Programme
Preliminary programme 2026
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Sunday (30 August) |
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16:00–18:30 |
Arrival (your room is available from 16:00) |
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18:30–20:00 |
Icebreaker |
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20:00–... |
Dinner |
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Monday (31 August) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:30-09:00 |
Cosmic rays and production of cosmogenic nuclides |
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09:00-09:45 |
Introduction to Radiocarbon |
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09:45-10:15 |
Coffee break |
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10:15-10:45 |
14C calibration, wiggle matching and calibration tools |
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10:45-11:45 |
Why do we need AMS? |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00-14:00 |
Noble gases and groundwater recharge in glaciated regions Rolf Kipfer (EAWAG) |
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14:00-15:00 |
Cosmogenic chlorine-36 as a dating tool: an example of application to limestone fault scarps Dmitry Tikhomirov (University of Zurich) |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break |
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15:30-16:30 |
Examples of exposure dating Fritz Schlunegger (University of Bern) |
| 16:30-17:30 | Pleistocene-Holocene Glacial Soil Stratigraphy in the Rocky Mountains, WY, USA Dennis Dahms (University of Northern Iowa, USA) |
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17:30-19:10 |
Participant presentations |
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19:10-20:20 |
Dinner |
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20:20-21:00 |
Participant presentations |
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Tuesday (1 September) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:30-09:30 |
Loess-Paleosol Sequences – from pedo- to chronostratigraphy Tobias Sprafke (Berner Fachhochschule) |
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09:30-10:00 |
Short briefing on today's field exercises |
| 10:00-10:45 | Coffee break and preparation for field exercises |
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10:45-18:00 |
Field exercises and talks (lunch in the field) |
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19:00-20:20 |
Dinner |
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20:20-21:00 |
Participant presentations |
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Wednesday (2 September) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:30-09:30 |
Data evaluation of soils and rock surfaces |
| 09:30-10:00 | Coffee break |
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10:00-12:00 |
Basics of Dendrochronology |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00-14:00 |
Dendro Applications Holger Gärtner (WSL) |
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14:00-16:50 |
Dendro-field work, Stazerwald |
| 16:50-17:10 | Coffee break |
| 17:10-18:10 | Mediterranean Tree Rings and the Minoan Eruption of Santorini Paolo Cherubini (WSL) |
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18:10-19:10 |
Participant presentations |
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19:10-20:20 |
Dinner |
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20:20-21:00 |
Participant presentations |
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Thursday (3 September) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:30-09:15 |
Tree-ring dating of musical instruments Paolo Cherubini (WSL) |
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09:15-10:00 |
Dendro Applications Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-12:30 | Dendrodata evaluation Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL) |
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-14:30 |
Dating using 210Pb and 137Cs |
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14:30-16:00 |
Luminescence dating (and some field work) Elena Serra (University of Lausanne) |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30-17:30 |
An introduction to archaeomagnetic dating: Theory and applications Evdokia Tema (University of Torino, Italy) |
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17:30-19:10 |
Participant presentations |
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19:10-20:20 |
Dinner |
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20:20-21:00 |
Participant presentations |
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Friday (4 September) without excursion |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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-11:00 |
Departure (your room is available till 11:00) |
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Friday (4 September) with excursion |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:44-18:18 |
Excursion: "Permafrost of Muottas Muragl" |
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In case of heavy rain: |
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08:44-18:00 |
Excursion: "Fairy tale forests and crude reality in the Upper Engadine" |
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19:30-... |
Dinner |
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Saturday (5 September) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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-11:00 |
Departure (your room is available till 11:00)
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