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Geological-Biogeochemical Seminar Series:

Programme Winter Semester 2023/2024: Changing Planet: Climate & Biodiversity crises

Previous Talks:

17.10.2023
The Permian-Triassic hyperthermal crisis and re-shaping of terrestrial ecosystems
Prof. Michael Benton (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/o/iframe/?obj=67827

 

24.10.2023
Utilising machine learning tools to understand changes in extinction risk during mass extinctions
Dr. William J. Foster (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/67902

 

07.11.2023
Lessons in adaptation and resilience from warm climates of the past
Prof. Pincelli Hull  (Yale University, USA)

Archive:https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/67906

14.11.2023
The rise and demise of freshwater gastropods through time and the impact of climate, tectonics, and long-lived lakes
Dr. Thomas Neubauer (Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/67993

21.11.2023

Mass extinctions and community structure through the Phanerozoic
Prof. Alexander Dunhill  (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/67994

28.11.2023

Earth's surface temperature over time and why it has changed
Prof. Benjamin Mills  (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/67995

05.12.2023

A Tale of Time - Why Geochronology is critical to understand mass extinction events and environmental perturbations in deep time
Prof. Aisha Al Suwaidi  (Khalifa University, UAE)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/68026

12.12.2023

Mammalian biodiversity and climate change: can the geological past inform our future?
Prof. Susanne Fritz (Senckenberg Institute und Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/68381

16.01.2024

Causes and consequences of global climatic and environmental change in the Jurassic
Prof. Micha Ruhl (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/68380

23.01.2024

Challenges to test macroecological questions using fossil data
Prof. Sara Varela (University of Vigo, Spain)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/68516

30.01.2024

Ocean deoxygenation, how organisms adapt to it and how we can use this to reconstruct the past
Dr. Nicolaas Glock (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/68517

06.02.2024

Climate, extinction and the geographic ranges of species
Dr. Simon Darroch (Senckenberg Institute, and Naturmuseum Frankfurt).

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/68518

 

Programme Winter Semester 2022/2023: Coevolution of Life & the Planet

Previous Talks:

25.10.2022 
Evolution of vent communities
Prof. Crispin Little (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/63952

01.11.2022 
The Impact of land colonization on Earth’s Climate and oxygenation state
Associate Prof. Tais Dahl (Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/63954 

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08.11.2022 
The role of microbes in deposition of Banded Iron Formations
Prof. Andreas Kappler (Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/64044

15.11.2022 

The Gradual Oxidation of Environments on Early Earth as recorded in Archean to Paleoproterozoic Rock Records
Prof. Dawn Sumner (University of California Davis, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/64498

22.11.2022 
Coupled evolution of life and environment during the rise of animals
Prof. Graham Shields (University College London, United Kingdom)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/64425

29.11.2022 
Palaeontology’s contribution to understanding our current biodiversity and climate crisis
Prof. Daniela Schmidt (Bristol University, United Kingdom)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/64426

06.12.2022 

Evolution of microbial life and the effects on global biogeochemical cycles throughout Earth history
Prof. William Orsi (Ludwig-Maximillian University, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/64499

13.12.2022 

A Microbial Ecosystem in the 3.48 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia
Prof. Nora Noffke (Old Dominion University, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/64706

10.01.2023 
Recent and ancient life in the terrestrial subsurface
Prof. Christine Heim (Universität zu Köln, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/64983>

17.01.2023 
The past, present, and future of pink snow
Prof. Trinity Hamilton (University of Minnesota, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/64984 

24.01.2023 

Unravelling biotic response to dynamic oxygenation during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition
Prof. Rachel Wood (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/65047  

Programme Winter Semester 2021/2022: Mass Extinctions & Climate Change

19.10.2021 
Temperature related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions
Prof. Wolfgang Kiessling (Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/57629

26.10.2021 
Ultimate Killers
Prof. Sean Gulick (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/57633

02.11.2021 
Extinctions in the late Ediacaran
Prof. Lidya Tarhan (Yale University, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/57646

09.11.2021 
The end-Permian mass extinction
Prof. Ying Cui (Montclair State University, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/57894

16.11.2021 
The end-Devonian extinctions
Prof. Michael Joachimski (Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/58212

23.11.2021 
The Late Ordovician extinctions
Prof. Christian Mac Ørum Rasmussen (GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/58372

30.11.2021 
The end-Triassic mass extinction
Prof. Bas van de Schootbrugge (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/58747

07.12.2021 
The Toarcian extinction event
Prof. Silvia Danise (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/58770

14.12.2021 
The end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Prof. Ellen Thomas (Yale University, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/59500

11.01.2022 
PETM
Prof. Linda Ivany (Syracuse University, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/60080

18.01.2022 
Anthropocene & Conservation Palaeobiology
Prof. Rowan Lockwood (College of William & Mary, USA)

Archive:  https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/60122