Wolfgang Oschmann

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Wolfgang Oschmann (born July 25, 1954 ) is a German palaeontologist and professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt .

Career

Oschmann studied and did his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was a research assistant at the Institute for Paleontology and Historical Geology there from 1985 to 1986. As part of the Feodor Lynen Program , he was a Humboldt Fellow in India from 1987 to 1988 for research purposes. From 1988 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Geosciences Department at the University of Bremen . From 1989 to 1993 Oschmann was a university assistant at the Institute for Paleontology at the University of Würzburg . There he also completed his habilitation in geology and palaeontology in 1993. From 1994 to 1998 he held the C3 professorship for invertebrate paleontology / paleoclimatology at the Institute and Museum for Geology and Paleontology at the University of Tübingen , where he worked with Volker Mosbrugger in the Collaborative Research Center 275 "Climate-Coupled Processes in Meso- and Cenozoic Geo-Ecosystems" . Since 1998 Oschmann has been C4 Professor of Paleontology at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Research priorities

Oschmann is concerned with the reconstruction of fossil marine deposits and their fossil content, predominantly from the Meso- and Cenozoic . He is particularly interested in black slate , which he processes with combined paleoecological and geochemical methods in order to reconstruct the living conditions and material cycles in these oxygen-limited systems. In addition, he examines the paleoclimatic and paleo-oceanographic framework conditions of black slate formation. Another focus of his work is sclerochronology combined with oxygen isotope . Together with his colleagues Bernd Schöne ( University of Mainz ) and Eberhard Gischler (University of Frankfurt), he is investigating the growth and climate history of mollusks and corals over the past centuries.

Memberships

Oschmann is a member of various geoscientific societies, including SEPM , DGGV and the Palaeontological Society .

Textbooks / publications (selection)

  • Evolution of the Earth, 2016, 2nd edition 2018, 383 p .; UTB GmbH
  • Life of the Past, 2018, 400 p .; UTB GmbH
  • Oschmann, W. (ed. 2009): Special Issue: Sclerochronology and Paleoclimate.- International Journal of Earth Sciences 98, 1-133.
  • Gischler, E. & Oschmann, W, 2005: Historical climate variation in Belice (Central America) as recorded in Scleractinian corals.-Palaios, 20 : 159–174.
  • Fürsich & Oschmann (eds. 2002): Special Issue: Isotopes and Biomarkers in Palaeontology.- Geobios, 35, 1–137.
  • Schöne, BR, Houk, SD, Freyre Castro, AD, Fiebig, J., Kröncke, I., Dreyer, W. & Oschmann, W. 2005: Daily growth rates in shells of Arctica islandica: Assessing subseasonal environmental controls on a long -lived bivalve mollusk. Palaios, 20, 78-92.
  • Oschmann, W. 2004: 4 billion years of climate history. Climate report of the German Weather Service 2003, 7–24.
  • Röhl, H.-J., Schmid-Röhl, A., Oschmann, W., Frimmel, A. & Schwark, L. (2001). The Posidonia Shale (Lower Toarcian) of SW-Germany: An oxygen depleted ecosystem controlled by sea level and palaeoclimate.- Palaeogeology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 165: 27-52.

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SURNAME Oschmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German palaeontologist and professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1954