Talks & BBQ 2023: Meet the "Faculty for Exploration"!

© A. Straub-Kaserer

© A. Straub-Kaserer

Meet the „Faculty for Exploration“: On 15 June 2023, the Faculty again is happy to invite staff members and alumni/ae to a joint Talks & BBQ evening: Alumni Marcus Wadsak (ORF Weather), Alexandra Deimel (BML), and Gerhard Kuschnig (Wiener Wasser) as well as astrophysicist Sudeshna Boro Saikia and palaeontologist Jan Steger will report on their respective research and work contexts.

The Talks & BBQ 2023 - Meet the “Faculty for Exploration" will take place on 15 June 2023 at 5 p.m. at the NIG, 46h floor, Lecture Room 4C - all alumni and staff members of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy were warmly invited!

Please note: Registration was closed on 8 June 2023. However, if you are interested, we will be happy to put you on the waiting list and reliably inform you of any places that become available. Otherwise, we look forward to welcoming you next year.


Programme

17:00 Welcome

  • Welcome words

Talks

  • A real data challenge: Star-planet interaction and exoplanet atmospheres
    Sudeshna Boro Saikia (Tenure-Track Professor “Exoplanetary Atmospheres”)

  • Looking back in time: Bridging ecology and palaeontology to study the patterns and impacts of biological invasions
    Jan Steger (Palaeontology, FGGA Dissertation Award)

Alumni-Talks

  • Reden übers Klima: Von Elfenbeintürmen, Küniglbergen und erfolgreicher Klimakommunikation
    Marcus Wadsak (Leitung ORF-Wetterredaktion, Moderator und Buchautor)

  • Raum im Wandel: Über den Bodenverbrauch in Österreich und die Arbeiten an einer Bodenstrategie - ein Bericht aus der Amtswerkstatt
    Alexandra Deimel (Ministerium für Land- und Fortwirtschaft, Regionen und Wasserwirtschaft, Abt. III/6 - Koordination Regionalpolitik und Raumordnung)

  • Wasserversorgung in Zeiten des Klimawandels
    Gerhard Kuschnig (MA 31 - Wiener Wasser)

"Snapshots of Exploration"

Award ceremony or the Faculty's Students' Photo Competition "Snapshots of Exploration" 2023


approx. 18:45 Come-together and BBQ

... we are looking forward to welcoming you!

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