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11JUN 2024
Allgemein
Ecosystem engineers under pressure
About rhodoliths and the impact climate has on these architects of the natural world Rising water temperatures caused by climate change also put pressure on important ecosystem engineers. While everyone is aware of coral and the huge reefs it forms, other architects of the natural world include certain species of red algae that create less […]
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06JUN 2024
Department of Physics
Girls’ Day 2024
The Faculty of Sciences at FAU has participated in Girls’ Day for many years. An exciting and motivating program awaited the girls again this year: The offer with contributions on the topics “Exploring the hidden physics in the animal world together”, “The hot and energetic universe” and “Earth in transition – Why are rocks not […]
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27NOV 2023
Geozentrum Nordbayern
Prof. Johannes Barth PhD elected into the UNESCO Commission of IHP UNESCO and HWRP of WMO
For topics related to water Germany is represented via the Foreign Office to the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO and the Hydrology and Water Resources Programme (HWRP) of the World Metereological Organisation (WMO). Prof. Johannes Barth PhD (Chair of Applied and Environmental Geology) has been elected into the scientific advisory committee. With this he […]
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14FEB 2023
General
A trailblazer in the field of geology: Dixie Lee Bryant
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has named a lecture hall after her. Here in Germany, hardly anyone knows her name. And yet she could be a real inspiration for young women in science: Dixie Lee Bryant, the daughter of a businessman from Kentucky, USA, studied at MIT before becoming the first woman to receive […]
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30APR 2021
Events
Scrubbing paleontological data
The Open Research Challenge 2020, organised by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), invited young researchers from around the world to submit innovative and creative ideas to remove incorrect and outdated entries in the largest database used in the field of paleontology. The winning submission, code developed by a paleontologist from Bristol in the UK, offers a solution […]The Open Research Challenge 2020, organised by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), invited young researchers from around the world to submit innovative and creative ideas to remove incorrect and outdated entries in the largest database used in the field of paleontology. The winning submission, code developed by a paleontologist from Bristol in the UK, offers a solution […]
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20NOV 2020
Geozentrum Nordbayern
Identical evolution of isolated organisms
Palaeontologists at FAU and the University of Calgary in Canada have provided new proof of parallel evolution: conodonts, early vertebrates from the Permian period, adapted to new habitats in almost identical ways despite living in different geographical regions. The researchers were able to prove that this was the case using fossil teeth found in different […]
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