Invited talks

Eichel, J. (2025): “Go or grow? Moving mountain slopes meet shifting mountain plants”. Invited talk at AlpsChange Kick-Off Meeting, 01.12.2025, University of Salzburg, Austria

Eichel, J. (2025): “Feedbacks between moving mountain slopes and dynamic mountain plants". Invited EGU Geomorphology Division ECS Award lecture. 01.05.2025, European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria. Watch here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessionprogramme/MAL

Eichel, J. (2024): “Go or grow? Moving mountain slopes meet shifting mountain plants”. Invited talk at Sensing Mountains Summer School, 23.09.2024, Obergurgl, Austria

Eichel, J. (2024): “Rauf oder runter? Wandernde Alpenpflanzen treffen auf instabile Berghänge". Invited talk at Bonner Geographische Gesellschaft, 19.06.2024, Bonn, Germany (public talk)

Eichel, J. and D. Draebing (2022): "Periglacial Puzzles: What Controls Development, Movement and Size of Solifluction Lobes?" Invited talk at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 12.12.-16.12.22, Chicago, USA.

Eichel (2022): “Mountain biogeomorphology: What do plants do on unstable mountain slopes?” Invited talk at International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) Webinar Central and Western Europe, 03.03.22, Online.

Eichel, J. (2021): "Mountain life and landscapes in a changing climate”. Invited speaker at Virtual Innsbruck Summer School Alumni Event, 07.12.21, Online.

Eichel, J. (2021): “Biogeomorphic feedbacks between plants and mass movement processes in periglacial environments”. Invited talk at Fifth World Landslide Forum, November 2021, Kyoto, Japan. (postponed from November 2020 due to Covid-19)

Eichel J. (2021): “Biogeomorphology in transition”. With Annegret Larsen (U. Wageningen). Invited talk at the lunch time seminar of the German Working group on Geomorphology, 11.03.21, online.

Eichel, J. (2019): “Feedbacks between geomorphic and ecologic dynamics in glacier forelands”. Invited talk at Symposium: Ecology | Geomorphology | Statistics. Multidiversity in environmental successions - interdisciplinary views on the emergence of ecological complexity. March 28th – 29th 2019, University of Salzburg, Austria

Eichel, J. (2015): "Großer Stein, kleine Blume? Entwicklung von Oberflächenformen und Vegetation in einem Gletschervorfeld". Invited talk at the award ceremony for the Dr. Hohmann Förderpreis 2015, Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Köln, Cologne.

Community involvement

Regular co-convener of biogeomorphology/ecogeomorphology session at European Geosciences Union General Assemblies (2018-2026)

Convener of session “Biogeomorphology and Ecological Baselines: From Life-Landscape Interactions to Restoration” at 11th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology, with A. Larsen, L. Boterman (Wageningen University), S. Wood (Lincoln University), A. Brown (Arctuic University Museum of Norway), February 2026, Christchurch, New Zealand

Co-convener of session “Interactions between glacier dynamics, surface processes, soil and plants: From glaciers and unstable debris to ecosystem services” with J. Lai (University of Glasgow), J.-C. Clément (Université Savoie Mont Blanc), M. Freppaz (University of Torino), A. Temme (University of Innsbruck) at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2025, April/May 2025, Vienna, Austria

Convener of session “Biogeomorphology in a changing climate and environment” at Mid-European Geomorphology Meeting, with A. Larsen (Wageningen University), November 2021, Munich, Germany.