Group Seminars: GFZ

Group Seminars 2025

(www.marum.de)

Hydrology-human-carbon linkages in central Africa

Speaker: Enno Schefuß (MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen)
Date: 09.07.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(www.gfz.de)

Difficult data from durable trees: challenges of reconstructing climate from Baobab to investigate the fall of the Great Simbabwe kingdom

Speaker: Gerd Helle (GFZ Hemholtz Centre for Geosience)
Date: 02.07.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(www.unr.edu)

Geomorphic expression and obfuscation of tectonic processes along rivers and ridgelines

Speaker: Joel Scheingross (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
Date: 25.06.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(www.gfz.de)

Hydroclimatic changes during the past 30.000 yrs in southern Italy - Insights from biomarker isotope records from sediments of Lake Monticchio.

Speaker: Rahel Paasch (GFZ Hemholtz Centre for Geosience)
Date: 10.06.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

Anthropocene and the Baltic Sea GSSP: Did we just enter a new geological epoch, or not?

Speaker: Jérôme Kaiser (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany)
Date: 05.06.2025, 3:00pm
Place: F409 & online

Reconstructing Bartonian climate and seasonality in the palaeotropical Kutch Basin, India: Insights from oyster shell sclerochronology.

Speaker: Aniket Mitra (CY Cergy Paris University)
Date: 21.05.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

From earthquakes to earthworms: Seismology's last and closest frontier, the soil

Speaker: Tarje Nissen-Meyer (University of Exeter)
Date: 08.05.2025, 3:00pm
Place: F409 & online

Reassessment of water level of Lake Van

Speaker: Günther Landmann (TU Darmstadt)
Date: 06.05.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(www.fu-berlin.de)

Narrow canyons or wide plains – what controls the width of valley floors in the western Andes?

Speaker: Steffi Tofelde (FU Berlin)
Date: 16.04.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(https://ethz.ch/de.html)

Using sedimentary radiocarbon (14C) signatures in Swiss lakes to trace carbon sources and turnover times.

Speaker: Benedict Mittelbach (ETH Zürich)
Date: 09.04.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(www.fu-berlin.de)

Detection of seasonal-specific potential source areas of mineral dust on Crete (Greece) based on isotope measurements and mineralogical investigations.

Speaker: Simon Bitzan (FU Berlin)
Date: 02.04.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(www.gfz.de)

Tephra: Theory, Methods and application to the Dead Sea and Lake Van paleoclimate records.

Speaker: Rebecca Kearney (GFZ Hemholtz Centre for Geosience)
Date: 12.02.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(www.gfz.de)

Towards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation and temperature based on brGDGTs and carbonate clumped isotopes in Chinese loess.

Speaker: Jingjing Guo (GFZ Hemholtz Centre for Geosience)
Date: 05.02.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

(www.gfz.de)

The Dead Sea salted away its mysteries: reconstruction of the last 12,000 years of Dead Sea lake level using halite fluid inclusions.

Speaker: Emmanuel Guillerm (GFZ Hemholtz Centre for Geosience)
Date: 15.01.2025, 1:00pm
Place: F409 & online

Group Seminars 2024

(www.colostate.edu)

Exploring the Impact of Glacial Erosion and Deglaciation on Mountain Building and Fault Slip in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado.

Speaker: Sean Gallen (Colorado State University)
Date: October 16, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Work Safety in Laboratories.

Speaker: Jenny Keilholz (Administrative Executive, GFZ)
Date: October 02, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: Seminar Room 1-3 (Building H)

(www.earth.ox.ac.uk)

Late Holocene Eruption History of the Main Ethiopan Rift at Lake Babogaya.

Speaker: Elo Wilkinson-Rowe (University of Oxford)
Date: September 18, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Unlocking the Seismic Perspective in Conservation Biology with Machine Learning and Footfall Signals.

Speaker: René Steinmann (Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics, GFZ)
Date: September 04, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.uni-potsdam.de)

Quantifying Surface Processes and Erosion in an Intra-Continental Mountain Belt: A Case Study from the Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan.

