Picture: Dr. Heiko Pingel
Our group seminar, the SMURF Seminar, takes place during the lecture period every Thursday at 2:15 p.m. in House 27, Room 2.24.
The SMURF seminars are designed to be informal and open: short presentations (20–40 minutes) followed by a discussion. They offer a great opportunity to present your research—especially for new members of the General Geology Group.
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Picture: Dr. Heiko Pingel
| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Winter semester 2025/26 | ||
| 16-Oct-25 | Violeta Veliz (UP) | Uplift along the Hellenic subduction forearc across a range of timescales |
| 23-Oct-25 | Fergus McNab (UP) | Measuring rock-uplift rates using calibrated inverse landscape evolution modelling |
| 30-Oct-25 | Kai Li (GFZ) | TBA |
| 6-Nov-25 | Etienne Large (UP) | TBA |
| 13-Nov-25 | TBA | TBA |
| 20-Nov-25 | Chloe Bouscary (GFZ) | TBA |
| 27-Nov-25 | TBA | TBA |
| 4-Dec-25 | Marisol Medina (PUCP) | Emplacement and Exhumation Modeling of the Cordillera Blanca Batholith (PeruvianAndes) |
| 11-Dec-25 | TBA | TBA |
| 18-Dec-25 | Hortense Carmelle (ENSLyon) | TBA |
| 25-Dec-25 | >>Christmas break<< | |
| 1-Jan-26 | >>New Years<< | |
| 8-Jan-26 | TBA | TBA |
| 15-Jan-26 | TBA | TBA |
| 22-Jan-26 | TBA | TBA |
| 29-Jan-26 | TBA | TBA |
| 5-Feb-26 | TBA | TBA |
Previous SMURF seminars
| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Apr-25 | Ambrosio Vega-Ruiz (GFZ) | The role of the structural inheritance in the Chilean forearc: from long-term evolution to active tectonics & more |
| 17-Apr-25 | >>No seminar<< | |
| 24-Apr-25 | >>EGU practice talks<< | |
| 1-May-25 | >>No seminar (EGU week)<< | |
| 8-May-25 | Nowrad Ali (UP) | Reevaluating the India-Asia Collision in the Pakistani western Himalayas: Sedimentary Evidence for a ~56 Ma Onset |
| 15-May-25 | Peter van der Beek (UP) | Exploring active syn-convergence extension in Albania and North Macedonia |
| 22-May-25 | Cody Colleps (UP) | Progress in 4He/3He Thermochronology at the University of Potsdam |
| 29-May-25 | >>Kein Seminar (Feiertag)<< | |
| 5-Jun-25 | Paper discussion | Coevolution of craton margins and interiors during continental break-up (Gernon et al., 2024, Nature) |
| 12-Jun-25 | Magda Patyniak (UP) | Tectonic Activity at the Southern Subandean Front: A Snapshot from Recent Fieldwork and Insights into Preliminary Results |
| 19-Jun-25 | >>No seminar<< | |
| 26-Jun-25 | Paper discussion | Limits to timescale dependence in erosion rates: Quantifying glacial and fluvial erosion across timescales (Wilner et al., 2024, Science Advances) |
| 3-Jul-25 | Nasrin Karimi Moayed (UGent) | Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating: Principles, Applications, and a Case Study from Charcoal Kilns |
| 10-Jul-25 | >>No seminar<< | |
| 17-Jul-25 | Isabel Wapenhans (UP) | Can Low-Temperature Thermochronology Constrain Quaternary Glacial Erosion? A Case Study from the Tauern Window, Eastern European Alps |
| 24-Jul-25 | Paper discussion | Limits to timescale dependence in erosion rates: Quantifying glacial and fluvial erosion across timescales (Wilner et al., 2024, Science Advances) |
| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Oct-24 | >>Get together<< | |
| 24-Oct-24 | Syed Ali Turab | Escarpment evolution of the Red Sea margin of southwestern Saudi Arabia |
| 31-Oct-24 | >>Holiday<< | |
| 07-Nov. 24 | Florian Jocham | Controls on knickpoint generation and propagation on Réunion island |
| 14-Nov-24 | Ricardo Gómez | Climate impact on glacial erosion in tectonic landscapes (Patagonian Andes) |
| 21-Nov-24 | Xudong Zhao | Late Cenozoic topographic evolution of the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau |
| 28-Nov-24 | Mario Albertengo | Fragmentation of the Andean foreland basin at 26°S, northwestern Argentina |
| 05-Dec-24 | Ed Sobel | Thermochronologic and structural constraints on deformation in the Northeast Pamir |
| 12-Dec-24 | Andreas Ruby | Drivers of fluvial terrace formation & quantifying their impacts |
| 19-Dec-24 | >>No seminar<< | |
| 26-Dec-24 | >>Academic Christmas break<< | |
| 02-Jan-25 | >>Academic Christmas break<< | |
| 09-Jan-25 | María Oneda Dal Pai | Tracing cosmogenic signals of erosion and sediment transport in Central Chile's river basins |
