Author: Martin H. Trauth

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Summer School 2018 on Earth Surface Dynamics, Part 2

The summer school entitled “Earth Surface Dynamics – Understanding Processes at the Earth’s Vulnerable Skin” is the fourth summer school I am organizing together with the VolkswagenFoundation. The summer schools in the field of geo-biosciences in East Africa include the disciplines of paleoclimatology, paleontology, paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology, structural geology, and geophysics. I teach these summer schools together with colleagues from Addis Ababa University and the University of Nairobi, as well with many colleagues from other universities. Continue reading “Summer School 2018 on Earth Surface Dynamics, Part 2”

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Summer School 2018 on Earth Surface Dynamics, Part 1

The VolkswagenFoundation funds a series of two summer schools entitled “Earth Surface Dynamics – Understanding Processes at the Earth’s Vulnerable Skin” led by apl. Prof. Dr. Martin H. Trauth, together with nine instructors from Germany, United Kingdom, and Ethiopia. The application is now open, the deadline is 1 October 2017. Download the summer school 2018 flyer.

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New Article about the Chew Bahir Drilling Project in University Magazin Portal Wissen

In the latest issue of the U Potsdam’s magazine Portal Wissen includes two articles about the Chew Bahir Drilling Project. The first of these articles is about my involvement in the project, the possible link between climate and evolution, the drilling operations in the Chew Bahir and subsequent laboratory work and time series analyses. The second article is about ancient DNA analyses of the Chew Bahir drill cores performed by my collaborators Michael Hofreiter and Ralph Tiedemann.

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