Speaker: Lingxiao Gong (University of Potsdam)
Date: July 17, 2024, 1:00 pm
F409, zoom

(www.ucl.ac.uk)

Is Climate Change Increasing Disasters?

Speaker: Ilan Kelman (University College London)
Date: June 05, 2024, 1:00 pm
F409, zoom

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Unlocking Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics of Degrading Himalayan Glaciated and de-Glaciated Catchments.

Speaker: Sarwar Nizam (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: Mai 29, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.bgc-jena.mpg.de)

The Transit Time of Carbon Through the Terrestrial Biosphere.

Speaker: Carlos Sierra (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena)
Date: May 15, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.uni-potsdam.de)

Array Seismologic Insights into the Largest Skaftá Jökulhlaup (GLOF).

Speaker: Thoralf Dietrich (University of Potsdam)
Date: May 08, 2024, 1:00 pm
F409, zoom

(www.washington.edu/)

Deserts to Mountains: Modeling Transient Landscape Dynamics Using Landlab.

Speaker: Erkan Istanbulluoglu (University of Washington, Seattle)
Date: April 24, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(https://www.ipgp.fr/)

How Aquifers Respond to Rainfall.

Speaker: Eric Lajeunesse (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
Date: April 10, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.lbl.gov)

Surface Sciences.

Speaker: Anne Voigtländer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Date: April 09, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.cdut.edu.cn)

Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Individual Landslides.

Speaker: Peng Zeng (Chengdu University of Technology)
Date: April 03, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.wur.nl)

Luminescence as a sediment tracing tool.

Speaker: Anna-Maartje de Boer (Wageningen University & Research)
Date: March 27, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.colorado.edu)

Proterozoic Exhumation and Sediment Transport on the North American Midcontinent Revealed with (U-Th)/He Thermochronology.

Speaker: Barra A. Peak (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Date: March 20, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Monitoring Groundwater Dynamics in a Mountain Ridge Using Seismic Interferometry: Influence of Topography, Local Subsurface Structure and Meteorological Conditions.

Speaker: Luc Illien (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: March 06, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Landscape Variations in the Ordos Block Following Tectonic and Climatic Gradients and its Possible Impact on Chemical Weathering.

Speaker: Yuezhi Zhong (Geomorphologie, GFZ)
Date: February 28, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Predicting Grain-Size for Studying Nile Paleo-floods.

Speaker: Louison Laruelle (Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics, GFZ)
Date: February 21, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Enhancing Debris Flow Warning through Seismic Feature Selection and Machine Learning Model Comparison.

Speaker: Qi Zhou (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: February 14, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.prl.res.in)

Organic Carbon Dynamics in Glacial Impurities and Permafrost.

Speaker: Sarwar Nizam (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad)
Date: February 07, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.uaic.ro)

Landslides in Dry Hilly Areas of North-Eastern Romania: Implications for Geoheritage, Hazard, and Risk.

Speaker: Mihai Niculita (A.I. Cuza University, Iași)
Date: January 31, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.bgu.ac.il)

Shear Stress and Bedload during Flood Bores.

Speaker: Jonathan B. Laronne (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Date: January 24, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: A27, zoom

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

The Influence of Periodic Environmental Change on Carpathian Sediment Routing Systems.

Speaker: Fergus McNab (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: January 17, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

(www.uaic.ro)

SAR Interferometry Applications in Land Monitoring and Earth Surface Process Detection.

Speaker: Nicusor Necula (A.I. Cuza University, Iași)
Date: January 10, 2024, 1:00 pm
Place: F409, zoom

Group Seminars 2022

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Benford's Law in Bedload Data from Long-Term Acoustic Recordings in the Liwu River, Taiwan.

Speaker: Ci-Jian Yang (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: November 30, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Groundwater and Landscape Erosion due to Climate Change: A Non-Linear Numerical Modelling to Investigate the Transient Groundwater Storage Variability in the Nepal Himalayas.