| 16-Jan-25 | Cody Colleps | Progress in 4He/3He Thermochronology at the University of Potsdam |
| 23-Jan-25 | Zihao Zhao | Relict Landscape Evolution and Fault Reactivation in the easternmost Tianshan |
| 30-Jan-25 | Sohini Bhattacharjee | How quickly is sediment transported from the highest mountain range on earth to its foreland? |
| 06. Feb. 25 | >>No seminar<< | |
| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Jul-24 | Ge Yukui | Decay of Yarlung Tsangpo River valley since late-Eocene |
| 11-Jul-24 | Svetlana Botsyun | Paleoclimate Perspectives on Surface and Deep Earth Interactions |
| 04-Jul-24 | Verónica Torres Acosta | Navigating the Landscape of Science Funding |
| 27-Jun-24 | Gerold Zeilinger | Intersecting Horizons: Collaborative GIS Infrastructure and Emerging Frontiers in 3D Outcrop Research |
| 20-Jun-24 | Koshnav Renas | Uplift, exhumation, and subsidence in the NW Zagros orogenic belt during Miocene in response to the Neotethys slab dynamics |
| 13-Jun-24 | >>No seminar<< | |
| 06-Jun-24 | Maria R. Scicchitano | Oxygen isotopes in serpentinites by SIMS: what can we learn |
| 30-Mai-24 | Paper discussion | Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity (He et al., 2024, Nature rev. earth & env.) |
| 23-Mai-24 | Paper discussion | Sustained deformation across the Sub-Himalayas since 200 ka (Bouscary et al., 2024, Geology) |
| 16-Mai-24 | Anahi Carrera | Tectonic and Climatic Drivers Exhuming Adak and Kagalaska Islands - The Aleutian Island Arc |
| 09-Mai-24 | >>No seminar (Holiday)<< | |
| 02-Mai-24 | Fyntan Shaw | Exploring Antarctica: The Oldest Ice Core Project and accounts from the field |
| 25-Apr-24 | >>No seminar<< | |
| 18-Apr-24 | >>No seminar (EGU week)<< | |
| 12-Apr-24 | Guocan Wang | Tectono-geomorphological processes and rise of the Eastern Tianshan during Meso-Cenozoic |
| 11-Apr-24 | >>EGU practice talks<< | |
| 21-Mär-24 | Barra Peak | Proterozoic exhumation and sediment transport on the North American Midcontinent revealed with (U-Th)/He thermochronology |
| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Feb-23 | Victor Hugo Garcia | New hypotheses on the tectonic evolution of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru |
| 01-Feb-23 | Emilio J.M. Criado Sutti | Elastic waves in an infinite half-cylinder and why spherical cows are crucial in mechanical models |
| 25-Jan-23 | Paper discussion | Antarctic Peninsula glaciation patterns set by landscape evolution and dynamic topography (Fox et al., 2024, Nat. Geosci.) |
| 18-Jan-23 | Sebastian Marulanda | Quantifying crustal thickening and topographic construction in the northern Peruvian Andes |
| 11-Jan-23 | Fujun Wang | How did the Cenozoic convergence between the Pamir and South Tianshan influence the Neotethys regression and Tarim aridification? |
| 04-Jan-23 | >>Academic Christmas break<< | |
| 28-Dec-23 | >>Academic Christmas break<< | |
| 21-Dec-23 | >>Academic Christmas break<< | |
| 14-Dec-23 | Open discussion on Thermochron data | |
| 07-Dec-23 | >>No Seminar<< | |
| 30-Nov-23 | Roland Freisleben | Tectonic geomorphology of the central Trans Alai Piemont, northern Pamir mountains, Kyrgyzstan |
| 23-Nov-23 | Magda Patyniak | Active faulting at the tip of the southern Subandean Orogenic Wedge in Bolivia |
| 16-Nov-23 | Ana Fonseca | Apatite Fission-Track analyzes in cratons and Neoproterozoic orogens of Colombia, India, DR Congo, and Brazil |
| 09-Nov-23 | Benjamin Rendall | New perspectives on sediment routing in mixed depositional systems |
| 02-Nov-23 | Sebastian Wolf | Tectonics or Surface Processes: The Beaumont number of mountain belts on Earth |
| 26-Oct-23 | Simone Ricano | Tectonic driving mechanism of Quaternary rock-uplift and topographic evolution in the northern-central Apennines... |
| 19-Oct-23 | Manudeo Singh | Floodplains hydrogeomorphic assessment using optical and radar remote sensing methods |
| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Jul-23 | Lennart Grimm | Morphological dating of fluvial terraces in Patagonia over million-year timescales |
| 20-Jul-23 | Asfaw Erbello | Temporal variation in counterclockwise vertical-axis block rotations across a rift overlap zone, southwestern Ethiopia, East Africa |
| 13-Jul-23 | Sushma Prasad | Asynchronous late Holocene droughts in the Indian Monsoon realm |
