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Chair of Geomorphology

apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan WINKLER

Tel.: +49 931 31-88410
E-Mail: stefan.winkler@uni-wuerzburg.de 

Institute of Geography and Geology
Working group Geomorphology
Am Hubland
97074 Wuerzburg

Campus Hubland South
Geography Building
Room 012

upon request (E-Mail)

  • Geomorphology (in particular glacial geomorphology and high mountain regions)
  • Holocene glacier and climate dynamics
  • Geochronology and dating techniques
  • Current global environmental change
  • Quaternary science
  • Popular science and didactics of physical geography
  • Regional key areas:  Norway, new Zealand, European Alps

Improving the Holocene glacier chronology of the Southern Alps/New Zealand enabling its reliable utilisation as palaeoclimatic archive

  • funding
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (WI 1701/13-1)
  • duration
    10/2020 - 09/2024
  • project partner
    ANSTO, Australien
    University of Canterbury, Neuseeland
  • project leader
    apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

Glacial chronology of the Rangitata Valley

  • funding
    Brian Mason Trust, ANSTO
  • duration
    2015 - 2019
  • project partner
    ANSTO
    University of Canterbury
    University of Queensland
    Idaho State University
  • preject leader
    Prof. James Shulmeister, University of Queensland
  • contact
    apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

Developing scientific learning resources for the new 11 – 13 class curriculum (Earth Surface Processes)

  • funding
    Canterbury Research Council
  • duration
    2011 - 2015
  • project partner
    University of Canterbury
  • project leader
    Dr. Kerry Swanson, University of Canterbury
  • contact
    apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

MaMoGla - Recent and Holocene Glacier Dynamics of Maritime Mountain Glaciers

  • funding
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; Wi170/4-2, Folgeprojekt)
  • duration
    08/2007 - 05/2009
  • project partner
    Bjerknes Centre of Climate Research/Universitetet i Bergen (Norwegen)
    Norges Vassdrags- og Energidirektoratet (NVE)
    Kooperationen mit neuseeländischen Universitäten und NIWA in der Entwicklungsphase
  • contact
    apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

Holocene climate and glacier variation in the Southern Alps of New Zealand

MaMoGla - Recent and Holocene Glacier Dynamics of Maritime Mountain Glaciers

  • funding
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; Wi170/4-1)
  • duration
    01/2006 - 12/2007
  • project partner
    Bjerknes Centre of Climate Research/Universitetet i Bergen (Norwegen)
    Norges Vassdrags- og Energidirektoratet (NVE)
    Kooperationen mit neuseeländischen Universitäten und NIWA in der Entwicklungsphase
  • further information
    Projektbeschreibung
  • contact
    apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

Holocene climate and glacier variation in the Southern Alps of New Zealand

Anwendungsbezogene Vergleichbarkeitsstudie zwischen dem orginalen, mechanischen Schmidt-Hammer und dem elektronischen SilverSchmidt in Norwegen und Neuseeland; Wissenschaftlichen Begleitung der Entwicklung des neuen "RockSchmidt"

duration 2013 - 2015
project partner
  • University of Canterbury
  • Proceq SA
contact apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

Age and origin of ice-cored moraines in Jotunheimen and Breheimen, southern Norway

duration 2013 - 2014
project leader
contact apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

Timing and temporal pattern of rock-slope failures and rock falls in Jotunheimen and Breheimen, southern Norway

duration seit 2014
project partner Swansea University
contact apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

Improvement of the Holocene glacier chronology in the Western Southern Alps by the use of Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD)

duration 2010 - 2011
project partner University of Canterbury
contact apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

Holocene glacial history of the Merrie Range, South Central Fiordland, New Zealand

duration 2011
project partner
  • University of Canterbury
  • University of Auckland
contact apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

since 2016
Außerplanmäßiger Professor – Department of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg

2005 - 2016
Privatdozent – Department of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg

2010 - 2016
Senior Lecturer for Quaternary Geology and Palaeoclimatology – Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

2006 - 2008
Research Fellow - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2001 - 2005
Privatdozent – Section for Physical Geography, Faculty Geograpy/Geoosciences, University of Trier

1995 – 2003
Lecturer – Department of Geography, University of Würzburg

2001
Habilitation – University of Trier

1998 – 2000
Research Fellow (Postdoc) of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and guest scientist at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway

1995
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Department of Geography, University of Würzburg

1987 – 1992
Study of Geography, Geology, Minerology, Geobotanics - Department of Geography, University of Würzburg

Winkler, S. 2025: Improved chronological constraints for Holocene rock glacier activity in the Ben Ohau Range, Southern Alps/New Zealand. The Holocene 35, 352 - 372. 

Pop, O., Tichavský, R, Tylmann, W., Avram, A., Timar, A.G., Römer, W., Tylmann,K., Decaulne, A. Winkler, S. Tanţău, I. 2024: Dating techniques. In: Beylich, A.A. et al. (Hrsg.): Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Earth Surface Processes in the Anthropocene. Amsterdam (Elsevier): 79 - 104.

