Year: 2018

Erlangen paleontologists and TERSANE members met in Paris for the 5th International Palaeontological Congress. A total of 12 talks and keynotes were presented on diverse topics such as latitudinal selectivity, body size and paleobiogeographic patterns during mass extinctions. Diversity patterns and...

Abdelrahman Abdelshafy (Egypt) and Najat Issa al Fudhaili (Oman), both BSc-Students at GUtech (German University of Technology in Muscat, Oman), complete an internship with us. They work together with our preparator, Birgit Leipner-Mata, and Prof. Axel Munnecke. They stay in Erlangen until the end ...

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 ...

Die Dissertation über großvolumige Felsbewegungen und Sturzprozesse in Norwegen von Dr. Markus Schleier wurde kürzlich mit dem Dissertationspreis 2017 AK Geomorphologie ausgezeichnet . Mit dem Preis werden jährlich bis zu drei herausragende Dissertationen zu geomorphologischen Forschungen gekürt. Di...

Am 1. Juni 2018 wird die Expedition SO263 TONGARIFT mit dem derzeit modernsten deutschen Forschungsschiff „SONNE“ in Suva, Fidschi, beginnen. An Bord werden insgesamt 34 Wissenschaftler verschiedener Institute sein: des GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Fah...

On May 3rd and 4th 2018 close to 20 students of the international course Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironments, Earth Systems Research Lab and Applied Geology successfully completed a salt tracer experiment in the Town of Pegnitz near Bayreuth. The exercise consisted of characterising the water chemi...