International Geochronology Summer School
Participation fee
The participation fee of CHF 750 includes:
- Accomodation (hotel "Morteratsch", double rooms, room sharing required)
- Full board
- Travel costs during summer school
- Scripts and documents
Optional: Friday excursion "On the move: Soil and landscape dynamics of the Val Bever and Albula alpine region" (whole Friday, 4 September). Reasonable level of fitness is required! The participation of Friday excursion costs additional CHF 100 and includes an additional day of stay in the hotel "Morteratsch" with full board.
After your registration we will send you an invoice with payment details.
Cancellation by the participant is possible until the end of May 2020 (after this time only a partial refund will be possible)
Authorisation clause: the participants agree that the Department of Geography can make bookings and reservations on their behalf within the specified budget for the field trip. The costs of these reservations will not exceed the total excursion costs. (In case of doubt, the German version shall apply.)
You will receive the payment receipt once at the Summer School. Please let us know if you need an invoice now.
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Sunday (30 August) |
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16:00–18:30 |
Arrival |
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18:30–19:30 |
Icebreaker |
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19:30–20:30 |
Dinner |
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Monday (31 August) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:30-10:00 |
Basics in dendrochronology |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30-11:30 |
Dendrochronology Applications: Dendrogeomorphology |
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11:30-12:30 |
Dendrochronology Applications: Anthracology |
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-18:00 |
Field and "lab" work: “Wood anatomical applications” |
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18:00-19:00 |
Participant presentations |
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19:00-20:15 |
Dinner |
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20:15-21:00 |
Publish or perish |
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Tuesday (1 September) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:30-09:00 |
Introduction to dating methods and their ranges |
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09:00-09:30 |
Cosmic rays and production of cosmogenic nuclides |
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09:30-10:30 |
Introduction to Radiocarbon |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:45 |
14C calibration, wiggle matching and calibration tools |
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11:45-12:45 |
Noble gases as tracers for the reconstruction of environmental processes in aquatic systems |
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12:45-13:45 |
Lunch |
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13:45-14:45 |
Luminescence dating |
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14:45-15:45 |
Introduction to exposure dating |
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15:45-16:15 |
Coffee break |
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16:15-19:00 |
Participant presentations |
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19:00-20:30 |
Dinner |
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20:30-... |
Open time for discussions |
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Wednesday (2 September) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast
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08:30-09:30 |
Pleistocene-Holocene Glacial Soil Stratigraphy in the Rocky Mountains, WY, USA |
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9:30-10:00 |
Short briefing of field exercises |
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10:00-10:45 |
Coffee break and preparation of picnic-lunch |
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11:00-18:00 |
Field exercises and talks |
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18:30-19:30 |
Dinner |
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19:30-21:00 |
Participant presentations |
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Thursday (3 September) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:30-09:30 |
Cosmogenic chlorine-36 as a dating tool: an example of application to limestone fault scarps |
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09:30-10:30 |
An introduction to archaeomagnetic dating: Theory and applications |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Dating using 210Pb and 137Cs |
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12:15-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-14:30 |
Geoarchaeology and enviromental history |
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14:30-15:30 |
Soils and Time |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00-18:30 |
Participant presentations |
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19:00-20:30 |
Dinner |
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20:30-... |
Open time for discussions |
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Friday (4 September) without excursion |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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ca. 09:30 |
Departure |
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Friday (4 September) with excursion |
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06:45-07:15 |
Breakfast |
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07:38-18:18 |
Excursion: “On the move: Soil and landscape dynamics of the Val Bever and Albula alpine region"
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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08:30-18:00 |
Excursion: “Fairy tail forests and crude reality in the Upper Engadine” |
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18:30-19:30 |
Dinner |
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Saturday (5 September) |
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07:30-08:30 |
Breakfast |
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ca. 09:00 |
Departure |
For more information click "LINK TO ORIGINAL" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
https://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/gch/geochronologysummerschool/registration.ht