Presentations
02/2017 Extremereignisse aus Fels und Eis im Hochgebirge (invited talk), Gesellschaft für Erd- und Völkerkunde zu Stuttgart
05/2016 Regional-specific characteristics of the formation of glacial lakes and their distinct hazard potential in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru), Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Vergleichende Hochgebirgsforschung und Arbeitskreis Hochgebirge, Biennale Berchtesgaden
05/2016 Ice rock avalanches and glacier surges in the context of their hazard potential: The Chapursan debris landscape (Karakoram Mountains), Himalayan-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop, Aussois, Frankreich (Poster)
04/2016 Rapid ice-rock avalanches versus gradual glacial processes? Implications for the natural hazard potential in the Karakoram Mountains (Pakistan)(Poster)
EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria
04/2016 Historical telecommunication in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalayas: An ancient early warning system for glacier lake outbursts. EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria. (Poster)
04/2016 Paired moraine-dammed lakes: a key landform for glaciated high mountain areas in the tropical Andes of Peru
EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria. (Poster)
01/2015 The crooked Jatunraju glacier tongue (Parón valley, Cordillera Blanca, Perú): Lliboutry's model revisited (Poster)
24. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Hochgebirge, Hamburg.
01/2015 Gletscher und ihre Dynamik im Karakorum (Pakistan) (invited talk) Geographische Gesellschaft Hamburg
06/ 2014 Schutthügellandschaften im Karakorum (Pakistan): Glazialmorphologische Untersuchungen im Kontext der Zerstörung der Siedlung Yishkuk im Chapursan-Tal
Jahrestagung Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Vergleichende Hochgebirgsforschung/ Arbeitskreis Hochgebirge (Bern, Switzerland)
11/2013 Alternative genetic models to Lliboutry's explanation of the crooked tongue of the Jatunraju glacier (Parón valley, Cordillera Blanca, Perú). International GEO SUR Congress 2013, Santiago de Chile, Chile
08/2013 A genetic typology of glacial lakes in regard to their hazard potential in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru).(Poster)
8th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology - August 27th to 31st, 2013 in Paris.
08/2013 Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene glacial and paraglacial landscape reconstruction in the Cachapoal valley (Southern Central Andes, 34°22'S/70°05'W). (Poster)
04/2013 with R. Charrier: Surging glaciers in the Dry Central Andes of Chile: The case example of the Cachapoal glacier (34°S). EGU General Assembly 2013, Wien. (Poster)
03/2013 Gletschersurges in den trockenen Zentralanden von Chile: Das Fallbeispiel des Cachapoal-Gletschers (34°S). Tagungsband der Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Hochgebirge (Poster & Short presentation)
12/2012 20th century glacier changes with regard to the formation of glacier lakes and their hazard potential in the Central Andes. Matsumoto University, Japan (invited talk)
11/2012 Regional-specific differences in the formation of glacier lakes and their hazard potential in the Central Andes. 8th Alexander von Humboldt International Conference, Cuzco, Peru
10/ 2012 Reinterpretation des Lliboutry’schen Modells der gebogenen Form des Jatunraju-Gletschers, Cordillera Blanca (Peru). Ak Geomorphologie Freising. (Poster)
09/2012 The giant hummocky debris landscape in the Chapursan valley (Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan): Glacial-geomorphological investigations of its formation in regard to settlement devastations. International workshop natural hazards in mountains: lessons to be learned in Vladikavkaz, Russia (18-20 September 2012) (invited talk)
04/2012 Glacial landform assemblages in the catchment area of the upper Quitarasca valley (Cordillera Blanca, Perú). EGU General Assembly 2012, Wien. (Poster)
04/2012 Reinterpretation of the formation of the "crooked moraine" of the debris-covered Hatunraju Glacier (Cordillera Blanca, Perú). EGU General Assembly 2012, Wien. (Poster)
11/2011 Glacial landform systems at high mountain glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru). Regional Geographic conference (UGI 2011) of the International Geographic Union (IGU), Santiago, Chile.
07/2011 Talus cones as key landforms for reconstructing the extent of former glaciations. XVIII INQUA Congress, Bern (Schweiz)
07/2011 End moraine assemblages in the Dry and Tropical Andes. XVIII INQUA Congress, Bern. (Siwtzerland)(Poster)
04/2011 End moraine systems in the context of catastrophic and gradual processes in the Central Andes (33°-34°S)
EGU General Assembly 20011, Wien (Österreich)
01/2011 Mensch-Umwelt-Forschung in subtropischen Hochgebirgen aus physiogeographischer Sicht
Probevorlesung an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal
12/2010 “Künstliche Gletscher” in Hochasien: Traditionelles Wassermanagement im semiariden Hochgebirge
Kolloquiumsvortrag am Geographischen Institut der Universität Göttingen
07.07.2009 Recent development of glacial lakes in the Karakoram and Himalayas and their specific hazard potential.
7th International Conference on Geomorphology in Melbourne (Australia)
