Month: November 2019

We invite contributions to the session Earth System Paleobiology: closing the geological and biological gap at European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2020 on 3-8 May in Vienna. The session is organized by Kenneth De Baets, Emilia Jarochowska, Martin Schobben and Melanie Tietje.

Prof. Ondřej Bábek of Olomouc University will give a guest talk on Uses (and misuses) of quantitative proxies in sequence-stratigraphy and palaoeclimatology: field gamma-ray spectrometry and element geochemistry logs on Wednesday 27. November at 8:30 AM in the Palaeobiology seminar in Henkestraße 91...

Congratulations to Dr. Salim Belkhedim for defending his PhD thesis entitled at University of Oran 2, completed in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Axel Munnecke and Dr. Emilia Jarochowska.

Students of the Masters major Earth Systems Research Lab have created short videos about their research projects. The videos can be now seen online on GZN's YouTube channel.

In this year´s 250th birthday celebration the Alexander von Humboldt foundation financed two acclaimed researchers to work for six months at the Chair of Applied Geology / GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Profs. Walter Daesslé-Heuser from Mexico and Rohana C...

Scientists have assumed that species display a life cycle which is similar to the the life of humans, being divided into puberty, maturity, and old age. Paleobiology student Niklas Hohmann and Dr. Emilia Jarochowska showed in their recent publication that these life cycles are mathematical relics an...