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After reviewing the submission for the Open Research Challenge, Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Wolfgang Kiessling have decided on the winner of the challenge. We are happy to announce Joseph Flannery Sutherland, PhD candidate at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol in the UK. Con...

"Climate change affects life at global scales and across systems but is of special concern in areas that are disproportionately rich in biological diversity and uniqueness. Using a meta-analytical approach, we analysed >8000 risk projections of the projected impact of climate change on 273 areas...

Our recent newsletter is out! We've already sent it to those that actively participate and those that are interested in Paleosynthesis and told as they would like to keep informed. You can download it here.

The deadline for FAU's  Open Research Challenge is over and we would like to thank everyone who participated and supported. Now it is time to review and rank the submitted solutions. This will be done by Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Wolfgang Kiessling and as soon as we have our results we will in...

In Earth’s history, there have been several catastrophes in which a large part of life on Earth has been wiped out. In Campus Talks on ARD-alpha, Wolfgang Kießling shows parallels to the current climate situation on Earth. He gives an outlook to what extent a mass extinction of species is to be exp...

Younger paleontologists are working to overcome historical legacies of their discipline and change how people learn about natural history. During an expedition to Tunisia, Mohamad Bazzi (University Uppsala, Sweden) invited local colleagues and citizens to participate in the field work. In a...

Because COVID-19 is still impacting our daily routines – more time is allowed to submit solutions to the ORC. That is, we extend the deadline from 1st of February to 31th of March! The submission portal is activated from today on; you can find the respective upload interface at the bottom of eac...

The PaleoSynthesis Project is issuing a second call for submission of Big Questions in Paleontology. Based at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the objective of the PaleoSynthesis Project is to strengthen paleontology by developing a long-term research vision for the f...

Dear colleagues, After a special 2020 -- a year that has impacted all of us and we all could not have imagined it before -- we are now looking positively to the future. We look forward to 2021 and to upcoming tasks in PaleoSynthesis. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A...

Dear interested parties and colleagues, today we present our 2nd newsletter with updates from the last three months. We introduce some more team members but also report about the decision which workshop we will hold, how the development of the app "FossilDiscovery" is progressing, about the FAU Ope...