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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...

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 t...

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 TERSAN...

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 ...

Dr. Emilia Jarochowska and Master students in Palaeobiology represented FAU at the international science outreach event in Munich - student report by Alejandra Gomez Correa

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: the evolution of the carbonates deposits during a rifting phase; origin of red nodular limestones(Ammo...

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...

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

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 su...