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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| Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Summer semester 2026 | ||
| 16-Apr-26 | Peter Makus (GFZ) | Coupled Tectonic–Hydrological Dynamics: Seismic Impacts on Hydrological Systems and Feedbacks on Tectonic Cycles |
| 23-Apr-26 | Violeta Veliz-Borel (UP) | Observations from the field: Corfu and Kefalonia |
| 29-Apr-26 | >>EGU Practice Talks<< | |
| 7-May-26 | >>No Seminar (EGU Week)<< | |
| 14-May-26 | >>No Seminar (Holiday)<< | |
| 21-May-26 | Sushma Prasad (UP) | The Westerly-Monsoon tango in the Indian Monsoon realm |
| 28-May-26 | Andreas Ruby (GFZ) | Climatic, tectonic and landslide-dam signals of alluvial terrace formation in the Naryn Basin, Kyrgyzstan |
| 4-Jun-26 | Etienne Large (UP) | Millennial scale denudation rates of the Niedere Tauern (Austrian Alps): A glacial or tectonic history? |
| 11-Jun-26 | Fergus McNab (UP) | The Tsitsikamma Coastal Platform, South Africa: Fieldwork and future plans |
| 18-Jun-26 | Hongcheng Guo (UP) | Helium diffusion in apatite: expectations, observations, and new opportunities, with implications for (U-Th)/He thermochronology |
| 25-Jun-26 | Xuwen Shen (UP) | Incision History of the Jinsha River, SE Tibet: Preliminary Constraints from Low-Temperature Thermochronology |
| 2-Jul-26 | Barra Peak (UP/LU Lancaster) | TBA |
| 9-Jul-26 | Stefania Wagenaar (UP) | TBA |
| 16-Jul-26 | TBA | TBA |
| 23-Jul-26 | Fujun Wang (UP) | Thermo-kinematic constraints on the growth of Pamir Frontal Thrust (NE Pamir) |
Previous SMURF seminars
Date⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Speaker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Title 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) Pre-rift orogenic erosion facilitates lower crustal exhumation and influences thermochronometric signatures at rifted margins 6-Nov-25 Etienne Large (UP) Turbidites as records of continental processes 13-Nov-25 Paper discussion Direct effects of mountain uplift and topography on biodiversity (Marder et al., 2025, Science) 20-Nov-25 Chloe Bouscary (GFZ) Ultra-low-temperature thermochronometry of the Nepalese Himalayas 27-Nov-25 Paper discussion Drivers of canyon incision in the Peruvian Andes... (Plasterr et al., 2025, Science Advances) 4-Dec-25 Marisol Medina (PUCP) Emplacement and Exhumation Modeling of the Cordillera Blanca Batholith (Peruvian Andes) 11-Dec-25 Hortense Carmelle (ENS Lyon) Exhumation history of the Fitz Roy batholith (Patagonian Andes) 18-Dec-25 >>No Seminar<< 25-Dec-25 >>Christmas break<< 1-Jan-26 >>New Years<< 8-Jan-26 >>No Seminar<< 15-Jan-26 Thoralf Dietrich (UP) A Connection of Scaling Phenomena, Seismology, Ocean Waves, and Erosion 22-Jan-26 Paper discussion Drivers of global glacial erosion rates (Norris et al., 2025, Nature Geoscience) 29-Jan-26 Isabel Wapenhans Correlating contributors to glacial morphometric signatures in the DEM topography of the European Alps’ crystalline massifs 5-Feb-26 >>No Seminar<< 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 >>No seminar (holiday)<< 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<<