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08MAR 2024
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Christina Schubert awarded with the Fritz und Maria-Hofman-Prize
Congratulations to Christina Schubert for being awarded the Fritz und Maria-Hofman-Prize for her outstanding Master Thesis about enhanced weathering at GZN / Applied Geology. The team members are particularly proud for being involved in this work. We also thank the Carbon Drawdown Initiative in Fürth for their excellent help and support.
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28APR 2022
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Alexander von Humboldt Prize Winner at GZN
Professor Chandrajith, Environmental Chemist from Sri Lanka, was awarded the prestigious Georg Foster Award and works since March 2022 for one year at GeoZentrum Nordbayern in the Applied Geology / Hydrogeology working group Professor Rohana Chandrajith is an expert environmental geochemist, mainly working in the fields of environment and health as well as groundwater-seawater interactions. […]
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19DEC 2021
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PalaeoFAU’s Bele-mighty video won 1st place in the Palaeovision Fossil Contest!!!
The Annual Meeting of The Palaeontological Association 2021 ended again with the Palaeovision Fossil Contest. This is an online, interactive, international competition to decide the Annual Meeting’s favourite fossil for this year. The Paleontology Team (FAU) successfully completed a video about belemnites for FAU’s contribution to the PalAss Meeting’s Palaeovision Fossil Contest and won the […]The Annual Meeting of The Palaeontological Association 2021 ended again with the Palaeovision Fossil Contest. This is an online, interactive, international competition to decide the Annual Meeting’s favourite fossil for this year. The Paleontology Team (FAU) successfully completed a video about belemnites for FAU’s contribution to the PalAss Meeting’s Palaeovision Fossil Contest and won the […]
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23JUL 2021
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New study on ancient sea-level and depositional model for ancient rocky shorelines
New article on Silurian sea level has been published in Lithosphere based on the collaboration between Dr. David C. Ray (University of Birmingham), Dr. Emilia Jarochowska, Lene Claußen and colleagues at universities of Worcester and Uppsala. The study offers an analysis of a Silurian nearshore succession between Old Radnor and Presteigne (Welsh Borderlands, UK). As […]
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23JUL 2021
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Revision of Patagosaurus
Former GeoZentrum postdoctoral research, Dr. Femke Holwerda (currently at Dr Betsy Nicholls Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology) together with colleagues at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (Argentina) has revised Middle Jurassic sauropod Patagosaurus fariasi based on its holotype from Cerro Cóndor […]Former GeoZentrum postdoctoral research, Dr. Femke Holwerda (currently at Dr Betsy Nicholls Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology) together with colleagues at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (Argentina) has revised Middle Jurassic sauropod Patagosaurus fariasi based on its holotype from Cerro Cóndor […]
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22MAR 2021
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The New York Times: “Decolonizing the Hunt for Dinosaurs and Other Fossils” – Nussaibah Raja Schoob, GZN
Nussaibah Raja Schoob and other paleontologists are working to overcome some historical legacies of their discipline and change how people learn about natural history. She came to the attention of the New York Times. Congratulations, Nussaibah!
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