GZN News

5 – 9th September and 12 – 16th September 2022 Nobody can reliably predict how the pandemic will develop over the next few months, but - thinking positive! - it looks like we can offer two “Flügel-Courses” on carbonate microfacies in September 2022. We are extremely pleased! The courses will take...

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...

Johannes Barth from GZN took part in an interview by Bayerischer Rundfunk about flooding and the concept of sponge city.   https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/besonderer-hochwasserschutz-nuernberg-will-schwammstadt-werden-av:6102e116ac59d700075f7c31

New article on Silurian sea level has been published in Lithosphere based on the collaboration between Dr. David C. Ray (University of Birmingham), Dr. Emilia Jarochowska, Lene Claußen and colleagues at universities of Worcester and Uppsala.

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.

In the frame of the International Association of Hydrologists (IAH) seminar series Johannes Barth will give an online presentation with the title  "Pleasures and practicalities for stable isotopes related to water and groundwater“ Date July 7th, 12.00 (Central European Time, which means GMT...

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. ...

The Global Cement and Concrete Research Network INNOVANDI has been formed 2020 by the GCCA to accelerate global collaboration on cement and concrete innovation, an important step in taking climate action. The Chair of Applied Mineralogy is pleased to inform about its new cooperation with INNOVNADI.

Prof. Wolfgang Kiessling, Chair of Paleobiology, and Tasnuva Ming Khan, also from the field of Paleobiology, together with scientists from South Africa, England, Brazil, Norway, Trinidad and India, have succeeded in finding that a third of all endemic species living in rural areas are threatened to ...

In Earth’s history, there have been several catastrophes in which a large part of life on Earth has been wiped out. In the programme Campus Talks on ARD-alpha, Wolfgang Kießling shows parallels to the current climate situation on Earth. He gives an outlook to what extent a mass extinction of species...