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The complex interactions between geodynamics and climate change that support biodiversity are among the most fascinating aspects of our world. Using oceanic islands as a model system, this talk will explore the fundamental processes that generate and maintain the unique diversity of life on Earth. Inaugural lecture by the new professor for Systems Palaeobiology on Monday 5th November 17:15.

First and second-year master students in our international program “Palaeobiology and Earth Systems Research Lab” joined our Paleobiology staff on a research retreat in Franconian Switzerland. We had an intense exchange of ideas and planned the research projects as well as seminars and we explore th...

Erlangen paleontologists and TERSANE members met in Paris for the 5th International Palaeontological Congress. A total of 12 talks and keynotes were presented on diverse topics such as latitudinal selectivity, body size and paleobiogeographic patterns during mass extinctions. Diversity patterns and...

Prof. John Pandolfi (University of Queensland) will give a talk this Friday at 11.00h Uhr in our Paläontologischer Übungsraum (Schlossgarten). The 2016 Mass Coral Bleaching Event in Australia

Wonders of the end-Guadalupian (Permian) extinction The largest mass extinction of the Phanerozoic occurred in two distinct steps. The Permo-Triassic boundary extinction, the second episode (252 Ma), is widely known; however, the first one at the end of Guadalupian (Middle Permian; 259 Ma) was p...

Modern-day global warming appears so dangerous for our future that many geologists/paleontologists claimed for an analogy from the past. Nonetheless, is the on-going warming explained solely by human activity? This talk explores an alternative possible cause of global warming/cooling, not on the earth but in the universe.

International Course on Organofacies Analysis: "Sedimentary Organic Matter - Principles & Applications" For everyone interested in organic-walled microfossils and other microscopic organic matter - from origin to distribution, preservation, maturation and even hydrocarbon generation - we ...

Die Dissertation über großvolumige Felsbewegungen und Sturzprozesse in Norwegen von Dr. Markus Schleier wurde kürzlich mit dem Dissertationspreis 2017 AK Geomorphologie ausgezeichnet . Mit dem Preis werden jährlich bis zu drei herausragende Dissertationen zu geomorphologischen Forschungen gekürt. Di...

Am 1. Juni 2018 wird die Expedition SO263 TONGARIFT mit dem derzeit modernsten deutschen Forschungsschiff „SONNE“ in Suva, Fidschi, beginnen. An Bord werden insgesamt 34 Wissenschaftler verschiedener Institute sein: des GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Fah...

On May 3rd and 4th 2018 close to 20 students of the international course Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironments, Earth Systems Research Lab and Applied Geology successfully completed a salt tracer experiment in the Town of Pegnitz near Bayreuth. The exercise consisted of characterising the water chemi...