Teaching in Lötschental, Switzerland, 2015

 Teaching

2020 (Lent Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part II Quaternary

2020 (Lent Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part II Biogeography

05.11.2019 NERC DTP Advances Programme, University of Cambridge, UK: Using Tree Ring Analysis to investigate Recent and Current Environmental Change

2019 (Michaelmas Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part IB Biogeography

2019 (Lent Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part II Quaternary

2019 (Lent Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part II Biogeography

2019 (Lent Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part IB Biogeography

17.09.18 Cambridge Summer Academy - Climate Workshop Series, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK: Tree rings and climate

20-23.06.18 OCCR, University of Bern, OCCR, Switzerland: Methods of Climate Reconstruction (03709-FS2014-0) (together with J Luterbacher)

15.03.2018 Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Environmental Systems Analysis at Cambridge’s Department of Geography

14.03.2018 Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Tree-Ring Research & Common Era Climate Variability

2018 (Lent Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part II Quaternary

2018 (Lent Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part II Biogeography

2018 (Lent Term) Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Part IB Biogeography

17-24.09.17 Cambridge University Field-Course, Fafleralp Lötschental, Switzerland: Physical Geography

22.09.16 Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Western Mediterranean climate variability since medieval times (IZ048 Progress in Physical Geography)

21.09.16 Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: A tree-ring perspective on environmental systems analysis (IZ048 Progress in Physical Geography)

11-14.07.16 University of Bern, Switzerland: Methods of Climate Reconstruction (03709-FS2014-0) (together with J Luterbacher)

22.09.15 University of Mainz, Germany (Lötschental, Valais, Switzerland): Mesmethoden im Gelände – Beispiel Lötschental (together with Jan Esper)

15-17.09.15 Princeton University, New Jersey, USA: Paleoclimate-Dendroclimatology Workshop for Pre-Modernists (together with Jürg Luterbacher)

26.08.15 FORESCALE NZF Summer School, Fafleralp, Lötschental, Switzerland: Dendroecological and Geographical Excursion

07-11.06.15 InterDrought Summer School, Mikulov, Czech Republic: Causes and concurrences of Eurasia’s unprecedented 6th century summer cooling

01.05.15 Schweizer Jugend Forscht, Nationaler Wettbewerb 2015, Davos, Switzerland: Das Alter und Wachstum von Sequoiadendron Giganteum (Riesenmammutbäume) von Marc Buchs

02-06.02.15 University of Bern, OCCR, Switzerland: Dendrochronology – Tree-ring research at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology (410251-FS2015-0)

20.01.15 Siberian Federal University and V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia: Frontiers in Tree-Ring Research

21-24.07.14 University of Bern, Switzerland: Methods of Climate Reconstruction (03709-FS2014-0) (together with J Luterbacher and D Frank)

01-04.07.14 InterDrought SummerSchool, Mikulov, Czech Republic: Dendroecological contributions to modern drought research

23.01.14 Volkshochschule Region Brugg, Schweiz: Das Klima der letzten 2500 Jahre

16.01.14 Volkshochschule Region Brugg, Schweiz: Jahrringe als Umweltarchiv

31.10.13 University of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: Using tree rings in paleo-environmental research

15.03.13 University of Zurich, Switzerland: Dendrochronologie – Jahrringe als Archiv

07.11.12 Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Tree-rings at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology

06.11.12 Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic: Tree-rings at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology

11.10.12 University of Freiburg, Germany: On the effect of climate variability on fungi productivity and phenology

09-13.04.12 Bern, Institute of Geography at the University of Bern: Methods of climate reconstructions (together with Luterbacher J and Frank DC)

26-30.03.12 Brno, Czech Republic, Masaryk University: 1) From the cell to the Holocene – the role of tree rings in palaeoclimatology, 2) The importance of time-series analyses in physical geography

15.11.11 Vienna, University of Vienna, Ringvorlesung: Jahrringforschung an der Schnittstelle zwischen Klimatologie, Archäologie und Ökologie

11-14.07.11 St. Petersburg, Russia, Hydro-Meteorological State University: Summer-School on Climate Change

