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One of our main research projects is the
Early Devonian Rhynie Chert. These investigations are carried out in close
cooperation with a number of other researchers and research groups:
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Joint studies on the ecology of the Rhynie
Cherta are carried out in cooperation with the Rhynie Chert Research Group
of the University of Aberdeen, which currently includes Prof. Dr. Nigel
Trewin, Dr. Steve Fayers and Ruth Kelman.
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Prof. Dr. Thomas N. Taylor is our cooperation
partner on the Rhynie Chert flora, particularly in the field of fungi from
the Rhynie Chert. A number of joint papers on early fungi has been published,
including several contributions in Nature.
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Ecophysiological studies are carried out in
cooperation with Prof. Dr. Dianne Edwards, University of Cardiff. Dr. Kate
Habgood, one of her Ph.D. students, worked on coprolites from the Münster
Rhynie Chert collection.
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A research project on growth forms and the
functional morphology of Early Devonian land plants has been carried out
in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Volker Mosbrugger (Geologisch-Paläontologisches
Institut, Universität Tübingen) and other members of his working
group (Anita Roth, Wilfried Konrad, Guido Grimm).
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Trigonotarbids and Opilionids are studied
in cooperation with Dr. Jason Dunlop and Museum Für Naturkunde Berlin,
and Dr. Lyall Anderson, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
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From 1992 onwards Prof. Dr. Thomas N.
Taylor (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.) visited Münster
very regularly, e.g., with financial support from DAAD (German Academic
Exchange Programme), and as Humboldtpreis (Humboldt Award) recipient (1993/94).
He is back in 2004 for two months to work on gametophyte development and
fungal infections of of Rhynie chert plants. He was the host scientist
of Michael Krings, who was a post-doc in Lawrence (1999-2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004). |
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A DFG-funded research project on macro-
and microfloras of the German Zechstein, especially of the Korbach and
Frankenberg embayments, is currently carried out in cooperation with Dipl.-Geol.
Christoph Hartkopf-Fröder of the Geologisches Landesamt Nordrhein-
Westfalen in Krefeld. |
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The cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jean Broutin
and Prof. Dr. Pierre Freytet (Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris VI, France) focuses on Upper Carboniferous and Permian floras, especially
from the Peri-Tethys area. Joint field work has been carried out in Morrocco
(1994) and Oman (1997, 2000). |
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Joint research projects are carried out
with Dr. Serge V. Naugolnykh (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
on Permian floras from the Ural Mountains. He also participated in
a project on Permian floras of North Greenland with Prof. Dr. Robert H.
Wagner and Sunia Lausberg of which results were presented at the Carboniferous-Permian
Congress in Calgary (1999). |
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Further cooperations exist with several
universities, research institutes, geological surveys and museums in Germany
(e.g., Berlin, Freiberg, Chemnitz, Mainz, Dresden, Hamburg) and abroad
(e.g., Sheffield, Utrecht, Pavia, Dijon, Montpellier, Oviedo, Athens (OH),
Chapel Hill (NC), Trelew). |