tracing hydrocarbon migration through mudstones | Where: Arcisstr. 21, 2408 |
| Jun 24, 2022 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Martina Kölbl-Ebert | Ladies with Hammers: 19th Century Female British Geologists and their Context (Where: Luisenstr. 37, C106) | Where: Luisenstr. 37, C106 |
| Jul 01, 2022 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Yann Klinger | Earthquakes, surface ruptures, fault structure – from observations to models | Where: Arcisstr. 21, 2408 |
| Jul 22, 2022 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Michal Kucera | Global change and marine plankton: move, adapt or die! | Where: Arcisstr. 21, |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 21/22
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 29, 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Mark Richards | What really killed the Dinosaurs | |
| Oct 29, 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Daniel Vollprecht | Waste Mineralogy – spotlights on an interdiscplinary research field | |
| Nov 12, 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof M. Manga | Submarine volcanic eruptions | |
| Nov 26, 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Greg Beroza | Recent Developments in Earthquake Monitoring with Machine Learning | |
| Dec 10, 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Elena Sturm | Nanostructured Mineral-Based Materials | |
| Jan 14, 2022 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Lennart de Nooijer | 500 million years of foraminiferal calcification | |
| Jan 14, 2022 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Jörg Herman | The Earth’s deep water cycle |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 21
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| May 04, 2021 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. William Orsi | The fate of organic carbon in marine sediment | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| May 21, 2021 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Prof. Dr. Stefan Wiemer | Erdbebenrisiko bei Geothermieprojekten | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| Jun 11, 2021 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Aaron Bufe | The impact of erosion on chemical weathering and the inorganic carbon cycle | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| Jun 25, 2021 | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dr. Ulrich Küppers | Explosive volcanism in field and lab | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 20/21
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Dec 04, 2020 | 14:30 – 16:30 | Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel | Data-integrated earthquake modelling in complex fault zones using supercomputing | Prof.Dr. Claudia Trepmann |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 19/20
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 18, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Profs Kent, Besse, Pavlov, Channell, Briden | Pangea Colloquium in Honour of Professor Dr. Valerian Bachtadse | S. Gilder, H.-P. Bunge |
| Oct 25, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Daniel Andrade | Lahars in Ecuadorian volcanoes: overview of the hazards and monitoring strategies | M. Krautblatter |
| Nov 08, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Joe Kirschvink | Earth’s Magnetic Biosphere, and the reality of Human Magnetoreception | S. Gilder |
| Nov 15, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Martin Meschede | Raucher am East-Scotia Rücken und Vulkane der South Sandwich Islands im Südatlantik – Expedition mit FS Polarstern PS119 Sandwich Venting II – Seminar starts at 1:00 pm | A. Friedrich |
| Nov 15, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. John OConnor | The Rio Grande Rise: microcontinent, mantle plume, or both? – Starts at 2:00 pm | H.-P. Bunge |
| Nov 21, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Drs. Meinhold, Hoffmann, Moernaut, Spiske | Sedimentology Colloquium — All Day Event — starts at 9am | A. Friedrich H.-P. Bunge |
| Nov 22, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Drs. Stutenbecker, Hoke, Potter-McIntyre | Sedimentology Colloquium — All Day Event — starts at 9am | A. Friedrich H.-P. Bunge |
| Nov 29, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Joerg Ebbing | Studying Antarctica in a Gondwana framework with satellites | R. Pail, M. Moorkamp, H.-P. Bunge |
| Dec 06, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Daniel Weidendorfer | Tracing chemical disequilibrium from mantle to surface – Starts at 1:00 pm | H.-P. Bunge |
| Dec 06, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | MGC | Annual Plenary MGC Meeting – Starts at 2:00 pm | K. Thuro A. Friedrich H.-P. Bunge |
| Dec 13, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | No speaker | AGU Week, No Seminar | |
| Dec 20, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | TBA | TBA | |
| Jan 10, 2020 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Nina Kukowski | The possible interplay of shallow and deep fluids in sedimentary basins: insights from geophysical surveying and downhole logging in the centre of the Thuringian Basin | H.-P. Bunge |
| Jan 17, 2020 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Oliver Heidbach | Seminar muss wegen Krankheit entfallen | H.-P. Bunge |
| Jan 24, 2020 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Bruce Hungate | Frontiers in biogeochemistry: from microbes to ecosystems to Earth | W. Orsi |
| Jan 31, 2020 | 14:00 – 16:00 | MGC | MGC Graduations Ceremony 2020 | K. Thuro, A. Friedrich, H.-P. Bunge |
| Feb 07, 2020 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. V. P. Marinos | Engineering geological evaluation for the geotechnical analysis and design of tunnels, with special emphasis to tunnel behaviour appraisal. | Kurosch Thuro |
| Mar 13, 2020 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Willbold | Seminar cancelled in response to (SARS-CoV-2) measures | G. Simon / H.-P. Bunge |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 19
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| May 03, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Sasika Goes | VoiLA: Volatile Recycling in the Lesser Antilles | H.-P. Bunge / B. Schuberth |
| May 17, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | J.Pongratz | Managing climate by managing land | Friedrich/Bunge |
| May 24, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Steven Hillier | Digital mineralogy: from soil to oil …and beyond! | Apl. Prof. Hans Albert Gilg |
| Jun 14, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Gareth Roberts | Continental uplift, subsidence and topographic scaling: Some implications for the history of mantle convection | H.-P. Bunge |
| Jun 28, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bernhard Mayer | Tracer approaches for identifying environmental impacts of shale gas development on shallow groundwater | Friedrich/Ludwig |
| Jul 05, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dietmar Mueller | Next-generation surface kinematic constraints for global geodynamic models | Bunge |
| Jul 12, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | John Suppe | From Oceanic to Continental Subduction in Taiwan: new insight from multi-scale integration | Bunge |
| Jul 19, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Agnes Kontny | Shocked ferrimagnetic minerals in impact structures | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
