Back in the field with the team in the Luberon under the Provençal sun ☀️
Careful digging, a bit of patience… and sometimes, a small discovery like this fossilized rodent jaw.
A small find, but another big clue from the past!
@carinahoorn.bsky.social and @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social
Missed Carina’s interview? Catch it here: youtu.be/HkPBP88OgSE
After the interview, dive deeper
This study by @BenjaminRaynaud, Phd Student of @carinaHoorn on Eocene pollen from Türkiye reveals new taxa, wet temperate climates, and common ecosystems from Europe to Central Asia. Proof that tiny fossils can tell vast stories.
Our third interview is out!
Meet Carina HOORN and dive into the fascinating world of pollen and spores, tiny but powerful storytellers that take us far back in deep time 🌿
youtu.be/HkPBP88OgSE
Welcome aboard! 👋
We’re delighted to welcome Yohan Roussy, a Master 2 student joining us in the Luberon to work on clays and climate. A great opportunity to explore how sediments record past environmental and climatic changes.
Missed @mustafayk.bsky.social interview about our project? Here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRq...
Before working on the DISPERSAL project, @mustafayk.bsky.social already work on Paleogene climate for a different ERC project: The MAGIC project, focusing on Eocene monsoons. A fun archive of him:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr84...
Missed @mustafayk.bsky.social interview? Here it is:
youtu.be/QKRqI_fL_YY?...
After @mustafayk.bsky.social interview, check his sedimentary work of the Karaburun section (NWTurkey) showing that global cooling & Antarctic glaciation triggered boreal water influxes & regional hydrological shifts, offering new insights into the Paratethys response to global cooling at the EOT
New interview out! 🌍
youtu.be/QKRqI_fL_YY?...
@mustafayk.bsky.social shares his journey as a sedimentologist and geochemist in the ERC Dispersal project — from analyzing paleomagnetic sample collections in Kazakhstan to what excites him most about his research and the challenges of postdoc life.
Pauline Coster and @alexislicht.bsky.social presenting their results on the Eocene paleontological record of Kazakhstan today at the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty.
Hard working day at the Satpaev institute of Geology in Almaty, sorting through the Paleogene paleontological collections with Pauline Coster and Saida Nigmatova!
Visiting the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty for a week, to work with our @dispersal-erc.bsky.social collaborators. And enjoying a tea with one of the last living vertebrate paleontologists in Kazakhstan, Bolat Baishashov!
In case you missed Leny’s interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzU...
Big shout-out to Leny Montheil!
His first ERC Dispersal interview is now live and comes with a brand-new paper on how Asian mammals crossed shifting continents during the Eocene (-80 to -40 Ma) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
Watch continents move 🌍
The first PhD paper of @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, part of our project, documenting the middle Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia!
The first article from my PhD has just been published in JAES: "Lutetian swamp-freshwater palynoflora from Bultu-Zile (central Anatolia, Türkiye): implications for Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia".
doi.org/10.1016/j.js...
This work has been conducted as part of @dispersal-erc.bsky.social
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🎙️ Our first interview is out!
Meet Leny Montheil, geodynamicist and paleogeography specialist, as he takes us back to the Eocene to explore how primates dispersed across a changing world.
▶️ Watch it now on YouTube
youtu.be/bjzU_UIXseU
He finds at least two episodes of extreme aridity during the late Eocene before the Eocene-Oligocene transition, which could have significantly impacted the endemic fauna of Balkanatolia.
It's the first paper providing clumped isotopic results from our isotopic line built at @cerege.bsky.social!
A new preprint from our research group is online!
In this paper, Paul Botté, PhD student in the project at @climatecerege.bsky.social, studied the evolution of continental environmental through the late Eocene and earliest Oligocene in central Anatolia.
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
How did mammals cross oceans millions of years ago?
Our first video introducing the ERC-funded DISPERSAL project is live on YouTube 🎉
👇 Check it out!
youtu.be/COdGQYkdraw
🎙️ First episode of a series of interviews with the scientists involved. Stay tuned — more interviews coming soon!
Want to learn more about how primates and rodents could have reach South America in the distant past? A new paper led by our team!
🚨New paper alert🚨 40 million years ago, anthropoid primates and rodents dispersed from East Asia to Africa and South America, across two wide oceans (the Neotethys and the Southern Atlantic). So Which way did they pass? @dispersal-erc.bsky.social (1/n)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
Paul Botté from @climatecerege.bsky.social and @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social from @cr2p.bsky.social presenting their work on #balkanatolia paleoenvironments today at the yearly conference of Turkish Earth scientists in Yozgat. Back to fieldwork tomorrow!
Featuring the work of our team!
Looking for pollen, vertebrate fossils and pedogenic carbonates in Anatolia! With @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, Paul Botté, @dispersal-erc.bsky.social
First day of the third field trip to Turkey for Paul Botté and @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social. One week to collect their last samples before their ultimate task: writing their dissertation!
The team welcomes a new member, Bram Vaes, who will be working on modeling overwater dispersal using new paleogeographies and climate modeling tools! To learn more about the past work of Bram, a short video of him here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uncL...
