Martin Schwarzbach Colloquium
The Martin Schwarzbach-Colloquium is an annual scientific lecture series of the Center for Quaternary Research and Geoarchaeology (QSGA) of the University of Cologne . The colloquium has been held since 2007 on the occasion of the 100th birthday in honor of the famous German geoscientist Martin Schwarzbach . In addition to his pioneering work in paleoclimatology , Martin Schwarzbach built the Cologne Institute for Geology into one of the leading institutes in Germany after World War II and laid the foundation for the geoscientific network in the Aachen-Bonn-Cologne / Jülich research region. The Martin Schwarzbach Colloquium takes this into account. The Martin Schwarzbach Colloquium honors leading international scientists from the geosciences and related disciplines such as paleoanthropology and archeology . It is devoted to current key issues that change annually, most recently climate modeling (2019) and human dispersal paths and paleoclimate in the Levant (2018).
List of lectures
2007:
- Chronis Tzedakis: Middle and late Pleistocene Mediterranean environments
- Phil Gibbard: Pleistocene events and early human occupation in northern Europe
- Irka Hajdas: Radiocarbon dating method: new developments and perspectives
- Ulrich Cubasch: Modeling Late Pleistocene paleoclimate
- Winfried Henke : Paleoanthropology - current issues and future challenges
2008:
- Chris Stringer : Out of Africa - on the African origin of modern humans
- Jean-Jacques Hublin : Modern Humans replace Neandertals
2009:
- Ulrich Harms: The international continental drilling program and its significance for Quaternary research
- Flavio Anselmetti: Climate, Environment and Mayans - The Late Quaternary History of the Yucatan Peninsula based on the ICDP well Peten Itza
2010:
- Martin Traut: Man's changeable nursery: climate, tectonics and evolution in East Africa
- Helmut Brückner: Studies on palaeogeography and geoarchaeology in the eastern Mediterranean region, in the Black Sea region and in the Orient
2011:
- Peter deMenocal: Environmental context of early human evolution: African climate change over the last 5 million years
- Craig Feibel: Lacustrine archives of environmental dynamics in East Africa: basinal response to climate, tectonics and volcanism
2012:
- Martin Claussen : Abrupt or not abrupt - new interpretation of the termination of the African Humid Period
- Frank Sirocco: MIS 3 pollen and palaeobotanical macroremains in several sediments cores from Eifel Maar Lakes
2013:
- Friedemann Schrenk : Climate change and early hominin biocultural evolution
- Nick Barton : Climate change and cultural transitions over the last 160,000 years in NW Africa
2014:
- Moti Stein: Aridity cycles in the Levant and Dead Sea dry-down during the last interglacial period
- Thomas Litt, Frank Lehmkuhl and Jürgen Richter: The Middle East at the time of Modern Man's passage: a report from CRC 806 'Our way to Europe'
2015:
- Matt Grove: Palaeoclimate variability and human evolution: speciation, extinction, and dispersal
- John Kingston: Exploring early hominin evolution - environment interaction using agent-based modeling
2016:
- Rick Potts : The Environmental Dynamics of Human Evolution
- Mark Maslin: The Cradle of Humanity: How the changing landscape of Africa made us smart
2017:
- Thomas Litt: Lake Van - 600,000 years of climate history in Turkey
- Michael Staubwasser: The influence of climatic events on the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe
- Olaf Bubenzer and Karin Kindermann: The Eastern Desert of Egypt: Station of Modern Man on the Way to Europe?
- Jürgen Richter: Prehistoric Migrations: The Path of People from Africa to Central Europe
- Gerd-Christian Less: Insights into the new traveling exhibition 2 million years of migration
2018:
- Thomas Litt: The Southern Levant: Corridor or Barrier During the Dispersal of Modern Humans
- Michael Petraglia: Palaeoenvironmental Change and Human Occupation History at the Cross-roads of Continents
2019:
- Sharon Nicholson: An overview of the drivers of African climate: dispelling the myths and creating a revisionist view
- Uwe Mikolajewicz: Simulating the last glacial and the deglaciation with a comprehensive climate model
Web links
- Geoverbund home page
- SFB / CRC 806 IRTG | Integrated Research Training Group of the CRC 806
- QSGA: QSGA