Published on April 10, 2019

The climate was controlled by Milankovitch cycles 2.5 billion years ago

The climate of our planet is controlled by the orbital parameters of the solar system, leading to the Milankovitch cycles. Researchers from the universities of Utrecht and Geneva demonstrated that the layering in 2.5 billion years old “Banded Iron Formations” is due to oscillations of Earth’s orbit …

Published on March 27, 2019

The struggle for life in the Dead Sea sediments: necrophagy as a survival mechanism

Camille Thomas, Daniel Ariztegui and a team of colleagues from the University of Lyon (France) have evidenced unprecedented molecular fossils from the hypersaline sediments of the Dead Sea. Their structure reveals the recycling of cell fragments from halophilic archaea, extremophiles adapted to the …

Published on February 25, 2019

LéXPLORE a floating laboratory for the study of Lake Geneva

LéXPLORE is a project from UNIGE, UNIL, EPFL, EAWAG and INRA-CARTELL. We have jointly constructed a unique floating platform for the study of Lake Geneva, using a range of automated sensors and instruments. Lake Geneva physics, biogeochemistry and (plankton) ecology will be studied at a level of det…

Published on February 12, 2019

TERRASCOPE out in the school of Montchoisy

Monday 11th of February 2019, our Terrascope animators were in a mission to teach some elements of Geology of the Geneva region to 6 years old children. Huge success for the kids who have been fascinated by the (real) gold flakes they extracted with a classic gold pan like good old gold diggers!

Published on December 10, 2018

Luca Paolillo recipient of the ELSTE-A. Lombard and the Swiss Geological Society Prize for best MSc thesis

Published on December 3, 2018

Nick Greber recipient of the 2018 Niggli Medal

Congratulations to Nick for being awarded the Niggli medal for 2018 in recognition of his outstanding work on the evolution of the Earth’s crust. Nick received the medal during the award ceremony at the Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Bern on November 30, 2018.

Published on October 24, 2018

Luca Caricchi nominated member of the Young Academy of Europe

Prof. Luca Caricchi has been nominated member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE). Members are nominated for their outstanding scientific excellence as recognised by peers, leadership capacity, scientific independence, and ability to collaborate with international partners. The YAE mission is to pr…

Published on October 23, 2018

Oliver Higgins won the best speed talk award at SEG2018

Oliver Higgins, now doctoral candidate in the Volcanology-Petrology Group,  obtained last September the award to the best  "speed talk" at the 2018 Meeting of the Society of Economic Geologists, in Keystone, Colorado. In his 5 minute talk, he achieved to highlight in a clear way  the results of his …

Published on October 22, 2018

University of Geneva Biogeochemist Nominated a Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Science, Biogeochemical Dynamics

Congratulations to Dr. Vera Slaveykova, a professor in Environmental biogeochemistry and ecotoxicology at the Department F.A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences and the Institute for Environmental Sciences for her nomination as a Specialty Chief Editor of the newly launched Biogeochemical…

Published on September 27, 2018

Meeting with the Mexico - Central American delegation

The CERG-C team has met on Tuesday 25 September 2018 a delegation of academics and practitioners working in the field of risk reduction from Mexican and Central American institutions affiliated with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to explore new forms of collaborations and joi…