Speaker: Kapiolani Teagai (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: November 29, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr)

Monitoring and Modeling Physical Weathering of Marls in Badland and Effect on Erosion, Draix-Bléone CZO.

Speaker: Coline Ariagno (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Date: November 23, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(ucomm.charlotte.edu)

Rates, Mechanisms, and Implications of Natural Rock Cracking.

Speaker: Monica Rasmussen (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Date: November 09, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: Großer Refraktor

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Lithology and Tectonics: Building the Inorganic Carbon Budget of a Young Mountain Range.

Speaker: Erica Erlanger (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: October 28, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: Großer Refraktor

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Open Access Publications.

Speakers: Diana Otto, Katrin Quetting und Marcel Meistring (Library und Information Services, GFZ)
Date: October 19, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

The GFZ Graduate Program.

Speaker: Johannes Petereit (Human Resources, GFZ)
Date: October 12, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

GitLab? Lessons from Software Development for Better Research.

Speaker: Gunnar Pruß (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: September 28, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.lmu.de)

Datafied Research: The Role of Data and Digital Infrastructures in Present and Future Research.

Speaker: Lina Franken (LMU Munich)
Date: September 21, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: Großer Refraktor

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Impressions from the Kyrgyzstan Field Trip & Short Introduction into QFields.

Speaker: Andreas Ruby (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: September 14, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.earth.ox.ac.uk)

Surface Manifestations of Mantle Processes: Examples from Madagascar?

Speaker: Simon Stephenson (University of Oxford)
Date: August 31, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Scale-Dependent Controls on Landscape Evolution: Insights from River Profile Inversion and Spectral Analysis.

Speaker: Victoria Milanez Fernandes (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: August 24, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: Lecture Rooms 1-3 (Building H) & online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Cubism and Geomorphology.

Speaker: Donovan Dennis (Earth Surface Geochemistry, GFZ)
Date: July 06, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: Großer Refraktor

(www.umn.edu)

Impacts of Glacially-driven Base Level Change on River Channel Long Profile Across Timescales: Whitewater River, southeastern Minnesota, USA.

Speaker: Shanti Penprase (University of Minnesota)
Date: June 29, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.hawaii.edu)

Greening Antarctic Peninsula: Moss Kill Dates and Isotope Geochemistry Show Long-term Glacier and Climate Changes over the Last Two Millennia.

Speaker: David Beilman (University of Hawai'i)
Date: June 21, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(https://uwaterloo.ca/)

Upscaling Hydrological Modelling.

Speaker: James Craig (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Date: June 15, 2022, 4:00 pm
Place: online

(www.get.omp.eu)

Probabilitstic Model of Earthquake Induced Landslide Populations: What do we need and what can we learn about the landscape and ground shaking properties?

Speaker: Odin Marc (Géosciences Environnement Toulouse)
Date: June 08, 2022, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Seal of the University of Cologne — *(www.uni-koeln.de)*

The Application of ^239+240Pu as Soil Particle Tracer: Deciphering the Loss of Soil Organic Matter in Ploughed Soils, Republic of South Africa.

Speaker: Joel Mohren (University of Cologne)
Date: May 02, 2022, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.umn.edu)

An Optimum Flooding Condition for Channel Stabilization.

Speaker: Eric Barefoot (University of Minnesota)
Date: May 02, 2022, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.earth.ox.ac.uk)

Is Mountain Weathering a Source or Sink of CO₂?

Speaker: Jesse Zondervan (University of Oxford)
Date: April 27, 2022, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Dynamic Support of Orogen Elevation.

Speaker: Claudio Faccenna (Lithosphere Dynamics, GFZ)
Date: March 23, 2022, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Seal of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology — *(www.nmt.edu)*

Desert flash floods: Measuring water and sediment in rivers of the Southwest USA.

Speaker: Kyle Stark (New Mexico Tech)
Date: March 09, 2022, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(https://scads.ai/)

Mapping Glacier Basal Motion using Gradient Tree Boosting.