| Jul 26, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Andrea Di Muro | NN | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 18/19
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 19, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Ane Engvik | The eclogite and granulite metamorphic Caledonian orogenic root of South Norway | Prof. Claudia Trepmann |
| Nov 16, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof Ritsema | TBA | H.-P. Bunge/H. Igel/S. Gilder |
| Nov 30, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Monika Koch-Müller | Carbonates at extreme conditions | Prof. Dr. Gilder |
| Dec 07, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Agnes Kontny | – entfällt wegen Krankheit – | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
| Dec 14, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Thomas Wilke | Ancient lake deep drilling allows for fresh look at theory of island biogeography | Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide |
| Dec 21, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | PD. Dr. Jörg Pfänder | The signature of subducted continental crust in rift-related continental basalts | Drs. Lhuillier, Gilder |
| Jan 11, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Katja Emmerich | Thermal analysis of clay and clay minerals | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
| Jan 18, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Sarah Gleeson | Diagenesis, Sulphur and Giant Zn Deposits | Prof. Dr. Albert Gilg |
| Jan 25, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | MGC Graduations Ceremony 2018 | MGC Graduations Ceremony 2018 | |
| Feb 01, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Böning | Iron cycling in the Benguela upwelling system | Prof. Orsi |
| Feb 08, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Tobias Backers | Einfluss von Verwerfungen auf Spannungsfeld, Bohrungen und Klüfte im Malm der bayrischen Molasse | Prof. Kurosch Thuro |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 18
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 27, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Adelbert Niemeyer | Über 35 Jahre Geologe in der Industrie – Erfahrungen und mögliche Empfehlungen | Lehre@LMU |
| May 04, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Michael Stipp | Earthquake and tsunami generation at active continental margins – what do we learn from rock mechanical experiments? | Prof Dr. Claudia Trepmann |
| Jun 08, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Ali Polat | Evidence for plate tectonics in the Archean | Prof. Anke Friedrich |
| Jun 15, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Jafar Hassanpour | -ENTFÄLLT – und wird Mitte Juli nachgeholt | Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro |
| Jun 29, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Hans-Gert Linzer | Geology – a real science? | Prof. Anke Friedrich |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 17/18
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Nov 03, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Martin Elsner | Advancements in Compound-specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA): Perspectives for Studying Reaction Mechanisms in Complex Systems | |
| Nov 17, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | John Tarduno | Earth’s early magnetic field: Core processes and planetary habitability | |
| Nov 24, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Peter Suess | Stratigraphic forward modelling, career options at Wintershall | |
| Dec 01, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Kaj Hoernle | An overview of chemically zoned hotspots on Earth | |
| Dec 08, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Paolo Garofalo | From mega- to microscale: Why hypogenic karst studies provide a dataset on past continental climate | Prof. Dr. Albert Gilg |
| Dec 15, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Fritz Schlunegger | Slab rollback in the Alps inferred from the stratigraphic evolution of the Swiss Molasse basin | Prof. Anke Friedrich |
| Jan 12, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Romain Bousquet | Thermal evolution of early passive margin processes | |
| Jan 19, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Volker Lorenz | Maar-diatreme volcanoes, their formation and relevance | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
| Jan 26, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Ulrich Glasmacher | Thermal evolution of Southern Atlantic cratonic regions | |
| Feb 02, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Peter Japsen | Elevated passive continental margins: not rift shoulders, but expressions of post-rift burial and exhumation. Can geodynamic models explain these first-order features on the surface of the earth? | |
| Feb 09, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Christoph Butscher | Prediction and assessment of karst-related risks – case study tunnel Albabstieg | |
| Feb 16, 2018 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Jon Blundy | Mount St. Helens Volcano – a natural laboratory paradise for petrologists. | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
| Jul 10, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Axel Schmitt | How fast does Magma Accumulate? Case Studies from the Eifel Volcanic Fields (Germany) |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 17
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 28, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | EGU week, no seminar | ||
| May 05, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. A. Lüttge | Can We Predict how Crystalline Matter Will Dissolve and Grow? | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schmahl |
| May 19, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. M. Billen | Slab dynamics in the transition zone: linking slab folding to surface plate motions and arc rifting. | H.-P. Bunge |
| Jun 02, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | 13 Uhr!! Dr. A. Checa | Physical and Biological Controls on the Fabrication of Molluscan Shell Microstructures | Prof. Dr. Wolfgan Schmahl |
| Jun 23, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. M. Zattin | Thermochronological constraints to late Cenozoic exhumation of the Barents Sea Shelf | H.-P. Bunge |
| Jul 07, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. P. Bénézeth | Experimental studies on the thermodynamics and kinetics of fluid-mineral-microorganism interactions: applications to geological CO2 sequestration | Prof. Dr. Guntram Jordan |
| Jul 07, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. F. Scherbaum | From volcanic tremor and body vibration monitoring to the analysis of polyphonic vocal music: a seismologists approach to computational ethnomusicology | Dr. J. Wassermann |
| Jul 14, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | !! 15 Uhr !! Dr. W. Werner | Im Dienste der Rohstoffversorgung Über die Arbeit eines Lagerstättengeologen in Deutschland | Lehre@GEO |
| Jul 21, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | H. Igel | Romy Inauguration, to be held at 11 am in the Kloster Fuerstenfeldbruck | Professor Dr. H. Igel |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 16/17
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 21, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Julien Aubert | Understanding and forecasting Earths magnetic field variations through numerical simulation | Prof. Stuart Gilder |
| Oct 28, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | John Clague | Earthquake hazards and risk on Canada’s west coast | Prof. A. Friedrich |
