GeoEnviron Seminar

The GeoEnviron seminar is the weekly seminar for the entire Geo- and Environmental Research Center (GUZ).
The purpose is to promote exchange between the work groups within the building.

The seminar is sponsored by TGAG (Tübinger Gesellschaft für Angewandte Geowissenschaften e.V.).

Wednesdays at 16:15-17:00 in GUZ Lecture Hall 3M07, Schnarrenbergstr. 94-96
and via Zoom (after login with your university account at the top of the page)

Winter Semester 2026/27

Date	Lecturer	Title
14 Oct	Thomas Lechner University of Tübingen	The Hammerschmiede clay pit excavations: A window into the Miocene of the Allgäu region
21 Oct	John Moreau University of Glasgow	Unmasking the mystery of microbial mercury methylation: What we have learned from genomics and geochemistry
28 Oct	Julien Kimmig Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe	On the origin of feces: How the evolution of poop led to the Cambrian radiation of life
4 Nov	Ilona Liesche / Samuel Wagner University of Tübingen	Establishing a culture of sustainability in research operations
11 Nov	Jean-Luc Cartron University of New Mexico, Albuquerque	Assessing extraordinary PFAS contamination levels at Holloman
18 Nov	Viet Hung Pham University of Hanoi	Groundwater arsenic contamination in the Red River delta: From key findings through two decades of international collaboration to new AI-driven research directions
25 Nov	Andreas Pack University of Göttingen	Atmospheric footsteps in Earth solids
2 Dec	Bertus Smith University of Johannesburg	Bringing iron formations to life
9 Dec	Nicole Posth University of Copenhagen	Cycling in the Plastisphere: Biogeochemical processes and the fate of plastics
16 Dec	Javier Sanchez Espana Centro de Astrobiología	From deep oceanic trenches to hyper arid deserts, the deep Earth’s subsurface, the asteroid belt and beyond: Geochemical and mineralogical research in the Spanish Astrobiology Center
	no seminar 23 Dec - 6 Jan
13 Jan	Carsten Münker University of Cologne	From the early solar system to Earth's interior: New clues from new isotope tools
20 Jan	Steven Goderis Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Don't look up! Solar System debris beneath our feet
27 Jan	Nikolas Hagemann Agroscope und Ithaka Institute	Biochar permanence: Rocks, microbes and a billion-dollar market

Summer Semester 2026

Date	Lecturer	Title
15 Apr	Kyle Mason-Jones Soil Microbial Interactions	Soil organic matter at the geo-bio interface
22 Apr	Niels Meijer Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research	Terrestrial climate throughout the Cenozoic revealed by clumped isotopes
29 Apr	no seminar
6 May	Jeremy Bennett INTERA Inc., Auckland	"Even the very wise cannot see all ends": Modelling and managing saline intrusion risks for a critical coastal aquifer water supply in New Zealand
13 May	Henning Prommer University of Western Australia / Ekion Pty Ltd	Electric fields for copper and gold extraction from rocks
20 May	David Werner University of Stuttgart, ISWA	How humans shape the bacteriology of rivers in Northeast England
27 May	no seminar
3 Jun	Michael McClain UN-IHE Delft, Institute for Water Education	tba
10 Jun	Holger Pagel Forschungszentrum Jülich	Projecting the effect of soil-microbiome-plant interactions on soil-organic-matter cycling with process-based and hybrid modeling
17 Jun	Sara Kimmig TERRA, DARTS	Mg isotopes as tracers in natural systems
24 Jun	Bernat Oró-Nolla Environmental Analytical Chemistry	Pesticide formulations as a potential source of per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) in agriculture
1 Jul	no seminar
8 Jul	Anozie Ebigbo Helmut-Schmidt University Hamburg	Challenges in large-scale underground hydrogen storage
15 Jul	Mohammad Muniruzzaman University of Bonn	Reactive transport modeling: From nanoporous media to machine learning approaches

