Geoscientific Colloquium
June 2025
25. Jun June
Dr. Helen Elizabeth King (MARUM)
Mineral architects - How biology changes the rules to make mineral(s) matter
GEO Lecture Hall 1550
12:15
12:15
Past dates
Geoscientific Colloquium
June 2025
11. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Oliver Plümper
Plenty of Room at the Bottom: Unveiling Earth´s Processes at the Nanoscale
GEO Lecture Hall 1550
12:15
12:15
4. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Uhlemann
Unveiling dynamic environmental processes through integrated geophysical characterization and monitoring
GEO Lecture Hall 1550
12:15
12:15
December 2024
18. Dec December
Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann
Ground Penetrating Radar - Ein Blick in das Verborgene
Geo Lecture Hall 1550
12:15
12:15
November 2024
27. Nov November
Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann
A brief History of Salt Caverns: into the Depths of the Earth with DEEP.KBB
Geo Lecture Hall 1550
12:15
12:15
20. Nov November
Prof. Dr. Simone Kasemann
From Earth Science to Construction Industry - Developing a Career outside of Academia
Geo Lecture Hall 1550
12:15
12:15
6. Nov November
Fabian Rill, Dipl. Ing. Thorsten Schulze (Grundbaulabor)
Geotechnics in Holocene Subsoil
Lecture hall Geosciences, room no. 1550, GEO building
12:15
12:15
October 2023
25. Oct October
Prof. Dr. Aldo Rincon (Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia) and Students
Four short presentations (20 minutes each) on attractive geoscientific aspects of Colombia
Lecture Hall GEO 1550
12:15
12:15
June 2023
28. Jun June
Dr. Gabriela von Goerne, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
Perspectives: CCS - Geological Storage of CO2
GEO 1550 and online (follow link)
12:00
12:00
21. Jun June
Dr. Tobias Kulgemeyer
Vattenfall Geophysics
Vattenfall Geophysics
The Sea is full of Bombs - Mitigating the Risk of unexploded Ordnances in Offshore Windfarm Developments
GEO 1550 and online
12:00
12:00
14. Jun June
Steffen Hammerschmidt, Rashpal Singh, Yting Tseng, Skyborn Renewables
From Sea to the Sky: Application of Marine Geology in Offshore Wind Farm Development
GEO 1550 and online (follow link)
12:00
12:00
May 2023
24. May May
Dr. Tobias Kulgemeyer, Vattenfall Geophysics
The Sea is full of Bombs - Mitigating the Risk of unexploded Ordnances in Offshore Windfarm Developments
Talk will be postponed
12:00
12:00
17. May May
Dr. Benedict Preu, Fraunhofer IWES
Every Detail matters - Subsurface Investigation in the Realm of Offshore Wind
GEO 1550 and online (follow link)
12:00
12:00
10. May May
Can Gromoll, ROSEN Group
Where Geosciences, Oil and Gas, Hydrogen and High Technics come together - a look behind the Scenes of Pipleline Inspections
GEO 1550 and onlinw (follow link)
12:00
12:00
April 2023
26. Apr April
Dr. Michaela Meier, Geothermie-Allianz Bayern
GEO-Energy – Geoscientists and the energy of the Earth
online (follow link)
12:15
12:15
February 2023
1. Feb February
PD Dr. Cornelius Fischer
Institut für Ressourcenökologie
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Institut für Ressourcenökologie
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Reactive transport in host rocks and reservoir rocks: experimental and numerical approaches (lecture is cancelled!)