07.07.2009 The frost-weathering paradigma: Talus cones as glacial landforms in the Andes and the Karakoram.
7th International Conference on Geomorphology in Melbourne (Australia). (Poster)
21.04.2009 The hummocky debris landscape in the Chapursan valley (Karakoram)
EGU General Assembly 2009, Wien (Österreich) (Poster)
07.04.2009 The formation of talus cones and scree slopes as result of the paraglacial landscape transformation in the Aconcagua-Massif (Argentina) and the Marmolejo Massif (Chile)
International Lateinamerika Kolloquium, Göttingen
21.04.2009 Glacial lakes in the Hindukush-Karakoram Mountains and their hazard potential
EGU General Assembly 2009, Wien (Österreich)
23.01.2009 Künstliche Gletscher im Karakorum und in Ladakh
Tagung des Arbeitskreises Hochgebirge (Heidelberg)
11/ 2008 Paraglacial landscape transformation in the Andes of Mendoza: Talus cones and scree slopes as glacially-controlled landforms
Fourth EGU Alexander von Humboldt International Conference, The Andes: Challenge for Geosciences, Santiago de Chile (Chile) (Poster)
25.09.2008 Rezente Gletscherschwankungen im Karakorum.
3. Mitteleuropäische Geomorphologietagung, Kompetenzen und Herausforderungen, Salzburg (Österreich)
12.08.2008 Trends in historical and modern glacier fluctuations in regard to the consequences for oases settlements in the Karakoram Mountains.
31st International Geographical Congress in Tunis (Tunesien)
11.12.2007 Die Eisrandtäler im Karakorum: Genese und Morphodynamik lateroglazialer Sedimentformationen
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Wien (Österreich)
17.04.2007 Historical and recent glacier variations in the Karakoram Mountains
EGU (European Geosciences Union), General Assembly, Wien (Österreich)
07.10.2006 Trends in historical and recent glacier variations in subtropical high mountain areas: Case examples from the Karakoram Mountains in respect to the glacier dynamics in the Aconcagua-/Juncal Massifs (Andes)
PAGES (Past Global Changes)-Symposium in Malargüe, Mendoza, Argentinien (Reconstructing Past Regional Climate Variations in South America over the late Holocene: A new PAGES Initiative)
10/ 2006 Trends in historical and recent glacier variations in subtropical high mountain areas: Case examples from the Karakoram Mountains in respect to the glacier dynamics in the Aconcagua-/Juncal Massifs (Andes) (Poster)
PAGES (Past Global Changes)-Symposium in Malargüe, Mendoza, Argentinien
28.06.2006 Glacial lakes in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalayas
Research Seminar, Geoecological Science, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo (Japan)
30.03.2006 Historical and recent glacier fluctuations with respect to glacial lake outbursts in the Karakoram
United Nations University, Tokyo (Japan)
28.02.2006 Positionierung der Geomorphologie im Spannungsfeld Umwelt-Gesellschaft-Risiko
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung der Universität Wien (Österreich)
24.01.2006 Jüngste Gletscherdynamik in asiatischen Hochgebirgen im Hinblick auf das Natur- und Gefahrenpotential
Geographisches Institut der Universität Hamburg
28.11.2005 „Das Paradigma der Frostverwitterung in der Quartärforschung: Neue Einsichten aus der Perspektive glazigener Landschaftstransformation“
Probevorlesung an der Fakultät für Geowissenschaften und Geographie, Göttingen
14.11.2005 „Rekonstruktion von historischen Gletscherseeausbrüchen im Hindukusch: Eine Fallstudie aus dem Karambar-Tal“
Habilitationskolloquium an der Fakultät für Geowissenschaften und Geographie, Göttingen
04.2005 Glacial landscape transformation in alpine mountain areas - Geomorphological case studies from the Hindukush-Karakoram
Faculté des geosciences et de l’environnement, Université de Lausanne (Schweiz)
28.-30.01.2005 „Historische Eisstauseen und Gletscherseeausbrüche im Karambar-Tal (Hindukusch-Karakorum, Pakistan)“
Arbeitskreis Hochgebirge Jahrestagung 2005 “Beziehungen zwischen Gebirgslandschaften und ihren Vorländern“
19.-22.01.2005 „Transglacial (paraglacial) landscapes in the Karakoram (Pakistan)”
Shifting Lands: New insights into periglacial geomorphology” Clermont-Ferrand, France
07.10.2004 Rekonstruktion gletscher-gedämmter Seen und geomorphologische Auswirkungen von Gletscherseeausbrüchen im Karambar-Tal (Hindukusch / Karakorum) (Poster)
AK-Geomorphologie – Tagung in Heidelberg
04.-15.08.2004 “The Karambar glacier dams and wider implications for the decline of the Little Ice Age in the Hindukush – Karakoram Mountains”
4th International Symposium on the Tibetan Plateau, Lhasa, Tibet (VR China)
04.06.2004 “Ice-dammed lakes in the Karakoram (Pakistan): Geomorphological impacts of the 1905 Karambar flood“
