Cologne Geosciences Colloquium

Winter semester 2019/20

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Time/venue	Host
Tue 5 Nov 2019	Prof Thomas Driesner	Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland	How geothermal systems work	5.00-6.30 p.m., room 0.01 (Hörsaal Mineralogie), Zülpicher Str. 49b, 50674 Köln	Prof Sandro Jahn
Tue 10 Dec 2019	Dr Bertus Smith, Associate Professor	Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg	South Africa's Archean and Paleoproterozoic chemical sedimentary successions: implications for paleoenvironments and life on early Earth	5.00-6.30 p.m., room 0.01 (Hörsaal Mineralogie), Zülpicher Str. 49b, 50674 Köln	Prof Carsten Münker
Mon 6 Jan 2020	Prof Boris Braun	Institute of Geography, University of Cologne	Klimabedingte Umweltveränderungen und Migration in Küstenräumen des Globalen Südens	5.00-6.30 p.m., Kurt-Alder Hörsaal (Hörsaal I), Chemisches Institut, Greinstraße 6, 50674 Köln	Ringvorlesung Klimawandel
Thu 9 Jan 2020	Prof Frank Postberg	Institute of Geological Sciences - Planetary Sciences, University of Berlin	The subsurface ocean of Enceladus: A habitable place in our solar system		Prof Joachim Saur
Mon 13 Jan 2020	Prof Daniela Jacob	Director, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Hamburg, Germany	Klimawandel und Weltklimarat (IPCC)	5.00-6.30 p.m., Kurt-Alder Hörsaal (Hörsaal I), Chemisches Institut, Greinstraße 6, 50674 Köln	Prof Susanne Crewell, Ringvorlesung Klimawandel

Please send suggestions for future speakers preferably directly to the scientific coordinator in your field or to geosci-colloquium(a)uni-koeln.de

Past Colloquia

Sommer semester 2019

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
29 Apr 2019	Dr Christian Koyama	Tokyo Denki University, School of Science and Engineering	Advanced radar applications in terrestrial geosciences - from GPR to ground-based, airborne and spaceborne SARs	Prof Karl Schneider
27 May 2019	Prof Andrea Koschinsky	Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen	Marine mineral deposits: Formation, resource potential, and environmental and societal implications of deep-sea mining	Dr. Frank Wombacher
24 Jun 2019	Prof Daniela Domeisen	Professor for Atmospheric Predictability, ETH Zürich, Switzerland	Heat wave or cold air outbreak? — On the predictability of our weather on weekly to monthly timescales	Prof Susanne Crewell
08 Jul 2019	Prof Tilman Spohn	German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research	InSight – A Geophysical Observatory for Mars	Prof Joachim Saur

Scientific coordinators of the series: Prof Javier Revilla Diez, Prof Sandro Jahn, Prof Bülent Tezkan

Winter semester 2018/19

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
15 Oct 2018	Dr Alexander N. Krot	Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany	Chondritic meteorites and their components: Clues to the history of the early Solar System	PD Dr Dominik Hezel
29 Oct 2018	Dr Frank Lamy	AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven	Changes in Drake Passage through-flow and dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at orbital and millennial time-scales	Dr Andrea Jaeschke
12 Nov 2018	Prof Horst Marschall	Wilhelm-Heraeus-Professor for Deep Earth Processes, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt	Magma Generation in Subduction Zones – Novel vs. Classical Models	PD Dr Dominik Hezel
26 Nov 2018	Dr Guus van Westen	Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University	Follow the Food: Foreign agribusiness and local food security in Africa	Prof. Peter Dannenberg
10 Dec 2018	Prof Niels Fold	Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), University of Copenhagen	Smallholders and cont(r)act farming in Africa	Prof Javier Revilla Diez
07 Jan 2019	Prof Julia Pongratz	Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich	Lands of opportunity? From side-effects of land use to mitigating climate change	Dr Eric Parteli
21 Jan 2019	Prof Pavlos Kollias	Stony Brook University & Brookhaven National Lab (BNL), international faculty member University of Cologne	Radar meteorology in the era of collaborative networks and constellations	Prof Susanne Crewell

Scientific coordinators of the series: Prof Sandro Jahn, Prof Roel Neggers and Prof Javier Revilla Diez

Summer semester 2018

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
16 Apr 2018	Dr Felix Pithan	AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven	How the Arctic warms within days and over decades	Prof Roel Neggers
30 Apr 2018	no colloquium		no colloquium
14 May 2018	Prof Paul Baker & Prof Sherilyn Fritz	Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, USA & Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA	Quaternary Paleoclimate of the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia	Dr Volker Wennrich
28 May 2018	Prof Uwe Rascher	Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences	Measuring and understanding the red fluorescence glow of vegetation from the leaf to the globe - Scientific challenges and technical implementation of the future FLEX Satellite Mission of ESA	Prof Georg Bareth
11 Jun 2018	Dr Prasad Thenkabail	United States Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA	Global Croplands for Food and Water Security and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Vegetation	Prof Georg Bareth
25 Jun 2018	Dr Freja Vamborg	Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK	From data to information, from research to applications - the development of operational climate services	Dr Vera Schemann
09 Jul 2018	Prof Dr Patrick Grunert	Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne	Foraminifera: The key to our understanding of ocean-climate dynamics (inaugural lecture)	Prof Sandro Jahn

