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🌊🌍🐠🦎An international virtual Pal(a)eo EaRly Career Seminar series. Led by ECRs, feat. ECRs, open to all. Join us every Tuesday at 1600 UTC (Daylight Savings)/1500 UTC!🌍🌎🌏🌸🐚🦕🐙

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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1000 UTC to learn more about stromatolites and research opportunities in China with Viplove Rajurkar from Tongji University, China!
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Stromatolites represent exceptional geochemical archives recording microbial metabolism and environmental evolution throughout Earth's history. High-resolution analytical techniques, particularly femtosecond laser ablation ICP-MS (FS-LA-ICP-MS), enable unprecedented micro-scale mapping of trace elements and isotopes within stromatolitic laminae. This seminar presents our integrated approach at Tongji University's Carbonate Geochemistry Laboratory, combining elemental mapping, rare earth element systematics, and redox-sensitive trace metals to reconstruct paleo-environmental conditions in Precambrian microbial habitats. Elemental maps reveal metal partitioning reflecting redox gradients, microbial processes, and diagenesis, while also guiding strategic sampling for isotope analysis and U-Pb dating where biostratigraphic markers are absent. Beyond scientific findings, this talk highlights collaborative research opportunities, funding mechanisms, and career pathways for early career researchers in China's dynamic geoscience community.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Viplove Rajurkar from Tongji University, China.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1600 UTC to learn more about modern and historical timescales in shallow-marine habitats in the Bahamas with Liu Xianyi from Utrecht University, Netherlands!
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Tropical carbonate platforms are an important coastal ecosystem, comprising a series of shallow benthic habitats, including coral reefs, seagrass meadows, tidal flats and channels. The habitats on carbonate platforms are highly spatially heterogenous and dynamic. Assessing the change rate, change pattern, and understanding the causes of such changes (if there are any) is important, from both the ecological and geological points of view. However, the observations on the coastal systems have time biases: it either very short (few years) or very long (from cores, > 1000 years), and we lack observations acquired at an intermediate timescale (decades) to bridge habitat dynamics observed today with the rock records from the cores. In this study, we used one of the oldest aerial photos from 1945 to constrain the habitat dynamics and compare the habitat distributions with that of today.
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Liu Xianyi from Utrecht University, Netherlands.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1500 UTC to learn more about mammalian evolution with Peter Bishop from Harvard University, United States!
October 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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The origin of mammals involved major reorganization of the locomotor system, from ‘sprawling’ to ‘erect’ limb postures. Yet, despite a rich fossil record, how this shift was achieved has remained challenging to decipher. This talk will summarize recent efforts to integrate the fossil record of mammals and their non-mammalian synapsid ancestors with modern animal anatomy and computational biomechanics. These have helped clarify evolutionary patterns of anatomical transformation, and the timing of major functional shifts. A fully erect limb posture evolved much later than originally thought, well within crown-group mammals. Far from being an orderly, linear narrative, the sprawling-to-erect transition in synapsids is becoming understood as a highly complex, nonlinear, and protracted event.
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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This week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Peter Bishop from Harvard University, United States.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1500 UTC to learn more about phytoplankton dynamics in the Devonian with David Kröck from University in Shenzhen, China!
October 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Marine phytoplankton play an important part within the global carbon cycle, removing great amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and producing around half of the atmospheric oxygen today. Furthermore, forming the largest part of the base of aquatic food chains, phytoplankton represent the starting point of biological activities in the oceans. Therefore, the study of ancient phytoplankton dynamics at regional and global scales can provide valuable insights into the evolution of marine ecosystems.
October 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by David Kröck from University in Shenzhen, China.
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October 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1500 UTC to learn more about paleoenvironmental reconstruction using microfossil fish scales and teeth with Niklas Bücker from Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany!
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Ganoid scales and fish teeth can be found around the world and through deep time. By creating a classification of the preservation of these fossils, distinctive patterns were discovered. Analysing the abrasion of these objects can tell us more about the energy level of the environment and how far the fossils were transported post mortem. To verify my hypothesis, an experimental approach is now in the works using specimens from different geological epochs. If successful, aquatic paleoenvironments can be interpreted in high detail.
October 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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This week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Niklas Bücker from Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1500 UTC to learn more about Late Holocene paleoclimate with Charlotte Hipkiss from the British Geological Survey, UK!
September 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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The South Pacific was the final frontier of human colonisation on Earth. Human migration across the Pacific occurred in two waves, the first starting around 3000 yr BP and then after a long pause of 2000 years, the second occurred at approximately 1000 yr BP. Reasons for these migrations are contested, but climate is increasingly thought to have been a factor. This work utilised a combination of multi-proxy palaeo records and socio-ecological modelling to investigate the role of climate in the timing of migration and colonisation in the tropical South Pacific. The key finding from the palaeoenvironmental records is evidence for a shift towards dry conditions around the second wave of human migration into Eastern Polynesia and again in the relatively early stages of colonisation. The model outputs suggest that drought has a greater impact on population dynamics the closer to the absolute carrying capacity the population gets and that severity of the drought rather than the frequency is the key factor determining the impact of a drought on agricultural outputs and population dynamics.
September 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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This week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Charlotte Hipkiss from the British Geological Survey, UK.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1500 UTC to learn more about Caribbean biodiversity with Lazaro Vinola from Florida Museum of Natural History, USA!
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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September 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Lazaro Vinola from Florida Museum of Natural History, USA.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1500 UTC to learn more about ice cores from the West Antarctic with Peter Neff from the University of Minnesota, USA!
September 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Dr. Peter Neff is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota who specializes in ice core paleoclimatology, particularly recovering some of the newest and most difficult new ice core samples in the last decade, from challenging and remote parts of Antarctica as well as the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Peter received his BSc and MSc from the University of Washington and his PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
September 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Peter Neff from the University of Minnesota, USA.
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September 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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It's #PalaeoPercs day! Join us at 1500 UTC to learn more about reconstructing monsoon-induced oceanographic variations in the eastern Arabian Sea with Jeet Majumder from Jogmaya Devi College, University of Calcutta, India!
September 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM