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.).

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

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	James Craig University of Waterloo	Upscaling in surface water hydrology
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

Winter Semester 2022/23

Date	Lecturer	Title
21 Oct	Michael Poppelreiter Shell Kuwait Exploration and Production	The Geothermal City: An earth resource exploration seminar: hands-on
28 Oct	Dalia Nassar University of Sydney	The embodied history of trees - and why that matters
4 Nov	PhD Flash
11 Nov	Dorothé Kaiser DK Coaching	Intercultural and gender diversity competence for international teams
18 Nov	Sandra Spielvogel Kiel University	Organic carbon and nutrients in permafrost soils: Storage and cycling under changing climatic conditions and land-use
25 Nov	Katerina Harvati Tü: Paleoanthropology Work Group	Human evolution at the gates of Europe: Overview and results of 10 years of ERC-funded research
2 Dec	Po Wen University of Stuttgart	Lidar applications in wind energy
9 Dec	Barbara Fest
16 Dec	BSc Praxis-Tag	Student internship information
23 Dec - 6 Jan	Christmas Break
13 Jan	Peter Dietrich Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ	Swabian MOSES: Interdisciplinary field campaigns in 2021 and 2023 for investigation of hydrometeorological events
20 Jan	Master's Day	Poster presentations by AEG, Geosciences, and Geoeology students
27 Jan	Kathryn Fitzsimmons Tü: Terrestrial Sedimentology Work Group	Flicks from the field: Two expeditions in pursuit of past climates along the Silk Road (Field work movie)
3 Feb	Liane G. Benning GFZ Potsdam	Microbial driven dynamics controls the accelerated melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Summer Semester 2022

Date	Lecturer	Title
22 Apr	Jens Bange Environmental Physics	Looking up! (why and how we probe the lower atmosphere)
29 Apr	Andreas Kappler Geomicrobiology	Microbe-mineral interactions in modern and ancient environments
6 May	Ilka Schönberg Isotope Geochemistry Annett Junginger Micropalaeontology	First Geoscience Awareness-Seminar: Movie-streaming of "Picture a Scientist" (90 minutes). Followed by small talk and discussion about the movie with a drink.
13 May	Lars Angenent Environmental Biotechnology	Gas fermentation to convert CO2 into renew-able natural gas, acetate, ethanol, and protein
20 May	Reinhard Drews Glaciology and Geophysics	Climate change in geophysics: A story about icy worlds, dry soils, and the power of electro-magnetic waves
27 May - 17 Jun	no seminars
24 Jun	BSc Praxis-Tag	Student Internship Information
1 Jul	Todd Ehlers Geology	Tectonic, climate, and biotic effects on the Earth’s surface
8 Jul	Herve Bocherens Biogeology	Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment: Isotopic Side Story
15 Jul	Master's Day	Poster Presentations by AEG, Geosciences, and Geoeology Students
22 Jul	Quenstedt Symposium and Party	(pending Corona restrictions)
29 Jul	no seminar: exam week

Winter Semester 2021/22

Date	Lecturer	Title
22 Oct	Olaf Cirpka Hydrogeology	The Quest oftheBottleneck
29 Oct	James Nebelsick Wilfried Konrad Anita Roth-Nebelsick Invertebrate Palaeontology	Investigating Different Scales of Organism-Environmental Interactions: From Molecules (CO2) to Sedimentary Basins
5 Nov	Kira Rehfeld Climatology & The Biosphere	Inaugural Lecture: Palaeoclimaticand PalaeoenvironmentalConstraints for Future Climate Variability
12 Nov	Kathryn Fitzsimmons Terrestrial Sedimentology	Inaugural Lecture: Between Mountains and Deserts: Interactions between Aeolian Processes, Landforms and Climate on Dryland Margins
19 Nov	Christian Zwiener Environmental Analytical Chemistry	Analysis, Occurrence and Fate of Micropollutants
26 Nov	Ronny Schönberg Isotope Geochemistry	We Know More about Geology than just how to Analyze Rock Powders!
3 Dec	Paul Bons Structural Geology	Linking Crystal Lattices to Flow in Ice Sheets and Subduction Zones
10 Dec	Michaela Dippold Geosphere-Biosphere Interactions	Inaugural Lecture: Bio-Geosphere Interactions as Drivers of Ecosystem Carbon, Nutrient and Water Cycles
17 Dec	BSc Praxis-Tag	Poster presentations of student internships
14 Jan	Gregor Markl Petrology & Mineral Resources	African Carbonatites, Ore Deposits and the Ecology of European Butterflies: Current Research and Student Opportunities in the Tübingen Petrology Group
21 Jan	Master's Day	Poster presentations by AEG, Geosciences, and Geoeology students
28 Jan	Stefan Haderlein Environmental Mineralogy	Environmental Chemistry at the Mineral-Water Interface
4 Feb	Christiane Zarfl Environmental Systems Analysis	Down bytheWater: Human Interactions with(River) Ecosystems

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