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We are very pleased to welcome Emma Dunne to the Palaeoenvironment! Since 15 August 2022, Emma has been supporting us as an assistant, primarily in the area of vertebrate palaeobiology. We warmly welcome our new team colleague and wish her a good start and lots of fun and success in her research. W...

Dear female students, junior researchers and junior professors of the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sciences From now until 23 October 2022 resp. 06 November 2022, you can apply for admission to a new round of the FAU career mentoring programme ARIADNETechNat: ARIADNETechNat mast...

We can learn an incredible amount from corals. Corals are magnificent creatures that have inhabited the world's oceans for millions of years. Prof. Wolfgang Kießling - "On the trail of climate change"

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, main...

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 bele...

We are excited to share the Diversity Dynamics and Crisis in Paleontology speaker series with you all! "Thank you" to the fantastic speakers and to the organisers of the speaker series Nussaibah Raja-Schoob (Erlangen) and Emma Dunne (Birmingham) as well as Jansen Smith (Erlangen). Here’s our YouTu...

TERSANE proudly announces its first video release. This is part 1 of 3 videos. Stay tuned for the rest! Part 1 of the mini series on the work of the TERSANE research unit on Temperature related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions. This video introduces past episodes of catastr...

Dr. Kenneth De Baets and Paulina Nätscher, both from Chair of Palaeobiology, together with scientists from France, Berlin and Portugal, have succeeded in providing a robust basis for the determination of growth changes due to climate change, where the Belemnites – different species of cephalopods re...