FB 09 - Faculty of Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Geography and Geosciences

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Faculty 09

Press Releases (a selection)

Sustainable process for the production of vanillin from lignin makes further progress

Mainz University contributes to recent discovery of the temple of Poseidon located at the Kleidi site near Samikon in Greece

Natural Hazard Research and Geoarchaeology team of JGU is investigating coastal developments in Western Greece over the last 11,600 years

Using drones to monitor volcanoes: Researchers analyze volcanic gases with the help of ultra-lightweight sensor systems

Composition of gases emitted by volcanoes can provide information on the possibility of imminent eruptions / Lightweight drones make investigation possible even in areas that are difficult to access

Increasing forest cover in the Eifel region 11,000 years ago resulted in the local loss of megafauna

Sediment cores obtained from Eifel maar sites provide insight into the presence of large Ice Age mammals in Central Europe over the past 60,000 years / Overkill hypothesis not confirmed

Climate whiplash increased wildfires on California’s west coast about 8,000 years ago

Researchers use speleothems as a source of information on historic climate / Hydroclimate volatility and increase in natural forest fire events are linked

Hominins were cooking fish already in the early Paleolithic period about 780,000 years ago

Ancient fish teeth discovered at the archaeological site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in Israel provide earliest evidence of our prehistoric ancestors deliberately cooking foodstuff