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16MAY 2019
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Guest scientist Radouane Sadji from University of Oran 2, Algeria
Radouane is a guest Ph.D student from University of Oran 2. At the FAU, his work focuses on three axes of research about the Upper Jurassic of the Ouarsenis Mountains North West of Algeria:
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06MAY 2019
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Guest scientist Shenyang Yu from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, China
Shenyang is a guest Ph.D student from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. At the FAU, his work focuses on the following two topics: 1. Shelly fauna recoveries and their geographic pattern aftermath of the latest Ordovician extinction events in Northern Guizhou, Yangtze epicontinental […]
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03MAY 2019
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Guest scientist Huai-Hsuan May Huang from The University of Hong Kong
May is a micropaleontologist with a specialty in marine ostracods. She did her PhD (2019) with Dr. Moriaki Yasuhara in the University of Hong Kong and will be investigating ostracods faunal changes through Eocene-Oligocene climate transition in the Tasman Frontier (IODP Expedition 371) at FAU more
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02APR 2019
News from the GeoZentrum
DAIME: a new R package to correct the effects of changing depositional rates
Niklas Hohmann, a student from our Master program, published a new statistical tool that allow to correct the effects of changing deposition rates on geological data. These deposition rates determine how much time it takes to form rocks of a given thickness, and can therefore alter our interpretation of paleobiological rates when examining this rock. […]
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21MAR 2019
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The registration for the 3rd International Workshop on the T-OAE in Erlangen, Sep 2nd – 5th 2019, is now open!
3rd Workshop and Fieldtrip of IGCP 655 Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: Impact on marine carbon cycle and ecosystems. September 2nd – 5th, 2019, Erlangen (Germany) The IGCP project 655 – Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: Impact on marine carbon cycle and ecosystems (International Geoscience Program supported by the IUGS and UNESCO) and the Friedrich-Alexander Universität are […]
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01MAR 2019
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The Carbonate World as guest in Erlangen
Carbonate rocks are unique witnesses of Earth History as they are formed by organisms. From the 11th to the 22nd of March the annual “Flügel Courses” take place in Erlangen. 54 carbonate sedimentologists from 21 nations will train the interpretation of such rocks with our globally unique thin-section collection.
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