12:15
January 2023
25. Jan January
Prof. Dr. Reiner Klemd
Geozentrum Nordbayern
Geozentrum Nordbayern
Sustainable resource research and -security: Supply bottlenecks for high-tech metals
GEO building, lecture hall, room 1550
12:15
12:15
18. Jan January
Prof. Dr. Martin Fleckenstein
Honorarprofessor für Angewandte Erdölgeologie
Honorarprofessor für Angewandte Erdölgeologie
Geology first: understanding the subsurface to decarbonize energy systems
GEO building, lecture hall, room 1550 and via video conference
12:15
12:15
Juli 2022
20. Jul Juli
Dr. Andreas Klügel (Universität Bremen)
The 2021 volcanic eruption of Cumbre Vieja volcano, La Palma (Canary Islands)
GEO 1550
12:15
12:15
13. Jul Juli
Prof. Dr. Ella Schmidt (Universität Bremen)
Disorder in crystalline (geo)materials - From local order to physical properties
12:15
6. Jul Juli
PD Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi (Uni. Bremen)
Quaternary climate of the tropical Indo-Pacific: simulations vs. reconstructions
GEO 1550
12:15
12:15
June 2022
29. Jun June
PD Dr. Frank Lisker (Univ. Bremen)
How Captain Scott climbed a basin, or: exhumation and uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains
GEO 1550
12:15
12:15
22. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Karsten Gohl (AWI Bremerhaven)
Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics from geophysical records of paleo and present conditions
GEO 1550
12:15
12:15
15. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Berndt (Peking University)
Reconstructing ocean water oxygenation through magnetic FORC measurements of biogenic magnetite
GEO 1550
12:15
12:15
8. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (CSIC, Univ. Granada)
The formation of giant gypsum crystals: nucleation, growth and preservation
GEO 1550
12:15
12:15
February 2022
2. Feb February
Dr. Ulrike Werban (UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig)
Near surface characterization using geophysical and optical methods supported by machine learning
Only online
(via Zoom)
12:15
(via Zoom)
12:15
January 2022
26. Jan January
Dr. Hendrik Müller (BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources Hannover)
Magnetic imaging of deep sea hydrothermal systems
Only online
(via Zoom)
12:15
(via Zoom)
12:15
19. Jan January
Dr. Yang Zhang (University Bremen)
Cycle-scaled magnetostratigraphy for geologic time scale calibration
Online
(via Zoom)
12:15
(via Zoom)
12:15
12. Jan January
Dr. Florent Szitkar (Geological Survey of Norway)
Magnetism and Hydrothermalism: A winning combination
only online
(via Zoom)
12:15
(via Zoom)
12:15
December 2021
22. Dec December
Dr. Sebastian Uhlemann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Geoelectrical monitoring to assess natural hazards and to image the impact of climate change
Online
(via Zoom)
12:15
(via Zoom)
12:15
8. Dec December
Dr. Baptiste Dafflon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Coupling geophysical methods and remote sensing data to improve the quantification of Arctic permafrost dynamics in a changing climate.
only online
(via Zoom)
16:15
(via Zoom)
16:15
1. Dec December
Dr. Brendan Reilly (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego)
Iceberg Alley Lithostratigraphy, Paleomagnetism, and the Plio-Pleistocene Rhythms of Antarctic Climate
only Online
(via Zoom)
16:15
(via Zoom)
16:15
November 2021
24. Nov November
Dr. Kristina Tietze (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam)
Active and passive electromagnetic surveying of drillable depths - Challenges and perspectives for exploration and monitoring
GEO 1550 and online
(via Zoom)
12:15
(via Zoom)
12:15
17. Nov November
Dr. Pritam Yogeshwar (University of Cologne)
Boat-Towed Transient Electromagnetics - Investigation of the Furnas Volcanic Lake Hydrothermal System, Azores
only Online:
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/96524048625?pwd=VXAyWEVqNHo2Mzd3N1IrSVVrSVNIZz09
12:15
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/96524048625?pwd=VXAyWEVqNHo2Mzd3N1IrSVVrSVNIZz09
12:15
3. Nov November
Dr. Amir Haroon (Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)
Integrated marine Controlled Source Electromagnetic applications for detecting freshened groundwater in coastal regions.
GEO 1550 and online:
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/96524048625?pwd=VXAyWEVqNHo2Mzd3N1IrSVVrSVNIZz09
12:15
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/96524048625?pwd=VXAyWEVqNHo2Mzd3N1IrSVVrSVNIZz09
12:15
June 2021
30. Jun June
Dr. Marcello Gugliotta
Sedimentology of modern and ancient tidal clastic systems
zoom meeting: https://unibremen. zoom.us/j/99730407728?pwd=UGo2N 0FnK1hJM0RVZEZtMW1uMDJMQT09
12:15
12:15
23. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Vera Schlindwein
Feeling the Polar Oceans: A Seismological Tour from Submarine Volcanoes to Drifting Icebergs
zoom meeting: https://unibremen. zoom.us/j/99730407728?pwd=UGo2N 0FnK1hJM0RVZEZtMW1uMDJMQT09
12:15
12:15
9. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Thomas Laepple
Beyond mean climate change: Using paleoclimate archives to better constrain climate variability.