Speaker: Josefine Umlauft (ScaDS.AI)
Date: February 16, 2022, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Sensitivity of Landslide Susceptibility/Hindcast Models.

Speaker: Ugur Öztürk (Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics, GFZ)
Date: January 26, 2022, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.brgm.fr)

Slow-moving Landslides in Volcanic Tropical Island: Example of the Hell-Bourg Landslide (La Réunion).

Speaker: Claire Rault (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières)
Date: January 19, 2022, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.uni-potsdam.de)

Morphologies of Active Volcanoes in Kamchatka Studied with Aerial Photogrammetry.

Speaker: Alina Shevchenko (University of Potsdam)
Date: January 12, 2022, 1:15 pm
online

Group Seminars 2021

Neutrons and Minerals.

Speaker: Vadim Sikolenko (KIT & JINR/FLNP Dubna)
Date: November 24, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Hydro-abrasion Processes at Hydraulic Structures and Steep Bedrock Rivers.

Speaker: Dila Demiral (ETH Zürich)
Date: November 17, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Earth Surface: Steeper and More Stable than Commonly Assumed.

Speaker: Anne Voigtländer (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: November 03, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Landslide Geometry Reveals its Trigger.

Speaker: Kamal Rana (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Date: October 20, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Rivers that don’t fit the mold: Restoration of disconnected non-equilibrium semi-alluvial rivers.

Speaker: Lina Polvi Sjöberg (Umeå University)
Date: September 29, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Conflict Management.

Speakers: Annett Hüttges, Anke Lerch, and Carola Kögler (Conflict Counselling, GFZ)
Date: September 15, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Detection, observation, and potential for early warning of catastrophic flow events using regional seismic networks.

Speaker: Kristen Cook (Geomorphology)
Date: September 08, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Unmixing river sediments for the elemental geochemistry of their source-regions.

Speaker: Alex Lipp (Imperial College London)
Date: September 01, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Climatic control on erosion of volcanic ocean islands over millennial and million-year timescales.

Speaker: Kimberly Huppert (Earth Surface Process Modelling, GFZ)
Date: August 25, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

A sediment grain’s journey, from source to sink.

Speaker: Mikael Attal (University of Edinburgh)
Date: August 18, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Width and Slope Adjustment in Boulder-bed Bedrock Channels: Theory and Field Data

Speaker: Ron Nativ (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Date: August 11, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Tectonic and climatic controls on glacial basal thermal regimes and glacial erosion patterns.

Speaker: Noelie Bontemps (ISTerre Grenoble)
Date: June 09, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

Struggles with stream power: Connecting theory across scales

Speaker: Jeremy G. Venditti (Simon Fraser University)
Date: June 02, 2021, 5:00 pm
Place: online

From the past to the present and back. The mercury signal formation in environmental archives

Speaker: Marta Pérez Rodríguez (TU Braunschweig)
Date: May 26, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

Fluoride release from flume experiments and during extreme floods: examples from Nepal and Taiwan.

Speakers: Sabrina Hennig (Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences), Erica Erlanger & Christoff Andermann (Geomorphology)
Date: May 19, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Tectonic and climatic controls on glacial basal thermal regimes and glacial erosion patterns.

Speaker: Jingtao Lai (Earth Surface Process Modelling, GFZ)
Date: May 12, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Large scale flood risk analyses.

Speaker: Heidi Kreibich (Hydrology, GFZ)
Date: May 05, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

Simplified simulation of rock avalanches and subsequent debris flows with a single thin-layer model. Application to the Prêcheur river (Martinique, Lesser Antilles).

Speaker: Marc Perruzzetto (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières)
Date: April 14, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Migrating mountains? The influence of orographic rainfall on landscape evolution of the Aconquija Range.

Speaker: Taylor Schildgen (Geomorphology)
Date: March 31, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

Millennial scale denudation of steep, alpine rock walls through thermo-cryogenic pre-conditioned rock fall (Mt. Eiger, Switzerland).

Speaker: David Mair (University of Bern)
Date: February 24, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online (zoom)

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Topographic growth of the Northern Andes, Colombia, and its relationship to slab geometry, climate, and biodiversity.

