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Pre-conference Field Trips |
Post-conference Field Trips |
Proposed Tuesday Activities
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Two pre-conference and seven post-conference field trips have been planned. A range of more-or-less geological excursions have also been planned for the free Tuesday afternoon during the conference.
The field trips are designed to combine an opportunity to see some of Europe's most dramatic geology with some of its most outstanding scenery. Each field trip will have leaders who have an in-depth knowledge of the geology and geochemistry of the area. The prices of the field trips range from 85 Euros to 250 Euros. Further details of the field trips available and their prices are available below.
The field trips should be booked when registering for the conference. Owing to constraints on numbers the availability of places on all these field trips cannot be guaranteed: you are advised to book early!
Only those field trips which have received more than the minimum number of bookings will be run. The bookings will all be confirmed in July, and if any field trip has to be cancelled, those who have made a booking for it will be offered a priority place on one of the other field trips.
If some places on the field trips remain vacant it may be possible to purchase a place on the field trip at the registration desk at the conference.
Pre-Conference Field Trips
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Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
Fee § |
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Southern Steep Belt: Metamorphism and tectonic evolution of the Central Alps: A N-S profile |
10.08.01 |
17.08.01 |
260 |
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10.08.01 |
17.08.01 |
260 |
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Field Trip Pre1: Southern Steep Belt: Metamorphism and tectonic evolution of the Central Alps: A N-S profile. |
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Guides: |
M. Engi and A. Berger (engi@geo.unibe.ch). |
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Duration: |
3 days |
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Dates: |
Thursday 15th- Saturday 17th August |
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Start: |
Thursday 15th August, 8.00 am, Zürich. |
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Finish: |
Saturday 17th August, 5 pm, Davos. |
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Cost: |
260 Euros |
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No. of participants: |
Minimum 5, maximum 24 |
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Special requirements: |
Strenuous hikes on alpine trails require fitness and good hiking equipment; rucksack (overnight accommodation in simple Alpine Club cabins accessible on foot only) |
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Route: |
Zürich - Lucomagno Pass - Campolungo - Alpe Arami - Gesero - San Bernardino - Davos. |
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Overnight stops: |
Zürich - Lucomagno Leit Cabin (15/8), Gesero Cabin (16/8) |
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Themes: |
Metamorphism: Regional prograde sequence, high pressure rocks, eclogite decompression, late orogenic migmatites and tonalite suite. Tectonics: Alpine nappe stack, polydeformation and exhumation features, role of the Tectonic Accretion Channel (A view into the root of the subduction system). |
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Field Trip Pre2: Ivrea Zone: Lower Crust, mafic underplating and tectonics. |
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Guide: |
J. Kramers (kramers@geo.unibe.ch) |
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Duration: |
2 1/2 days. |
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Dates: |
Thursday 15th- Saturday 17th August |
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Start: |
Thursday 15th August 1 pm, Zürich. |
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Finish: |
Saturday 17th August 5 pm, Davos. |
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Cost: |
260 Euros |
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No. of participants: |
Minimum 5, maximum 24 |
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Route: |
Zürich - Gotthard - Locarno -Varallo - Val Sesia - Varallo - Val d'Ossola - Locarno - San Bernardino Pass - Chur - Davos. |
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Overnight stops: |
Varallo (15/8 and 16/8) |
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Theme: |
One of the finest examples on the planet of the interaction of mantle derived melts with continental crust. Emphasis will be placed on tectonic complications (starting with the insubric line, the mother of all mylonite zones). Evidence of pre-Alpine intrusive relationships and chemical crust-mantle interaction is seen to survive skepsis brought about by tectonics. Outcrops in Val Sesia are dominated by ultramafic and mafic lithologies, whereas in Val d'Ossola high grade metasedimentary units can also be examined. |
Post-Conference Field Trips
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Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
Fee § |
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FULLY BOOKED |
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Prograde eclogite facies metamorphism and garnet peridotites of the Adula - Cima Lunga Nappe. |
24.08.01 |
25.08.01 |
260 |
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Carbonate platform drowning events and their geochemical signature. |
24.08.01 |
25.08.01 |
260 |
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The Platta-Malenco zone of exhumed continental mantle: remnants of an embryonic oceanic basin. |
24.08.01 |
25.08.01 |
260 |
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24.08.01 |
26.08.01 |
290 |
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24.08.01 |
26.08.01 |
290 |
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24.08.01 |
24.08.01 |
22 |
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Field Trip Post1: Upper Pleistocene Chronologies: The last Glacial Maximum, Termination I and landscape evolution - the need for absolute chronologies. Now Fully Booked |
