Remaining Earth System Cycles Lectures – Summer Semester 2005

							Earth System Cycles

"Earth System Cycles" is a new lecture course first offered in Wintersemester 2004-2005. Lectures are given by members of the University Institutes
for Geosciences, Geography and Atmospheric Physics and the Departments of Atmospheric Chemistry, Biogeochemistry and Geochemistry of the Max-
Planck Institute for Chemistry. Occassionally, international experts are invited to plug thematic gaps not covered by Mainz specialists.

Earth System Cycles is designed as 5th-6th semester course for geoscientists, but is open to students of any other study programme, as well as to
graduate students, including those of the Max-Planck-Institutes on campus. The course is designed to introduce a wide range of topics in Earth System
Science. It is aimed at students who should have a reasonable general science background, but may know nothing of the content of some parts of this
course. Therefore, all parts are prepared for listeners who are NOT students of the particular field.

Summer Semester 2005 Schedule for Earth System Cycles Lectures

All lectures are in Lecture theatre N6 (ground floor, geosciences building) at 16.15

Date         Topic                                            Speaker                  Institute

23. June     Tectonic styles through Earth history            Alfred Kröner            Geosciences

30. June     The Nitrogen cycle                               Andi Andreae             MPI-Biogeochemistry

7. July      Metabolism of urban areas                        Michael Kersten          Geosciences

14. July     Surface and subsurface water cycles              Dietmar Schenk           Geosciences

21. July     The atmospheric water cycle                      Volkmar Wirth            Atmospheric physics



Lecture notes
Material from past lectures, mostly in the form of either Power Point or pdf files, is made available to listeners. To access this material, you can click on
the button below and you will be asked for a username and password. These are the University or Max-Planck accounts; there is no special username and
password for the Earth System cycles course.

Course co-ordinator is Stephen Foley (Room 401, e-mail foley“at"uni-mainz.de

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Course contributions in Summersemester 2004/2005:
Lecture material can be accessed through the accompanying buttons

(1) Supercontinent formation and dispersal                                            Alfred Kröner           Geosciences

(2) Microbes, Rubisco and Archaean atmospheric evolution                              Euan Nisbet             Royal Holloway London

(3) Anthropogenetic aspects of landscape evolution                                    Jörg Grunert            Geography

(4) Snowball Earth                                                                    Paul Hoffman            Harvard University



Course contributions in Wintersemester 2004/2005:

(1) Earth system cycles; scales in time and space                                     Stephen Foley           Geosciences

(2) Origin, composition and chemical differentiation of the Earth                     Al Hofmann              MPI-Geochemistry

(3) Plate tectonics and the Wilson cycle                                              Klaus Regenauer-Lieb Geosciences

(4) Past geological cycles: sea level changes and climate                             Thomas Brachert         Geosciences

(5) The link between tectonics and climate                                            Uwe Ring                Geosciences
(6) Radiation and Climate: atmospheric energy budget and greenhouse effect   Jos Lelieveld      MPI-air chemistry

(7) Quaternary ice ages and paleoclimatology                                 Frank Sirocko      Geosciences

(8) Global atmospheric change: sources of global air pollution               Jos Lelieveld      MPI-air chemistry

(9) Landscape evolution                                                      Johannes Preuss    Geography

(10) Biogeochemical cyles: carbon and nitrogen                               Andi Andreae       MPI-Biogeochemistry

(11) Volcanic gases                                                          Stephen Foley      Geosciences

(12) Clouds, aerosols and the global water cycle                             Stephan Borrmann   MPI-cloud physics
                                                                                                Physics of the atmosphere

(13) The oceans: circulation and biogeochemistry                             Andi Andreae       MPI-Biogeochemistry