Upcoming Talks

Date	Speaker	Topic
23.01.2025	Prof. Dr. Bernd Jähne	25 years of the Heidelberg Aeolotron: A (still preliminary) review
30.01.2025	Prof. Dr. Oliver Schilling
06.02.2025	Dennis Hoffmann
17.04.2025	Dr. Minghui Zhang	Physics and chemistry of aerosols and clouds
15.05.2025	Dr. Christopher Kyba

Past Talks

Date	Speaker	Topic
12.12.2024	Yannis Arck	Gas Tracer Techniques to Investigate Arctic Ocean Dynamics
28.11.2024	Prof. Dr. Alexander Haumann	What goes around comes around: A changing Southern Ocean
14.11.2024	Prof. Dr. Stephanie Fiedler	On progress in understanding radiative forcing and climate responses
07.11.2024	Dr. Antao Xu	Geochemical behaviour of neodymium and hafnium isotopes in the Amazon estuary: tracing the river plumes and sediment-seawater interactions
24.10.2024	Dr. Eva Rückert	One Million Years of Neodymium Isotopes in the Southern Atlantic Ocean – unprecedented insights in ocean circulation, water mass provenance and the influence of local processes
17.10.2024	Dr. Benedikt Löw	Toward Urban Greenhouse Gas Mapping with a Portable Reflected Sunlight Spectrometer
25.07.2024	Dr. Benjamin Weyland	Detection of nitrous acid in the lower, middle, and upper troposphere: potential formation mechanisms of excess HONO
18.07.2024	Dr. Florian Ritterbusch	Dating of groundwater, ocean water and glacier ice with noble gas radioisotopes
11.07.2024	Prof. Dr. Anja Schmidt	Volcanic radiative forcing of climate: past and future
04.07.2024	Dr. Maryna Leonidivna Meretska	Shaping of light with all-dielectric metasurfaces
27.06.2024	Dr. Marlene Wall	Coral calcification through a boron lens – from reef- to individual scale calcification control
20.06.2024	Dr. Toste Tanhua	Determining ocean ventilation and circulation time-scales using transient tracers
06.06.2024	Prof. Dr. Wouter Peters	Constraining the carbon balance of global forests from surface-, space-based-, and atmospheric measurements
23.05.2024	Dr. Jens Fohlmeister	The caves of the Melchsee-Frutt region: Paleoclimate and isotope geochemistry applications
16.05.2024	Dr. Tobias Schmitt	Open-Path Measurements of CO₂ and CH₄ over Heidelberg to Analyse Spatial Representativeness of In-Situ Observations
25.01.2024	Dr. Inga Kerber	Precision, timing and frequency distribution of Th/U dated secondary carbonates
18.01.2024	Prof. Dr. Andreas Hartmann	Karstic groundwater recharge and it’s relation to speleothem d18O records
14.12.2023	Dr. Roi Ram	Deep desert aquifers as an archive for Mid- to late Pleistocene hydroclimate: An example from the southeastern Mediterranean
07.12.2023	Dr. Susann Henkel	Iron Isotopes as Tracers of Iron Sources and Redox Reactions in the Marine Environment - Use and Limitations
30.11.2023	Prof. Dr. Andreas Lorke	Methane emissions from reservoir surfaces: Relevance, processes and drivers
23.11.2023	Prof. Dr. Oliver Wurl	Global relevance of the ocean's microlayer
16.11.2023	Dr. Fabian Maier	Estimating fossil fuel carbon dioxide (ffCO2) emissions from atmospheric observations in Heidelberg
09.11.2023	Prof. Dr. David Bekaert	Analysis of volatile elements in volcanic and hydrothermal systems: a reliable window into the solid Earth's composition?