17.06.11 Giessen, Germany, University of Giessen: (Field excursion and research seminar): From oaks to droughts

01.10-19.12.10 Madrid, Spain, University of Madrid: Tree rings and climate

27-28.05.10 Giessen, Germany, University of Giessen (Field excursion, laboratory work and research seminar): From oaks to droughts

09.11.09 Campulung, Romania, Romanian Forest Institute: European Climate Variability – Past, Present and Future

07.09.09 Vallais, Switzerland: International Dendroecological Field-week

02.04.09 Brno, Czech Republic, Masaryk University: Reconstructing climate during the past millennium

31.03.09 Brno, Czech Republic, Masaryk University: Tree-rings and climate – a European perspective

09.03.09 Winterthur, Switzerland, IAM – Institut für angewandte Medienwissenschaft: Tempowechsel innerhalb der Klima-Debatte – Unterschiedliche Geschwindigkeiten wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisgewinnung, medialer Inszenierung und politischem Aktionismus

14.01.09 Oslo, Norway, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis – CEES Extra Seminar: Climatic triggers of plague dynamics over the past millennium

03-10.11.08 Urumqi, China, Institute of Desert Meteorology IDM: Frontiers in tree-ring research, Large-scale approaches, Standardization and chronology development, Methodological issues related to MXD and TRW

02.11.08 Beijing, China, Institute of Meteorology; Chinese Academy of Science: Tree-rings and climate – potential and limitations

15-20.09.08 Vallais, Switzerland: International Dendroecological Field-week

27.03.08 Gregynog Hall, University of Wales, Arctica islandica workshop: Shell detrending

16-22.09.07 Lötschental, Switzerland: International Dendroecological Field-week

01.09.05 Grindelwald, Switzerland, 4th international NCCR-Climate summer school: Alpine tree-rings and climate

28.01.05 Basel, Switzerland, Department of Botany, Dendroecology: Alpine tree-rings and climate

04-09.10.04 Bonn, Germany, Department of Geography: Die Objektivität der Wissenschaft: Beispiele aus der aktuellen Klima-Debatte

 Talks

21.05.20 Birmensdorf Tree-Ring Lectures, Zoom: New tree-ring data for the Common Era (together with Jan Esper)  

09.03.20 SustES Annual Meeting, Boretice, Czech Republic: A tree-ring stable isotopic perspective on central European summer hydroclimate variability in the Common Era 

24.01.20 Truffaforum, Vic, Spain: Risk and reward of Europe's truffle sector under climate change

28.11.19 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK: Anyui – Volcanoes, Climate and Society

15.11.19 ZIF Bielefeld, Germany: Prominent role of global volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

13.11.19 Department of Geography, University of Oxford, UK: Re-thinking Dendrochronology

24.10.19 KOSMOS lecture at Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany: Wie Bäume zur interdisziplinären Umwelt- und Klimaforschung beitragen 

17.10.19 Medieval History Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK: Prominent role of global volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

15.10.19 Queen’s University Belfast, UK: Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

12.10.19 Annual Meeting of the Germany Truffle Association, Geisenheim, Germany: Trüffel und Klima

08.10.19 Scientific Board Meeting of Masaryk University, Brno Czech Republic: Towards a joint future between Brno and Cambridge

12.06.19 SusTES Annual Meeting, Telc, Czech Republic: Emphasizing the volcano–climate–human cause-effect relationship - Or why model predictions should include volcanic forcing

10.06.19 SusTES Annual Meeting, Telc, Czech Republic: grow fast – die young & ecological consequences of arctic pollution

04.04.19 Cambridge Natural History Society (CNHS), Cambridge, UK: Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

19.03.19 Cambridge Science Festival, University of Cambridge, UK: Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology 

08.03.19 Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK: Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology 

07.03.19 Geographic Society, King’s College Cambridge: Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology 

04.03.19 University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn Cornwall: The infinite variety of tree-ring research: Re-thinking the disciplinary boundaries

16.02.19 17th Truffle Festival Abejar, Spain: Climate variation and truffle production

