The AGELESS project is researching how marine life in the open ocean outside national jurisdiction can be better protected in the face of climate change. An interdisciplinary team of scientists from MARUM - Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Friedrich-Alexander-Uni...
Finally! After a break of two and a half years, the Flügel Courses are finally taking place again! Participants are coming from all over the world - and we are happy to welcome them here in Erlangen at our institute.
The key to prehistory reminds a little of a heart. But the 150-million-year-old coral is not red, but beige. It also doesn't breathe oxygen, but history. "This coral wants to tell us something" says Prof. Wolfgang Kiessling, Chair of Paleoenvironment. Read more...
The Covid infection numbers are rising rapidly in Germany, and our Minister of Health has forecast that the peak of the Omikron wave will probably be reached in mid-February - i.e. about 3 weeks before the courses should start. This means that although we can probably expect the number of infections...
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...
Every second year our institute carries out a field trip to Gotland (Sweden). Photos from this year's excursion led by Rachel Warnock and Axel Munnecke can be found here. The next trip to Gotland will be in 2023.
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...
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 ...
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.
