Keynotes / Plenary Sessions (preliminary titles)

• Society and Environment (Joseph Alcamo)
• Man and Environment (Reinhard F.J. Hüttl)
• Global Change and Oceanic Diversity (Antje Boetius)
• Earth and Climate (Martin Melles)
• Fossil Energy Ressources - Limits and Chances (Ferdi Schüth)
• Mineral Ressources (Hans-Joachim Kümpel)
• Natural Hazards (Jochen Zschau)
• The Deep Ocean, a Scientifc Challenge (Gerhard Bohrmann)
• Soils (David Montgomery)
• Water and Environment (Georg Teutsch)

Scientific sessions with the following topics:

1. Climate

• 1.1. Boden als Senke und Quelle für Global Warming
• 1.2. Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
• 1.3. Langfristige und sichere Speicherung von CO2 in geologischen Formationen
• 1.4. Sediments as Archives of Environmental and Climate Change
• 1.5 Insights into past climate dynamics – Lessons for the future

2. Earth History

• 2.1. Biodiversity and Environment - The Deep-Time Perspective
• 2.2. Developments in Stratigraphy: Methods, Techniques, Applications
• 2.3. Land-sea interactions in the Phanerozoic
• 2.4. Non-Actualistic Environments
• 2.5. Paleontological Applications
• 2.6. Terrestrial Eocene

3. Energy

• 3.1. Quality Management of Shallow Geothermal Systems
• 3.2. The 8th European Coal Conference
• 3.3. Wirtschaftsgeologie - Mineralische Rohstoffe, Energierohstoffe
• 3.4 Tiefe Geothermie

4. Geo-Processes

• 4.1. Earth Surface Processes
• 4.2. Karst Processes
• 4.3. Tectonics and Sedimentation

5. Men - Environment - Technology

• 5. 1. Aerosols: Interaction from Atmospheric Science and Climate Change to Human Health
• 5. 2. Anthropogenic Loads
• 5. 3. GeoInformationSystems and 3D Modeling
• 5. 4. GEOTECHNOLOGIEN
• 5. 6. Megacities
• 5. 6. Mensch – Klima – Umwelt im Quartär
• 5. 7. Mess- und Quantifizierungsmethoden in der Ingenieurgeologie
• 5. 8. Salt Formations as Repositories for Hydrocarbons and Radioactive Waste
• 5. 9. Technische Entwicklungen zur Abbildung und Überwachung in der oberflächennahen Geophysik
• 5.10. Urban Geology and Sustainable Development

6. Minerals and Raw Materials

• 6.1. Applied Mineralogy / Materials for the Future
• 6.2. Bergbaufolgen
• 6.3. Kupferschiefer 2010
• 6.4. Raw Materials
• 6.5. Scientific Drilling and Subsurface Geophysics

7. Natural Hazards

• 7.1. Earthquakes and Volcanoes
• 7.2. Mass Movements

8. Oceans

• 8.1. The Effect of Global Change on Carbonate Sedimentary Systems in Present and Past
• 8.2. Ocean margins and marine resources

9. Water

• 9.1. Arid Hydrogeology
• 9.2. Bodengeophysik
• 9.3. Hydrogeophysics
• 9.4. Isotopenhydrogeologie
• 9.5. Reservoir Sedimentology

10. Open Topics

• 10.1. Studium und was dann?
• 10.2. Geowissenschaften kommunizieren – aber wie?