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TERSANE Summer School 2016
Macroevolutionary and Macroecological Impacts of Temperature‐Related Stresses
25. July – 5. August 2016 at FAU in Erlangen
First week
Monday, 25. July
9:00-10:00h: Opening Session: The concept and scope of TERSANE, Introduction to Summer School
10:20-12:30h: Presentations of PhD students and postdocs (former work)
14:00-16:00h: The role of physiology in assessing climate change impacts (Hans Pörtner)
16:00-17:00h: Discussion
Tuesday, 26. July
9:00-10:00h: Hypothesis testing in paleobiology (Wolfgang Kiessling)
10:20-12:30h: Biodiversity dynamics in deep time I (Michael Foote)
14:00-17:00h: Biodiversity dynamics in deep time II (Michael Foote)
Wednesday, 27. July
9:00-10.00h: The Paleobiology of mass extinctions (Michael Foote)
10:20-12:30h: Post-Permian recovery dynamics (William Foster)
14:00-16:00h: Ecological changes across mass extinction events: The guild concept and tipping points
(Martin Aberhan)
16:00-17:00h: Lab with fossils (sorting by ecological guilds)
Thursday, 28. July
9:00-10:30h: Introduction to morphometrics (Dieter Korn)
10:50-12:30h: The Lilliput effect in evolutionary crises (Kenneth De Baets)
14:00-17:00h: Lab with fossils (morphological analyses)
Friday, 29. July
Excursion: The Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale in Franconia (Buttenheim, Hetzles, Teufelsgraben).
Second week
Monday, 1. August
9:00-10:20h: Systems Paleobiology I (Andrew Knoll)
10:40-12:00h: A physiological perspective on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (Andrew Knoll)
14:00-16:00h: Systems Paleobiology on the Early Earth (Andrew Knoll)
16:00-17:00h: Discussion
Tuesday, 2. August
9:00-10:00h: The contribution of phylogenies to the understanding of biodiversity and environmental
changes (Jérémie Bardin)
10:20-12:30h: Proxies for temperature-related stressors I: Proxies for paleotemperature (Michael
Joachimski)
14:00-16:00h: Proxies for temperature-related stressors II: Proxies for paleo-pH (Simone Kasemann)
16:00-17:00h: Proxies for temperature-related stressors III: Oxygenation (Sun Yadong)
17:30- : Barbecue in garden of Paleontology (Loewenichstr. 28, 91054 Erlangen)
Wednesday, 3. August
9:00-10:40h: Diagenetic biases in carbonate rocks (Axel Munnecke)
11:20-12:30h: Facies control on perceived biodiversity dynamics (Emilia Jarochowska)
14:00-16:00h: The Paleobiology Database and Analytical Methods (Wolfgang Kiessling)
16:00-17:00h: Lab retrieving and analyzing data from the PaleobioDB
Thursday, 4. August
9:00-12:00h: Analytical Paleobiology II (Wolfgang Kiessling)
14:00-16:00h: Biogeographic patterns (Adam Kocsis)
16:00-17:00h: Final discussion (Wolfgang Kiessling)
Friday, 5. August
Planning of field work in TERSANE (Students and Advisors only, Loewenichstr. 28, 91054 Erlangen)