Scientific coordinators of the series: Prof Georg Bareth, Prof Sandro Jahn, Prof Roel Neggers

Winter semester 2017/18

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
09 Oct 2017	Prof John Sweeney	Geography Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth	Climate Change: Science and Policy and Education's New Integrator
06 Nov 2017	Dr Hans von Storch	Director emeritus of Institute for Coastal Research of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Professor at the Meteorological Institute and member of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hamburg	Democratic decision making and the role of (climate) science
20 Nov 2017	Prof Rosalind Rickaby	Biogeochemistry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK	Note earlier starting time: 16:00 h, The Evolving Role of Phytoplankton in the Global Carbon Cycle
04 Dec 2017	Dr Stefan Kröpelin	Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology - African Archaeology, University of Cologne	Holocene climate change in the Eastern Sahara: Lessons from the past
18 Dec 2017	Dr Casper Tai Christiansen	Scientific leader, Arctic Station, Disko Island, Greenland	Terrestrial carbon cycling research in permafrost-affected environments
15 Jan 2018	Dr Matthias Garschagen	Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn	Between welfare state and farewell state: The contested responsibility for risk mitigation and social protection under conditions of global change
29 Jan 2018	MSc Claire Fyson	Policy Analyst \| Climate Analytics, Berlin	Behind the scenes of the Paris Agreement

Scientific coordinator of the series: Prof. Roel Neggers

Summer semester 2017

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
24 Apr 2017	Prof Falko Langenhorst	Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena	Mineralogy and space weathering of asteroid dust returned by the Hayabusa space mission
08 May 2017	Prof Christian Schulz	Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Luxembourg	Post-growth and alternative economies: Conceptual and empirical challenges
22 May 2017	Dr Jonathan Nichols	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK	The NASA Juno mission to Jupiter
19 Jun 2017	Dr Carsten Butsch	Institute of Geography, University of Cologne	Migrants in a globalised world. Transnational practices of Indians in Germany
03 Jul 2017	Prof Corinna Hoose	Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	Dissipation of Arctic mixed-phase stratus clouds
17 Jul 2017	Prof Alexander Densmore	Institute of Hazard, Risk, and Resilience and Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK	From process to form: debris-flow erosion, avulsion, and fan development

Winter semester 2016/17

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
24 Oct 2016	Prof Giles Harrison	Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK	The global atmospheric electric circuit and the effects of current flow through layer clouds
07 Nov 2016	Prof Patrick Cordier	University of Lille, France	Mantle convection: the atoms behind the flow
21 Nov 2016	Prof Bjorn Stevens	Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and University of Hamburg	Water in the atmosphere
05 Dec 2016	Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer	Institute of Geography, University of Cologne	International Migration Politics and Migrant Mobilities in Urban Asia (lecture to open habilitation procedure)
16 Jan 2017	Prof Sami K Solanki	Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen	The Sun's Magnetic Field and Variability
30 Jan 2017	Prof Hans Joosten	Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald	Peat for speed in land sector climate mitigation and adaptation

Summer semester 2016

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
25 Apr 2016	Prof Katja Matthes	GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel & Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel	Decadal Climate Variability: the Role of the Stratosphere and the Ocean
23 May 2016	Prof Sandro Jahn	Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne	From first principles to geological processes (inaugural lecture)
06 Jun 2016	Prof Gerhard Wörner	University of Göttingen	Andean magmatism from crystal to crustal scale or: how to make an andesite
20 Jun 2016	Prof James B Gill	University of California, Santa Cruz, USA	Changbaishan Volcano on the China/N. Korea border: geopolitics, and the rapid processes of creating and erupting large volumes of rhyolite
04 Jul 2016	Prof Sami K Solanki	Cancelled // His talk will be given in the next winter semester instead	The Sun's Magnetic Field and Variability
18 Jul 2016	Dr Chris Arridge	Space and Planetary Physics, Lancaster University, UK	Planetary Space Weather in the Outer Heliosphere

