Programme

Sunday (1 September)

16:00–17:30

Arrival (your room is avalible from 16:00)

17:30–19:30

Icebreaker

19:30–21:00

Dinner

Monday (2 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:00

Cosmic rays and production of cosmogenic nuclides
Dmitry Tikhomirov (University of Zurich)

09:00-09:45

Introduction to Radiocarbon
Irka Hajdas (ETHZ)

09:45-10:15

Coffee break

10:15-10:45

¹⁴C calibration, wiggle matching and calibration tools
Irka Hajdas (ETHZ)

10:45-11:45

Why do we need AMS?
Marcus Christl (ETHZ)

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

Use of cosmogenic nuclides for the provenance tracing and denudation rates estimation
Fritz Schlunegger (University of Bern)

14:00-15:00

Cosmogenic chlorine-36 as a dating tool: an example of application to limestone fault scarps
Dmitry Tikhomirov (University of Zurich)

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-17:30

Luminescence dating (and some field work)
Elena Serra (University of Freiburg, Germany)

17:30-18:30

MortAlive: How to save the Morteratsch glacier
Felix Keller (Academia Engiadina)

18:30-19:00

Participant presentations

19:00-20:00

Dinner

20:00-21:00

Participant presentations

Tuesday (3 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:20

Pleistocene-Holocene Glacial Soil Stratigraphy in the Rocky Mountains, WY, USA
Dennis Dahms (University of Northern Iowa, USA)

09:20-10:40

Participant presentations

10:40-11:00

Short briefing on today's field exercises
Markus Egli (University of Zurich)

11:00-11:30

Coffee break and preparation of picnic-lunch

11:30-19:00

Field exercises and talks
Markus Egli, Dennis Dahms, Dmitry Tikhomirov

19:30-20:30

Dinner

20:30-

Open time for discussions

Wednesday (4 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-10:30

Data evaluation of soils and rock surfaces
Markus Egli, Dennis Dahms

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:00

Basics in dendrochronology
Holger Gärtner (WSL)

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:30

Wood anatomy in Geosciences - Sampling strategies
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-18:00

Wood anatomy in Geosciences - Sample preparation
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

18:00-19:00

Participant presentations

19:00-20:00

Dinner

20:00-20:40

Participant presentations

Thursday (5 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:15

Dendrogeomorphology - Applications
Holger Gärtner (WSL)

09:15-10:00

Volcanic eruptions and tree rings
Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:30

Loess-Paleosol Sequences – from pedo- to chronostratigraphy
Tobias Sprafke (Berner Fachhochschule)

11:30-12:30

An introduction to archaeomagnetic dating:
Theory and applications
Evdokia Tema (University of Torino, Italy)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Dating using ²¹⁰Pb and ¹³⁷Cs
Nathalie Dubois (EAWAG)

14:30-15:30

Dendrodata evaluation
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Dendrodata evaluation
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

17:30-19:00

Participant presentations

19:00-20:00

Dinner

20:00-21:00

Participant presentations

Friday (6 September) without excursion

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

            -11:00

Departure (your room is avalible till 11:00)

Friday (6 September) with excursion

06:30-07:30

Breakfast

07:38-18:18

Excursion: "On the move: Soil and landscape dynamics of the Val Bever and Abula alpine region"
Markus Egli, Dennis Dahms (Lunch in the field)

               ⇒ Reasonable level of fitness required!

In case of heavy rain:

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:44-18:00

Excursion: "Fairy tale forests and crude reality in the Upper Engadine"
Paolo Cherubini, Markus Egli (Lunch in the field ... or wherever possible ...)

19:30-12:30

Dinner

Saturday (7 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

           -11:00