| Nov 04, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Anton Eisenhauer | Calcium and Strontium Isotope signatures of Paleo-Environments and their alteration by diagenesis | Prof. Wolfgang Schmahl |
| Nov 11, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. P. Kukla | Integrated Salt Systems Research | Prof. H.-P. Bunge |
| Nov 18, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Thomas Kohl | Novel scientific approaches for reliable and ecological geothermal utilization | Prof. Kurosch Thuro |
| Nov 25, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Thomas Zwinger | Modelling glaciers and ice sheets | Prof. H.-P. Bunge |
| Dec 02, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Daniel Müller !!Special Seminar 10 Uhr!! | Is the Circular Economy strategy leading to an end of traditional mining? | Prof. Dr. Soraya Heuss-Aßbichler |
| Dec 09, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Jens Kallmeyer | Drilling into a ferruginous tropical lake: The ICDP Lake Towuti Project | Prof. William Orsi |
| Dec 16, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Carlos Martin | Ice Stream Modelling | Prof. H.-P. Bunge (Geophysics/LMU) |
| Jan 13, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Michael Eineder | Imaging Geodesy: Remote Sensing and Geodesy with Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellites | Prof. Dr. Richard Bamler |
| Jan 20, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Ed Llewellin | Bubble, burp, bang! Big experiments in volcanic physics | Dr. Ulrich Küppers |
| Jan 27, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Birger-Gottfried Lühr | !! Vortrag findet schon um 13 Uhr statt !! wegen MGC Absolventenfeier; siehe “Special Seminars” | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
| Feb 03, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Andreas Audétat | The use of melt inclusions in studying the formation of magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits | Prof. Dr. H. Albert Gilg |
| Feb 10, 2017 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Massimo Rolle | Capturing the Pervasive and Controlling Effects of Diffusion on Solute Transport in Groundwater: Experiments & Modeling | Prof. Dr. Florian Einsiedl |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 16
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 15, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Nathan Simmons | Global seismic tomography for event monitoring and the discovery of an ancient subducted plate | Bunge/Schuberth |
| Apr 29, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. William Orsi | Shedding light on the ocean’s deep, dark subseafloor biosphere | MGC |
| Jun 10, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Andres Tassara | Relating gravity and geodetic locking to megathrust frictional structure: the case of recent great Chilean earthquakes | Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Bunge |
| Jun 17, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Bernardo Cesare | What can we learn from melt inclusions in migmatites and granulites? | Prof. Dr. Donald Dingwell |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 15/16
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 16, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Marjorie Chan | Sedimentology Frontiers from Earth to Mars: Dunes, Deformation, and Diagenesis | Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich |
| Oct 23, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Rod Brown | Why is Africa so high and when and how did it get up there? | Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Bunge |
| Oct 30, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Barbara Romanowicz | Plumes in the Earth’s deep mantle: Insights from Seismic waveform tomography | Prof. Dr. Donald Dingwell; Dr. Maren Kahl |
| Nov 06, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Flavio Anselmetti | Assessing natural hazards with lake sediments: Reconstructing histories of floods, earthquakes and tsunamis | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| Nov 13, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | !! C 006 Luisenstr.!! Prof. Dr. Goesta Hoffmann | The Holocene tsunami history of the Arabian Sea | Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro |
| Nov 13, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | 16 bis 18 Uhr Thuro/Friedrich/Bunge | MGC General Assembly | |
| Nov 27, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Mark Dekkers | Integrity of the rock magnetic record – implications for geoscience | Prof. Dr. Stuart Gilder |
| Dec 04, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Ulrich Kleemann | Die Suche nach einem sicheren Endlagerstandort für Nukleare Abfälle – Grundsätzliche Fragen an die Geowissenschaftler | Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro |
| Dec 11, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Matt Friedman | Beyond the age of fishes: assembling the other half of modern vertebrate diversity | Prof. Dr. Bettina Reichenbacher |
| Dec 18, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Professor Donald Canfield | Atmospheric Oxygen and Biological Evolution | Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide/ |
| Jan 22, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Friedemann Wenzel | Tiefenlagerung nuklearer Abfälle in Deutschland verschlafen die Geowissenschaften eine nationale Aufgabe? | Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich |
| Jan 29, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Rasmus Jakobsen | Effects on Groundwater Quality of CO2 Leakage from Geological Storage | Prof. Dr. Florian Einsiedl |
| Feb 05, 2016 | 14:00 – 16:00 | !! 11 Uhr !! Olivier Bachmann | Supervolcanoes and theirdeposits: insights into the dynamics of large magma reservoirs | Dr. Kai-Uwe Hess |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 15
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 10, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Jonathan Price | The Bright Future of Ore Deposits and Mining (Die ausgezeichnete Zukunft der Erzlagerstätten und des Bergbaus) | Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich |
| Apr 17, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Domenico Calcaterra | Science serving Society: Engineering-geological studies in support of decision-making for landslide risk mitigation and management in Italy | Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro |
| Apr 24, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Alison Ord | Multiscaling for Geology | Prof. Dr. Soraya Heuss-Aßbichler |
| May 08, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Tom Mitchell | Variations in off-fault damage and hydraulic properties induced by earthquake rupture | Heiner Igel |
| May 22, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Mathieu Sebilo | Isotopic biogeochemistry of agricultural contamination of surface water in the Seine watershed | Prof. Dr. Florian Einsiedl |
| Jun 12, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Julian Gale | How complex can formation of minerals from aqueous solution really be? | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schmahl |
| Jun 26, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Jill Pasteris | Multiple Approaches to Investigating Bone Mineral | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schmahl |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 14/15