Engen, S.H., Gjerde, M., Scheiber, T., Seier, G., Elvehøy, H., Abermann, J., Nesje, A., Winkler, S., Haualand, K.F., Rüther, D., Maschler, A., Robson, B.A. & Yde, J.C. 2024: Investigation of the 2010 rock avalanche onto the regenerated glacier Brenndalsbreen, Norway. Landslides 21, 2051 - 2072.

Winkler, S., Beylich, A.A., Laute, K., Matthews J.A., Mourne, R.W. &  Wilson, P. 2024: Implications of an Early Holocene climax in solifluction and related periglacial activity on Juvflye, Jotunheimen (southern Norway), as revealed by Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating. Geomorphology 458, 109247.

Matthews, J.A., Mourne, R.W., Wilson, P., Hill, J.L., Robbins, J., Winkler, S. 2024: Schmidt-hammer R-values from glacially-scoured bedrock surfaces across glacier-foreland boundaries: insights into Holocene weathering rates with implications for exposure-age dating. Geomorphology 454, 109139.

Matthews, J.A., Linge, H., Nesje, A., Wilson, P., Mourne, R.W., Winkler, S., Owen, G., Hill, J.L., Haselberger, S. & Olsen, J. 2023: Deglaciation of the highest mountains in Scandinavia at the Younger Dryas-Holocene transition: evidence from surface exposure-age dating of ice-marginal moraines. Boreas 53, 139 - 163.

Seier, G., Abermann, J., Andreassen L.M., Carrivick, J.L.; Kielland, P.H., Löffler K., Nesje, A., Robson B.A., Røthe T.O., Scheiber, T., Winkler, S. & Yde, J.C. 2023: Glacier thinning, recession and advance, and the associated evolution of a glacial lake between 1966 and 2021 at Austerdalsbreen, western Norway. Land Degradation and Environment 35, 394 - 414.

Eichel, J., Draebing, D., Winkler, S. & Meyer, N. 2023: Similar vegetation-geomorphic disturbance feedbacks shape unstable glacier forelands across mountain regions. Ecosphere 14(2), e4404. 

Matthews, J.A. & Winkler, S. 2022: Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating: a review of principles and practice. Earth Science Reviews 320, 104038.

Marr, P., Winkler, S., Dahl, S.O. & Löffler, J. 2022: Age, origin and palaeoclimatic implications of peri- and paraglacial boulder-dominated landforms in Rondane, South Norway. Geomorphology 408, 108251.  

Nesje, A., Matthews, J.A., Linge, H., Bredal, M., Wilson, P. & Winkler, S. 2021: New evidence for active talus-foot rock glaciers at Øyberget, southern Norway, and their development during the Holocene. The Holocene 31, 1786 - 1796. 

Winkler, S. 2021: Terminal moraine formation processes and geomorphology of glacier forelands at selected outlet glaciers of Jostedalsbreen, South Norway. In: Beylich, A.A. (Hrsg.): Landscapes and Landforms of Norway. Cham (Springer): 33 - 69.

Winkler, S., Donner, A. & Tintrup gen. Suntrup, A. 2021: Periglacial landforms in Jotunheimen, central southern Norway, and their altitudinal distribution. In: Beylich, A.A. (Hrsg.): Landscapes and Landforms of Norway. Cham (Springer): 169 - 202.

Winkler S., Matthews J.A., Haselberger, S., Hill J.L., Mourne, R.W., Owen, G., Wilson, P. 2020: Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of sorted stripes on Juvflye, Jotunheimen (central South Norway): Morphodynamic and palaeoclimatic implications. Geomorphology 353, 107014. 

Marr, P., Winkler, S. & Löffler, J. 2019: Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) performed on periglacial and related landforms in Opplendskedalen, Geirangerfjellet, Norway: Indications for mid- and late Holocene climate variability. The Holocene 29, 97 – 109.

Matthews, J.A., Winkler, S., Wilson, P., Tomkins, M.; Dortch, J., Mourne, R., Hill, J., Owen, G., Tomkins, J., Vater, A. 2018: Small rock-slope failures conditioned by Holocene permafrost degradation: a new approach and conceptual model based on Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating in Jotunheimen, southern Norway”. Boreas 47, 1144 – 1169.

Winkler, S. 2018: Investigating Holocene mountain glaciations: A plea for the supremacy of glacial geomorphology when reconstructing glacier chronologies (supported by an example from the Southern Alps/New Zealand). Erdkunde 72, 215 – 234. 

Matthews, J.A., Hill, J.L., Winkler, S., Owen, G. & Vater, A.E. (2018): Autosuccession in alpine vegetation: testing the concept on an altitudinal bioclimatic gradient, Jotunheimen, Norway. Catena 170, 169 – 182.