14.02.19 Regional Government of Aragon, Spain: Ecological and Socio-Economic Challenges and Opportunities of Climate Change in Rural southern Europe 

28.01.19 Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Austria: Modern tree-ring research at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology, ecology and history

08.11.18 Thomsen-Vorlesung, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut DAI, Berlin, Germany: Jahrringforschung ander Schnittstelle zwischen Archäologie, Klimatologie und Ökologie

26.10.18 Evening Talk at AK-Klima, Bamberg, Germany: Beyond climate reconstructions

18.10.18 Quaternary Science Group, Clare College, Cambridge, UK: Re-thinking the boundaries of our discipline

12.10.18 SustES Annual Meeting, Mikulov, Czech Republic: Re-thinking the boundaries of our discipline

11.10.18 Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: The Application of Tree Rings in Physical Geography

22.09.18 The Cambridge Alumni Festival, Cambridge, UK: Tree-rings at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology

21.09.18 AMS Beyond 2020 – Symposium, ETH-Z, Zurich, Switzerland: Extending our knowledge of tree ring-based radiocarbon archives 

15.09.18 69th International Sachsensymposium, Stockholm, Sweden: A tree-ring perspective on the Late Antique Little Ice Age (536 to around 660 CE)

11.04.18 PFE and the Environment Conference 2018, Exeter, UK: Dendroecological Opportunities to Shift and Cross Disciplinary Boundaries

04.04.18 Pathogens and Climates in Motion: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Disease in Late Antiquity, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA: Foundations for the Late Antique Little Ice Age

22.03.18 Archaeology in Eurasia – First International Meeting of Young Researchers, University of Bonn, Germany: An Evening Lecture on tree rings at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology

09.01.18 Basler Zirkel für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, University of Basel, Switzerland: Jahrringe als Umwelt- und Klimaarchiv

05.12.17 UK Dendro Meeting, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Dendro@Cambridge

09.11.17 Archaeology Research Seminar, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK: Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, climatology, ecology and history

19.10.17 Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: A tree-ring perspective on climate and history 

17.10.17 Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK: Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age (536 to around 660 CE)

25.09.17 Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK: Tree-ring research at Cambridge 

12.09.17 Italian Ecological Society – Annual Meeting, Naples, Italy: Climate extremes and ecological systems: impacts and feedbacks - A tree-ring perspective throughout time

13.06.17 Birmensdorf Tree Ring Lectures, WSL, Switzerland: Volcanos, climate, tree rings and societies

06.06.17 Cambridge Lunch Seminar of the Ecology Group, University of Cambridge: Cross-disciplinary tree-ring research from the cell to the globe and from the present to the Holocene

07.05.17 McDonald Institute for Archaeology, University of Cambridge: Tree-ring research at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology

27.04.17 EGU, Vienna, Austria: Dendroecological opportunities to shift and cross disciplinary boundaries

20.04.17 Cambridge Centre for Climate Science, Student Symposium 2017 “Understanding the Climate: from Samples to Models”, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge: The importance of tree rings for paleoclimatology 

10-14.04.17 PAGES workshop "Overcoming reductionism when linking climate variability with human history – a cross-disciplinary approach in the Altai Mountains", Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia: The role of inner Eurasia on the rise and demise of nomadic empires 

27.03.17 Workshop on Climate Change in Eurasian Late Antiquity: A Dialogue between Science, History, and Archaeology, Institute for Advanced Study – School of Historical Studies, NJ, USA: Tree-ring evidence for the Late Antique Little Ice Age 

14.12.16 Farewell Lecture within our Birmensdorfer Tree-Ring Lectures, WSL: A personal perspective on 14-years of tree-ring research at WSL

17.11.16 FocusTerra – Vortrag zur Sonderausstellung "Tambora und das Jahr ohne Sommer", ETH Zurich: Warum Bäume und Vulkanausbrüche für die Klimaforschung so wichtig sind 

06.09.16 N-Trend workshop, Aviemore, Scotland: Western Mediterranean climate variability since medieval times and new insights from the COSMIC project

