ESF Research Conferences

ESF Conference in Partnership with LFUI

Cosmogenic Nuclides

8 - 13 August 2011

Final Programme

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Monday 8 August

17:00 onwardsRegistration
19:30
Welcome Drink
20:00
Dinner
Tuesday 9 August

08:30 - 09:00
Welcome addresses
Tibor Dunai - Universität zu Köln, DE
David Blaschke - European Science Foundation
Session 1: Methodological Revision

09:00 - 09:45Tibor Dunai - Universität zu Köln, DE
CRONUS-EU: a synopsis of results
09:45 - 10:30
Fred Phillips - New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, US
CRONUS-Earth: a synopsis of results
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45Nathaniel Lifton - Purdue University, US
Scaling factors for cosmogenic nuclide production - status and outlook
11:45 - 12:30
John Stone - University of Washington, US
Muon-produced cosmogenic nuclides: calibration and geomorphic applications
12:45
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Discussion
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Session 2: Applications: Burial, Depth-Profiles

16:00 – 16:20Zachary Ploskey - University of Washington, US
Recovering Pleistocene glacial erosion rates with cosmogenic nuclide methods
(Short talk)
16:20 - 16:40
Reka-Hajnalka Fülöp - Universität zu Köln, DE
Using in-situ cosmogenic C-14 and Be-10 depth-profiles to quantify site-specific Holocene soil erosional events: a sensitivity analysis
(Short talk)
16:40 - 17:00
Pieter Vermeesch - University of London, UK
Sand residence times of one million years in the Namib Sand Sea from cosmogenic nuclides
(Short talk)
17:00 - 17:20Philipp Häuselmann - BOKU Wien, AT
Cosmogenic dating of Austrian and Slovenian Caves
(Short talk)
17:20 - 18:10

Darryl Granger - Purdue University, US
Burial dating: traditional and novel approaches

19:00
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Poster Session
Wednesday 10 August

Session 3: Exposure applications

09:00 - 09:40Lucilla Benedetti - CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, FR
In situ 36Cl cosmogenic dating to recover past earthquake histories on limestone normal fault scarps
09:40 - 10:20
Finlay Stuart - SUERC, East Kilbride, UK
Applications of cosmogenic 3He dating to volcano geomorphology
10:20 - 10:40
Group Photo
10:40 - 11:00Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
Dylan Rood - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
Exposure dating of precariously balanced rocks
(Short talk)
11:20 – 11:40Eleanor Rainsley - University of Exeter, UK
In-situ cosmogenic nuclides as a tool for dating relative sea level change: a test case from Broggerhalvoya, western Svalbard
(Short talk)
11:40 - 12:00
Kristell Le Dortz - ENS Paris, FR
A new method to assess pre-exposure of sediments in deserts environment and endorheic regions
(Short talk)
12:00 - 12:20
Marc Ostermann - University of Innsbruck, AT
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of catastrophic rocksildes/rock avalanches in Tyrol (Austria) compared with other dating methods
(Short talk)
12:30Lunch
13:30 - 15:30

Discussion

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Session 4: Erosion, in-situ

16:00 - 16:40
Regis Braucher - CEREGE Aix-en-Provence, FR
Quantification of landscape processes with in situ produced cosmogenic nuclides
16:40 - 17:20
Alexandru Codilean - GFZ-Potsdam, DE
Stochastic sediment transport: The single grain methodology

17:20 - 17:40

Florian Kober - ETH-Zürich, CH
Debris flows and catchment wide denudation rates
(Short talk)
17:40 - 18:00
Christoff Andermann - Université de Rennes, FR
Erosion in the Nepal Himalayas from cosmogenic nuclides, suspended load and precipitation distribution
(Short talk)
18:00 - 18:20
Dirk Scherler - Universität Potsdam, DE
10Be-derived erosion and palaeo-erosion rates from the NW Himalaya
(Short talk)
18:20 - 18:40
Nicolas Bellin - Université Catholique de Louvain, BE
Contrasting Modern and Cosmogenic-nuclide derived erosion rates for the Betic Cordillera, Spain
(Short talk)
19:00
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Poster Session
Thursday 11 August

Session 5: AMS, analytical methods

09:00 - 09:45

Keith Fifield - ANU, Canberra, AU
AMS methodolgy, history and outlook

09:45 - 10:30Marcus Christl - ETH-Zürich, CH
Low-energy AMS: developments and outlook
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
Stefan Heinze - Universität zu Köln, DE
Results of first performance tests of CologneAMS for standard cosmogenic nuclides
(Short talk)
11:20 - 11:40
Kristina Hippe - ETH-Zürich, CH
The effect of climate change on surface exposure ages: insights from combined 10Be - in-situ 14C analysis (Gotthard Pass, Central Swiss Alps)
(Short talk)
11:40 - 12:00
Swann Zerathe - University Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR
Dating chert using cosmogenic 10Be: comparison of 36Cl and 10Be method on carbonate gravitational scarps
(Short talk)
12:00
Lunch
13:30

Half-day excursion to the Köfels landslide
Lead by Marc Ostermann, University of Innsbruck, AT

19:00Dinner
20:00 - 21:00

Forward Look Plenary Discussion

Friday 12 August

Session 6: Erosion, meteoric
09:00 - 09:45
Friedhelm von Blanckenburg - GFZ Potsdam, DE
The 10Be/9Be ratio as a weathering tracer
09:45 - 10:30Jane Willenbrink - University of Pennsylvania, US
Atmospheric cosmogenic nuclides as tracer for soil processes and sediment transport
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45
Hella Wittmann-Oelze - GFZ-Potsdam, DE
Large-scale denudation and sediment fluxes from cosmogenic nuclides in the Amazon Basin
11:45 - 12:10
Allan Bacon - Duke University, US
Meteoric 10Be in acidic soils: a new approach from a North American Ultisol
12:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:30
Discussion
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Session 7: Meteoric

16:00 - 16:20
Lucie Menabreaz - CEREGE Aix-en-Provence, FR
Cosmogenic Beryllium-10 in marine sediments: a record of the geomagnetic moment variations during the Brunhes period
(Short talk)
16:20 - 17:00
Martin Frank - University of Kiel, DE
Cosmogenic nuclides in marine archives as tracers in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology
17:00 - 17:40
Didier Bourlès - CEREGE Aix-en-Provence, FR
The use of the 10Be/9Be authigenic ratio for absolute dating over the last 14 Ma of marine and continental sedimentary deposits: Necessary conditions and applications
19:00
Reception and Conference Dinner
Saturday 13 August

07:00

Breakfast and Departure