Winter Semester 2025/26

Date	Lecturer	Title
15 Oct	Paul Bons Structural Geology	A primer in scientific presentations for MSc students
22 Oct	Kevin Norton Geology	Nature's thermostat: The role of silicate weathering on the CO₂ cycle
29 Oct	Michaela Dippold Kira Rehfeld Olaf Cirpka TERRA	Opportunities of TERRA for GUZ
5 Nov 3U03	Massimo Rolle TU Darmstadt	Transport and charge interactions of organic and inorganic species in subsurface porous media
12 Nov	Joel Fabregat-Palau Hydrogeochemistry	Environmental risk assessment of PFAS: An overview
19 Nov	Jens Lange University of Freiburg	Trifluoroacetate (TFA): Hazards and scientific opportunities of a forever pollutant
26 Nov	Robert Jnglin Wills ETH Zurich	Two processes that could amplify too weak decadal variability in climate models
3 Dec	Holger Pagel FZ Jülich & University of Bonn	Projecting the effect of soil-microbiome-plant interactions on soil organic matter cycling with process-based and hybrid modeling !!! canceled !!!
10 Dec	Maria Margalef Jornet Timo H.M. Hamers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Who is who in mixtures: Identifying the most toxic players by effect-directed analysis
17 Dec	Karim Fereidooni Ruhr Universität Bochum	Diskriminierung an der Universität (presentation in German)
	Christmas Break
7 Jan	Ilya Gelfand Ben Gurion University	What drives trace gas emissions from desert soils: Biological, chemical, or biochemical processes?
14 Jan	Josefine Umlauft Leipzig University	Unraveling environmental dynamics from seismic noise with machine learning
21 Jan	Martin Scheringer ETH Zurich Hans Peter Arp NTNU Trondheim	Environmental chemistry and the safe operating space for chemicals
28 Jan	no seminar

Summer Semester 2025

Date	Lecturer	Title
25 Apr	Nicole Ludwig University of Tübingen, Machine Learning Cluster	Towards a more sustainable future: Machine learning for decision making in energy systems
2 May	no seminar
9 May	Jens Tronicke University of Potsdam	GPR and its application in Earth and environmental sciences
16 May	Arnaud Temme University of Innsbruck	Soil-landscape evolution models: Pattern emergence at the landscape scale
23 May	GUZ Booster Seminar
	Sigrid van Grinsen	Alpine meadows, greenhouse gas sources or sinks?
	Elisa Calamita	Integrating freshwater and climate science for adaptive strategies
	Julia Brugger	Exploring the Earth system by simulating past climate states
	University of Tübingen, GUZ
30 May	no seminar
6 Jun	Steven Franke University of Tübingen, GUZ	Investigating Antarctica's internal stratigraphy to explore ice-sheet evolution
13 + 20 Jun	no seminar
27 Jun	BSc Praxis-Tag	Student internship information
4 Jul	Quenstedt Geosymposium
11 Jul	Master's Day	Poster presentations of Master's theses projects
18 Jul	Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen	Soil acidification in the Anthropocene

Winter Semester 2024/25

Date	Lecturer	Title
18 Oct	Sebastian Kopf University of Colorado Boulder	Insane in the membrane: The curious case of soil bacteria producing tetraether climate biomarkers
25 Oct	Olaf Cirpka Hydrogeology, GUZ	Self-organization in bioreactive transport
1 Nov	no seminar
8 Nov	Marie Mühe Plant Biogeochemistry, GUZ & Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ	Climate impacts on nutritional and toxic metals in agriculture
15 Nov	Kathryn Snell University of Colorado Boulder	The present is a key to the past: Expanding terrestrial paleoclimate records with help from modern terrestrial carbonates
22 Nov	Thilo Streck University of Hohenheim	Agroecosystem modelling: Land surface - atmosphere feedback
29 Nov	Deborah Leigh Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre	Macrogenetics: Filling biodiversity knowledge gaps through synthesizing genetic data
6 Dec	Barbara Fest
13 Dec 14:15	BSc Praxis-Tag	Student internship information
20 Dec	no seminar
	Christmas Break
10 Jan	Georg Feulner Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research	Modelling climate-biosphere interactions in Earth’s history
17 Jan 14:15	Master's Day	Poster presentations of Master's theses projects
24 Jan	Christoph Glotzbach Geology, GUZ	Where to store our radioactive waste - Long-term erosional constraints
31 Jan	Annett Junginger / Ilka Schönberg Micropaleontology / Isotope Geochemistry, GUZ	tba