09.05.16 Burgfestspiele Bad Vilbel, Germany: Das Klima im 14. Jahrhundert und seine Auswirkungen auf den Gang der Geschichte

27-29.04.16 PAGES initiative, Icelandic Forest Research Institute Mógilsá, Iceland: Using Arctic driftwood at the interface of marine and terrestrial (paleo-) environmental research  

23-25.03.16 PAGES EuroMed 2k meeting at Hoeri, Germany: Consolidation, finalization and publication of the EuroMed2k database

16.03.16 Verband der Angehörigen des Koordinierten Wetterdienstes (VAKW), Dübendorf, Switzerland: Jahrringe als Klima- und Umweltarchiv 

25.11.15 Invited keynote at the FORESTERRA FINAL CONFERENCE, Lisbon, Portugal: The impact of climate change on forest ecosystems

13.11.15 Invited keynote at WSL/SLF internal PhD-course “Data Science und Advanced Statistics”: Successful publishing

20.05.15 Invited keynote lecture at TRACE, Seville, Spain: Frontiers in tree-ring research

06.05.15 Bolin Centre Lecture, Department of Geography, University of Stockholm, Sweden: Frontiers in tree-ring research

28.04.15 W3 Nachfolge Prof. Spiecker, IWW Freiburg, Germany: Frontiers in tree-ring research 

27.04.15 W3 Nachfolge Prof. Spiecker, IWW Freiburg, Germany: Waldwachstumskundliche Analysen von Dauerversuchsflächen  

19.02.15 Famines during the ʻLittle Ice Ageʼ (1300-1800). Socio-natural Entanglements in Premodern Societies. Bielefeld, Germany: A tree-ring perspective on ‘Little Ice Age’ summer temperature variability

18.02.15 COST Action FP1203. European Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs) Network. 3rd Workshop and 4th Management Committee Meeting. Zagreb, Croatia: A (dendro)climatological perspective on fungal ecology 

04.12.14 The coldest decade of the millennium? The Spörer Minimum, the climate during the 1430s, and its economic, Social and Cultural impact. University of Bern, Switzerland: A tree-ring perspective on the Spörer Minimum

01.12.14 Climate variability in Italy during the last two millennia - Italy 2k. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, Italy: Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia – The PAGES 2k project

14.-17.09.14 PAGES EuroMed 2k meeting in Soria, Spain (PI): Compilation and evaluation of high- to low-resolution, marine and terrestrial proxy archives from the North Atlantic/EU sector that cover several centuries to millennia

26.08.14 Auditorium der Academia Engiadina, Samedan, Switzerland: Jahrringforschung oberhalb der Baumgrenze  oder: was Dendrochronlogen und Steinböcke verbindet

21.07.14 AK-Hochgebirge, Lötschental Exkursion, Switzerland: Das ‚wilde‘ Lötschental – museales Landschaftsartefakt oder moderner Lebensraum

13.05.2014 Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft, HHG, Heidelberg, Germany: Wenn Bäume Geschichte machen – Jahrringe als Umweltarchiv

15.04.14 ETH-Rat Dialog, Zurich, Switzerland: Late glacial tree-ring research

14.02.14 ClimFun and Micosylva+ meeting in Soria, Spain: Linking mushroom phenology, productivity and diversity to tree-ring and climate variability in Pinar Grande

28.01.14 Micosylva+ Annual meeting in Catalonia, Spain: Breaking new ground at the interface of dendroecology and mycology

08.11.13 Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, WP1 and WP2 meeting, Bern, Switzerland: Tree-ring amplification of the early-19th century cooling

04.11.13 LDEO, Columbia University, NY, USA: Frontiers in tree-ring research at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology

30.10.13 University of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: Frontiers in tree-ring research at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology

16.10.13 Geocycles Workshop, Mainz, Germany: Keynote - Linking climate variability with human history: a tree-ring perspective

03.09.13 ClimTree 2013 Conference, Zurich, Switzerland: Frontiers in dendroclimatology and -ecology 

19.06.13 InterDrought SummerSchool, Telc, Czech Republic: Dendroecological applications in modern drought research 

22.01.13 WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Dendro-Seminar: Annual increments from above the Alpine treeline 

