Robert A.Gastaldo:1.Time, space, sedimentary systems and some thoughts on geochemistry of why, or not, we have a fossil plant record. 2.Trust but verify do Karoo Basin rocks record the continental expression of the Mother of Mass Extinction?

2018-07-12

Dr. Colin SPROAT:Late Ordovician brachiopod fauna from the Hadabulaktag Formation in Northwest China

2018-08-23

Prof. Aharon OREN:1.Microbiology of the Dead Sea 2.Diversity of life at high salt and adaptation of microorganisms to life at high salt concentrations

2018-08-24

Dr. Michael HOWE:BGS Digital Data: a bright future for 200 years of information

2018-09-13

Dr Robert NEWTON:Low ocean sulfate and a high benthic methane flux at the end of the Cretaceous: Records from Seymour Island, Antarctica

2018-09-19

Prof. MATSUOKA:Fruits of the InterRad 15 in Niigata 2017 and future directions of radiolarian research

2018-09-21

Prof. Paul D. TAYLOR:The Beringer fossil fraud

2018-09-21

Prof. Nickolas ZOUROS:Global Geoparks: a new tool for the protection, conservation and rational management of outstanding geological and paleontological heritage sites-The Lesvos Petrified Forest in Greece, as a case study

2018-10-09

Dr. Peep MANNIK: The early Telychian Valgu Event

2018-10-12

Prof. Dong-Jin LEE:

1.“Lichenaria” in China

2.Corallite increase in Agetolites, and its taxonomic implications

2018-10-23

2018-11-23

Prof. Christopher BERRY:Devonian plants, forests, atmospheres and climates

2018-11-06

Dr. Riccardo CESTARI:Rudist Facies of the Mediterranean Area

2018-11-06

Prof. Peter CRANE:

1.The Greening of Earth: The Origin and Early Diversification of Plants on Land

2.The Early Evolution of Seed Plants: Structural Diversification and Ecological Consequences

3.The Emergence of Modern Seed Plants

4.The Origin and Early Evolution of Flowering Plants

5.The Cretaceous Diversification of Angiosperms and Its Ecological Consequences

2018-11-12

2018-11-13

2018-11-14

2018-11-15

2018-11-15

Prof. Josef PSENICKA:Liana-form callistophytalean pteridosperm as interesting element of the Permian peat forming forest (Inner Mongolia, China)

2018-11-13

Prof. Franz FURSICH:Analysis of a Cretaceous (late Aptian) high-stress ecosystem from northeastern Brazil

2018-11-14

Prof. Wolfram M. KüRSCHNER:

1.Introduction to Palynology and organic facies/palynofacies

2.Stratigraphic ranges of Permian and Triassic palynofloras

3.Peculiarities of the Triassic pollen and spore morphologies

Case studies: Palynological records of major environmental crises:

4.Part 1: The end-Permian mass extinction

Case studies: Palynological records of major environmental crises:

5.Part 2: The Carnian and Norian biotic turnovers

6.Part 3: The end-Triassic mass extinction

2018-12-06

2018-12-07

Dr. Micha RUHL:

1.Integrated stratigraphy, with a special focus on Chemostratigraphy

2.Introduction to astrochronology and cyclostratigraphy

3.The end-Triassic mass extinction, climate/environmental change, and the link to Central Atlantic Magmatic Province volcanism

4.Early Jurassic climatic/environmental change and changes in the depositional environment: A case study from the Cardigan Bay Basin (UK)

5.Timing of the Early Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, and its expression in continental basins in China (Sichuan Basin)

2018-12-10

2018-12-11

2018-12-12