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We can learn an incredible amount from corals. Corals are magnificent creatures that have inhabited the world's oceans for millions of years. Prof. Wolfgang Kießling - "On the trail of climate change"

Professor Chandrajith, Environmental Chemist from Sri Lanka, was awarded the prestigious Georg Foster Award and works since March 2022 for one year at GeoZentrum Nordbayern in the Applied Geology / Hydrogeology working group Professor Rohana Chandrajith is an expert environmental geochemist, main...

The Annual Meeting of The Palaeontological Association 2021 ended again with the Palaeovision Fossil Contest. This is an online, interactive, international competition to decide the Annual Meeting’s favourite fossil for this year. The Paleontology Team (FAU) successfully completed a video about bele...

We are excited to share the Diversity Dynamics and Crisis in Paleontology speaker series with you all! "Thank you" to the fantastic speakers and to the organisers of the speaker series Nussaibah Raja-Schoob (Erlangen) and Emma Dunne (Birmingham) as well as Jansen Smith (Erlangen). Here’s our YouTu...

TERSANE proudly announces its first video release. This is part 1 of 3 videos. Stay tuned for the rest! Part 1 of the mini series on the work of the TERSANE research unit on Temperature related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions. This video introduces past episodes of catastr...

A new research project with the working title "K4 - Carbon dioxide reduction through low-calcium clinker and carbonation hardening" under the leadership of HeidelbergCement - funded by the BMBF and 'DLR Projekträger' - started in August 2021, in which the Chair of Mineralogy is actively engaged. Read more...

Dr. Kenneth De Baets and Paulina Nätscher, both from Chair of Palaeobiology, together with scientists from France, Berlin and Portugal, have succeeded in providing a robust basis for the determination of growth changes due to climate change, where the Belemnites – different species of cephalopods re...

Former GeoZentrum postdoctoral research, Dr. Femke Holwerda (currently at Dr Betsy Nicholls Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology) together with colleagues at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (Argentina) has revised Middle Jurassic sauropod Patagosaurus fariasi based on its holotype from Cerro Cóndor North, Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Patagonia, Argentina.

The fight against global warming and for sustainable development can only be successful if humanity now thinks together about climate protection, biodiversity and social justice and takes into account their interactions on an equal footing in all political decisions – global, national and regional. ...