Speaker: Richard Ott (Earth Surface Geochemistry)
Date: February 17, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

The anatomy of abrupt climate change: A spatiotemporal perspective from high resolution lacustrine biomarker stable isotope records.

Speaker: Dirk Sachse (Geomorphology)
Date: February 10, 2021, 1:15 pm
Place: online

Consequences of permafrost degradation in an alpine bedrock ridge

Speaker: Riccardo Scandroglio (TU Munich)
Date: January 27, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Bedload transport patterns in Alpine catchments

Speaker: Gilles Antoniazza (Geomorphology)
Date: January 20, 2021, 1:00 pm
Place: online

Group Seminars 2020

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Responses of gravel-bed rivers to periodic climate change

Speaker: Fergus McNab (Geomorphology)
Date: November 25, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Constraining the hydrological cycle of a steep catchment in the Nepal Himalayas with seismic interferometry and targeted observations

Speaker: Luc Illien (Geomorphology)
Date: November 11, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409 and online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

The analysis of 10 years of data unveils the response of a metastable volcanic edifice to external forcings

Speaker: Virginie Durand (Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling, GFZ)
Date: November 04, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Quaternary uplift variations along the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau

Speaker: Simone Racano (Geomorphology)
Date: October 28, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: building H, lecture room 2/3 and online

Dynamic Landforms: Vibrational & Structural Investigations of Natural Rock Arches

Speaker: Paul Geimer (University of Utah)
Date: October 07, 2020, 4:00 pm
Place: online

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Reactivation of Dormant Rivers in North Africa During the Last Glacial Cycle

Speaker: Cecile Blanchet (Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ)
Date: April 01, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Data, Equipment and Sample Management @4.6

Speaker: Oliver Rach & Gunnar Pruß (Geomorphology)
Date: March 04, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Expressions of Mantle Dynamics in Modern and Ancient Landscapes

Speaker: Fergus McNab (University of Cambridge)
Date: February 12, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

The Origin of Asian Dust

Speaker: Niels Meijer (University of Potsdam)
Date: January 22, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Seasonal Hydroclimate Across the Himalayas: Insights from Meteorological and Dendroisotopic Records

Speaker: Camilla Brunello (Geomorphology)
Date: January 15, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Using Cosmogenic ²¹Ne to Quantify Sediment Residence Time in Large-scale Fluvial Systems Throughout the Geological Record

Speaker: Michal Ben-Israel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Date: January 13, 2020, 2:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Arts in the Critical Zone

Speaker: n.a.
Date: January 07, 2020, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Group Seminars 2019

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Making sense of glacier thinning in High Mountain Asia

Speaker: Leif Anderson (Geochemie der Erdoberfläche, GFZ)
Date: November 27, 2019, 1:30 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Exploring the physics of glaciers and rivers using dedicated field monitoring

Speaker: Florent Gimbert (IGE Grenoble - CNRS)
Date: November 20, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Disequilibrium river networks dissecting the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, California record significant late Cenozoic tilting and associated surface uplift

Speaker: Helen Beeson (ETH Zürich)
Date: October 29, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Multiple Cosmogenic Nuclide Analysis in Sedimentary Systems: New Possibilities and Challenges

Speaker: Kristina Hippe (Freie Universität Berlin)
Date: September 25, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Holocene Paleoecological and Climatic Reconstruction Using Multiple Biotic Proxies from Lake Sediments in the Central Ganga Plains, India

Speaker: Pavani Misra (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Date: September 18, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Paleodenudation Reconstructions Over Different Timescales

Speaker: Pierre-Henri Blard (CRPG Nancy)
Date: September 10, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Drainage Divide Forms in Asymmetric Uplift

Speaker: Chuanqi He (Zhejiang University)
Date: August 30, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Decreasing water availability as a threat for traditional land-use systems in the Upper Mustang-Himalaya/Nepal

Speaker: Jussi Grießinger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Date: July 03, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Hillslope Evolution in Rocky, Blocky Landscapes

Speaker: Rachel Glade (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Date: June 13, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building A27 (Großer Refraktor), Room 102

Vulnerability of Temperate Forests during the 2015 and 2018 Summer Droughts

Speaker: Ansgar Kahmen (University of Basel)
Date: June 12, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building H, Room VR

Spy Satellites for Good

Speaker: Catalina Munteanu (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Date: June 05, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Chemical Weathering and Sedimentary Recycling: Towards a Chemically Inert Earth Surface?

