Erlend Martini

Erlend Martini (born June 1, 1932 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) is a German micropalaeontologist. Martini became internationally known as a specialist in nannoplankton . In 1971 he published an authoritative nannoplankton zoning . Until his retirement in 1994 Martini worked at the Geological-Palaeontological Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

life and work

He attended Hermann Lietz schools in Bieberstein id Rhön and Spiekeroog and studied geology - paleontology in Frankfurt am Main from 1952 to 1958 . He did his doctorate with Karl Krejci-Graf . From 1959 to 1961 it worked on projects funded by the DFG and from 1961 to 1963 worked as a research assistant at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla , California . After returning to Frankfurt in 1963, he completed his habilitation there in 1965.

At the University of Frankfurt he was a research assistant , later a lecturer and honorary professor and from 1971 a university professor . His scientific commitment (over 300 publications, not only about nannoplankton and biostratigraphy ) earned him the nickname “the nanno man” in professional circles. From 1969 to 1986 he was a consultant paleontologist on five voyages of the Glomar Challenger in the Pacific Ocean ( Deep Sea Drilling Project ).

Martini is active in the paleontological society , as well as in his place of residence Kronberg im Taunus with the German Forest Protection Association . In addition, he has been a member of the nature conservation advisory board in the Hochtaunus district from the start .

Fonts (selection)

• Standard Tertiary and Quaternary calcareous nannoplankton zonation. In Anna Farinacci (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2nd international conference "Planktonic Microfossils", Vol. 2 . Ed. Tecnosci, Rome 1971, pp. 739-785.
• Fossils, sediment marks and paleecology in the Upper Buntsandstein (Röt) of the Rhön. In: Natur u. Museum, 122 (3), Frankfurt 1992, pp. 90-99
• Limestone nannoplankton from the Lower Oligocene from Morvillars, Territoire de Belfort, France. In: Annual reports and communications of the Upper Rhine Geological Association / NF , Vol. 77 (1995), pp. 265–269. Fig.N1637
• An early Mesolithic site on the southern roof of the Hohe Rhön near Weisbach, Oberelsbach municipality, Rhörn-Gragfeld district, Lower Franconia . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria , 1999 p. 12–15, ISSN  0721-2399 (Society for Archeology in Bavaria, List S2 - Mesolithic)
• The boundary area lower / upper hydrobial layers. A new exposure in Frankfurt am Main; Nannoplankton and fish skeletons (Morone aequalis) . In: Report on the activities of the Offenbacher Verein für Naturkunde , Vol. 104 (2004), pp. 3–17, ISSN  0343-2793 (together with Wolfgang Ott and Manfred Keller).

swell

• Bettina Reichenbacher (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 70th birthday of renowned micropaleontologist Prof. Dr. Erlend Martini (Courier Research Institute Senckenberg, Volume 237). Swiss beard, Frankfurt / M. 2002, 350 pp. ISBN 3-510-61339-2 (in German and English).

Web links

• Literature by and about Erlend Martini in the catalog of the German National Library