Winkler, S. & Lambiel, C. 2018: Age constraints of rock glaciers in the Southern Alps/New Zealand – exploring their palaeoclimatic potential. The Holocene 28, 778 – 790. 

Shulmeister, J., Fink, D., Winkler, S., Thackray, G., Borsellino, R., Hemmingsen, M. & Rittenour, T. 2018: Evidence for slow late-glacial ice retreat in the upper Rangitata Valley, South Island, New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews 185, 102 – 112.

Winkler, S., Matthews, J.A., Mourne, R.W. & Wilson, P. 2016: Schmidt-hammer exposure ages from periglacial patterned ground (sorted circles) in Jotunheimen, Norway, and their interpretative problems. Geografiska Annaler A 98, 265 - 285.

Matthews, J.A., Owen, G., Winkler, S., Vater, A.E., Wilson, P., Mourne, R.W. & Hill, J.L. 2016: A rock-surface microweathering index from Schmidt hammer R-values and its preliminary application to some common rock types in southern Norway. Catena 143, 35 – 44.

Mutz, S., Paeth, H. & Winkler, S. 2016: Modelling of future mass balance changes of Norwegian glaciers by application of a dynamical-statistical model. Climate Dynamics 46, 1581 – 1597.

Rezninchenko, N.V., Davies, T.R.H. & Winkler, S. 2016: Revised palaeoclimatic significance of Mueller Glacier moraines, Southern Alps, New Zealand. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41: 196 – 207.

Winkler, S. & Matthews, J.A. 2014: Comparison of electronic and mechanical Schmidt hammers in the context of exposure-age dating: Are Q- and R-values interconvertible? Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 39, 1128 - 1136.

Winkler, S. 2014: Investigation of late-Holocene moraines in the western Southern Alps, New Zealand, applying Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD). The Holocene 24, 48 – 66.

Stahl, T., Winkler, S., Quigley, M., Bebbington, M., Duffy, B. & Duke, D. 2013: Schmidt hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of late Quaternary fluvial terraces in New Zealand. Earth Surface processes and Landforms 38, 1838 - 1850.

Kirkbride, M.P. & Winkler, S. 2012: Correlation of Late Quaternary glacier chronologies: impact of climate variability, glacier response, and chronological resolution. Quaternary Science Reviews 46, 1 – 29.

Matthews, J.A. & Winkler, S. 2011: Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD): application to early Holocene moraines and a reappraisal of the reliability of terrestrial cosmogenic-nuclide dating (TCND) at Austanbotnbreen, Jotunheimen, Norway. Boreas 40, 256 – 270.

Winkler, S., Chinn, T., Gärtner-Roer, I., Nussbaumer, S.U., Zemp, M. & Zumbühl, H.J. 2010: An introduction to mountain glaciers as climate indicators with spatial and temporal diversity. Erdkunde 64, 97 – 118.

Winkler, S. & Matthews, J.A. 2010: Holocene glacier chronologies: Are ‘high-resolution’ global and inter-hemispheric comparisons possible? The Holocene 20, 1137 – 1147.

Winkler, S. & Matthews, J.A. 2010: Observations on terminal moraine ridge formation during recent advances of southern Norwegian glaciers. Geomorphology 116, 87 – 106.

  • Academic Development Unit, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
  • Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Lucas Heights, Australia
  • Department of Geography, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
  • Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany
  • Department of Geography, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
  • Department of Geology, Utah State University, Logan, USA
  • Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, USA
  • Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Ulster University, Coleraine, U.K.
  • Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), Oslo, Norway
  • Primary Science Solutions Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand
  • School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • School of Environment, University of Auckland, New Zealand

TRAPPE, Julian (2021):
Anthropogen beeinflusste Landformen und physisch-geographische Landschaftselemente im Spessart
(urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-261499)
First assessor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Baumhauer
Second assessor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Meister
Mentors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Baumhauerapl. Prof. Dr. Christof Kneisel, apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler

MUTZ, Sebastian (2015):
Dynamic statistical modeling of climate-related glacier mass balance changes in Norway. 
(URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-114799)
Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Paeth, PD Dr. Stefan Winkler 
Examiners: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Paeth, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hartwig Frimmel

BAUMANN Sabine (2010):
Mapping, analysis, and interpretation of the glacier inventory data from Jotunheim, South Norway, since the maximum of the "Littel Ice Age"
(URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-46320)
Supervisor: PD Dr. Stefan Winkler

NIETSCH, Lukas (2022):
GIS-gestützte, raumzeitliche Analyse der Gletscher in der Region Svartisen, Nordnorwegen
Firstassessor: PD Dr. Tobias Ullmann
Second assessor: PD Dr. Stefan Winkler

DONNER, Anika (2019):
Räumliche Verortung periglazialer Reliefformen im Jotunheimen, Norwegen: Ein regionaler Ansatz zur Identifizierung und Analyse bestimmender Einflussfaktoren der natürlichen Rahmenbedingungen.
First assessor: apl.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Winkler
Second assessor: apl.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Sponholz