| 6-Jul-23 | Wolfgang Schwanghart | Studying rejuvenating landscapes with chi- and knickpoint analysis using TopoToolbox |
| 29-Jun-23 | Johannes Rembe | Exhumation of the Niedere Tauern block, insights from zircon and apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He dating |
| 22-Jun-23 | Isabel Wapenhans | Scale-dependent contributors to river profile geometry |
| 15-Jun-23 | Andreas Scharf | Tectogenesis of listwaenite in the Oman Mountains |
| 8-Jun-23 | Lorenzo Gemignani | Tectonic and Climatic Controls on the Landscape and Drainage Evolution of the Dinaric-Hellenic Junction |
| 1-Jun-23 | Roland Freisleben | Structural and temporal characteristics of marine terraces in the Illapel earthquake area |
| 25-May-23 | Julien Amalberti | Noble gases in volcanoes |
| 18-May-23 | >>No seminar (Holiday)<< | |
| 11-May-23 | >>No seminar<< | |
| 4-May-23 | >>No seminar<< | |
| 27-Apr-23 | >>No seminar (EGU-Week)<< | |
| 20-Apr-23 | >>EGU practice talks<< | |
| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Feb-23 | Lingxiao Gong | Drainage development in an intra-continental mountain belt: A case study from the south-Central Tien Shan |
| 02-Feb-23 | Fergus McNab | Responses of alluvial river networks to environmental change |
| 26-Jan-23 | Simone Racano | Quaternary morphostratigraphy and uplift rates at the Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP) Southern Margin |
| 19-Jan-23 | Paper discussion | Topography of mountain belts controlled by rheology and surface processes (Wolf et al., 2022, Nature) |
| 12-Jan-23 | Johannes Rembe | Eocimmerian Back-Arc Basin Evolution in Central Asia |
| 05-Jan-23 | >>New Year's reception with Galette des Rois<< | |
| 29-Dec-22 | >>Academic Christmas break<< | |
| 22-Dec-22 | >>Academic Christmas break<< | |
| 15-Dec-22 | >>No Seminar (AGU-Week)<< | |
| 8-Dec-22 | Peter van der Beek | Miocene cave sediments record topographic, erosional and drainage development in the Western European Alps |
| 01-Dec-22 | >>No Seminar<< | |
| 24-Nov-22 | Coline Ariagno | Monitoring and modelling the physical weathering of marls in badlands and its effect on erosion |
| 17-Nov-22 | Cody Colleps | The Lesser Himalaya of northwest India: Insights into India–Asia collision, fold-thrust belt exhumation, and Neogene seawater chemistry |
| 10-Nov-22 | Julien Amalberti | Noble gas signatures in snow |
| 02-Nov-22 | Amaëlle Landais | AWI Online Lecture Viewing: Glacial – interglacial variability recorded in deep polar ice cores |
| 27-Oct-22 | Paper discussion | Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants (Spencer et al., 2022, Nat. Geosci.) |
| 20-Oct-22 | Jingtao Lai | Glacial erosion and postglacial response - dynamic landscapes in a oscillating climate |
| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Jul-22 | Magda Patyniak | The surface rupture of the 2008 Nura earthquake (Mw 6.6): Uncovering a secondary, flexural-slip faulting phenomenon |
| 21-Jul-22 | Willenmijn van Kooten | The influence of pre-existing heterogeneities on Cenozoic exhumation in NW Argentina |
| 14-Jul-22 | Apolline Mariotti | Comparison of long-term (0 - 75 ka) vs short-term (2016-2021) variations of denudation rates in the Var catchment |
| 07-Jul-22 | Sarah Lindenlaub | Gravitative mass movement modelling in the alpine region as base for realistic disaster management training scenarios |
| 07-Jul-22 | Louisa Schwitzer | Improved computer-generated soil loss models for the Andes by calibration with catchment wide denudation rates |
| 30-Jun-22 | >>SMURF tea-time<< | |
| 23-Jun-22 | Sushma Prasad | Holocene Climate Variability in the Indian Monsoon Realm |
| 16-Jun-22 | Roland Freisleben | Tectonic processes responsible for various wavelengths of permanent deformation on the western coast of South America |
| 09-Jun-22 | Asfaw Erbello | The broadly rifted zone in south-western Ethiopia, East Africa |
| 02-Jun-22 | >>No seminar (EGU week)<< | |
| 26-May-22 | >>No seminar (EGU week)<< | |
| 19-May-22 | Richard Ott | Holocene erosion transience: Quantifying soil erosion induced by ancient civilizations on Crete, Greece |
| 12-May-22 | Amalberti, Bernard, Colleps | COOLER Project |
| 05-May-22 | Simone Racano | Timing of rock-uplift and of the North Anatolian Fault development in the Central Pontides (Turkey) |
| 28-Apr-22 | >>Meet-and-greet<< | |