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 10, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Morgan Jones | The environmental impacts of volcanic ash deposition | Prof. Dr. Donald Dingwell |
| Oct 24, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | !!Raum 230!! Inga Moeck | Neue Konzepte für die Bewertung geothermischer Ressourcen (Antrittsvorlesung) | TUM |
| Nov 07, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Harald Strauß | Microbial Sulfur Metabolism and the History of Earths Oxygenation revealed by Multiple Sulfur Isotopes | Prof. Dr. Florian Einsiedl |
| Nov 14, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Bruno Reynard | Imaging of fluid/rock interactions at the subduction interface | Stuart Gilder |
| Nov 28, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | !! Raum 230!! Volker Steinbach | Nachhaltige Rohstoffversorgung für unsere Zukunftssicherung Anforderungen an die langfristige Geo-Forschung und die aktuelle Rohstoffberatung | Prof. Dr. H.-P. Bunge, Prof. Dr. A. Friedrich, Prof. Dr. K. Thuro |
| Dec 05, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Shiva Prasad Pudasaini | Advanced two-phase modelling and unified simulations of landslides, avalanches and debris flows: Some innovative engineering applications | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| Dec 12, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Martin Ziegler | Near-surface extensional fracturing (exfoliation jointing) in granitic rocks of the central Swiss Alps- Fracture ages, mechanisms, and underlying rock stresses | Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro |
| Dec 19, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Martin Herfort | Geological Repositories for Radioactive Waste in Switzerland | Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro |
| Jan 09, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Helmut Rott | Satellite observations disclose ice sheet response to climate change | Prof. Dr. Richard Bamler |
| Jan 16, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Sylvie Tambutté | Mechanistics of Coral Calcification in the Context of Ocean Acidification | Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide |
| Jan 23, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Anja Dufresne | Rock avalanche morphology and new results from the Tschirgant deposit in Tyrol | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| Jan 30, 2015 | 14:00 – 16:00 | No Frontiers | Absolventenfeier MGC/graduations ceremony 2014 |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 14
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 11, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Hartwig Frimmel | Witwatersrand-type Gold Deposits: Genesis and Exploration Potential | Prof. Dr. Albert Gilg |
| May 09, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Colin Ballantyne | Catastrophic collapse of mountain rockwalls following deglaciation: timing, causes and implications | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| May 16, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Guillaume Fiquet | Elastic properties of iron alloys and composition of the Earth’s core | Prof. Stuart Gilder |
| May 23, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Davide Pisani | Ctenophora relationships: A tale of Contaminants, Paralogy, and Long branched sequences lost in a sea of data. | Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide |
| Jun 27, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Tamsin Mather | Volcanoes and global change? | Prof. Dr. Donald Dingwell |
| Jul 04, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Thomas Blenkinsop !! Raum 3404 !! | Archean Cratons, Mobile Belts and Gold Mineralization | Prof. Dr. Jörn Kruhl & SEG Student Chapter München |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 13/14
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 25, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Radovan Pipik HS 131 | Long lived lakes of the Central Paratethys hot spots of Miocene biodiversity | PD Dr. Renate Matzke-Karasz |
| Nov 08, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Florian Amann | Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Clay Rocks | Dr. Heiko Käsling |
| Nov 15, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Oleg Mandic | Integrative stratigraphy and paleoecology of lacustrine and marine Oligo-Miocene in Southeastern Europe | Prof. Dr. Bettina Reichenbacher |
| Nov 22, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Paul Bons | Hydrothermal fluid flow – mixing from below? | Prof. Dr. Jörn Kruhl |
| Dec 06, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Seth Stein | Playing against nature: combining geoscience and economics to better protect ourselves against natural disasters in an uncertain world | Prof. Anke Friedrich |
| Dec 13, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dr. Gerhard Lehrberger | Vor 150 Jahren aus Stein errichtet von König Ludwig I.: die Befreiungshalle bei Kelheim (Festveranstaltung zu Ehren Prof. Wolf-Dieter Grimm) | Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich |
| Dec 20, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Scott Kieffer, Ph.D | Insights to the Dynamic Behavior of Active and Prehistoric Landslides in Alpine Terrain | Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro |
| Jan 10, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | RNDr. Tomás Vylita, PH.D. | Evolution of hot-spring travertine accumulation in Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad (Czech Republic) and its significance for the evolution of Teplá valley | Dr. Gerhard Lehrberger |
| Jan 17, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Rachel Wood | The Eve of Biomineralisation | Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide |
| Jan 24, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | James Glover | Theoretical, experimental and practical advances in the application of rockfall models | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| Jan 31, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Julian Murton | Yedoma at Duvanny Yar, NE Siberia: a rich source of carbon and palaeo data from Pleistocene permafrost | Prof. Dr. Michael Krautblatter |
| Feb 07, 2014 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Xiang Wei | Mass movements in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China | Prof. Dr. Kurosch Thuro |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 13
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 26, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | !! 12:00 Uhr !! Prof. John Suppe | A new strategy for incorporating seismic tomography into plate tectonics, with examples, including the Indian-Eurasian collision | Prof. Anke Friedrich |
| Apr 26, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | 13:30 bis 14 Uhr | Kaffeepause | |
| Apr 26, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | 14 Uhr Dr. Karin Sigloch | Terrane stations: Seismic tomography explains where the North American Cordillera came from | Prof. Heiner Igel |
| May 03, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Dr. Roland Pail | Satellite gravity missions GRACE and GOCE: Status, applications and future perspectives | Prof. Kurosch Thuro |
| May 10, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Prof. Brian Kennett | The interface between seismology & mineral physics | Prof. Hans-Peter Bunge |
| May 17, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | !! 11:30 Uhr !! Dr. Hannes Henkel | Industrie und Karriere Seminar | Prof. Anke Friedrich |
