Prof. Dr. Matthias Bigler

Fachteamverantwortlicher

Institut Sekundarstufe I

Telefon

+41 31 309 24 61

E-Mail

matthias.bigler@phbern.ch

Arbeitsschwerpunkte

Dozent im Fachbereich Natur und Technik für Physik und Fachdidaktik
Fachteamverantwortlicher Natur und Technik

Fachinteressen

Neben den klassischen physikalischen Themenbereichen, u.a. auch Klimaphysik, erneuerbare Energien und Astronomie
Experimente, Phänomene, Modelle, Lernendenvorstellungen
Interdisziplinäre Projekte und ausserschulische Lernorte
MINT und gendergerechter NT-Unterricht

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2013–2014 Erweiterungsdiplom Mathematik am Institut Sekundarstufe II der PHBern
2011–2012 Kurs in Hochschuldidaktik an der Universität Bern
2006–2008 Studium am Institut Sekundarstufe II der PHBern, Lehrdiplom Physik
1998–2004 Diplomarbeit und Dissertation an der Abteilung Klima- und Umweltphysik am Physikalischen Institut der Universität Bern
1991–1998 Studium an der Universität Bern in Physik (Hauptfach), Mathematik (Zweitfach) und Astronomie (Ergänzungsfach)
1985–1990 Staatliches Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerseminar Langenthal

Beruflicher Werdegang

Seit 2016 Dozent am Institut Sekundarstufe I der PHBern
2012–2016 Unterricht am Gymnasium und der Fachmittelschule Thun
2008–2012 Forschung an der Abteilung für Klima- und Umweltphysik am Physikalischen Institut der Universität Bern und am Oeschger-Zentrum für Klimaforschung
2007–2008 Forschung am Zentrum für Eis und Klima am Niels-Bohr-Institut der Universität Kopenhagen
2006–2007 Unterricht an der Kantonalen Fachmittelschule Bern
2004–2006 Forschung am Niels-Bohr-Institut der Universität Kopenhagen
1994–2004 Unterricht an der Kantonalen Diplommittelschule und Höheren Mittelschule Marzili
1993–1994 Unterricht am Untergymnasium Bern-Neufeld
1992–1993 Unterricht an der Anschlussklasse des Staatlichen Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerseminars Langenthal
1991–1992 Unterricht an der Primarschule Trimstein
1990–1991 Stellvertretungen an diversen Schulen im Kanton Bern

Publikationen

Ice core evidence for the Los Chocoyos supereruption disputes millennial-scale climate impact

Innes, Helen M.; Hutchison, William; Sigl, Michael; Crick, Laura; Abbott, Peter M.; Bigler, Matthias; Chellman, Nathan J.; Davies, Siwan M.; Kutterolf, Steffen; McConnell, Joseph R.; Severi, Mirko; Sparks, R. Stephen J.; Svensson, Anders; Wolff, Eric W.; Rae, James W. B.; Burke, Andrea (2025). Ice core evidence for the Los Chocoyos supereruption disputes millennial-scale climate impact. Communications Earth & Environment, 6 (1). 10.1038/s43247-025-02095-6

Autor/-innen:

Prof. Dr. Matthias Bigler

PHBern

Porträt

Porträt

Ice core evidence for the Los Chocoyos supereruption disputes millennial-scale climate impact

Gendersensibler Elektrizitätsunterricht an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Bern

High-resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores

Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60–9 ka)

High resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores

Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period

Experimentieren in Natur und Technik

Lernen am Gemeinsamen Gegenstand in Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Haushalt

Decadal-scale progression of the onset of Dansgaard–Oeschger warming events

Greenland records of aerosol source and atmospheric lifetime changes from the Eemian to the Holocene

(MIS3 & 2) millennial oscillations in Greenland dust and Eurasian aeolian records – A paleosol perspective

Eurasian contribution to the last glacial dust cycle: how are loess sequences built?

Inverse stochastic–dynamic models for high-resolution Greenland ice core records

Comment on “Low time resolution analysis of polar ice cores cannot detect impulsive nitrate events” by D.F. Smart et al.