Summer Semester 2024

Date	Lecturer	Title
19 Apr	Susanne Fritz	Mammalian biodiversity and climate change - Can the geological past inform our future?
26 Apr	Gudrun Frey	Awareness Seminar: Geschlechtersensible Sprache
3 May	Adolf Eisenträger	Das Spurenstoffzentrum des Bundes – Ziele, bisherige Ergebnisse und Besonderheiten in der Behördenlandschaft
10 May	no seminar
17 May	Andreas Mulch	Why mountains matter - The evolution of landscapes and life
24 May	whitsun break
Wed (!) 29 May at 13:15 in 4F03	Andreas Focks	Using mathematical and computer models to assess the environmental safety of chemicals
31 May	no seminar
7 Jun	Anna Nele Meckler	Reconstructing past temperatures with fluid inclusion microthermometry in speleothems
14 Jun	Daniel Koehn	Modelling of mid ocean ridges and transform faults, stress versus movement and thermo-mechanical coupling
21 Jun at 14:00	BSc Praxis-Tag	Student internship information
28 Jun	Florian Wagner	Ice ice maybe – An overview of multi-method geophysics and its use for quantitative ground ice estimation
12 Jul	Master's Day	Poster presentations of Master's theses projects
19 Jul	Grand Final!
	Xinyang Fang	Groundwater sensitivity to climate variations across Australia
	Nanna Karlsson	The Greenland inland ice sheet and its watery margins: Measuring sediments and freshwater fluxes for a better understanding of fjord circulation and ecosystems

Winter Semester 2023/24

Date	Lecturer	Title
20 Oct	PhD / PDocs GUZ	PhD Flash: Science at GUZ (5 Mini-Presentations)
27 Oct	Andreas Schweiger Universität Hohenheim	Water and carbon use of plants in space and time
3 Nov	Andreas Platis AG Umweltphysik	The impact of offshore wind farms on the marine atmosphere
10 Nov	Mutez Ahmed TU München	The hidden half of plant water relations: root-soil interactions impacting plant response to drought
17 Nov	John Selker Oregon State University	Moving a discipline forward: Advancement in Environmental Research through engineering better measurement methods
24 Nov	Franziska Lechleitner University of Bern	Rock, trees, or climate? Disentangling drivers of the deep critical zone carbon cycle
1 Dec	Gudrun Fey Frauenkolleg GmbH	Geschlechtersensible Sprache !!! cancelled !!!
8 Dec	Barbara Fest
15 Dec	BSc Praxis-Tag	Student internship information
22 Dec - 6 Jan	Christmas Break
12 Jan	Janet Hering EAWAG	Actionable Research for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
19 Jan	Master's Day	Poster presentations of Master's theses projects
26 Jan	Susanne Fritz Senckenberg	!!! cancelled !!!
2 Feb	Marie Mühe AG Pflanzen-Biogeochemie	Linking climate change with soil heavy metal bioavailability - impacts on soil health, crop production and bioremediation !!! cancelled !!!
replacement:	Paul Bons AG Strukturgeologie	Christmas and a giant Greenland ice stream

Summer Semester 2023

Date	Presenter	Title
21 April	Isabel Monte Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen	Molecular evolution of signaling pathways in land plants
28 April	PhD Flash
5 May	Peter Gratwohl AG Hydrogeochemie	Pollutans in the Environment: "Don't let them out - they won't come back"
12 May	Virgina Toy Universität Mainz	Calibrating rock's electrical properties to their composition and structure, based on data from the lab, field, and Alpine Fault and Ivrea-Verbano drilling projects
19 May	bridge day
26 May	Chistoph Schüth TU Darmstadt	Water management in the Hessian Ried
2 June	whitsun break
9 June	bridge day
16 June	Peter Bayer Universität Halle	Heat beneath our feet - Geothermal conditions in shallow groundwater
23 June	BSc Praxis-Tag	Information on Bachelor student internships
30 June	Gudrun Fey	Geschlechtersensible Sprache
7 July	Thomas Kleinen Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie	Modelling the methane cycle
14 July	Master's Day	Poster presentations by AEG, Geosciences, and Geoeology students
21 July	Geosymposium and Quenstedt-Jahresfeier