Year: 2020

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling researches the effects of previous climate disasters on organisms and ecosystems at the Geozentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen. The Volkswagen Foundation supported him with a Lichtenberg professorship from 2006 to 2010, and since 2019 he has been supported in the initiative “...

On Monday, July 13, the second to last performance of "Let them eat money" will take place in the Life-Stream from the Margrave Theatre. It deals with the question "Who is to blame?" for the climate catastrophe. After each stream of the digital production, experts discuss the themes of the play live...

Many people think of paleontology as field research, digging for fossils and Jurassic Park. A large part of the research is computer-aided. Dr. Rachel Warnock is a paleontologist who mainly conducts research on computers. This semester she is a visiting professor at the Chair of Paleo-Environment at...

Part of the GZN staff fighting against corona. Similarities with real existing people are of course purely coincidental (fantastic drawing from our MSc student Anna Merkel).

Research and study

Join us on Monday 4. May for a live chat session with authors and conveners.

This year´s summer semester will mostly be held online with the exception of a few seminars and field trips that will be postponed. All information can be found on StudOn or UnivIS. Lecturers are in the process of converting their lectures in different online-formats if possible. Exams with ma...

Due to the current situation there are a few changes in the daily procedure of the university. Updates, informaion and questions related to the studies can be found here.

… “and now for the end of the course I would suggest a group photo”, says Tasnuva Ming Khan, one of the Earth System Research Lab students who participated in the first online teaching of the course “Tracers, Isotopes and Natural Attenuation” at the GeoZentrum Nordbayern. “Oha, and how does this ...