19th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet-Workshop Niseko, Japan
10.-12.07.2004 Eisstauseen im Karakorum: Geomorphologische Auswirkungen von Gletscherseeausbrüchen im Karambar-Tal
Geographisches Institut, Kolloquium Arbeitsbereich Geographie/Hochgebirgsgeomorphologie
23.-30.07.2003 “The Transglacial Debris Landscape In High Asia: Are Talus Cones A Key Form Of The Periglacial Landscape Assemblage?“ (Poster)
XVI. INQUA-Congress, Reno, Nevada (USA)
28.09.-04.10.2003 “Die Ufertäler im Karakorum (Pakistan): Genese und Verbreitung lateroglazialer Sedimentationskomplexe“, 54. Deutscher Geographentag, Bern (Schweiz)
22.05.2003 “Ice-dammed lakes in the Karakoram” Research Seminar, Department of Earth Sciences and Geography, Keele University, (Grossbritannien)
26.-28.08.2002 "Der Pumari Chhish-Gletscherausbruch - Geomorphologische Überprägungen des paraglazialen Sedimentationsumfeldes (Karakorum, Pakistan)" (Poster)
"Mensch - Klima - Landschaft", DEUQUA-Tagung in Potsdam
28.06.2002 "Die Ufertäler im Karakorum: Verbreitung und Genese paraglazialer Sedimentlandschaften"
Hochgebirgsökologie-Tagung in Galtür (Österreich)
25.-27.03.2002 "Glacier lake outbursts in the Shimshal valley (Karakoram/Pakistan)"
17th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet-Workshop in Gangtok (Sikkim, Indien)
26.08.2001 "Distribution and types of ice-marginal sediments in the Karakoram (Pakistan)"
Fifth International Conference on Geomorphology in Tokyo (Japan)
19./20.01.2001 "Glazigene Umwandlungsschuttkörper im Karakorum" (Poster)
Stand der Forschung im altweltlichen Trockengürtel (Berlin)
24.11.2000 "Gletscherbegleitende Sedimente im Karakorum" Arbeitsbereich Geographie/Hochgebirgegeomorphologie Geographisches Institut Göttingen
26.06.-02.07.2000 "The origin of postglacial debris accumulations in the Karakoram from a glacio-geomorphological perspective."
Weathering 2000-Congress (Belfast/Nord-Irland)
05.-07.06.2000 "Recent and fossil ice-marginal sediments along the Hispar Valley and implications for the extent of glaciation"
International Symposium on Quaternary Glaciation in Monsoonal Asia (Chengdu, VR China)
03.-10.8.1999 "On the close connection between postglacial debris accumulations and the Late glacial glaciation history with case examples from subtropical mountain regions in High Asia (Hindukush and Karakoram Mountains)"
XV INQUA Congress "The Environmental Background to hominid evolution in Africa" (Durban/ South Africa)
03.-10.08.1999 "On the close connection between postglacial debris accumulations and the Late glacial glaciation history with case examples from subtropical mountain regions in High Asia (Hindukush and Karakoram Mountains)" (Poster)
XV INQUA Congress "The Environmental Background to hominid evolution in Africa" (Durban/ South Africa)
24.03.-26.03.1999 "The tight link between postglacial debris accumulations and the Late Glacial glaciation history in the Karakoram"
14thHimalaya-Karakoram-Tibet-Workshop (Kloster Ettal/Deutschland)
24.07.1998 "Principles of the transformation of debris accumulations since the Late Glacial Deglaciation in High Asia (Hindukush, Karakoram & Himalayas) and their characteristic forms"
International Symposium on Qinghai-Tibet-Plateau (Xining/China)1
08.05.-09.05.1998 "Geomorphologische Befunde zu einer Typologie von postglazialen Schuttkörpern in Hochasien(Karakorum und Himalaya)"
Tagung des UNESCO-IGCP-Projektes No. 415 im Alfred-Wegener-Institut in Potsdam
21.11.1997 "Die Schuttkörper in Hochasien"
Arbeitsbereich Geographie/Hochgebirgsgeomorphologie Geographisches Institut Göttingen
05.06.-07.06.1997 "Eine Typologie postglazialer Schuttkörper in Hochasien (Himalaya und Karakorum)"
Hochgebirgsökologie-Tagung (Göttingen)
29.05.-01.06.1997 "Preliminary geomorphological Results of Field Observations on the Evolution and Distribution of Postglacial Debris Accumulations in the Karakorum and Himalaya"
Internationales Symposium 'Environmental Changes in High Asia' (Marburg)
31.09.-02.10.1995 "The persistance of debris accumulations in the Karakorum and Himalaya considering changing climatic conditions"
International Symposium: Karakorum Hindukush Himalaya: Dynamics of Change Islamabad, Pakistan)
03.08.-10.08.1995 "The evolution of debris accumulations in response to the former glaciation in the Karakorum and Himalaya Mountains"
XIV. INQUA-Congress (International Union for Quaternary Research) (Berlin)
30.03.-31.03.1995 "Über das Naturgefahrenpotential der Talschaft Shimshal, NW-Karakorum"
Stand der geowissenschaftlichen Forschung in Zentralasien und im südchinesischen Meer (Berlin)