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Guides: |
Chr. Schlüchter, S. Ivy-Ochs, D. Florineth, P. Oberholzer and M. Maisch (schluechter@geo.unibe.ch) |
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Duration: |
1 day |
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Date: |
Saturday 24th August |
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Start: |
Start: 8.00 am Davos |
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Finish: |
Finish: 17.30 pm Davos. |
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Cost: |
115 Euros including transport, lunch, coffee breaks. Optional: Special taxi in Zernez area (20 Euros) instead of 2.5 hr. hike. |
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No. of participants: |
Minimum 5, maximum 30 |
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Route: |
Davos - Tiefencastel - Bivio - Julier Pass - St. Moritz - Zernez - Flüela Pass - Davos. |
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Themes: |
Julier pass: Egesen Moraine Sequence (I, II, III); surface exposure dating. Type locality of terrestrial (D-signal in the northern Hemisphere. St. Moritz: Evolution of unstable landscape; radiocarbon chronology of Holocene hazard evolution; natural hazards and city planning. Termination I: inneralpine evidence for rapid decay at LGM in masses. Fluela Pass: LGM geometry and alpine LGM ice-flow-pattern. Surface exposure dating of LGM ice extent. Paleocirculation and consequences for moisture sources. Zernez area: Alpine Neotectonics. |
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Field Trip Post2: Prograde eclogite facies metamorphism and garnet peridotites of the Adula - Cima Lunga Nappe. |
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Guides: |
V.M. Trommsdorff and C.A. Heinrich (christoph.heinrich@erdw.ethz.ch) |
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Duration: |
2 days |
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Dates: |
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th August |
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Start: |
Start: 8.00 am Davos. |
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Finish: |
Sunday late afternoon, Bellinzona railway station (connection to Zürich) |
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Cost: |
260 Euros, including flight to Cima di Gagnone. Flying from A. Efra to Frasco (instead of 3 hrs hike) possible for another 55 to 120 Euros depending on numbers. |
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No. of participants: |
Minimum 5, maximum 24 |
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Route: |
Davos - Hinterrhein - Soazza - Alpe Arami - Magadino Plain - Cima di Gagnone (helicopter flight) - Alpe Efra - Frasco - Bellinzona. |
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Overnight stop: |
Motel Riazzino, Magadino Plain |
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Themes: |
Low-T hydrous eclogite and blueschists and retrogression to amphibolite facies. Alpe Arami: Mantle derived garnet peridotites and pyroxenites with enclosing eclogites and gneisses. Cima di Cagnone: Prograde eclogite-facies metamorphism of ophiolitic chlorite-metaperidotite/eclogite/metarodingite assemblage. Amphibolite facies partial overprint and regional metamorphism of host metasediments of Cima Lunga nappe. Garnet peridotite formed by prograde eclogite facies metamorphism. Alpe Efra: Syn- to postmetamorphic metasomatism of chlorite metaperidotites. |
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Field Trip Post3: Carbonate platform drowning events and their geochemical signature. |
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Guide: |
K. Föllmi (karl.foellmi@unine.ch). |
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Duration: |
2 days |
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Dates: |
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th August |
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Start: |
Start: 7.30 in Davos. |
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Finish: |
Sunday late afternoon, at Lucerne main station (connection to Zürich). |
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Cost: |
260 Euros |
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No. of participants: |
Minimum 5, maximum 24 |
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Route: |
Davos-Säntis-Pilatus-Lucerne |
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Overnight stop: |
Schwägalp |
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Theme: |
Study of the evolution of the lower Cretaceous northern Tethyan carbonate platform system with a focus on platform drowning events, Helvetic Zone of the Northern Alps. |
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Field Trip Post4: The Platta-Malenco zone of exhumed continental mantle: remnants of an embryonic oceanic basin. |
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Guides: |
O. Müntener and J-R. Manatschal (othmar.muentener@unine.ch). |
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Duration: |
2 days |
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Dates: |
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th August |
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Start: |
17.00 on Friday 23rd August from Davos. |
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Finish: |
Late afternoon Sunday 25th August, CHUR railway station (connection to Zürich). |
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Cost: |
260 Euros |
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No. of participants: |
Minimum 5, maximum 24 |
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Special requirement: |
Note that for some passports, a visa is necessary to enter Italy. Strenuous walks on alpine trails require fitness and good hiking equipment. |
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Route: |
Davos - Chiareggio (Val Malenco) - Lago Pirola - Chiareggio - Bivio - Alpe Flix - Marmorera - Chur. |
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Overnight stops: |
Chiareggio (23/8), Bivio (24/8) |
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Themes: |