10.01.13 Oslo, Norway, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis – CEES Extra Seminar: European climate variability controls Alpine ibex vitality

15.11.12 Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic: Tree-rings at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology

21.06.12 Norwich, University of East Anglia, CRU: Potential and limitations of randomly updating German oaks

14.06.12 Mainz, University of Mainz, Lecture-Series: Jahrringe an der Schnittstelle zwischen Archäologie, Klimatologie und Ökologie

21.05.12 Hamburg, PAGES 2K-meeting: Tree ring-based temperature reconstructions for Europe and the last millennium

24.01.12 Bern, Swiss National Science Foundation: European Climate Variability of the Late to Mid Holocene - ECHO

14.12.11 Lausanne, EPFL: Tree rings in archaeology, climatology and ecology 

06.12.11 Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin: Möglichkeiten der Jahrringforschung an der Schnittstelle von Paläoklimatologie und -ökologie (Neubesetzung der S-Professur für Paläoklimatologie)

06.10.11 Bern, University of Bern, Habilitationsvortrag: Potential und Limitierung jahrringbasierter Klimarekonstruktionen

14.09.11 Engelberg, Switzerland, 24. International Dendroecological Fieldweek: Frontiers in Dendroecology

07.09.11 Samedan, Engadiner Naturforschende Gesellschaft – SESN: Wenn Bäume Geschichte machen – Jahrringe als Klimaarchiv  

06.07.11 Bayreuth, University of Bayreuth, Department of Geography: Beiträge der Jahrringforschung zur Klimatologie/Ökologie in der Physischen Geographie (Wiederbesetzung der Professur für Klimatologie)

10.05.11 Ettswil, Schloss Wyher, Generalversammlung Auto-Schweiz: Was können uns Jahrringe über das Klima sagen?

09.05.11 Bern, Institute for Plant Sciences, Research Colloquium: Frontiers in Dendroclimatology and -ecology

18.04.11 London, UK, Clyde & Co – International Law Firm Seminar Lecture: What tree rings can tell us about climate change 

08.02.11 Amsterdam, Netherlands, University of Amsterdam and Faculty of Earth & Life Sciences: Tree-ring sampling along the Yenisei

04.02.11 Erlangen, Germany, AK-Hochgebirge, Annual meeting: 2500 years of European climate variability and human susceptibility

18.01.11 Oslo, Norway, CEES: Frontiers in dendroclimatology and -ecology

16.12.10 Zaragoza, Spain, ARAID-Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC): Frontiers in dendroclimatology and -ecology

19.11.10 Hamburg, Germany, University of Hamburg, Tag der Holzwirtschaft: Neue Wege in der Dendroklimatologie

16.09.10 Zurich, Switzerland, European Meteorological Society: European climate variability and human susceptibility over the past 2500 years 

14.06.10 Rovaniemi, Finland, World Dendro: Scandinavian temperatures offset global warming (presented by David Frank) 

24.04.10 Freiburg, Germany, International Conference TRACE: Complex climate response of Carpathian Scots pine cliff sites

03.12.09 Innsbruck, Austria, University of Innsbruck: Dendrochronology – quo vadis

19.11.09 Padova, Italy, University of Padova: Advances in European tree-ring research - from annual insect outbreaks to millennial climate variability

27.10.09 Mallorca, Spain, EuroDendro: Hydro-climatic drivers of Medieval Black Death 

28.09.09 Toulouse, France, European Meteorological Society: Climatic drivers of Yersinia pestis – a holistic perspective on Medieval Black Death 

10.09.09 Brno, Czech Republic, Masaryk University: Climate variability and its human dimension in Central Europe during the 18th century 

05.09.09 Oslo, Norway, CEES in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters: The Black Death and climate 

31.01.09 Marburg, Germany, Hessisches Landesamt für geschichtliche Landeskunde: Klimavariabilität und Pestausbrüche während der letzten 1000 Jahre

24.01.09 Heidelberg, Germany, South Asia Institute, Department of Geography, Germany, AK-Hochgebirge annual meeting: Diverse growth trends and climate responses of high-elevation Mediterranean tree-ring width and density  

