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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...

May is a micropaleontologist with a specialty in marine ostracods. She did her PhD (2019) with Dr. Moriaki Yasuhara in the University of Hong Kong and will be investigating ostracods faunal changes through Eocene-Oligocene climate transition in the Tasman Frontier (IODP Expedition 371) at FAU more

3rd Workshop and Fieldtrip of IGCP 655 Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: Impact on marine carbon cycle and ecosystems. September 2nd – 5th, 2019, Erlangen (Germany) The IGCP project 655 – Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: Impact on marine carbon cycle and ecosystems (International Geoscience Program su...

Carbonate rocks are unique witnesses of Earth History as they are formed by organisms. From the 11th to the 22nd of March the annual “Flügel Courses” take place in Erlangen. 54 carbonate sedimentologists from 21 nations will train the interpretation of such rocks with our globally unique thin-section collection.

Prof. Wolfgang Kiessling was at the Royal Society Meeting "The Past is a Foreign Country" in London to present a lecture on " Marine ecosystem responses to temperature-related stressors through time".

Not only geologists are in love with rocks, climbers are too. Our Paleobiology student Niklas Hohmann discusses the geology of Franconian Switzerland, our local climbing area close to Erlangen and birthplace of modern sports climbing.