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Department of Geography Geochronology

Programme

Programme 2024

Sunday (1 September)

16:00–18:00

Arrival (your room is available from 16:00)

18:00–20:00

Icebreaker

20:00–...

Dinner

Monday (2 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:00

Cosmic rays and production of cosmogenic nuclides
Dmitry Tikhomirov (University of Zurich)

09:00-09:45

Introduction to Radiocarbon
Irka Hajdas (ETHZ)

09:45-10:15

Coffee break

10:15-10:45

14C calibration, wiggle matching and calibration tools
Irka Hajdas (ETHZ)

10:45-11:45

Why do we need AMS?
Marcus Christl (ETHZ)

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

Cosmogenic chlorine-36 as a dating tool: an example of application to limestone fault scarps
Dmitry Tikhomirov (University of Zurich)

14:00-15:00

Loess-Paleosol Sequences – from pedo- to chronostratigraphy
Tobias Sprafke (Berner Fachhochschule)

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-16:30

Noble gases and groundwater recharge in glaciated regions
Rolf Kipfer (EAWAG)

16:30-18:15

Luminescence dating (and some field work)
Elena Serra (University of Freiburg, Germany)

18:15-19:35

Participant presentations

19:35-...

Dinner

Tuesday (3 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:30

Examples of exposure dating
Fritz Schlunegger (University of Bern)

9:30-10:00

Short briefing on today's field exercises
Markus Egli (University of Zurich)

10:00-10:45

Coffee break and preparation for field exercises

10:45-18:00

Field exercises and talks
Markus Egli, Dennis Dahms, Dmitry Tikhomirov

19:00-20:00

Dinner

20:00-21:00

Participant presentations

Wednesday (4 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-10:30

Data evaluation of soils and rock surfaces
Markus Egli, Dennis Dahms

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:00

Basics in dendrochronology
Holger Gärtner (WSL)

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:30

Dendro field work and sample preparation
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-18:30

Dendro field work and sample preparation
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

18:30-19:10 Participant presentations

19:15-20:15

Dinner

20:15-21:00

Tree-ring dating of musical instruments
Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

Thursday (5 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:15

Dendro Applications - Dendrogeomorphology
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

09:15-10:00

Dendro Applications - Anthracology
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-12:30

Dendro data evaluation
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Dating using 210Pb and 137Cs
Nathalie Dubois (EAWAG)

14:30-15:30

Pleistocene-Holocene Glacial Soil Stratigraphy in the Rocky Mountains, WY, USA
Dennis Dahms (University of Northern Iowa, USA)

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

An introduction to archaeomagnetic dating:
Theory and applications

Evdokia Tema (University of Torino, Italy)

17:00-19:00

Participant presentations

19:00-20:00

Dinner

20:00-21:00

Participant presentations

Friday (6 September) without excursion

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

            -11:00

Departure (your room is available till 11:00)

Friday (6 September) with excursion

06:30-07:30

Breakfast

07:38-18:18

Excursion: "Permafrost of Muottas Muragl"
Markus Egli, Holger Gärtner

               ⇒ Reasonable level of fitness required!

In case of heavy rain:

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:44-18:00

Dendro/Geomorphology excursion in Stazerwald (Celerina) and Val Bever
Markus Egli, Holger Gärtner (Lunch in the field ... or wherever possible ...)

19:30-...

Dinner

Saturday (7 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

           -11:00

Departure (your room is available till 11:00)
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