Venues
The lectures will take place in the lecture hall of the Institute of Earth Sciences, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Universitätsplatz 2/II and are organized in cooperation with the Austrian Mineralogical Society, the Austrian Geological Society, the Austrian Palaeontological Society, the Austrian Association for Hydrogeology, the Natural Science Association for Styria and the Joanneum Association Graz.
HS 02.23, 16:15
Termine / Dates
| 14.10.2025 | Jesse Walters (University of Graz) | What's going on with sulfur? Recycling subducted sulfur via deep redox reactions |
| 21.10.2025 | Ulrike Moser und Johanna Irrgeher (Montanuniversität Leoben) | MURmap: tracing anthropogenic impact and natural dynamics in river systems using advanced analytical techniques |
| 28.10.2025 | Stefano Brigenthi (Eco Research, Bolzano) | Climate change in high-mountains: alpine streams between fragility and resilience |
| 04.11.2025 | Pierre Lanari (University of Lausanne) | Equilibrium dreams and metastable realities: Lessons from compositional maps (MSA Distinguished Lecturer Series) |
| 11.11.2025 | Amy Hsieh (University of Lausanne) | Paleoclimate reconstructions from unconventional records |
| 18.11.2025 | Franziska Stamm (TU Graz) | Tracing Earth’s Silicon cycle: Impact of amorphous silica phases on silicon isotope fractionation mechanisms |
| 28.11.2025 | Grant Ferguson (University of Saskatchewan) | Deep Groundwater and Deep Time (Darcy Series) |
| 02.12.2025 | Prof. Thomas Seifert (TU Bergakademie Freiberg) | Lagerstätten seltener Metalle im Raum Erzgebirge-Krušné hory-Vogtland: Altbergbau bis 1990 / neue Explorations- und Bergbauprojekte ab 2009 |
| 09.12.2025 | Jörg Robl (University of Salzburg) | Mountain peaks – climatic, tectonic, and lithospheric controls on their evolution through time |
| 13.01.2026 | Anna Potysz (University of Wrocław) | Principles of bacterial-mineral interactions: bridging fundamentals and applications in biohydrometallurgy |
| 16.12.2025 | Dr. Anne-Mette Cheese (Equinor ASA, Germany) | Geowissenschaften im Zentrum der Energiewende: Herausforderungen und Chancen für CCS und CCU |
| 20.01.2026 | Maud Meijers (University of Graz) | Miocene to Pliocene sedimentary records of changing Anatolian landscapes, ecosystems, and climate |