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Department of Geography Soil Science and Biogeochemistry

Past events

You can find some of the past events as podcasts here.

Date

Speaker Title

Group

28.03.2024

 

Dr. Chloé Wüst, Agroscope

 

Paddy rice as a climate-friendlier solution for cultivated peaty soils in Switzerland?

 

2B

 

20.03.2024

 

Prof. Dr. Dennis Dahms, University of Northern Iowa

 

Geomorphic significance of new exposures of Yellowstone Lava Creek ash in terrace sediments and soils, Wind River Mountains, USA

 

GCH

 

06.03.2024

 

Dr. Stéphanie Grand, University of Lausanne

 

The effect of enhanced rock weathering on pedogenesis and soil fertility

 

2B

 

13.12.2023

Prof. Dr. Saskia Bindschedler, Université de Neuchâtel

 

Bacterial-fungal interactions: from fundamental biology to applications

 

2B

 

22.11.2023

 

Prof. Dr. Cindy De Jonge, ETH Zurich

 

New avenues for brGDGTs: can we use biomarker lipids to reconstruct past changes in soil chemistry?

 

2B

 

15.11.2023

 

Prof. Dr. Marie Spohn, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

 

Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stoichiometry of soil organic matter shaped by biota and minerals

2B

 

01.11.2023

 

Dr. Mike C. Rowley, UZH

 

Finding the association between soil organic carbon and calcium in surprising places and its relevance to the terrestrial carbon cycle

 

2B

 

11.10.2023

 

Dr. Tobias Schneider, Eawag

 

Unravelling the climate of the past: Insights from Lacustrine Sediments in Greenland

 

2B

 

04.10.2023

 

Dr. Kelsey Crutchfield-Peters, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

Forest rhizospheres drive linked carbon and nitrogen cycling meters below the base of soil

 

2B

 

31.05.2023

 

Dr. Elly Morriën,

Universiteit van Amsterdam

 

Will fungi solve the carbon dilemma?

2B

24.05.2023

 

Dr. Maziar Mohammadi, UZH

 

Source identification of pollutants in water and soils at the watershed scale GCH

15.03.2023

 

Dr. Maxim Dorodnikov, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster & Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

 

Everything old is new again: Passive Diffusion Chambers as a tool for measurement of in-situ CH4 oxidation

 

2B

 

22.02.2023

 

Dr. Filip Duszyński, University of Wrocław/Poland

 

Caprock-derived boulders as story-tellers of patterns, timing and rates of escarpment retreat in a sedimentary tableland (Stołowe Mountains, SW Poland)

 

GCH

 

15.02.2022

 

Prof. Dr. Mana Gharun, University of Münster, Department of Geosciences, Institute of Landscape Ecology

 

A system-based approach towards understanding feedback from peatlands to climate change

 

2B

 

14.12.2022

 

Prof. Dr. Paolo Cherubini, WSL

 

Tree-ring dating of string instruments and the story of the Stradivari's "Messiah"

 

GCH

 

07.12.2022

 

Dr. Dmitry Tikhomirov, UZH

 

Seismic history of western Anatolia recovered with cosmogenic chlorine-36

 

GCH

 

23.11.2022

 

Dr. Claudia Guidi, WSL

 

Unraveling soil organic matter dynamics under drought: insights from a long-term irrigation experiment in a dry pine forest

 

2B

 

17.11.2022

 

Dr. Arnaud Temme, Kansas State University

 

The curious use of reincarnating landslides

GCH

 

09.11.2022

 

Prof. Dr. Marco Keiluweit, UNIL

 

Hydrological extremes alter controls and pathways of soil carbon export from mountainous watersheds

 

2B

 

28.10.2022

 

Dr. Michael (Mike) Rowley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley USA

 

Investigating interactions between the terrestrial carbon and calcium cycle

 

2B

 

26.10.2022

 

Dr. John Koestel, Agroscope & Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

 

A new approach to image organic matter in soil in 3-D resolution

 

2B

 

12.10.2022

 

Dr. Prachi Joshi, Universität Tübingen

 

Role of iron-carbon interactions in the release of greenhouse gases from permafrost systems

 

2B

 

05.10.2022

 

Prof. Dr. Emma J. Sayer, Lancaster University

 

How plant inputs shape soil biogeochemistry in tropical forests

 

2B

 

04.05.2022

 

Prof. Rodrigo Vargas, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Delaware / USA

 

Towards defining soil functional types

2B

 

27.04.2022

 

Dr. Bjorn Robroek, Radboud Univeristy/NL

 

Rapid rewiring on plant-microbe interactions on enviro-climatological gradients: important or not for ecosystem processes?