zoom meeting: https://unibremen. zoom.us/j/99730407728?pwd=UGo2N 0FnK1hJM0RVZEZtMW1uMDJMQT09
12:15
12:15
May 2021
26. May May
Prof. Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner
The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and NFDI4BioDiversity
zoom meeting:https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/99730407728?pwd=UGo2N0FnK1hJM0RVZEZtMW1uMDJMQT09
12:15
12:15
January 2020
29. Jan January
Prof. Dr. Elda Miramontes Garcia
Antrittsvorlesung
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal, Raum 1550
12:15
12:15
22. Jan January
Prof. Dr. Morten H. Iversen
Antrittsvorlesung
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal, Raum 1550
12:15
12:15
December 2019
11. Dec December
Prof. Dr. Schulze-Makuch
Exploring the Limits of Life on Earth and Some Thoughts About their Relevance to the Search for Life in the Universe
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal, Raum 1550
12:15
12:15
November 2019
27. Nov November
Dr. Mark van Zuilen, IPGP Paris
Traces of life in ancient silica deposits
GEO1550
12:15
12:15
Juli 2019
3. Jul Juli
Prof. Dr. Martin Fleckenstein
Die stille Revolution – wie ein paläozoischer Tonstein die Welt veränderte
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
June 2019
12. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Joachim Blankenburg
Einfluss der extensiven landwirtschaftlichen Nutzung von Niedermooren auf Torf- und Muddeeigenschaften und auf die Freisetzung klimarelevanter Gase
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
May 2019
29. May May
Prof. Dr. Karin Zonneveld
“The fate of marine particulate matter” - what Palynology can tell about production, transport and degradation/preservation of organic particles in the ocean
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
22. May May
Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann
Möglichkeiten, Komplexität und Grenzen palökologischer Rekonstruktion - ein Beispiel aus der frühen Kreide Westfalens
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
April 2019
24. Apr April
Dr. Anthony Chappaz
Associate Professor of Molecular Geochemistry
Director of the STARLAB
Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Central Michigan University
Associate Professor of Molecular Geochemistry
Director of the STARLAB
Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Central Michigan University
Refining the use of paleo redox-proxies, the time for molecular geochemistry has come: Molybdenum case studies
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
January 2019
30. Jan January
Dr. Crispin Little
University of Leeds
University of Leeds
"A 3.77 (or possibly 4.28) billion year history of life associated with marine hydrothermal vents"
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:15
12:15
November 2018
14. Nov November
Prof. Dr. Sabine Kasten
Antrittsvorlesung
„What goes down must come up: The impact of fluid circulation in oceanic crust on biogeochemical processes in overlying sediments“
„What goes down must come up: The impact of fluid circulation in oceanic crust on biogeochemical processes in overlying sediments“
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
16:15
16:15
May 2018
30. May May
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Fischer (Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern)
The imprint of Dansgaard Oeschger events on biogeochemical cycles - learning from leads and lags
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
23. May May
Prof. Dr. Peter LaFemina (Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University)
Plate deformation and volcanism on Iceland
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
16. May May
Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Reading the fine print: micrometer scale analysis of lipid biomarkers in sediments
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
January 2018
31. Jan January
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Bunge (LMU München, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Sektion Geophysik),
Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich (LMU München, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Sektion Geologie)
Prof. Dr. Anke Friedrich (LMU München, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Sektion Geologie)
Models and Observations of Vertical Motion (MoveOn) of the Lithosphere
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
17. Jan January
Prof. Dr. Marta Pérez Gussinyé
Antrittsvorlesung
Rifted margins: structure, evolution and dynamics
Rifted margins: structure, evolution and dynamics
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:00
12:00
November 2017
21. Nov November
Associate Professor Simon Lamb (Inst. of Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
History of the Alpine Fault and origin of New Zealand’s Southern Alps
GEO 1550
16:30
16:30
June 2017
27. Jun June
Prof. Anne de Vernal
Université du Québec à Montréal
"Natural variability of sea ice cover in the Arctic and subarctic seas"
Université du Québec à Montréal
"Natural variability of sea ice cover in the Arctic and subarctic seas"
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
14:00
14:00
6. Jun June
Prof. Alberto E. Saal
„Budget of volatiles: from where, when, and how water came to Earth-Moon system“
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
13:00
13:00
April 2017
19. Apr April
Dr. Matthias Forwick
Fjord tales - what can the floors 'tell' us about the activity of glaciers on Svalbard in the past?
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
12:30
12:30
January 2017
12. Jan January
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pichler
Geogenic molybdenum in ground and drinking water - the new arsenic?
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
15:00
15:00
December 2016
8. Dec December
PD Dr. Karsten Gohl
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: From past record to prediction
GEO-Gebäude, Hörsaal (Raum 1550)
15:00
15:00
Juli 2014
10. Jul Juli
Prof. Dr. Olaf Eisen
Die Zukunft der geophysikalischen Erkundung der Eisschilde
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15
3. Jul Juli
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schneider
Stabilität, Struktur und Eigenschaften von Mullit (Al4+2xSi2-2xO10-x)
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15
June 2014
26. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Heiko Pälike
The Climate of the Cenozoic: New insights from ocean drilling
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15
19. Jun June
PD Dr. Vera Schlindwein
Spreizungprozesse an ultralangsamen mittelozeanischen Rücken: Wie zeichnet man lokale Erdbeben auf?
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15
12. Jun June
Prof. Dr. Angelika Humbert
Modelling ice flow dynamics
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15
5. Jun June
PD Dr. Cornelius Fischer
Diagenese: kleinskalige Mechanismen, großskalige Auswirkungen
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15
May 2014
22. May May
Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera
Foraminiferen - eine mikroskopische Reise in die Vergangenheit der Ozeane
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15
15. May May
Dr. Christian Hallmann
The early evolution of life on Earth—Biomarkers and isotopes as a tool to study the rise of organismic complexity
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15
8. May May
Prof. Dr. Andreas Lüttge
Predicting Mineral Dissolution Rates – Fiction or Realistic Vision?
GEO-Gebäude, R 1550 (Hörsaal)
16:15
16:15