12.09.08 Brig, Switzerland, Institute for Alpine Research: Alpine summer temperatures of the past millennium

23.06.08 Madrid, Spain, University of Madrid: European climate and tree-ring variability of the past millennium

28.04.08 Zakopane, Poland, International Conference TRACE: Three centuries of Central European drought dynamics

28.04.08 Zakopane, Poland, International Conference TRACE – Podium Discussion: On the Divergence Problem in tree-ring research

23.04.08 Lötschental, Switzerland, Bauernhausforschung-Alpen: 1000 years of settlement and building history, insect outbreaks, and temperature variability in the Lötschental

15.04.08 Augsburg, Germany, Deutsche Baumpflegetage: How do trees react to climate change

14.03.08 Mallorca, Spain, EU meeting MILLENNIUM: Proxy data calibration and verification 

19.01.08 Passau, Germany, AK-Hochgebirge annual meeting: Testing for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps

03.11.07 Freiburg, Germany, AK-Klima annual meeting: Two tests for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps 

28.09.07 Stockholm, Sweden, EU meeting MILLENNIUM: A test for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps  

16-22.09.07 Lötschental, Switzerland: International Dendroecological Field-week

04.05.07 Riga, Latvia, International Conference TRACE: Eight centuries of Pyrenees summer temperatures from tree-ring density

19.04.07 Oslo, Norway, Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis CEES, Dep. of Biology, University of Oslo: Climatic and insect controls on inter-annual to multi-centennial growth of the European larch (Larix decidua Mill.)

07.02.07 Mallorca, Spain, EU meeting MILLENNIUM: Long-term European climate variations from high-elevation tree-ring density 

27.01.07 Marburg, Germany, AK-Hochgebirge annual meeting: Zweierlei Grenzen in der Palaeoklimatologie: Fallbeispiel Jahrringforschung  

21.04.06 Brussels, Belgium, International Conference TRACE: Tree growth and climate in the Tatra Mountains

14.02.06 Mallorca, Spain, EU meeting MILLENNIUM: Tree-rings and uncertainties 

06.10.05 Trier, Germany, 55. Deutscher Geographentag: Jahrringe und Klima der Alpen

22.04.05 Fribourg, Switzerland, International Conference TRACE: Alpine temperature variations, 755-2004

07.04.05 Bologna, Italy, EU meeting ALP-IMP: Long-term Alpine temperature reconstructions

22-25.09.04 Luzern, Switzerland, ESF-HOLIVAR workshop: A 1052-year alpine tree-ring proxy captured warmest summer temperatures in the last decade 

28-29.05.04 Kippel, Switzerland, Schweizerische Bauernhausforschung: Tree-rings & climate 

23.04.04 Birmensdorf, Switzerland, International Conference TRACE: A Millennial-long Alpine summer temperature reconstruction derived from tree rings

29.01.04 Kippel, Switzerland, Schweizerische Bauernhausforschung/AG Wallis: Dendro-klimatologische Analyse einer 1300-jährigen Lärchenchronologie aus rezenten und verbauten Hölzern für das Wallis/Schweiz 

 Supervision

Pascalle Affolter (07) Aufbau und Klimatische Analyse eines tieflagen Netzwerk, Wallis. Master thesis, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland (Master)

Lea Regina Moser (08) Interannuelle Wachstumsanalye entlang eines Höhentransekts im Lötschental, Wallis. Master thesis, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland (Master)

Thomas Neuenschwander (08) Eine 1000-jährige Temperaturrekonstruktion für die Französischen Seealpen. Master thesis, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland (Master)

George Sakhuari (08) Trends in Georgian forest growth productivity and climate sensitivity during the 20th century. PhD thesis, Institute of Biology, University of Tbilisi, Georgia (PhD)

Benjamin Herzog (09) Tempowechsel innerhalb der Klima-Debatte – Unterschiedliche Geschwindigkeiten wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisgewinnung, medialer Inszenierung und politischem Aktionismus, IAM Winterthur (Bachelor)

