Photo: Thorben Amann

Geological-Biogeochemical Seminar Series:

Programme Winter Semester 2024/2025: Arctic Response to Paleoclimate Events

Upcoming Talks:

Previous Talks:

15.10.2024
Burning shales, toxic ponds, and acid waters – the long term impact of Cretaceous volcanism on the Canadian Arctic
Prof. Stephen Grasby (Canadian Geological Survey, Canada)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/o/iframe/?obj=70105

22.10.2024
Drilling volcanic rifted margins to understand large igneous provinces and associated global warming
Prof. Sverre Planke (CEO of Volcanic Basin Energy Research (VBER) and University of Oslo, Norway)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/o/iframe/?obj=70206

29.10.2024
Triassic vertebrate recovery as seen from Svalbard
Prof. Jørn H. Hurum (Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, Norway)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/o/iframe/?obj=70308

05.11.2024
Arctic climate of the past 150 million years: a Canadian perspective
Prof. Jennifer Galloway (Carlton University, Canada)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/o/iframe/?obj=70309

12.11.2024
Svalbox – digitizing Svalbard’s rocks and a foundation for paleoclimate research
Prof. Kim Senger (University Center in Svalbard, Norway)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70370

19.11.2024

Volcano-climate interactions across mass extinction events: Insights from the Siberian Traps and the North Atlantic Igneous Province in Svalbard strata
Prof. Morgan Jones (Umeå University, Sweden)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70436

26.11.2024

Warmer-than-present climate states of the Cenozoic from the Arctic perspective

Dr. Kasia Sliwinska (The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark)

Archive:https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70516

03.12.2024
Nannoplankton response to the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the southern high latitudes
Prof. Denise Kulhanek (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)

Archive:https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70679

10.12.2024

A catastrophic Middle Permian extinction in the Boreal Realm (northern high palaeo-latitudes)? Evidence from Spitsbergen and Arctic Canada
Prof. David Bond (University of Hull, United Kingdom)

Archive:https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70681

17.12.2024

Ending the early Eocene Hothouse and the role of the Arctic Azolla phenomenon
Prof. Henk Brinkhuis (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70864

14.01.2025
Changes in redox conditions during the end-Permian mass extinction event: Insights from Svalbard
Dr. Anja Frank (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70865

21.01.2025
Phanerozoic paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution in Svalbard, Arctic
Prof. Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70949

28.01.2025

The Permian-Triassic transition in the northern high latitudes
Prof. Vladimir Davydov (Boise State University, USA)

Archive: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/70950

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

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