2024-02-22
Warm welcome to Peter!
Peter La Femina is Senior Scientist in the Geophysics Group at the AWI and is permanently dispatched to our department. A former Full Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Peter has made seminal contributions to the fields of tectonics and volcanology. He strives to better understand tectonic and magmatic processes at active plate boundaries and their impact on society by combining terrestrial and satellite geodetic techniques with geophysical, geochemical, and geologic data.
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2024-02-02
Did climate change trigger pandemics in antiquity??
In a recently published study, researchers from MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen and the University of Oklahoma (USA) link changes in temperature and precipitation to pandemics. For the first time, they have created a high-resolution climate archive for the Gulf of Taranto (Italy) based on deposits on the ocean floor and compared it with pandemics in the Roman Empire.
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2024-01-26
Max-von-Laue Prize for Ella Schmidt
Prof. Ella Schmidt - Junior Professor of Crystallography & Geomaterials at our faculty - has been awarded this year´s Max-von-Laue Prize. The award is presented by the German Society for Crystallography for "outstanding scientific work by young scientists in the field of crystallography". Ella Schmidt receives the award "in recognition of her work on a novel approach to the quantitative analysis of diffuse scattering using the three-dimensional difference pair distribution function".
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2023-12-04
„Geschiebe-Fossilien. Per Eisfracht verschickt“ published
As part of the department`s public relations work, a 72-page booklet on fossils from glacial erratic boulders has been published by Quelle & Meyer. In addition to a series of specimens from the „Geosciences Collection“ , the booklet presents the entire range of discoveries from many different collections, from „finds of the century“ such as the Cambrian lobopodian Xenusion to the second oldest fossil bird in Germany and the common flint sea urchin.
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