Millennial changes in North American wildfire and soil activity over the last glacial cycle

On the occurrence of annual layers in Dome Fuji ice core early Holocene ice

Retrieving the paleoclimatic signal from the deeper part of the EPICA Dome C ice core

A North Atlantic tephrostratigraphical framework for 130–60 ka b2k: new tephra discoveries, marine-based correlations, and future challenges

A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy

Consistently dated records from the Greenland GRIP, GISP2 and NGRIP ice cores for the past 104 ka reveal regional millennial-scale δ18O gradients with possible Heinrich event imprint

Representativeness and seasonality of major ion records derived from NEEM firn cores

A technique for continuous detection of drill liquid in ice cores

Continuous Flow Analysis Method for Determination of Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus in Ice Cores

Continuous Flow Analysis of Labile Iron in Ice-Cores

Direct linking of Greenland and Antarctic ice cores at the Toba eruption (74 ka BP)

Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

A detailed framework of Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 5 volcanic events recorded in two Greenland ice-cores

Centennial mineral dust variability in high-resolution ice core data from Dome C, Antarctica

Continuous measurements of methane mixing ratios from ice cores

Duration of Greenland Stadial 22 and ice-gas Δage from counting of annual layers in Greenland NGRIP ice core

On the impact of impurities on the densification of polar firn

The Carrington event not observed in most ice core nitrate records

A refined TALDICE-1a age scale from 55 to 112 ka before present for the Talos Dome ice core based on high-resolution methane measurements

Annual layering in the NGRIP ice core during the Eemian

Corrigendum to "Water isotopic ratios from a continuously melted ice core sample" published in Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 2531–2542, 2011

Optimization of High-Resolution Continuous Flow Analysis for Transient Climate Signals in Ice Cores

Water isotopic ratios from a continuously melted ice core sample

Ammonium and non-sea salt sulfate in the EPICA ice cores as indicator of biological activity in the Southern Ocean

Atmospheric decadal variability from high-resolution Dome C ice core records of aerosol constituents beyond the Last Interglacial

Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from chemical analysis of the EPICA Dome C ice core

New MIS 19 EPICA Dome C high resolution deuterium data: Hints for a problematic preservation of climate variability at sub-millennial scale in the “oldest ice”

Tracing volcanic events in the NGRIP ice-core and synchronising North Atlantic marine records during the last glacial period

Sulfate Spikes in the Deep Layers of EPICA-Dome C Ice Core: Evidence of Glaciological Artifacts

A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology

An Improved Continuous Flow Analysis System for High-Resolution Field Measurements on Ice Cores

Ausarbeitung und Erprobung eines zweistufigen summativen Leistungsbeurteilungssystems im Fach Mathematik auf der Sekundarstufe II basierend auf grundlegenden und erweiterten Lernzielen (Diplomarbeit)

Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core

High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years

Proxies and Measurement Techniques for Mineral Dust in Antarctic Ice Cores

Synchronization of the NGRIP, GRIP, and GISP2 ice cores across MIS 2 and palaeoclimatic implications

The Southern Hemisphere at glacial terminations: insights from the Dome C ice core

"EDML1": a chronology for the EPICA deep ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last 150 000 years

A new continuous high-resolution detection system for sulphate in ice cores

Erratum to “Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 260 (2007) 340–354]

Erratum: Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles

Ice core evidence for a very tight link between North Atlantic and east Asian glacial climate

Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica

A new Greenland ice core chronology for the last glacial termination

Aerosol deposited in East Antarctica over the last glacial cycle: Detailed apportionment of continental and sea‐salt contributions

Effect of impurities on grain growth in cold ice sheets

European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)

One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica

Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles

The Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005, 15–42ka. Part 1: constructing the time scale

The Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005, 15–42ka. Part 2: comparison to other records

Deconvolution‐based resolution enhancement of chemical ice core records obtained by continuous flow analysis

Visual stratigraphy of the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NorthGRIP) ice core during the last glacial period

Volcanic ash layers from the Last Glacial Termination in the NGRIP ice core

Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period

Hochauflösende Spurenstoffmessungen an polaren Eisbohrkernen: Glazio-chemische und klimatische Prozessstudien

Ice core evidence for the extent of past atmospheric CO2 change due to iron fertilisation

Als Eisforscher in Dome C – ein Tagebuch

Continuous record of microparticle concentration and size distribution in the central Greenland NGRIP ice core during the last glacial period

Limited dechlorination of sea‐salt aerosols during the last glacial period: Evidence from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice core

Dust and sea salt variability in central East Antarctica (Dome C) over the last 45 kyrs and its implications for southern high‐latitude climate

Extending the ice core record beyond half a million years