Speaker: Julien Bouchez (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
Date: May 29, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Late Quaternary Seismicity in the Western Nepal Himalaya: A Journey through Lacustrine Paleoseismology

Speaker: Zak Ghazoui (Geomorphology)
Date: May 28, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Eruptions of metamorphic CO2 and perturbations of hydrothermal activity following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in central Nepal: Perspectives for the coming Himalayan megaquake?

Speaker: Frederic Girault (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
Date: May 22, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

The Panama Isthmus Closing and its Impact on Ocean and Climate Dynamics - a Multiproxy Approach

Speaker: Carme Huguet (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá)
Date: May 20, 2019, 3:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Everything but Tectonics: Reading Climate and Lithology from Topography

Speaker: Joel Johnson (University of Texas at Austin)
Date: May 15, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building H, VR1

Why are carbonate mountains high and steep? How carbonates denude and the implications for the stream power model

Speaker: Richard Ott (ETH Zürich)
Date: May 03, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Grains to landscapes: Sediment transport, channel dynamics, and river self-organization

Speaker: Colin Phillips (Northwestern University)
Date: April 16, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Exhumation history of the Namche Barwa Syntaxis (Eastern Himalaya) and implications for models of tectonic – surface process coupling

Speaker: Peter van der Beek (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Date: April 03, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Topographic Controls on Streamflow Emergence

Speaker: Jeff Prancevic (ETH Zürich)
Date: March 27, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Earthquake Induced Sediment Supply in Himalayan Rivers

Speaker: David Puhl (Freie Universität Berlin)
Date: March 20, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Spectra, Species, Services - Imaging Spectroscopy for an Assessment of Ecosystem Properties

Speaker: Hannes Feilhauer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Date: March 13, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Learning More to Predict Landslides

Speaker: Ugur Öztürk (Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics, GFZ)
Date: March 06, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Rainfall-induced Landslide: A Story of Satellites, Storms, Climate and even Rocks!

Speaker: Odin Marc (ETH Zürich)
Date: February 27, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Yangtze Upstream-River Network Expansion Reveals Potential Top-Down Incision

Speaker: Alexander Rohrmann (University of Potsdam)
Date: February 20, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

The relevance of diffusion processes for desert pavement dynamics - an experimental study

Speaker: Hannah Derkum (University of Salzburg)
Date: February 06, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be in River Sediments: Where Grain Size Matters and Why

Speaker: Renee van Dongen (Earth Surface Geochemistry, GFZ)
Date: January 30, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Disturbance Ecogeomorphology

Speaker: Christian Mohr (University of Potsdam)
Date: January 23, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Rio Bermejo: Interannual fluctuations in organic carbon export from the Andean foreland

Speaker: Nina Golombek (University of Potsdam)
Date: January 09, 2019, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Group Seminars 2018

Bedrock Canyons Carved by the Largest Known Floods on Earth and Mars

Speaker: Michael Lamb (Caltech)
Date: December 06, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Seismic Monitoring for Rockfall Disaster in Orogenic Belt: A Case Study in Liwu Catchment, Taiwan

Speaker: Jui-Ming Chang (National Taiwan University)
Date: December 05, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Debris-Covered Glacier Dynamics

Speaker: Leif Anderson (Earth Surface Geochemistry, GFZ)
Date: November 28, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Earthquake Induced Sediment Pulses in Himalayan Rivers

Speaker: David Puhl (Freie Universität Berlin)
Date: 21. November 2018, 13:00
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Spatial Correlation Bias in Late-Cenozoic Erosion Histories Derived from Thermochronology

