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...
Is clustering of extinctions really an increase in extinction rate or is it merely generated by reduced sedimentation rates that reduce the spacing between individual extinctions with long breaks between each other? Niklas Hohmann, Paleobiology Master student, has examined this question in his Bachelor thesis, which is now published in PALAIOS (Hohmann 2021).
To bring us all together in these difficult times, the Annual Meeting of The Palaeontological Association 2020 ended with the Palaeovision Fossil Contest. This is an online, interactive, international competition to decide the Annual Meeting’s favourite fossil for this year. The master students of ...
For his excellent teaching in 2019, Prof. Dr. Axel Munnecke receives the “Prize for Good Teaching”!
Science Minister Bernd Sibler announces the winners and congratulates them: “Your work is crucial for the success of the studies of students and thus for the training of smart minds who shape our ...
Due to the globally increasing number of infections we have decided to cancel next year’s Flügel Courses on carbonate microfacies which were supposed to take place in March. This is very unfortunate, especially since there is a long waiting list, but it seems unlikely to us that we will have overcom...
The introductory event for masters degree in geosciences will take place on the 30th of October 2020 at 10am in the big lecture hall (Henkestraße 42, 91054 Erlangen).
Please be patient and wait in front of the building until somebody comes to get you.
On Monday, July 13, the second to last performance of "Let them eat money" will take place in the Life-Stream from the Margrave Theatre. It deals with the question "Who is to blame?" for the climate catastrophe. After each stream of the digital production, experts discuss the themes of the play live...
Many people think of paleontology as field research, digging for fossils and Jurassic Park. A large part of the research is computer-aided. Dr. Rachel Warnock is a paleontologist who mainly conducts research on computers. This semester she is a visiting professor at the Chair of Paleo-Environment at...
This year´s summer semester will mostly be held online with the exception of a few seminars and field trips that will be postponed. All information can be found on StudOn or UnivIS.
Lecturers are in the process of converting their lectures in different online-formats if possible.
Exams with ma...
