Teaching
Courses Taught at LMU (2020)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Quaternary Dating Methods
Geochronologie
Advanced Earth Surface Processes 2
Quartärgeologische Datierung
mit Kosmogenen Nukliden
Quantitative dating methods on timescales from 10 a to 1 Ma for the Master’s program in Geology. Students from other courses of study are welcome to join as well.
Einführung in die quantitative Zeitmessung in der Geologie für den Bachelorstudiengang. Es werden die Grundlagen der Geochronologie wie Radioaktivität, die Altersgleichung, und analytische Methoden besprochen, sowie eine Übersicht der wichtigsten Datierungsmethoden und deren Anwendungen. Studierende aller Semester sind willkommen, es gibt aber eine beschränke Teilnehmerzahl.
Literature class on recent developments in earth surface processes concerning dating of mineral transformations during weathering.
Einführung in die Entstehung und Anwendung von stabilen und radioaktiven kosmogenen Nukliden.
Courses taught
University of Munich
Exercises for Introduction to Geology and Plate Tectonics
“Students for Students” Seminar Lehre@LMU
Berliner Hütte field exercise
2011, 2012
2012, 2013
2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013
3rd semester introduction to global and regional scale geologic processes
Student‐led interdisciplinary geoscience seminar to discuss topics not covered by other classes.
2nd semester field exercise and student’s first “hands on” field experience. It includes a “mapping competition” between the individual groups.
Teaching Assistant
California Institute of Technology
Ge 11a – Earth as a Planet
Ge 101 – Introduction to Geology and Geochemistry
Ge 120b ‐ Field Geology: Summer Field Camp
Ge 116 ‐ Analytical Methods
Ge 111a ‐ Applied Field Geophysics
Ge 111b ‐ Applied Field Geophysics
2018
2018
2016
2015
2015
Introduction to geology for undergraduate students and first‐year graduate students. Two courses taught concurrently.
Three‐week field class focusing on introduction to geologic mapping, held at Poleta Folds, Deep Springs Valley, CA.
Introduction to use of analytical tools: SEM, EDX, EBSD, electron microprobe, mass spectrometry, laser ablation ICP‐MS, Raman, X‐ray diffraction, IR spectroscopy.
Introduction to seismic reflection/refraction, ground penetrating radar (GPR), resistivity, GIS, differential GPS, gravity, magnetics.
Field measurements using seismic reflection/refraction, ground penetrating radar (GPR), resistivity, GIS, differential GPS, gravity, magnetics.
University of Munich
Exercises for Introduction to Geology and Plate Tectonics
Maps and Profiles
Elba (Italy) mapping course
Cabo de Gata (Spain) mapping course
Structural Geology Lab
Molasse Basin field trip
Franconian Alb field trip
Northern Calcareous Alps field trip
Coburg field trip
Western US field trip
2008, 2009, 2010
2009, 2012, 2013
2011
2012
2010, 2011
2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013
2010
2013
2011
2012
3rd semester introduction to global and regional scale geologic processes.
2nd semester introduction to reading and making topographic and geologic maps and constructing geologic cross‐sections.
3rd semester introduction to field methods and geologic mapping on the island of Elba, Italy.
3rd semester introduction to field methods and geologic mapping in Cabo de Gata, Spain.
5th semester advanced exercises in balancing cross‐sections of fold‐and-thrust belts.
2nd semester field trip to outcrops in the Molasse Basin south of Munich, Germany.
2nd semester field trip to the Franconian Alb region, Germany.
2nd semester field trip to the Wallberg, Germany, to construct geologic cross-sections.
Three‐day field trip to the area around Coburg, Germany.
Undergraduate field trip to Nevada, Arizona, California, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho. Regional‐scale mapping in the Basin‐and‐Range Province and Colorado Plateau.