| Jun 28, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Maud Devès | Process zone heating and magma genesis in continents | Prof. Anke Friedrich |
| Jul 01, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Andres Tassara | !!Achtung Änderung!! Montag 1.7.13 um 14:15 Uhr!! Geology of South America – Seismic coupling at the Chilean subduction zone and the Mw8.8 2010 Maule earthquake | Prof. Hans-Peter Bunge |
| Jul 12, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Steffen Hagemann | Mineral System Analyses of high-grade BIF iron ore mineralization and the translation to exploration targeting | SEG Student Chapter Munich & Prof. Albert Gilg (TUM) |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 12/13
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 19, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Goran Ekström | Teleseismic detection and measurement of catastrophic landslides | Joachim Wassermann |
| Nov 07, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Philippe Lognonné | The great 2011 Tohoku Earthquake as seen by Earth Ionosphere: from direct imaging of the rupture to the imprint of tsunami in the night airglow | Heiner Igel |
| Nov 09, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bernhard Grasemann | Fold growth in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt (Kurdistan region of Iraq) | Trepmann |
| Nov 16, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Vic Baker | Megafloods on Earth, Mars, and Beyond | Anke Friedrich |
| Nov 23, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Frank Stefani | Liquid metal experiments on hydromagnetic dynamos | Stuart Gilder |
| Nov 30, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Wout Krijgsman | Mediterranean-Paratethys interactions: Environmental crises during the Neogene | Valerian Bachtadse |
| Dec 14, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | David Lordkipadnize | Paleoenvironmental Record of the First Wave Out-of-Africa (Evidence from Dmanisi, Caucasus) | Valerian Bachtadse |
| Jan 11, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Andrew Jackson | Fusion of magnetic observation and dynamics to look inside the Earth’s core | Hans-Peter Bunge, Stuart Gilder |
| Jan 25, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Roberta Rudnick | Craton formation and destruction | Ernst Hegner |
| Feb 01, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Jonas Kley | The Central Andes deformation, uplift and topography over the last 60 Ma | Hans-Peter Bunge |
| Feb 08, 2013 | 14:00 – 16:00 | David Petley | Spatial patterns and mechanisms of coseismic landslides | Kurosch Thuro |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 12
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 27, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | EGU Vienna | ||
| May 04, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Flavio Anselmetti | Drilling into Lake Van’s subsurface: Unravelling half a million years of climatic, volcanic and tectonic history | Mayr |
| May 11, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | George Davis | Geoarchaeology of the Sanctuary of Zeus, Mt. Lykaion, the Peloponnesos, Greece | Friedrich |
| May 18, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bridge Day following Ascension Day | ||
| May 25, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dominique Weis, ECORD Distinguished Lecturer | What do we know about mantle plumes, what can Hawaii volcanoes tell us about the Earth’s mantle and what more can we learn by IODP drilling? | Bunge/Pfuhl |
| Jun 01, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Pentecost week | ||
| Jun 08, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bridge Day following Corpus Christi | ||
| Jun 15, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Daniel Chateigner | Combined Analysis as a plus for full structural determination of mollusc shells: textures and organic-imposed distortion | Schmahl |
| Jun 22, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Roland Oberhänsli | Kontinentalbohrungen — internationaler Einsatz von Grossgeräten zur Lösung globaler wissenschaftlicher Fragen | Hess |
| Jun 29, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Freysteinn Sigmundsson | Anatomy of Iceland’s volcanoes: Crustal deformation and magma movements | Igel |
| Jul 20, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | last week of term |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 11/12
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 21, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Costanza Bonadonna | Tephra sedimentation during the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption (Iceland) from deposit, plume, radar and satellite observations | Dingwell/Küppers |
| Oct 28, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Brian Kennett | Probing Subduction Zones: Seismic Wave Propagation and Tomography | Bunge |
| Nov 04, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Dominique Weis (ECORD Distinguished Lecturer) | What do we know about mantle plumes, what can Hawaii volcanoes tell us about the Earth’s mantle and what more can we learn by IODP drilling? | Pfuhl |
| Nov 11, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Giovanni Muttoni (co-author Edoardo Dallanave, Univ. of Padua) | The silicate weathering machine at work during the Paleocene-Eocene: insights from paleomagnetism and rock-magnetism | Bachtadse |
| Nov 18, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Jörn Kruhl | New findings about grain boundaries: relevance for petrophysics, rock deformation, metamorphism, and technical applications | Kruhl |
| Nov 25, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Oliver Rauhut | The best die young – a juvenile theropod from the upper Jurassic of Bavaria | |
| Dec 02, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | AGU Fall Meeting | MGC | |
| Dec 09, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | AGU Fall Meeting | ||
| Dec 16, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Stephen Cox | Fault mechanics, seismicity and fluid flow: insights from Archaean gold systems, Western Australia | Kruhl |
| Dec 23, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Xmas break | ||
| Jan 13, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Alfred Kröner | Evolution of early Archaean continental crust: Juvenile growth versus recycling | Bunge |
| Jan 20, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Satish Singh | New Insights on the Recent Sumatran Earthquakes and Tsunamis from Marine Seismic Studies | Igel |
| Jan 27, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Nadine McQuarrie | Accommodating convergence in the eastern Himalaya, are rates of thrusting steady, gradational or transient? | Friedrich |
| Feb 03, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Kai Wünnemann | The meteorite impact hazard — insight from numerical modelling, experimental studies, and field observations | Bunge/Pohl |
| Feb 10, 2012 | 14:00 – 16:00 | last week of term |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 11
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| May 06, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | first week of term | ||
| May 13, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Steffen Kiel | Life on the dark side: Evolution and fossil record of deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems | Wörheide |
| May 20, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer | Zur Rohstoffsituation der Welt | Friedrich |