Speaker: Taylor Schildgen (Geomorphology)
Date: November 16, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

How Sensitive Are Catchment-Fan Systems to Rapid Climate Change? Geomorphic and Stratigraphic Evidence from Death Valley, USA

Speaker: Sam Brooke (Imperial College London)
Date: November 07, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Long-Chain Diols: New Biomarker Proxies to Reconstruct Temperature and River Input

Speaker: Julie Lattaud (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research - NIOZ)
Date: November 05, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Measuring Decadal Vertical Land-level Changes from SRTM-C and TanDEM-X in the South-Central Andes

Speaker: Ben Purinton (University of Potsdam)
Date: October 24, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Exploiting the Rio Bermejo Natural Laboratory to Investigate Geochemical Signals of Surficial Processes

Speaker: Marisa Repasch (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: October 17, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

TBA

Speaker: Jessica Thompson
Date: October 10, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: A27 (Großer Refraktor), Room 102

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Remote sensing of water vapor and soil moisture

Speakers: Jens Wickert & Galina Dick (Space Geodetic Techniques, GFZ)
Date: September 26, 2018, 3:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

TBA

Speaker: Susan Conway (Université de Nantes)
Date: September 19, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Quantifying Sediment Transport and Fluvial Processes with Acoustic Backscatter Techniques

Speaker: Ricardo Szupiany (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina)
Date: September 05, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Weathering, Rock Erodibility, and Bedrock Channel Shape

Speaker: Charlie Shobe (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Date: July 9, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Discussing the Paleoclimate n-alkane Biomarker Proxy - First Results from Comparing Two Adjacent Lakes in Northern Poland from 13007 to 10500 cal yr bp

Speaker: Theresa Grunwald (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: June 20, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Sediment Dynamics and Sediment Connectivity in the Kosi Basin: Implications for River Hazards

Speaker: Rajiv Sinha (Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Date: June 13, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Exploiting Sentinel-1 Coherence Data to Map Erosional Transitions in Arid and Semi-Arid Mountain Landscapes

Speaker: Stephanie Olen (University of Potsdam)
Date: June 06, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Paleosoils of Upper Mustang (Nepal): New Insights into their Origin from Leaf Wax Isotope and Grain Size Data

Speaker: Johanna Menges (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: May 30, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Why Pre-Existing Conditions Matter in Geomorphology: From Turbulence to Landscape Evolution

Speaker: Elowyn Yager (Center for Ecohydraulics Research, University of Idaho)
Date: May 23, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Exhumation and Erosion of the Southern Alps of New Zealand at Million-Year and Thousand-Year Scales Based on Bedrock Thermochronology and Detrital Provenance Analysis

Speaker: Ruohong Jiao (Earth Surface Process Modelling, GFZ)
Date: April 25, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Linking River Incision to Deposition for Ocean, and for Continent: A New Implicit and O(n) Method

Speaker: Xiaoping Yuan (Earth Surface Process Modelling, GFZ)
Date: April 21, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Braided Channels, by Land and by Sea

Speaker: Ajay Limaye (St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota)
Date: April 04, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Small Dynamic Mountainous Rivers in Taiwan Witness Large Sedimentary Geochemical and Provenance Heterogeneity Over Multi-Spatial Scales

Speaker: Kai Deng (Earth Surface Geochemistry, GFZ)
Date: March 21, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

3D Integrated Water and Suspended Sediment Discharge on the Narayani River in Nepal

Speaker: Stefan Liening (Freie Universität Berlin)
Date: March 14, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

(www.gfz-potsdam.de)

Biochemical and Metabolic Effects on the Hydrogen Isotope Composition of Organic Compounds in Plants

Speaker: Marc-Andre Cormier (Geomorphology, GFZ)
Date: March 07, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409

Avulsion and the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Debris-Flow Fans

Speaker: Tjalling de-Haas (University of Durham)
Date: March 05, 2018, 1:00 pm
Place: Building F, Room 409