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Jürg Beer
| Prof. Dr. Juerg Beer Surface Waters Eawag Ueberlandstrasse 133 P. O. Box 611 8600 Duebendorf Switzerland | Phone +41 44 823 5111 Fax +41 44 823 5028 Office BU-D19 juerg.beer@eawag.ch |
Jürg Beer
Function
Research scientist and leader of the group Radioactive Tracers
Projects
See projects on the webpage of the group Radioactive Tracers
Major Research Areas
- Reconstruction of environmental changes in the past using natural archives (Ice cores, loess, lake sediments, tree rings etc.)
- Solar forcing and climate change
- Study the carbon cycle based on 14C and 10Be
- History of solar variability and cosmic rays
Curriculum vitae
Education
- M.Sc. University of Bern, Switzerland, 1975
- Ph.D. University of Bern, Switzerland, 1979
Professional Experience
- 2003, Titular Professor of the ETH Zürich
- 2002, Visiting Professor at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Lab of the University of Nagoya, Japan
- 1997, Guest Professor at the Institute of Geochemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- 1994-1995, Visiting scientist at NCAR (National Centre of Atmospheric Research), Boulder, USA
- 1991-1993, Head of the department of Environmental Physics
- 1991-today, Lecturer at the ETH Zürich
- 1988-to date, Senior Researcher at Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- 1986-1988, Research scientist at the Institute of Medium Energy Physics ETH, Zürich
- 1979-1986, Research assistant at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern, department of 'Low Level Counting and Nuclear Geophysics'
Teaching Activities
- 1985, Radioisotopes in Natural Archives: Information about the History of the Solar-Terrestrial System (Enrico Fermi Summer School, Varenna, Italy)
- 1991–2001, Technique and Environment (ETH Zürich)
- 1991–today, Natural isotopes in the environment (ETH Zürich)
- 1996, Cosmogenic isotopes as a tool to study solar and terrestrial variability (Enrico Fermi Summer School, Varenna, Italy)
- 1998, Radionuclides in natural archives (Summer School on Environmental Radioactivity, Mojmirovce, Slovakia)
Professional associations
- Member of EGS, AGU, SPS, SCOR, HOLIVAR, ISCS, CAWSES
- Organizer of summer schools, workshops
- Convenor of EGS and COSPAR meetings
Academic Honors
- Price of the faculty of natural sciences, University of Bern (1985)
- Greinacher Price, University of Bern (1998)
Publications
Publication list