| May 27, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Mark Handy | Microplates and former oceans beneath the Western Mediterranean | Friedrich |
| Jun 03, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bridge Day | ||
| Jun 10, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Yehuda Ben-Zion | Rock damage, earthquakes and faults in the brittle crust | Igel |
| Jun 17, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Rainer Abart | Reading the memory of rocks: microstructures, textures and the underlying kinetic processes | Schmahl, Park |
| Jun 24, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bridge Day | ||
| Jul 01, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Hermann Lühr | Der deutsche Satellit CHAMP: Welche neuen Erkenntnisse haben wir gewonnen? | Gilder |
| Jul 08, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Lia Addadi | Room C111, 09:15-10:30 – On amorphous mineral precursor phases in biomineralization | Schmahl |
| Jul 15, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Patrick De Deckker | Geological and microbiological fingerprinting of aeolian dust – examples from Australia | Altenbach |
| Jul 22, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Thomas Kenkmann | Meteorite impact craters in nature and laboratory | Kruhl |
| Jul 29, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | last week of term |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 10/11
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 22, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Hermann Ehrlich | Modern View on Templating Activity of Organic Matrices in Biomineralization | Wörheide |
| Oct 29, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | GSA Meeting Denver | |
| Nov 05, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Ben Weiss | Evidence for a lunar dynamo | Gilder |
| Nov 12, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | Fragile Earth Symposium | |
| Nov 19, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Heiner Igel | Ground rotational motions: What do they tell us that we did not know before? | |
| Nov 26, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Sally Leys | Sensational sponges: a glimpse of life at the dawn of the nervous system | Wörheide |
| Dec 03, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Kai Wünnemann | The meteorite impact hazard — insight from numerical modelling, experimental studies, and field observations | Bunge |
| Dec 10, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | AGU Fall Meeting | |
| Dec 17, 2010 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | AGU Fall Meeting | |
| Jan 14, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bernhard Krummenacher | Implementierung einer 3D-Sturzmodellierung für Gefahrenhinweiskarten | Thuro |
| Jan 21, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Eric Oelkers | The kinetics of CO2 sequestration | Schmahl |
| Jan 28, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Eric Kirby | Topography in active mountain ranges: Geomorphic insights into the rates and patterns of lithospheric deformation | Friedrich |
| Feb 04, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Yehuda Ben-Zion | cancelled | Igel |
| Feb 11, 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | last week of term |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 10
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 19, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | NA | first week of term | |
| Apr 26, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | cancelled | ||
| May 03, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | NA | EGU Vienna | |
| May 10, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Roland Zech | Whither the carbon a terrestrial perspective on atmospheric CO2 over glacial-interglacial cycles | Anke Friedrich |
| May 17, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Heinz Surbeck | Radon and beyond: natural radionuclides and dissolved gases as tracers in hydrogeology | Goldscheider |
| May 24, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | NA | Pentecost | |
| May 31, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Daniel Jackson | New insights into the evolution of metazoan biomineralisation strategies | Wörheide |
| Jun 07, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Ben Weiss | cancelled | Gilder |
| Jun 14, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Leonid Dubrovinski | postponed to July 19 | Schmahl |
| Jun 21, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Joan Bernhard | Life in laminated sediments: Metazoans and protists living in steep redox boundaries and their possible effects on pore-water processes & the geologic record | Altenbach |
| Jun 28, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Bernd Lottermoser | Earth audit: The world’s sources of gold for the 21st century and beyond | Kruhl |
| Jul 05, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Brigadier General Schmidt-Bleker (I) & Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Kurth (II) | The importance of Geospatial and Environmental Information in the German Armed Forces (I); Operational Geology – where science meets the armed forces (II) | Friedrich |
| Jul 12, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Ulrich Schumann (with an introduction by Don Dingwell) | Volcanic Ash Cloud over Europe during Air Space Closure – Observations and Experiences | Dingwell |
| Jul 19, 2010 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Leonid Dubrovinski | Is the spin transition zone in Earth’s lower mantle chemically distinct? | Schmahl |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 09/10
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 05, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Tanya Atwater | Maria Ogilvie Gordon Lecture – Plate Tectonics and the Cenozoic evolution of the Pacific-NorthAmerican plate boundary | Friedrich |
| Oct 23, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | first week of term | ||
| Oct 30, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Bruce Yardley | Mineral-fluid interactions and their consequences for the rheology of the continents | Kruhl |
| Nov 06, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Gerard Stampfli | Global reconstructions and data base project | Bunge |
| Nov 13, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Gernold Zulauf | Thermal turnover, lower crustal flow and melt-related faulting: the Bohemian Massif in carboniferous times | Heuss-Assbichler |
| Nov 20, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Suzanne McEnroe | Crustal Magnetism and Rocks that remember | Schmahl |
| Nov 27, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Helmut Cölfen | Bio- and bioinspired mineralization | Schmahl |
| Dec 04, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Jean F. Schneider | Remote Geohazards in Central Asia | Thuro |
| Dec 11, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Giorgio Carnevale | A paleoichthyological perspective of the Messinian Salinity Crisis – Did the Mediterranean ever dry out? | Reichenbacher |
| Dec 18, 2009 | 14:00 – 15:30 | AGU Fall Meeting | ||
| Jan 08, 2010 | 14:00 – 15:30 | NA | ||
| Jan 15, 2010 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Early planetary evolution: From planetesimals to water oceans | Friedrich |
| Jan 22, 2010 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Johannes Oerlemans | Glacier fluctuations and climate change | Bunge |
