Month: June 2018

Prof. John Pandolfi (University of Queensland) will give a talk this Friday at 11.00h Uhr in our Paläontologischer Übungsraum (Schlossgarten). The 2016 Mass Coral Bleaching Event in Australia

Amanda Godbold is visiting the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from May 5th to July 31st 2018. During her stay she will compare the temporal changes in biodiversity across multiple sections within the Dachstein reef for the purpose of assessing ecologic stability. She is also inter...

Wonders of the end-Guadalupian (Permian) extinction The largest mass extinction of the Phanerozoic occurred in two distinct steps. The Permo-Triassic boundary extinction, the second episode (252 Ma), is widely known; however, the first one at the end of Guadalupian (Middle Permian; 259 Ma) was p...

Modern-day global warming appears so dangerous for our future that many geologists/paleontologists claimed for an analogy from the past. Nonetheless, is the on-going warming explained solely by human activity? This talk explores an alternative possible cause of global warming/cooling, not on the earth but in the universe.

International Course on Organofacies Analysis: "Sedimentary Organic Matter - Principles & Applications" For everyone interested in organic-walled microfossils and other microscopic organic matter - from origin to distribution, preservation, maturation and even hydrocarbon generation - we ...