 

2B

 

06.04.2022

 

Dr. Colleen Iversen,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Ecosystem responses to climate change depend on the hidden world beneath our feet

 

2B

 

16.03.2022

 

Dr. Tana E. Wood, USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry

 

Drought, Hurricanes and Heat: The Resilience of a Wet Tropical Forest in Puerto Rico to Multiple Disturbances

 

2B

 

02.03.2022

 

Prof. Dr. Samuel Abiven, Laboratoire de Géologie, Département de Géosciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure

CEREEP-Ecotron IleDeFrance, CNRS / ENS

 

Ecotron Ile de France: an ecosystem analyser for ecology, agronomy and environmental science

2B

 

23.02.2022

 

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Dötterl, ETHZ

 

Diversity and patterns of geo-ecological controls on the soil respiration response to warming at global scales

 

GCH

 

08.12.2021

 

Dr. Sven Marhan, University of Hohenheim

 

Thirteen years Hohenheim Climate Change Experiment (HoCC) – what have we learned so far?

 

2B

 

01.12.2021

 

Dr. Alex C. Valach, Agroscope

 

Understanding the biogeochemistry driving methane emissions to develop mitigation strategies

 

2B

 

17.11.2021

 

Biao Zhu, Associate Professor, Peking University

 

Warming effects on soil carbon in the alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau

 

2B

 

10.11.2021

 

Dr. Andrew Nottingham, University of Leeds/GB

 

Tropical forests, microbes and soil carbon in a warmer world

 

2B

 

20.10.2021

 

Dr. Paul Mathijsen,
University of Münster

 

Peatland microform shifts: their spatial variation and effect on peat chemistry

2B

 

29.09.2021

 

PD Dr. Guido Wiesenberg, UZH

 

The Use of long-term climate change experiments for improved interpretation of paleoenvironmental records

 

2B

 

09.06.2021

Prof. Xiaojuan Feng, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Microbial necromass accumulation efficiency in soils and its regulating factors

2B

26.05.2021

 

Dr. Rota Wagai, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan

 

What’s so sticky? Possible mechanism behind the stability of aggregates and soil organic matter

 

2B

19.05.2021

 

Dr. Joanna Beata Kowalska, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences

 

Pedogenesis and mineral transformation in soils developed on carbonate-rich parent material (Polish Carpathians)

GCH

10.03.2021

 

Tino Peplau and PD Dr. Christopher Poeplau, Thuenen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture

 

Breaking the Ice - Consequences of land use change and warming on organic matter dynamics in subarctic soils

2B

 

24.02.2021

 

Anna Edlinger and Chantal Herzog, Plant and soil interactions, Agroscope

 

Potential of compost and solid biogas digestate to promote soil quality - observations from 59 Swiss arable fields

 

2B

03.02.2021

Dr. Ricardo J. Eloy Alves, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

Kinetic properties of microbial exoenzymes vary with soil depth but have similar temperature sensitivities through the soil profile

2B

 

16.12.2020

Prof. Serita Frey University of New Hampshire

 

Going Underground: Unearthing the Role of the Soil Microbiome in a Warmer, Fertilized World

2B

09.12.2020

 

Charlotte Angove Natural Resource Institute of Finland, LUKE Helsinki

 

Unlocking the unique climatic and physiological signal from hydrogen isotopes in tree rings

2B

25.11.2020

 

Dr. Grace Pold California Polytechnic State University

and

Dr. Luiz Domeignoz-Horta Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, UZH

 

Drivers and mechanisms of long-term soil response to chronic warming

 

2B

18.11.2020

Xuefeng Zhu, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

The soil microbial carbon pump: From conceptual insights to empirical assessments

2B

11.11.2020

 

Dr. Jennifer Soong Colorado State University

 

Five years of whole-soil warming led to loss of subsoil carbon stocks and increased CO2 efflux

 

2B

28.10.2020

 

Dr. Marijn Van de Broek ETHZ

 

The effect of microbial thermal adaptation on the simulation of soil organic carbon dynamics upon soil warming

 

2B

08.07.2020

Clément Alibert
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris

 

Biologically-Influenced Gas Fluxes Revealed by High-Resolution Monitoring of Unsaturated Soil Columns

2B

 

17.06.2020

 

Dr. Klaus Jarosch Universität Bern

 

Anthropogenic alterations of carbon and phosphor fluxes in soils

2B

10.06.2020

Dr. Sabine Rumpf University of Lausanne

 

