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29SEP 2019
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Palaeobiology student Fiona Pye receives the PeerJ Award for Open Data Analysis and Publication in Palaeontology
Die Open-Access-Zeitschrift PeerJ hat unserer Masterstudentin der Paläobiologie, Fiona Pye, für ihren Vortrag „ImageJ and 3D Slicer: Open Source 2/3D Morphometric Software”, den sie gemeinsam mit Nussaïbah Raja Shoob, Bryan Shirley, Ádám T. Kocsis, Niklas Hohmann, Duncan Murdock und Emilia Jarochowska verfasst hat. Der Preis wurde ex aequo an Dr. Allison Hsiang von der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität […]Die Open-Access-Zeitschrift PeerJ hat unserer Masterstudentin der Paläobiologie, Fiona Pye, für ihren Vortrag „ImageJ and 3D Slicer: Open Source 2/3D Morphometric Software”, den sie gemeinsam mit Nussaïbah Raja Shoob, Bryan Shirley, Ádám T. Kocsis, Niklas Hohmann, Duncan Murdock und Emilia Jarochowska verfasst hat. Der Preis wurde ex aequo an Dr. Allison Hsiang von der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität […]
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29SEP 2019
News from the GeoZentrum
Guest student Wyatt Petryshen studies 3D morphometrics of conodonts
Wyatt Petryshen, Masters student from the University of Calgary, is visiting the Palaeobiology research group to conduct a project on 3D conodont morphometrics with Dr. Emilia Jarochowska and Dr. Kenneth De Baets. Wyatt’s visit has been supported by a grant from the Hertha and Helmut Schmauser Foundation. He is scanning exceptional conodont material in our […]
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30JUL 2019
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DFG approves extension for research group 2332 at FAU
The interdisciplinary DFG research group TERSANE has been investigating extreme climate events in our planet’s history since 2016. Under the leadership of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the research group is investigating how periods of extreme heat occurred, how severe the changes to the environment associated with them were and how exactly these changes affected marine animals […]The interdisciplinary DFG research group TERSANE has been investigating extreme climate events in our planet’s history since 2016. Under the leadership of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the research group is investigating how periods of extreme heat occurred, how severe the changes to the environment associated with them were and how exactly these changes affected marine animals […]
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03JUL 2019
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Talk by Christopher Scotese
On July 3, 5pm, Prof. Christopher Scotese (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern University, USA) gave a talk “Foundation of Earth System History: Plate tectonics, paleogeography & paleoclimate during the last 1.5 billion years” in Hörsaal Geologie. He is the inventor of the continental drift flipbooks. As a teaser: His latest product is here: […]
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03JUL 2019
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Two outstanding scientists in paleoclimate modeling, Prof. Paul Valdes, and plate tectonic reconstructions, Prof. Christopher Scotese, are visiting us July 1-5
Prof. Paul Valdes (University of Bristol) and Prof. Christopher Scotese (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern University, USA) are visiting Prof. Kiessling in the first week of July. This is an exciting opportunity to meet them individually. As both are invited through TERSANE, climate-impact related themes will have priority. July 1, 10:30am: Paul Valdes […]
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11JUN 2019
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Invitation to the NATworks – June 12, 2019, from 17.00 – 19.00, Hörsaal A, Staudtstr. 5, Erlangen
The Faculty of Natural Sciences cordially invites interested scientists from its own faculty to the NATworks series of events. In order to improve the networking of research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, short presentations from various departments are planned, followed by a get-together to get to know each other better and an informal exchange. […]
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