François Jeanneret (Head of Group)
email: jeann@giub.unibe.ch
Geographer
(grammar school teacher in 1971, BSc in 1973, PhD. in 1976), 1971 to 1973
research in New Zealand, 1976 to 1982 Lecturer at Teacher’s Training
Colleges, ). Lecturer for physical and regional geography in French at
the University of Berne and at the Institutes of Geography of the Universities
of Berne (since 1982) and Neuchâtel (1983-1993; teaching at the
Geography Department at the University of Neuchâtel (1985-1994 for
climatology, 1995-2001 in geoecology and landscape geography within the
BENEFRI University Network), organisation of field trips and teacher training
in Switzerland, in France and in the Netherlands.
Since 1970 research, projects and publications in phenology, applied climatology,
landscape geography, geoecology; author, translator, and editor of school
materials and books; studies on regional geography in the Jura mountains,
Switzerland and New Zealand.
1982-2003 Member of the consultative committee for the Swiss school atlas,
1985-1999 member of the committee and 1990-1996 president of the Neuchâtel
Geography Society.
* 1946
Bibliographie
Robert Brügger
email: bruegger@giub.unibe.ch
Robert Brügger is actually project co-ordinator and senior assistant at the Institute of Geography of the University of Berne. He is a botanist (M.Sc. University of Berne 1990), had activities and research at the Institute of Botany in Berne and worked for private bureau's. He is a teacher for environmental education for children and adults, taught at different schools. He did research in vegetation ecology and a doctoral thesis in forest phenolgy on beech trees and spruces (Ph.D. University of Berne 1998). At the Institute of Geography, he has founded a phenological monitoring network in forests all over Switzerland and was a main author of the new official guide for phenological observations for the national weather service Swiss meteorological institute (MeteoSwiss). He mainly carried out Workpackage 5 of the EU-founded European Phenological Network EPN, with the goal of establishing a phenological bibliographical database.
Robert Brügger is born September 13th, 1959 and father of two children: Dominic, born May 13th, 1986, and Anja-Salomé, born at November 8th, 1988.
Publications:
This Ruthishauser
email: rutis@giub.unibe.ch , thisrutishauser@hotmail.com
I have studied geography, history and geology at the University of Bern since 1997. I have started my master thesis in 2002 with the title „Cherry Tree Phenology“ expected to be finished in November 2003. The interdisciplinary project in phenology, climatology and history aims at reconstructing a 280-year long series of flowering dates of the cherry tree in Switzerland. As one of the most prominent phenological events in spring, the cherry tree can be used as indicator for the beginning of the growing season. Hence, the long record provides the possibility to see changes in the beginning of the growing season over a long period.
Born 11th August 1975
Publications:
Carol Hemund
email: hemund@giub.unibe.ch, carol.hemund@giub.unibe.ch
In a time of a changing
world and many global problems I decided to enrol for the studies of Geography
at the University of Berne in 2003, after having finished high-school
at the Gymnasium Linde in Biel and having attended the school of art for
one year.In my opinion Geography is a field of study that gives students
the possibility to see many of these mentioned changes from various perspectives.
To me that seems essential, as solutions should never be one-sided.However,
I personally focus my interests more and more in direction of the physical
part of Geography. Therefore it is a great opportunity to be a member
of the group PHENOTOP and working as an assistant at the Geographical
Institute (GIUB).
The more one sees, hears and learns the more one’s able to follow
a way with eyes and mind wide open. I myself, as a person with great affection
for nature - be it in my studies or my leisure time - I do think this
is most important.
Born 15th February 1983
