2024-04-09
Department now responsible for the preservation of palaeontological monuments in Twistringen
On 5 April, the "FossilPit" was opened in Twistringen, 30 km south of Bremen. Visitors can now collect snails, bivalves and shark teeth from the Miocene. At the well-attended opening event, the Geosciences Collection was introduced as the body responsible for the palaeontological preservation of archaeological monuments, acting as an official assistant to the Geozentrum Hannover.
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2024-04-03
Welcome back, Firoz!
Dr. Firoz Badesab, now Senior Scientist at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography [CSIR-NIO], Goa, India, has returned as “Raman Research Fellow” to his former Marine Geophysics workgroup at our Faculty. Many will still remember, that Firoz earned his doctoral degree for his studies on magnetite enrichment at New Zealands’s coasts with INTERCOAST in 2012 and thereafter was postdoctoral researcher at MARUM until 2014.
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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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