Oliver Lutz (09) Tempowechsel innerhalb der Klima-Debatte – Unterschiedliche Geschwindigkeiten wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisgewinnung, medialer Inszenierung und politischem Aktionismus, IAM Winterthur (Bachelor)

Laura Fernández Donado (09) Tree-rings and climate of the Iberian Peninsula, University of Madrid (Master)

Lara Läubli (10) Linking Alpine glacier dynamics to tree growth, University of Zürich (Master)

Steffen Walz (11) Extra-tropical biomass response to the unknown 1258 AD eruption, University of Würzburg (Master)

Wilhelm Tegel (11-12) Neolithic construction timber and environmental change, University of Freiburg (PhD)

Ulrich Stobbe (11-12) Truffle ecology in southwest Germany, University of Freiburg (PhD)

Janine Grossjean (11-12) Dendroklimatologisches Potential von Juniperus thurifera in Zentral Spanien, University of Mainz (Master)

Lena Hellmann (11-12) Wood anatomical analysis of Arctic driftwood, University of Würzburg (Master)

Felix Fischer (12) Potential and limitation of “branch dendrochronology” to date eagle nests in the Swiss Alps, University of Würzburg (Master)

Joachim Ortsiefen (12) Combining living and historical Juniper trees towards a precipitation sensitive composite chronology for Central Spain, University of Mainz (Master)

Lena Hellmann (13-16) Potential and limitation of Arctic driftwood as an environmental archive, OCCR at the University of Bern (PhD)

Simon Dippel (13) Using historical wood to develop a composite chronology in the Bavarian Alps, TU Munich (Bachelor)

Frederick Reinig (14) Potential and limitation to develop a tree ring-based summer temperature reconstruction for northeastern Siberia and the past millennium, University of Mainz, Germany (Master)

Marc Buchs (14-15) Swiss BrainPower: Nationaler Wettbewerb Schweizer Judend Forscht in Davos: Das Alter und Wachstum von Sequoiadendron Giganteum

Oliver Konter (13-16) Trends and Signals in tree-ring Parameters, University of Mainz, Germany (PhD second supervisor)

Jan Geyer (15) Dendroprovenancing Arctic Driftwood, University of Freiburg, Germany (Master co-supervisor)

Valentina Vitali (15-17) Drought tolerance of Douglas fir, Norway spruce and Silver fir in the Black Forest region – a dendrochronological analysis (PhD second supervisor)

Flurina Rigling (16) Swiss BrainPower: Nationaler Wettbewerb Schweizer Jugend Forscht: Trüffel (Tuber aestivum) mit Wachstumsringen?

Nancy Bolze (16) Re-visiting temperature-induced recruitment pulses of Greenlandic dwarf shrub communities. University of Freiburg, Germany (Master)

Frederick Reinig (15-19) The Binz Project (PhD supervision together with Jan Esper)

Bernhard Muigg (16-20) Wald und Holz im frühen Mittelalter – Dendroarchäologische Untersuchungen zu Wald- und Holznutzung in Mitteleuropa. University of Freiburg, Germany (PhD co-supervisor)

Annemarie Eckes (17-20) High-resolution tree growth modelling and its application for the global carbon budget. University of Cambridge, UK (PhD co-supervisor together with Andrew Friend and David Coomes)

Tamara Brian (17-18) Updating the Lötschental tree-ring width chronology (Bachelor). University of Cambridge

Leo Lai (18-19) Zeiraphera dinia host and non-host chronologies from the Swiss Alps (Bachelor). University of Cambridge

Hannah Lobo (18-19) Paleoclimatic potential of Blue Rings from the Pyrenees (Bachelor). University of Cambridge

Tomas Cejka (18-21) From Spanish junipers to Czech truffles – a cross-disciplinary approach to global change ecology (PhD), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Sylvie Hodgson Smith (20-21) Global climate signature of the Samalas eruption in 125/ CE. (Bachelor). University of Cambridge

Cath Golby (20-21) Global climate dynamics of the Dust Bowl in 1937 CE. (Bachelor). University of Cambridge