Changes in the composition of vegetation and soil over 40 years of environmental change in the Swiss Alps

 

2B

 

13.05.2020

PD Dr. Günter Hoch, Univerity of Basel

Trees under pressure: New insights into the vulnerability of temperate forests to summer droughts

 

2B

 

29.04.2020

 

Dr. Debjani Sihi Environmental Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Soil organic matter decomposition and greenhouse gas emissions: A dynamic interplay of physical and biogeochemical processes

2B

01.04.2020

 

Dr. Avni Malhotra, Stanfort University

 

The role of plants and belowground processes in the climate-carbon cycle feedback

2B

25.03.2020

 

Dr. Lorenzo Rossi, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, Montpellier / FR

 

The soil, the roots, and the microbes: soil organic carbon storage in geotechnical embankments

2B

19.02.2020

 

Paula Ballikaya, WSL

 

Assessing past atmospheric particulate matter composition in Xi'an and Shaanxi Province using novel tree-ring analyses

 

GCH

12.11.2019

 

Dr. Elisabeth Dietze, Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

 

Fire impacts at the Earth surface across space and time: human-driven and natural feedbacks

2B

01.10.2019

 

Dr. Xavi Gallach

EDYTEM Laboratory, Université Savoie Mont Blanc

ISTerre Laboratory, Université Grenoble Alpes

 

Understanding the role of climate variations in the stability of the permafrost-affected rock walls of the Mont Blanc massif

PHYS

18.09.2019

Dr. Rose Abramoff, University of Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environment, France and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA 

 

The maximum capacity of mineral-sorbed organic matter

2B

17.09.2019

Hans Fernández, PhD Student, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Geomorphology and Geochronology of Glacier Universidad (34°S) in the semi-arid Andes of Chile

PHYS

30.08.2019

Prof. Dr. Eileen Eckmeier, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München

Living at the edge - geoarchaeology of ancient settlements

2B

26.06.2019

Dr. Ingo Ensminger

Monitoring phenology of photosynthesis with carotenoid based vegetation indices

2B

12.06.2019

Prof. Catherine Graham, WSL

Species diversity through space and time

2B

15.05.2019

Dr. Gabriela Santilli do Nascimento

Climate influence on bio-mineralization processes in hypersaline coastal lagoons (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)?

2B

10.05.2019

Simon Bowring, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement (LSCE), France Representing the Present and Future Release of Carbon to Rivers in Permafrost Regions using an Earth System Model 2B

20.02.2019

Marijn van der Meij University Wageningen / NL

OSL dating in agrarian landscapes: how to deal with post-deposition mixing by tillage

 

GCH

19.12.2019

Dr. Ulrich Hambach, BayCEER, Univerity of Bayreuth

How does loess record Pleistocene palaeoclimate?

2B

28.11.2018

PD Dr.

Naki Akçar Universität Bern

Changes in the Drainage Pattern of the Eastern Antarctic Ice Sheet through Time

GCH

27.11.2018

Prof. Dr. Prakash Nagavovanalli

University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore

Biochar effect on aluminium toxicity in tropical soils, Karnataka, India

2B

21.11.2018

Muhammed Usman, ETHZ

Pervasive translocation of terrestrial organic matter from the Godavari River

2B

14.11.2018

Dr. Marijn Van de Broek, ETHZ

Modelling subsoil organic carbon, δ13C and 14C using vertically-resolved, mechanistic model

2B

26.09.2018

Dr. Volodymyr Trotsiuk WSL / ETHZ

Forest data model assimilation using National Forest Inventory and 3PG model

2B

19.09.2018 Minkoung Kim Seoul National University, Korea Particulate Organic Carbon Cycling on the Amundsen Shelf, Antarctic 2B

20.08.2018

Ilenne Del Valle Rice University

Using gas biosensors and artificial soils to understand how microbes interact with their environment

2B

11.07.2018

Dr. Núria Casacuberta Arola ETH Zurich, Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics

Tracing Atlantic waters in the Arctic Ocean (and beyond) using long-lived artificial radionuclides

2B

06.07.2018

Dr. Emma Sayer Lancaster University, Environment Centre

From micro to macro - microbial processes & forest ecosystem function

2B

13.06.2018

Prof. Dr. Allen G. Hunt Wright State University

Time-dependence of chemical weathering and

soil formation: How to predict and why should we?

GCH

30.05.2018

Dr. Alysha Coppola UZH

Black carbon in rivers and the ocean

2B