02.11.2023	Dr. Maayan Yehudai	Atlantic Ocean Nitrogen Cycle Dynamics over the Pliocene-Pleistocene Transition
26.10.2023	Dr. Patrick Blaser	Spicy Arctic deep waters during the last glacial cycle?
19.10.2023	Dr. Zsolt Varga	Nuclear Forensic Studies at the JRC-Karlsruhe
27.07.2023	Prof. Dr. Harald Norbert Böhnel	Contributions of paleomagnetism to volcanology and archaeology in Mexico
20.07.2023	Eva-Marie Metz (Schömann)	Soil respiration–driven CO2 pulses dominate Australia’s flux variability
13.07.2023	Prof. Dr. Hartmut Boesch	Space-based observations of CO2 and CH4: From its early days towards monitoring of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
06.07.2023	Marvin Knapp	Taking pictures of carbon dioxide and methane emission plumes with a ground-based spectral camera
29.06.2023	Dr. Alfredo Martinez-Garcia	Contraction of the eastern tropical Pacific oxygen deficient zones during Cenozoic warm periods
22.06.2023	Dr. Edith Engelhardt	Noble Gases as Tracers for Hydrothermal Activity and Groundwater in Ocean Sediments
15.06.2023	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Platt	Energy Storage in Concentration Gradients
01.06.2023	Dr. Simon Warnach	A global perspective on the BrO/SO2 ratio inside volcanic gas plumes – insights into volcanic and atmospheric processes
25.05.2023	Prof. Dr. Denis Scholz	Short-term speleothem growth phases in Central Europe - snapshots of warm and cold conditions during Marine Isotope Stage 3
11.05.2023	Prof. Dr. Rolf Kipfer	The ballade of noble gases, Arsenic, seismicity and trees…
04.05.2023	Prof. Dr. Sidney R. Hemming	Probing Antarctica’s glacial history with marine sediments
27.04.2023	Dr. Florian Adolphi	Cosmic Links between Paleoclimate Records from Land, Ice, and Sea – Possibilities, challenges, and implications
02.02.2023	Prof. Dr. Ingmar Unkel	Hydra, Hermes, Hercules – An archaeohydrological journey through ancient Greece
26.01.2023	Dr. Torben Struve	The Southern Hemisphere dust cycle ‒ new insights from South Pacific marine sediments
19.01.2023	Dr. Christian Rödenbeck	The global carbon cycle - driving and driven by climate
12.01.2023	Dr. Stéphanie Musy	Importance of 39Ar and 37Ar underground production for groundwater dating applications
15.12.2022	Prof. Dr. Roland Kröger	Investigating the structure and formation dynamics of biomineralising systems
08.12.2022	Dr. Jonas Kuhn	A decade of volcanic gas research at the IUP: Instrument concepts, field measurements and models
01.12.2022	Prof. Dr. Ryan Pereira	Through the Looking-Glass (at Dissolved Organic Matter), and What We Found There
24.11.2022	Dr. Jannis Weimar	Cosmic-ray neutrons: a proxy for environmental water content at the hectare scale
17.11.2022	Prof. Dr. Frank Peeters	Methane and other greenhouse gases in lakes and reservoirs
03.11.2022	Dr. Bertram Boehrer	Extreme gas loads in lakes (Guadiana Pit, Nyos, Kivu) - their quantification, their origin and the assessment of risks
27.10.2022	Prof. Dr. Payton Gardner	A Deeper Look at Mountain Hydrogeology
06.09.2022	Maureen Cohen	Can we see atmospheric waves on exoplanets?
28.07.2022	Dr. Jasmin Link	One million years of ocean circulation derived from radiogenic neodymium isotopes
21.07.2022	Dr. Jacek Raddatz	Scleractinian cold-water corals as archive for paleoceanographic reconstructions
14.07.2022	Dr. Janica Bühler	Synthezising information from speleothem archives and climate models
07.07.2022	Prof. Dr. Núria Casacuberta Arola	Observing the oceans using radionuclides as transient tracers
30.06.2022	Prof. Dr. Amos Winter	Vertically-Resolved Seawater Salinity in the Caribbean Sea mixed layer since 1700 AD from sclerosponges
23.06.2022	Dr. Jobst Heitzig	An Agent-Based Model of Social Mobilization Driven by Extreme Events and Anticipated Sea-Level-Rise
09.06.2022	Dr. Michael Weber	The potential of metal stable isotope in speleothem science
02.06.2022	Prof. Dr. Juerg M. Matter	Rapid and permanent carbon dioxide removal via enhanced rock weathering and mineral carbonation
19.05.2022	Dr. Andrea Popp	How environmental tracers can help to assess hydrological and biogeochemical processes across latitudes
12.05.2022	Dr. Hartwig Harder	Impact of convection on the self-cleaning capacity in the upper troposphere
02.05.2022	Dr. Benjamin Birner	Increasing Atmospheric Helium due to Fossil Fuel Exploitation
21.04.2022	Dr. Daniel Baggenstos	Mean ocean temperature reconstructions based on noble gases in ice cores
10.02.2022	Prof. Dr. Tibor Dunai	In situ-produced cosmogenic krypton in zircon and its potential for Earth surface applications
27.01.2022	Wantong Li	Global vegetation-water interactions in observations and models
16.12.2021	Dr. Stavros Stagakis	Monitoring urban CO2 fluxes with bottom-up models and eddy covariance
02.12.2021	Dr. Thomas Schwitalla	Turbulence permitting air pollution simulation for the Stuttgart metropolitan area - A winter case study
18.11.2021	Dr. Jan-Lukas Tirpitz	What skylight polarisation tells us about atmospheric aerosols and trace gases
11.11.2021	Dr. Suniti Sanghavi	Making friends with your foe: Exploiting OCO-3’s multi-angle capability to minimize aerosol-induced XCO2 biases
04.11.2021	Dr. Lisa Bröder	Tracing permafrost organic matter from source to (potential) sink
