Welcome to the Doctoral Program in Earth Surface Processes & Paleobiosphere.
Aims & Disciplines
- foster the community of doctoral students and researchers in the fields of sedimentology, stratigraphy, basin analysis, paleontology, surface processes, limnology, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, palecology, sedimentary/environmental geochemistry, biogeosciences, soil sciences and other related disciplines.
- foster scientific quality, creativity, and communication within the scientific community as well as with the professional world.
- promote mobility and soft skills competence.
- promote stutent’s general ability to deal with challenges in contemporary academic, administrative, and business environments
- enhance collaboration and synergies between the research groups of the CUSO sites
- allow for an efficient usage of costly analytical techniques.
Funding
Funded by the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale CUSO
Will progessively replace the activities of the “Troisième Cycle Romand” now organisied as the “Coodination Romande en Sciences de la Terre”
Funding of courses, field trips and annual meetings such as SwissSed
The participation in the offered courses, and active participation of individual students in national and international meetings can be subsidised by the ESPP doctoral school
Programme
The programme will include:
Short courses on scientific tools
Short courses aimed at widening scientific background
Field courses
Training courses for soft skills
Annual meetings for the presentation of ongoing doctoral projects
SwissSed meeting
Events
Event 1:
Stampfli Symposium
CUSO Doctoral School: Earth Surface Processes & Paleobiosphere ESPP
Gondwana margins in space and time
LAUSANNE 18 JUNE 2010
UNIL ANTHROPOLE
Auditoire Lugeon
Programme
8:30 Welcome, coffee
9:00 Juergen von Raumer
The Gondwana margin and its oceans – review and questions
9:30 José Ramon Martinez Catalan
The northern Gondwana margin as seen from a NW Iberian perspective
10:00 Ricardo Arenas
Terranes involved in the Variscan suture from NW Iberia: New discoveries and open questions about the Paleozoic Paleogeography
10:30–11:00 coffee break
11:00 Michel Ballèvre
Quelle place le Massif armoricain occupe-t-il dans la chaîne hercynienne ?
11:30 Karel Schulman
A model of heat sources and mechanisms of exhumation of HP granulites in Variscan orogenic root
12:00 Bernhard Schulz
Palaeozoic geodynamics in the Austroalpine basement as a part of the Adriatic Plate (Eastern Alps)
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 Gilles Borel
From 2D rules to 3D tools
14:30 Jon Mosar
The Greater Caucasus - Out of Africa or East of Eden?
15:00 Rinus Wortel
Continental Collision and Plate Boundary Evolution in the Africa/Arabia-Eurasia Convergence Zone
15:30 - 16:00 tea break
16:30 William Cavazza
The Ionian Gondwana margin, the Calabria-Peloritani microplate, and the geodynamic evolution of the western-central Mediterranean region
17:00 Huw Davies
Glimpsing the past in the deep mantle
17:30 Gérard Stampfli
From local geology to global plate tectonics
Event 2
Stampfli Field Course:
Tectonostratigraphy and Plate Tectonics of Crete (Greece): September 16 - 21, 2010
In the foreground: faulted pelagic sediments of the Pindos Zone,
behind: platform carbonates of the Gavrovo Zone
Event 3: Field Workshop Jura 2010
SEDIMENTOLOGY, ICHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE
PORRENTRUY, COURTEDOUX
REPUBLIQUE ET CANTON DU JURA
AUGUST 24-27, 2010
Provisional schedule
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Teaching staff : J. Ayer, Dr. W.A. Hug, C. Fuchs
Starting at 11 am, lunch, presentation of staff members
Afternoon
Lectures
- Opening, general information on the organization of field workshop
- Presentation of paléojura (valorization project, introduction)
- Presentation of the Paléontologie A16, project management, data management
- Presentation of the Natural History Museum of Porrentruy, collection management, valorization
- Discussion
- Dinner
Evening
Sightseeing in Porrentruy
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Teaching staff : Prof. A. Strasser, Prof. A. Wetzel
Morning
Lectures
- Geological context, stratigraphical context, sequence stratigraphical approach
- Discussion
- Sedimentology, invertebrate ichnology, facies, carbonate platform, etc.
- Discussion
- Coffee break
- Introduction to fieldwork
- Practical exercises in a quarry outcrop
- Lunch in the field
- Afternoon
- Practical exercises on 3D outcrops on excavation sites on the Transjurane highway
- Discussion
- Dinner
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Teaching staff : Prof. C.A. Meyer, Prof. M.G. Lockley, Dr. D. Marty
Morning
Lectures
- Morphodynamics and evolution, the evolution of consciousness
- Discussion
- Vertebrate ichnology: general introduction
- Discussion
- Coffee break
- Vertebrate ichnology, palaeoecology
- Discussion
- Introduction to fieldwork
- Lunch in the field
- Afternoon
- Practical exercises on outcrops on dinosaur tracksites on the Transjurane highway
- Discussion
- Dinner
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Teaching staff : Dr. W.A. Hug, C. Fuchs
- Legal questions related to the protection of palaeontological heritage and geotopes in Switzerland
- Discussion
- Coffee break
- Results and future activities related to the valorisation of the palaeontological heritage in the Canton
- Jura
- Discussion
- Final discussions, conclusions of the workshop
Lunch, departure end of field workshop Jura 2010
End of the Field workshop Jura 2010, 14 pm
Deadline for registration is : July 30th, 2010
Looking forward to seeing you in Porrentruy !
Inscription
Steering committee members
| Name | Firstname | Fonction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baumgartner | Peter O. | President of the doctoral program ESPP | |
| Föllmi | Karl | Representative of the senior staff of UNIL | |
| Wetzel | Andreas | Representative of the senior staff of UNIBAS | |
| Schlunegger | Fritz | Representative of the senior staff of UNIBE | |
| Berger | Jean-Pierre | Representative of the senior staff of UNIFR | |
| Kindler | Pascal | Representative of the senior staff of UNIGE | |
| Gobat | Jean-Michel | Representative of the senior staff of UNINE | |
| Jaramillo Vogel | David | Representative of the doctoral students of UNIFR | |
| Recasens | Cristina | Representative of the doctoral students of UNIGE | |
| Amstutz | René | Representative of the doctoral students of UNINE | |
| Hug | Wolfgang | Head of the Palaeontology A16 |
