Seminars - Winter semester 2017/2018
2017/2018 Seminar Schedule
The interdisciplinary seminar “Climate change on long and short time scales” takes also place on Thursdays, 12:00-13:30, in the Bruno-Sander Haus, 3rd floor, seminar room. It is a casual seminar - don't forget to bring a lunch!
| Date | Talk 1 | Talk 2 | Moderation: |
| 05.10.2017 12:00 - 13:30 | Kurt Nicolussi / Fabien Maussion: Presentation Doctoral Program Mountain Climate and Environment (DP MCE) | Gina Moseley: Extending knowledge of Greenland’s past climate using cave-based deposits | Kurt Nicolussi |
| 19.10.2017 12:00 - 13:30 | Lindsey Nicholson: How can we measure the thickness of supraglacial debris and why do we need to do that to understand glacier response to climate conditions? | - | Kurt Nicolussi |
| 09.11.2017 12:00 - 13:30 | Mike Kuhn: Probing the great Antarctic inversion 50 years ago | - | Christoph Spötl |
| 16.11.2017 12:00 - 13:30 | Lukas Langhamer: Lagrangian Detection of Moisture Sources for the Southern Patagonia Icefield | Gabriella Koltai: Palaeoclimate significance of speleothems in crystalline rocks | Karin Koinig |
| 23.11.2017 12:00 - 13:30 | Jan Schmieder: Tracer and runoff response of a high-mountain stream | - | Georg Kaser |
| 30.11.2017 12:00 - 13:30 | Stefan Lauterbach: Deposits of Large-scale Mass Movements in the Sediments of Hallstätter See (Austria) – Recurrent Natural Hazards at a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site | Huang, (Steven) Jyh-Jaan: An iron-age cultural hiatus enigma (site Kiwulan): is this related to the river aggradation events over the last millennium in the Lanyang Source-to-Sink System, northeastern Taiwan? | Karin Koinig |
| 07.12.2017 12:00 - 13:30 | Yuri Dublyansky: "Painting inside a freezer": environmental conditions in Shulgan-Tash cave at a time of creation of late Paleolithic cave art | Fabien Maussion: Simulating the dynamics of glaciers at the global and regional scales: new prospects for (paleo-)climate studies | Ulrich Strasser |
| 14.12.2017 12:00 - 13:30 | Christian Lamprecht: Characterizing NOx emission sources in urban areas | Daniel Günther: Evaluating energy-balance snowmodels with different degrees of complexity | Thomas Karl |
| 11.01.2018 12:00 - 13:30 | Michael Sarnthein: Peak glacial and deglacial deepwater formation in the Nordic Seas -- the 14C record | Anna Wirbel: How the glaciers get their stripes | Georg Kaser |
| Do 18.01.2018 12:00 - 13:30 | Christoph Spötl: Ice in alpine caves - a rapidly vanishing climate archive | Gideon Henderson: (working title) -ve C emissions | Mathias Rotach |
| 25.01.2018 12:00 - 13:30 | Karin Koinig: Late Holocene glacier advance recorded in a high alpine lake | Friedl Obleitner: On the breath of caves | Christoph Spötl |
Associated Seminars
See below for the Winter Semester 2017/18 seminar schedules from our participating UIBK Institutes
ACINN Graduate Seminar
Wednesday, 11.45-13:00, ACINN, Room 60819 SR
Please add the Google Calendar acinn.seminar (public) for the most up-to-date information
Institute of Botany Semiar
Wednesday, 17.00, Institut für Botanik - Hörsaal A
| Date / Time / Location | Presenters (r) | Title / topic | Institution |
| 08.11.2017 | Excursion participants | Report on the Pyrenees Excursion SS 2017 | Institute of Botany |
| 22.11.2017 | Prof. em. Dr. Conradin A. Burga | Primary Accession in the Glacier Valley Morteratsch: More Neuland and faster resettlement. 18 years of monitoring in the Gletschervorfeld (2000 m above sea level, Pontresina, Oberengadin, Switzerland) | Alpexpert Schweiz |
| 06.12.2017 | Dr. Andreas Fleischmann | Evolution of carnivory in angiosperms | Botanical State Collection, Munich |
| 17.01.2018 | Prof. Dr. Peter Schönswetter, Kirschner Philipp MSc, Prof. Dr. Božo Freeman | Tajikistan: a travel report | Institute of Botany |
| 24.01.2018 | Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.nat. Martin Grube | What lichens can tell us about symbiotic organisation | Institute of Plant Sciences Graz |
Geokolloquium - Institute of Geology and Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography
Thursday, 17.00, Institute of Geology - Veranstaltungsforum (Sammlung), 2 floor
| 16.November | November Michael Stipp (Universität Innsbruck): “Earthquake and tsunami generation at active continental margins - what can we learn from rock mechanical experiments?” |
| 30.November | November Nawaz Ali (Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India): “Glacial geomorphology, modern analogues and high resolution Holocene palaeoclimatic reconstructions from the north Sikkim Himalaya, India.” |
| 7. December | December Thilo Hofmann (University of Vienna, Department of Environmental Geosciences): "Hazard assessment and analysis of groundwater conductors using modern trace elements." |
| 14. December | Dezember Luka Gale (University of Ljubljana and Geological Survey of Slovenia): “Upper Ladinian - Lower Carnian reefs in Slovenia.” |
| 11. January | Januar Oliver Warr (University of Toronto): “Using geochemical footprints to explore the ancient hydrosphere of the crystalline basement.” |
| 18. January |
Gideon Henderson (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK): “Eurasian palaeoclimate from stalagmites.” |
| 25. January | Patrick Nadoll (GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Erlangen): “Mineral chemistry as a powerful tool for ore genetic studies and exploration - A case study from the North German Basin. |
Archived Seminar Schedules
Past “Climate change on long and short time scales” seminar schedules