Journey to the most hostile continent on earth - Antarctica
Lecture at the Museum of Natural History on 19 September, 6.30 to 8 pm
The Museum für Naturkunde invites you to a lecture on Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 6.30 to 8 p.m. about a journey to the most hostile continent on earth. The speaker is Dr Benjamin Bomfleur. Admission is free, the venue is the event hall in the TIETZ, 3rd floor.
The lecture will provide a richly illustrated insight into the fascinating fossil history of Antarctica and the adventurous palaeontological research work at the end of the world, as Bomfleur himself has already been on three lengthy Antarctic expeditions. Today, Antarctica is the coldest, driest and most hostile continent on earth. However, a palaeontological search for traces shows us that this was not always the case. In the remote mountainous regions of Antarctica, there is fossilised evidence of a living geological past of tropical reefs and lush rainforests.
Dr Benjamin Bomfleur, born in 1979, works at the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the University of Münster. After completing his doctorate in Münster, he spent almost six years conducting research in the USA and Sweden before returning to Münster in April 2016. He is now a junior research group leader in the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Image: Benjamin Bomfleur on a research trip in the Antarctic (Copyright: Benjamin Bomfleur)