Winter semester 2015/16

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
19 Oct 2015	Prof Martin Visbeck	Chair of the German Committee Future Earth; GEOMAR \| Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel	Future Earth - Future Ocean: Why should we be interested in integrated sciences?
02 Nov 2015	Prof Bill Pritchard	School of Geosciences, University of Sydney; International Faculty, University of Cologne since July 2015	A complex menu. Understanding the relationship between global food security and climate change
16 Nov 2015	Prof Frank Schilling	Karlsruher Institute of Technology - Technical University Karlsruhe	Seismic Risk: Fracking, Waste Water Disposal, and Deep Geothermal Energy
30 Nov 2015	Prof Susan Waldron	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom	In the anthropocene slow carbon cycles are becoming faster. How do we know?
14 Dec 2015	Prof Hans-Joachim Kümpel	President of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)	Unconventional shale gas extraction - pleading for an honest debate
11 Jan 2016	Dr Stefan Ouma	Institut für Humangeographie, Goethe Universität Frankfurt	Making sense of the global land rush: On the capitalization of farmland, agriculture (and water)
25 Jan 2016	Prof Johannes Quaas	Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig	Climate engineering risks and uncertainties Short presentation by Prof Quaas followed by a panel discussion lead by Svenja Rausch, MA, until approx. 18:30h
	Prof Astrid Kiendler-Scharr	Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich
	Prof Harry Vereecken	Scientific Director, Geoverbund ABC/J and Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Scientific coordinator: Prof Dr Peter Dannenberg

The series is supported by the Graduate School of Geosciences (contact: Dr Karin Boessenkool)

The aim of this lecture series

The aim of the lectures is to achieve a deeper understanding of current developments and larger trends across the spectrum of the geosciences that affect our society. All topics will be discussed in a broader societal context.

The series is open to everyone in Cologne Geosciences, students and university staff and to members of the regional geo-alliance Geoverbund ABC/J.

Studium Integrale

Students from across the university can partake in the module "Future Earth" offered as a part of Studium Integrale (details are available on the webpages of the Professional Center).

The initiators

This series was initiated and is co-organised by the GSGS Debate Club, a bottom-up initiative of doctoral student members of the Graduate School of Geosciences.

Summer semester 2015

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
13 Apr 2015	Prof Kim Philip Schumacher	Universität Vechta	Creating value out of liquid manure – a value chain approach in rural Lower Saxony
27 Apr 2015	Prof Dagmar Haase	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure in Cities of the Anthropocene - Potentials, Applications and Challenges
11 May 2015	Prof Roel Neggers	Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne	Scale-aware parameterization; a new frontier in the atmospheric sciences (Inaugural lecture)
18 May 2015	Prof Katja Matthes (cancelled)	GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel & Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel	Decadal Climate Variability: the Role of the Stratosphere and the Ocean
25 May 2015	no colloquium	(Pentecost holiday)
08 Jun 2015	Prof Wilfried Jokat	Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven	Applied Geophysical Research in Antarctica
22 Jun 2015	Prof Friedhelm von Blanckenburg	Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ Potsdam	The colonisation of the periodic table by metal stable isotopes
06 Jul 2015	Prof Mustapha Meghraoui	Université de Strasbourg	On the Importance of Isotopic Dating and Related Uncertainties in Paleoseismology

Winter semester 2014/15

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
27 Oct 2014	Prof Robin Boyle	Wayne State University, Detroit, USA	Detroit: city planning in the context of an urban crisis
10 Nov 2014	Prof Rainer Grün	The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia	Present status of Electron Spin Resonance dating
24 Nov 2014	Dr Stephan de Roode	Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands	What controls the stratocumulus cloud amount?
08 Dec 2014	Dr Arko Lucieer	University of Tasmania, Australia	Rise of the Drones: how Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) create new opportunities for environmental remote sensing and geosciences
19 Jan 2015	Prof Berndt Feuerbacher	Director Emeritus, Institute of Space Simulation, DLR Cologne, Professor Emeritus, Chair of Space Physics, Ruhr University Bochum	Rosetta, Philae and the Comet

Planned Colloquia

Winter semester 2019/20

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host

Scientific coordinators of the series:

Please send suggestions for future speakers preferably directly to the scientific coordinator in your field or to geosci-colloquium(a)uni-koeln.de

Winter semester 2017/18

Click here for more information on the planned theme "Climate Change - Geoscientific Perspectives"

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
09 Oct 2017	Prof John Sweeney	Geography Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth	Climate Change: Science and Policy and Education's New Integrator
06 Nov 2017	Dr Hans von Storch	Director emeritus of Institute for Coastal Research of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Professor at the Meteorological Institute and member of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hamburg	Democratic decision making and the role of (climate) science
20 Nov 2017	Prof Rosalind Rickaby	Biogeochemistry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK	Note earlier starting time: 16:00 h, The Evolving Role of Phytoplankton in the Global Carbon Cycle
04 Dec 2017	Dr Stefan Kröpelin	Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology - African Archaeology, University of Cologne	Holocene climate change in the Eastern Sahara: Lessons from the past
18 Dec 2017	Dr Casper Tai Christiansen	Scientific leader, Arctic Station, Disko Island, Greenland	Terrestrial carbon cycling research in permafrost-affected environments
15 Jan 2018	Dr Matthias Garschagen	Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn	Between welfare state and farewell state: The contested responsibility for risk mitigation and social protection under conditions of global change
29 Jan 2018	MSc Claire Fyson	Policy Analyst \| Climate Analytics, Berlin	Behind the scenes of the Paris Agreement

Scientific coordinator of the series: Prof. Roel Neggers