Val Malenco: Permian fossil crust-mantle transition, exposed during Jurassic rifting at the seafloor of the Piemont Ligurian ocean. Petrology of the lower continental crust (granulite facies rocks, marbles, gabbros). Petrology of the subcontinental Malenco mantle. Differentiation of a gabbroic body intruding the crust-mantle boundary, and its interaction with the subcontinental mantle. Alpe Flix-Marmorera: Extensional detachment faulting at the continent-ocean transition, and its interaction with magmatism. Emplacement of continental rocks on top of exhumed mantle. Relationships between exhumed continental mantle and infiltrated mantle (intra-mantle reaction front). Mafic magmatism within the zone of exhumed mantle (Gabbros, Basalts). Large scale architecture of a continent ocean transition. |
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Field Trip Post5: Field Geology, emplacement mechanisms, geochronology, and geochemistry of the Bergell intrusive suite. |
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Guides: |
A. Berger and F. von Blanckenburg (berger@geo.unibe.ch). |
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Duration: |
3 Days. |
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Dates: |
Saturday 24th to Monday 25th August |
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Start: |
8.00 on Saturday 24th August, Davos. |
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Finish: |
Late afternoon Monday 26th August, Davos. |
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Cost: |
290 Euros |
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No. of participants: |
Minimum 5, maximum 24 |
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Special requirement: |
Note that for some passports, a visa is necessary to enter Italy. Further: Fitness, no fear of heights, good hiking equipment. |
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Route: |
Davos - Dascio - Chiareggio (Val Malenco) - Alpe Sissone - Chiareggio - Val Masino - Val Mera - Davos. |
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Overnight stops: |
Chiareggio (24/8 and 25/8) |
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Themes: |
Syn-collisional magmatism of this 30Ma intrusion. 5 to 15km exposed intrusion depth levels. Origin and evolution of the entire calcalkaline suite (gabbro, diorite, tonalite, granodiorite). Magma mingling and mixing phenomena . Contact metamorphism of the eastern margin. Post-collisional Novate Leucogranite. Discussion of geochronological, geochemical, and isotope geochemical data. Reveiw of tectonic models (e.g. Slab Breakoff) that have been inspired by the phenomenon of this intrusion. |
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Field Trip Post6: Three orogenies in the Alps. |
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Guides: |
F. Bussy, U. Poller and U. Schaltegger (urs.schaltegger@terre.unige.ch) |
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Duration: |
3 days |
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Dates: |
Saturday 24th - Monday 26th August |
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Start: |
8.00 on Saturday 24th August, Davos. |
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Finish: |
Late afternoon Monday 26th August, Lausanne. (connection to Zürich or Geneva). |
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Cost: |
260 Euros (excluding one extra night in Davos) |
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No. of participants: |
Minimum 5, maximum 30 |
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Special requirements: |
Note that for some passports, a visa is necessary to enter France. Strenuous walks on alpine trails require fitness and good hiking equipment. |
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Route: |
Davos - Flüela Pass region - Davos - Oberalp Pass - Susten Pass - Grimsel Pass area - Martigny - Aiguilles-Rouges Massif - Martigny - Lausanne. |
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Overnight stops: |
Davos (24/8; not included in the cost), Martigny (25/8) |
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Themes: |
Ordovician-Silurian granitoids and their host rocks (Flüela region); Ordovician magmatism and high-grade metamorphism; Variscan metamorphism (Susten area); Late Variscan magmatism (Grimsel area); Ordovician magmatism, Variscan magmatism and metamorphism, late variscan magmatism and basin formation (Aiguilles-Rouges Massif). Alpine orogeny: in evidence everywhere. |
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Field Trip Post7: |
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Guides: |
Norbert Swoboda & Patricia Colberg, University of Wyoming, Barbara Sulzberger, Eawag Dübendorf Kurt Hanselmann, University of Zürich |
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Duration: |
1 Day. |
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Dates: |
Saturday 24th August |
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Start: |
8.10 on Saturday Davos. |
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Finish: |
17.00 Davos. |
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Cost: |
22 Euros |
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Program |
08:10 Bus departs from Davos Dorf Station (reserved seats for excursion paticipants who have signed up for the excursion)09:27 Wägerhus (2207 m) arr. From here we will walk for about 2 1/2 hrs. to Jöriflüelafurgga (2725), climb along the Jörifurgga ridge (2771 m) and down to the Research Station at 2638m. 11:00 Arrival at High Mountain Research Station. Explanation of ongoing research. Investigating the mineralogy and the geology of the catchment. Time for lunch. Return |
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Travel |
Group travel will be arranged from and to Davos. Final meeting point is Wägerhus at Flüelapass road (2207 m a.s.l.). There are enough parking places for those who will drive with their own car. |
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Decision |
In case of unstable weather conditions we will decide the evening before on whether the trip can take place or not. The excursion will only take place if the weather conditions are favourable. |
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Clothing |
Sturdy hiking shoes, suncream and rain-gear are recommended. |