| Jan 29, 2010 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Manuel Maldonado | Neglected complexity in primitive animals: Sponges and the phylogenetic conflict surrounding early steps in animal evolution | Wörheide |
| Feb 05, 2010 | 14:00 – 15:30 | Lisa Morgan | Super eruption environments make for super hydrothermal explosions: Extreme hydrothermal explosions in Yellowstone National Park | de Campos |
| Feb 12, 2010 | 14:00 – 15:30 | NA |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 09
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Mar 02, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Casey Dunn | Scalable phylogenomic tools and the animal tree of life | Wörheide & Stamatakis |
| Mar 02, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Antonis Rokas | Genomics and the Tree of life | Wörheide & Stamatakis |
| Apr 20, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | first day of term/EGU Vienna | |
| Apr 27, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | John Walsh | The Growth of Fault Systems: Reconciling the Long-Term Growth and Earthquake Behaviour of Normal Faults | Carena |
| May 04, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | workshop in Benediktbeuern | |
| May 11, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Marc Gottschling | Phylogenetic relationships of calcareous dinoflagellates | Wörheide |
| May 18, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Participants Hofmann, Pfuhl, Sundermann | IPY: Antarctic University Expedtion February 2009 | Friedrich |
| May 25, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Lindy Elkins-Tanton | cancelled | Friedrich |
| Jun 01, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | Pentecost | |
| Jun 08, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Chris Bean | Volcano source processes: Lessons from combined high resolution field data & computational seismology | Igel |
| Jun 15, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Cristian Suteanu | Threads and networks: complementary approaches to discrete nonlinear processes in geosystems | Kruhl |
| Jun 22, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Yoshio Fukao | Imaging of mantle upwelling and downwelling by seismic array observations on the Pacific floor | Bunge |
| Jun 29, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Gordon Brown | Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in the Earth, Environmental and Energy Sciences | Pentcheva/Dingwell |
| Jul 06, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | John Bartley | Magmatic crack-seal and the growth of igneous intrusions | Friedrich |
| Jul 13, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Roland Buergmann | Active Tectonics and Non-Tectonics of the San Francisco Bay Area from Space Geodesy | Bunge, Igel |
| Jul 20, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | last week of term |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 08/09
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 20, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Wulf Mueller | Subaqueous Calderas in the Archean: examples from the Abitibi greenstone belt | Dingwell |
| Oct 27, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Rob Coe | Reversals, Symmetry, and Stability of the Geomagnetic Field | Gilder |
| Nov 03, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Jean-Paul Montagner | Seismic Source Imaging by Time Reversal Method | Igel |
| Nov 10, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Tim Melbourne | Cascadia subduction zone slow earthquakes | Friedrich |
| Nov 17, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Jo Gottsmann | Geophysical signature of the 2004 reactivation of the central volcanic complex on Tenerife | Dingwell |
| Nov 24, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Don Dingwell | Explosive eruptions: a materials catastrophe | Igel |
| Dec 01, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bernard Bourdon | Early differentiation of the Earth and the Moon | Gilder |
| Dec 08, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Andreas Henk | Stress and fracture prediction with geomechanical reservoir models | Kruhl |
| Dec 15, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | AGU Fall Meeting | |
| Jan 12, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Gaston Giuliani | Origin of gem corundum associated with alkali basalts | Gilg |
| Jan 19, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | David Wright | Microbial dolomite and carbon sequestration | Altermann |
| Jan 26, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Patricia Rich | The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota | Reichenbacher |
| Feb 02, 2009 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Vincent Courtillot | Increasing evidence for significant solar forcing of temperatures and their disturbances over the 20th century | Gilder |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 08
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 14, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | EGU Vienna | |
| Apr 21, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Patricia Rich | cancelled | Reichenbacher |
| Apr 28, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Wolfgang Eder | 2008 – The International Year of Planet Earth: A Global Initiative of the United Nations | Bunge/Friedrich/Thuro |
| May 05, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Ralf Schiebel | Open marine calcification and climate change | Altenbach |
| May 12, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | NA | Pentecost | |
| May 19, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Benoit Ildefonse | Building the crust at mid-ocean ridges: the scientific ocean drilling perspective (ECORD Distinguished Lecturer) | Friedrich |
| May 26, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Antje Schwalb | Late Holocene climate swings and history of civilizations | Reichenbacher |
| Jun 02, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Erich Dornberger | Silicon – a key element for sustainable solar energy production? | Schmahl |
| Jun 09, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Norbert Vogt | Geotechnische Herausforderungen bei der zweiten S-Bahn-Stammstrecke in München | Thuro |
| Jun 16, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Georg Dresen | Rheology of Crust and Mantle: Evidence from Rock Mechanics, Geodesy and Field Observations | Bunge |
| Jun 23, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Stefan Peiffer | The Role of Iron Redox Cycling in the Natural Acidification of Ground Water in Western Australia | Schmahl |
| Jun 30, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Hans Kienholz | Alpine Natural Hazards minimising risk, maximising awareness | Thuro |
| Jul 07, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Reinhard Niessner | Wasser Ein einfacher Stoff mit Vergangenheit und Zukunft? | Thuro |
| Jul 14, 2008 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Ingrid Köbel-Knabner | Unravelling the dark: how soils sequester organic carbon | Friedrich |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 07/08
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 19, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Arnaud Chulliat | Satellite and ground-based observations of the internal and external sources of the Earth’s magnetic field | Gilder |
| Oct 26, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Mark Simons | The spatial stationarity of large (Mw > 8) subduction zone earthquakes from seconds to millions of years | Friedrich |