28.10.2021	Prof. Dr. Christian Frankenberg	The elusive methane budget: Insights from measurements at the meter to global scales
21.10.2021	Prof. Dr. Emanuel Gloor	Recent carbon cycle and climate trends and their controls with focus on Amazonia
15.07.2021	Dr. Nils Weitzel	Comparing transient simulations of the last deglaciation with climate reconstructions in space and time
08.07.2021	Prof. Dr. Andreas Christen	Measuring and attributing greenhouse gas emissions in complex urban landscapes
01.07.2021	Prof. Dr. Jochen Landgraf	Monitoring of air quality and climate change: Observations of Sentinel 5 Precursor and perspectives on future Copernicus Sentinel missions
24.06.2021	Dr. Sophie Warken	Reconstruction of past climate variability and extreme events using precisely dated speleothems
17.06.2021	Dr. James Barry	Irradiance and atmospheric optical properties from photovoltaic power data: first results from the MetPVNet project
10.06.2021	Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kurths	Exploring Predictability of Extreme Climate Events via a Complex Network Approach
27.05.2021	Meike Rotermund	Organic, inorganic and total bromine in the extratropical tropopause and lowermost stratosphere in fall 2017: Origins, transport pathways and consequences for ozone
20.05.2021	Prof. Dr. Leena Järvi	Mapping urban greenhouse gas emissions using micrometeorological measurements and modelling
06.05.2021	Prof. Dr. Bernd Jähne	From Lab to Field - Novel Imaging Techniques to Unravel the Mystery of Air-Sea Gas Exchange
29.04.2021	Maximilian Schmidt	39Ar ArTTA – Dating of Hydrological Systems with Quantum Physics
22.04.2021	Prof. Dr. Kurt Roth	In transition: looking back – looking ahead
25.02.2021	Dr. Franziska Lechleitner	Stalagmite carbon isotopes suggest temperature driving a deglacial increase in soil respiration in Western Europe
18.02.2021	Thomas Gaskin	Mathematical Models of Social Opinion Dynamics: Challenges and Perspectives
11.02.2021	Flora Kluge	Profiling of formaldehyde, glyoxal, methylglyoxal, and CO over the Amazon - emission factors in biomass burning plumes
04.02.2021	Dr. Steffen Therre	Radiocarbon in Stalagmites: Indicator of Climate Variability and Key to Atmospheric Radiocarbon Reconstruction
21.01.2021	Dr. Joachim Fallmann	Air chemistry and dynamics in the urban boundary layer – Chemical transport modelling across scales
14.01.2021	Prof. Dr. Corinna Hoose	Glaciation of convective clouds: modelling and satellite observations
10.12.2020	Dr. Jonathan F. Donges	Towards modelling human-Earth system interaction dynamics
03.12.2020	Dr. Claudia Stephan	Wave-mediated coupling of convection and circulation
26.11.2020	Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann	Compartment Crossing Modeling and Observation of the Regional Water Cycle
19.11.2020	Prof. Dr. Luis Guanter	Overview of Global Monitoring of Terrestrial Chlorophyll Fluorescence from Space
12.11.2020	Prof. Dr. Manfred Wendisch	Warming or Cooling by Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds: Airborne Measurements and Simulations
05.11.2020	Dr. Karsten Osenbrück	Nitrate Turnover in Groundwater: Reactive Zones, Key Processes, and Key Players
23.07.2020	Dr. Ronja Reese	Ice-ocean interactions in Antarctica - what drives future sea-level rise?
09.07.2020	Therese Weißbach	Spectroscopic isotope ratio analysis on speleothem fluid inclusions - analytics and paleoclimatic case studies
25.06.2020	Dr. Tine Nilsen	Bridging the gap between the terrestrial and marine paleoclimate reconstructions in the North Atlantic realm
16.04.2020	Dr. Matthias Mauder	Transport processes in the atmospheric boundary layer in complex terrain: from the mountains through the desert to cities
06.02.2020	Yunus Sevinchan and Benjamin Herdeanu	Utopia: A Comprehensive Modeling Framework for the Simulating Complex and Evolving Systems
30.01.2020	Sonja Friman	Laboratory investigations of concentration and wind profiles close to the wind-driven wavy water surface
23.01.2020	Prof. Dr. Marie-France Loutre	From orbital forcing to Past Global Changes
16.01.2020	Dr. Hannakaisa Lindqvist	Monitoring greenhouse gases using satellites – A space-based perspective to a changing carbon cycle
09.01.2020	Harald Mack and Lukas Riedel	Utopia: Boosting Group-level Synergies in the Investigation of Complex and Evolving Systems
19.12.2019	Dr. Florian Dinger	On long term pattern in the BrO/SO2 molar ratio in volcanic plumes
12.12.2019	Dr. Jaroslaw Necki	History and future of coal mining in Poland - Greenhouse gas and air quality perspectives
05.12.2019	Prof. Dr. Gina Moseley	Development of Mid-Pleistocene speleothem paleoclimate records from Northeast Greenland
28.11.2019	Dr. Ana Bastos	The impacts of the 2018 drought on the European carbon-cycle
21.11.2019	Dr. Jens Terhaar	Effects of river delivery of nutrients and carbon on the biogeochemistry of the Arctic Ocean
14.11.2019	Dr. Julia Marshall	Global methane inversions: first results with TROPOMI data, and looking forward to MERLIN
31.10.2019	Dr. Jan-Marcus Nasse	Halogens in the coastal boundary layer of Antarctica
24.10.2019	Prof. Dr. Almut Arneth	Climate change and land-use change and their role for terrestrial carbon sinks, crop yields and bioenergy
17.10.2019	Dr. Axel Gerdes	U-Pb geochronology: From the evolution of the Early Earth to the human evolution