Fachveranstaltungen

The EADI General Conference is organized every third year. It serves as the association’s public forum for academic exchange, reflection and debate on pressing global and developmental questions.

Resilience 2017 will discuss resilience as a key lens for biosphere-based sustainability science. It will reflect back on the scientific progress made, and aim to set out exciting future directions for research.

Die entwässerten Torfböden im Berner Seeland stellen Landwirt/innen immer wieder vor grosse Herausforderungen bei der Bewirtschaftung. Zudem fehlen noch bodenkundliche Prognosen über die Entwicklung dieser Böden. Wie heterogen sind sie? Wie haben sich die Torfschichten abgelagert? Und wie kann man der Torfsackung auf Fruchtfolgeflächen begegnen? Der Brennpunkt Boden 2017 vertieft Diskussionen und Lösungsansätze zu den speziellen Bodenbeschaffenheiten im Grossen Moos.

Ob Gletscherschwund, Murgänge, Hochwasser oder steigende Schneefallgrenze, die Auswirkungen der globalen Klimaveränderung sind im Berner Oberland allgegenwärtig.

The 7th ICSS will focus on innovation, new knowledge generation and integration to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through 1. Future Earth’s Knowledge Action Networks, 2. SDG Labs.

The 10th anniversary International Carbon Dioxide Conference will provide participants with an integrated, interdisciplinary view of the global carbon cycle and its perturbation by humans.

The next annual meeting, hosted by CERN, will take place from 21 - 25 August 2017 in Genève at two different locations.

GGMT-2017 is the 19th meeting in a series, which was initiated by Dr. Dave Keeling at La Jolla, California in 1975. Today, GGMT is the cornerstone meeting for the observation of key greenhouse gases and tracers, their isotopes, assessment of new techniques, standardization, quality assurance, and data products. The scope covers challenges in the field of precise measurements of atmospheric greenhouse gases, data utilization and integrated products and observational network design. It provides an excellent platform for all scientists in this field to exchange the latest scientific findings and serves as the scientific backbone of the Global Atmosphere Watch Programme (GAW) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which has provided the umbrella to all GGMT meetings. Since 1997 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna joined WMO due to the increased use of carbon isotopes in studying the carbon cycle.

The 4ICESM will advance discourse around four themes related to the World Climate Research Programme's Grand Science Challenges. Invited cross-cutting presentations on the history, philosophy and sociology of Earth system science and a conference keynote lecture will complement presentations and posters on each of the themes, as outlined below.

Transformations 2017 is the third in a biennial series of international interdisciplinary conferences that focuses on transformations towards sustainability: addressing contemporary challenges and creating conditions for enhancing people’s wellbeing, today and in the future, while strengthening the Earth’s support system.

Das diesjährige SGmG-Meeting widmet sich den ausgeprägten morphodynamischen Veränderungen in Gletschervorfeldern, in welchen die interessante Verzahnung zwischen verschiedenen geomorphologischen Prozessen (hydrologischer, gravitativer und periglazialer Art) aufgezeigt und quantifiziert werden kann. Neben dem aktuellsten Stand der geomorphologischen Forschung in der Schweiz wird der Fokus speziell auch auf Arbeiten Junger GeomorphologInnen gelegt.

Wie wird die Arbeitswelt im Jahr 2030 aussehen? Welche Bedürfnisse hat die Praxis und über welche Kompetenzen müssen die Beratenden verfügen? Die Fachtagung beleuchtet Chancen und Herausforderungen einer zunehmend digitalisierten Arbeitswelt für die Beratung in den Berufsfeldern Agrar-, Forst- und Lebensmittelwirtschaft und darüber hinaus.

Die Vision mehr Energie zu produzieren als zu beanspruchen steht im Mittelpunkt des 5. Berner Cleantech-Treffs am 31. August 2017 im Stade de Suisse in Bern.

The representatives of the young geomorphologists of the Swiss Geomorphological society organize a one-day excursion. The excursion will take place in the Mattertal valley in Valais, between the villages of Herbriggen and Randa. The interest of the region relies on the high sediment transfer activity linking periglacial and glacial areas to the valley bottom 1000 meters below. The aim of the excursion will be to visit both the upper parts of the torrential catchments in order to identify and discuss about the main sediment sources, and the outlets where the high torrential activity induces mitigation measures and infrastructures. Topics covering periglacial geomorphology, slope movements activity, debris flows and natural hazards will be covered. The visited sites will be presented by young researchers with the idea to open discussions between the participants.