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At The European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2019 in Vienna Theresa presented a synsedimentary-grown Halysites (chain coral) colony from the Silurian of Gotland crosscutting several beds of the circumambient limestone-marl alternation. The limestone-marl alternation was identified to be of early diagenet...

On October 21, 5pm, PD Dr. Kenneth de Baets (GZN) will give a talk "Gasping fish and panting belemnites: Warming, growth and migration of water-breathing animals " in Hörsaal Geologie, GeoZentrums Nordbayern, Schlossgarten 5. The Pliensbachian-Toarcian transition has been considered a major bott...

The Open Access journal PeerJ has granted the Award for Open Data Analysis and Publication in Palaeontology to our Masters student in Palaeobiology, Fiona Pye, for her talk "ImageJ and 3D Slicer: Open Source 2/3D Morphometric Software" co-authored by Nussaïbah Raja Shoob, Bryan Shirley, ÁdámT. Kocsis, Niklas Hohmann, Duncan Murdock & Emilia Jarochowska.

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.

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 ...

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...