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...
We are thrilled to welcoming 12 international students in Erlangen. Our 3-week workshop aims to introduce graduate students to a range of analytical methods that are foundational to or at the cutting edge of paleobiological research. Topics, taught by rotating expert instructors, will include probab...
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...
We are seeking an individual for a part-time position (up to 3 years) for science communication at the GeoZentrum NordBayern. We are a multi-disciplinary research institute, focusing on Climate, Geodynamics, Palaeontology and Evolution (CGPE) and Sustainable Energy, Resources and Materials (SERM). T...
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...
Is clustering of extinctions really an increase in extinction rate or is it merely generated by reduced sedimentation rates that reduce the spacing between individual extinctions with long breaks between each other? Niklas Hohmann, Paleobiology Master student, has examined this question in his Bachelor thesis, which is now published in PALAIOS (Hohmann 2021).