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Fitness |
5 to 6 hours of walking on fairly good paths in mountainous terrain, climbing from 2200 to 2800 m and descending again. The final choice of the route will depend on the weather and the fitness of the participants. The path is safe. |
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Insurance |
This is the responsibility of the participant. The guides cannot be held liable for damages or lost items. Please do not leave the group |
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Registration |
Please register before the conference or sign up at the Conference desk, before Friday afternoon. We will make the bus reservations for all participants who requested it. Registration is still possible during the conference |
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Costs |
Fr. 16.- (10 US$), free for student participants. This includes bus ride from Davos Dorf to Wägerhus and back. Please take your own lunch and enough to drink; there are no restaurants along the path. |
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Preparation |
Friday evening, 17:30 to 19:00 in the seminar room of the Swiss Institute of Snow and Avalanche Research at Flüelastrasse. The organizers will give a short introduction to the area, show a video film on life under water in a high mountain lake and outline ongoing research projects. Those who would like to know more about the research station or to get an impression about the site will find details under http://www.microeco.unizh.ch/station/index.html and a few images under |
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Information |
Kurt Hanselmann, Institute for Plant Biology / Microbial Ecology Group, University of Zürich Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zürich. Tel. 01/ 6348284 or 01/6348211. E-mail: or Patricia J. S. Colberg, Environmental Microbiology and Biogeochemistry Laboratory Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071-3166 USA. Tel: (307) 766-2777, FAX: (307) 766-5625. E-mail: pczoo@uwyo.edu Please also consult the Group News for last minute changes under |
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Themes |
High mountain lakes offer ideal sites to study adaptations of organisms to a variety of environmental extremes. Here, water temperatures are often near freezing, darkness under snow and ice lasts for many months, UV-radiation is strong during the summer months and nutrients are scarce. One wonders how life has adapted to these challenges over time and one is constantly amazed at the strategies microbes have developed to cope with these extreme conditions. The Microbial Ecology Group of the University of Zürich, in collaboration with other institutions, is studying how microbes respond and adapt physiologically to the complex interactions between chemical, geological and atmospheric determinants in the lakes of the Jöri catchment, thereby contributing to a worldwide effort aimed at understanding evolutionary processes and the microbial diversity in extreme environments. The water in the 21 Jöri lakes originates exclusively from rain, snow and ice-melting which makes them interesting aquatic ecosystems for studies about erosion particles as nutrient scavengers and the role of air-borne natural components and pollutants on the chemical composition of the water. On the excursion, we will also have opportunities to enjoy beautiful landscapes and great views into the alps. Don't forget your camera. Those who would like to know more about the research station or to get an impression about the site will find details under http://www.microeco.unizh.ch/station/index.html We are looking forward to having as many guests as possible attend this Jöri excursion. |
Tuesday afternoon events (20/08/2002)
No talks or poster sessions are planned for this afternoon. A number of excursions and other activities will be organised if interest is shown. No advance booking is required but advance indication of interest will be much appreciated to facilitate planning. Trips and activities for which less than 5 delegates express an interest will not be organized. The price of the Tuesday excursions is limited to the cost of shared transport and any entrance fee, and will be less than 35 Euros.
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Excursion possibilities: |
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Geological excursion to the Flüelapass: Ordovician gneisses to Quaternary geology. |
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Geological walk on the Totalp Serpentinite: Mantle petrology. |
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Visit to the Mining Museum in the historical mining village of Monstein, with Silberberg Mine |
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Visit to Research Projects in the Dischmatal, including UNESCO-MaB research area; CO2, water budget and ecological research. |
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Visit to the Snow and Avalanche Research Institute |
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Trip to the Weissfluhjoch |
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Visit to the World Radiation Center |
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Visit to the Kirchner Museum |
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Visit to the town of CHUR, offering the opportunity to be photographed next to the nameplate of this geochemically unique locality. |
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Further activities that will be organised in and around the conference centre: |
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Football match among delegates. |
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Musical session (any style). |
Those attending Goldschmidt 2002 might also like to attend the workshop on highly siderophile elements being held in Nancy (France) immediately after the conference.
Workshop on Highly Siderophile elements in terrestrial and meteoritic samples: Implications for planetary differentiation and igenous processes.
August 26th - 28/29th, 2002
Nancy, France
Further information can be found from their website:
http://www2.open.ac.uk/ril/HSE/hse.htm
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