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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2023-11-07
Dr. Karim Norouzi presents at Geophysics Research Seminar
Talks are Tuesdays 13:15-14:00 from 7.11.23 to 30.1.24 in GEO 1490
The Geophysics Research Seminar has a long tradition at our faculty - this is where new members of the geophysics groups introduce themselves scientifically, initial expedition results are shared and doctoral students present their interim results. Students, doctoral candidates, postdocs, seniors and also non-specialists with an interest in geophysics topics are cordially invited to our discussion-friendly seminar.
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2023-11-06
ERC Synergy project investigates the relics of the earliest microbial metabolic pathways
In the ERC project Archean Park, organic geochemist Kai-Uwe Hinrichs (FB5/MARUM), together with his colleagues Ivan Berg (University of Münster), Jens Kallmeyer (GFZ Potsdam) and Alexander Probst (University of Duisburg-Essen), will investigate how the extremely high atmospheric CO2 concentrations in the Archean eon - the period thought to have witnessed the origin of microbial life on Earth - affected microbial..
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2023-11-02
Prestigious SYNERGY grant to study prebiotic processes
Together with Juan Manuel García-Ruiz (CSIC Granada), Helmut Coelfen (U Konstanz) and Mark van Zuilen (U Brest), petrologist Wolfgang Bach recently received substantial funding from the European Research Council to conduct experimental studies of processes that may have played a role in the origin of life.
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