| Nov 02, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Bridge Day | ||
| Nov 09, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Maggie Cusack | Brachiopod Biominerals – Biological Control versus Environmental Influence | Schmahl |
| Nov 16, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Andrea Walpersdorf | 10 years of GPS measurements in Zagros and eastern Iran – insights in present-day kinematics and fault activities | Abolghasem |
| Nov 23, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Hermann Engelhardt | Ice: from molecules to fast-moving Antarctic ice streams with implications for global change | Friedrich |
| Nov 30, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Anne Johansen | Iron in the Atmosphere: Implications on Global Climate and Human Health | Friedrich |
| Dec 07, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Dietmar Müller | Telling the Fortune of the World…. Backwards | Bunge |
| Dec 14, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | AGU | ||
| Dec 21, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Christmas | ||
| Jan 11, 2008 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Michel Campillo | How far can we image and monitor the Earth with microseismic noise? | Heiner Igel |
| Jan 18, 2008 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Jean-Pierre Berger | Molasse and Upper Rhine Graben relationships: Climate crisis at the end of the Oligocene | Reichenbacher |
| Jan 25, 2008 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Björn Jamtveit | Fracturing assisted fluid migration | Kruhl |
| Feb 01, 2008 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Gunter Siddiqi | Utilizing Shell’s Technology to Unlock Unconventional Ressources | Friedrich |
| Feb 08, 2008 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Matthias Haeckel | Gas hydrates in the marine environment – from cold seeps to marine CCS | Thuro |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – summer term 07
Frontiers in Earth Sciences I
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Apr 20, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Jorge Spangenberg | Petroleum and ore deposits geochemistry – New inferences for minerogenetic models | Marschik |
| Apr 27, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Peter Schaaf | Geochemistry meets archaeology: Sr isotopes and human migration in Mexico | Hess |
| May 04, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Helena Fortunato | Mollusk natural history and the closure of the Panama gateway | Reichenbacher |
| May 11, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Matthias Scheffler | Materials Science and Engineering from First Principles | Pentcheva |
| May 18, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | NA | Bridge Day | |
| May 25, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Shimon Wdowinski | Eastern Mediterranean Tectonics | Malservisi |
| Jun 01, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | cancelled | ||
| Jun 08, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Steve Grand | Joint inversions of seismic and geodynamic data: Constraints on chemical versus thermal heterogeneity in the mantle | Bunge |
| Jun 15, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Trond Torsvik | From Continental drift to Mantle Dynamics: Linking plate motions and Deep Earth Processes | Bunge |
| Jun 22, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Mioara Mandea | Satellite imaging of the geomagnetic field and its temporal variations | Gilder |
| Jun 29, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Hans-Gert Kahle | Geodesy and geodynamics in the eastern Mediterranean | Rummel |
| Jul 06, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Massimo Cocco | Fault zone structure and dynamic fault weakening: evidence from laboratory experiments, numerical simulations, seismological and field observations | Igel |
| Jul 13, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | Diego Perugini | Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry in Magmatic Systems: State of the Art and Perspectives | Dingwell/Hess |
| Jul 20, 2007 | 12:30 – 14:30 | H-G Brokmeier | Lattice Preferred Orientations in Geomaterials | Schmahl |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences II
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| May 21, 2007 | 17:15 – 18:30 | Jan Veizer | Celestial Climate Driver: Perspective from 4 Billion Years of Carbon Cycle | Schmahl |
| May 28, 2007 | 17:15 – 18:30 | NA | Pentecost | |
| Jun 04, 2007 | 17:15 – 18:30 | Joe Kirschvink | The first Snowball Earth and the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen | Friedrich |
| Jun 11, 2007 | 17:15 – 18:30 | Thomas Wagner | Anoxic Oceans – Dynamics of greenhouse climate and biogeochemical feedbacks | Friedrich |
| Jun 18, 2007 | 17:15 – 18:30 | Andreas Kappler | Geo(micro)biology in Geosciences: Questions and Perspectives | Friedrich |
| Jun 25, 2007 | 17:15 – 18:30 | Michael Hofreiter | Progress in ancient DNA: population genetics, paleogenomics and functional paleogenetics | Bunge |
| Jul 02, 2007 | 17:15 – 18:30 | Judith McKenzie | From Mountains to Microbes: Linking the Geosphere with the Biosphere to Understand Dolomite Formation | Friedrich |
| Jul 09, 2007 | 17:15 – 18:30 | Antje Boetius | Frontiers in Geobiology: Microbial life in deep water ecosystems | Friedrich |
Frontiers in Earth Sciences – winter term 06/07
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Oct 20, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Joan Martí | Caldera Collapse | Dingwell/Hess |
| Oct 27, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Bernd Lammerer | Farewell Colloquium | Söllner/Kruhl |
| Nov 03, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Gerta Keller | Chicxulub Impact and the K-T Mass Extinction: Myth and Reality | Bunge |
| Nov 10, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Philip Gingerich | Fossils and the Origin of Whales | Reichenbacher |
| Nov 17, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Frank Schilling | Physical Properties of Geomaterials: Anisotropy of elastic and thermal properties at elevated P and T and their relation to geodynamic processes | Schmahl |
| Nov 24, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Barrie Clarke | Assimilation Reactions in Granite Magmas | Kruhl |
| Dec 01, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Roger Buick | Habitats of Archean Life | Altermann |
| Dec 08, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Hugo Bucher | The early Triassic biotic recovery: the Murder of the Orient Express or the Bloody Lady of ?achtice? | Gilder |
| Dec 15, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | AGU conference | ||
| Dec 22, 2006 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Christmas | ||
| Jan 12, 2007 | 13:30 – 15:30 | cancelled | ||
| Jan 19, 2007 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Mike Sturm | BAIKAL – World cultural heritage or endangered environment? | Thuro |
| Jan 26, 2007 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Christian Pfleiderer | Quantum phase transitions: Just buzz-word bingo or more? | Gilder |
| Feb 02, 2007 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Kevin P. Furlong | Dynamics effects of the Mendocino Triple Junction Migration | Malservisi |
| Feb 09, 2007 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Jörg Mutterlose | Mesozoic belemnites re-visited: Palaeobiology versus geochemistry | Reichenbacher |