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Our PhD student Angelina Ivkić gave a talk at the 14th Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society in Poland. We are grateful to Jarek Stolarski for organizing a fantastic symposium, which not only resulted in great scientific sessions but also enabled us to experience the local traditions!

The second publication resulting from our project is out! We compare different sampling techniques in Pleistocene coral reefs of Egypt and recommend surveying Pleistocene reefs with Point Intercept Transects at 20 cm intervals. The publication is available here https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP529-2022-227

Lewis A. Jones, postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade de Vigo in Spain, visited us to discuss potential collaborations!

The Analytical Paleobiology Workshop in California 2019 did not only result in connecting with a wonderful community of young researchers but it also led to a publication in Paleobiology! Make sure to give our communal paper a read: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/challenges-and-directions-in-analytical-paleobiology/06257CFF62B32846B5C90F939BCC744E

Our student Julia Mayr from Utrecht University succesfully completed her research project. Thank you for the great work, Julia! We are keeping her busy a little longer in the project as she will be working on a fossil coral guide with our PhD student Angelina Ivkic!

Our colleague and cooperation partner Mohamed Osman from South Valley University in Egypt visited us in Vienna!

Our first paper titled "Millepora in Pleistocene coral reefs of Egypt" just got published. We argue that the fire coral does not necessarily have a low preservation potential in the fossil record, as previously assumed, but instead habitats preferred by Millepora are rarely preserved. If you are interested in reading more, click on the text to get to the open access paper!

Julia Mayr (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) is starting a research project as part of her Masters´ degree. She will analyze pictures from recent Sudanese reefs. Welcome aboard!

Sebastian Valerio finished his MSc thesis with the title "A study of the community structure and zonation of hard and soft corals through the use of photo-transects at two offshore reefs in the central Red Sea". We congratulate you to a great thesis and wish you all the best for your PhD!

Our third and last fieldwork in Egypt was successfully completed! This time we worked in the area from Hurghada to just South of Safaga. We thank our Egyptian colleagues for their fantastic collaboration and support!

We are back from three weeks on board of Don Questo. Together with our colleagues from the Red Sea University we investigated the modern offshore reefs south of Port Sudan. We are thankful for the fantastic collaboration and are looking forward to working on the exciting new data we collected! Thank you to everyone who joined and supported this successful trip!

Angelina Ivkić hat eine Familienvorlesung für die Kinderuni mit dem Titel "Eine Zeitreise durch das Korallenriff" gestaltet. Hier könnt ihr sie nachschauen: https://kinderuni.online/kurs/livestream-14-juli-eine-zeitreise-durch-das-korallenriff/

Anna Haider and Angelina Ivkic will present results from our project during the vPICO sessions of "Conservation Paleobiology: insights from deep time to recent past". If you attend vEGU21, make sure to have a look at our talks!

Anna Haider finished her BSc thesis with the title "The molluscan fauna of a late Pleistocene reef at Sharm El Luli (southern Egypt, Red Sea)". Thank you for your hard work and we wish you all the best for your future!

Prof. Martin Zuschin wurde von UBRM Studierenden zum Thema "Korallen in der Krise" interviewed. Den Podcast könnt ihr auf Spotify und Soundcloud finden.

We are offering a BSc/research project and a master thesis project! The project descriptions can be downloaded in "Opportunities". We are looking forward to motivated students who would like to join our project!

Our PhD student Angelina Ivkić made a short video presenting our project. It shows our fieldwork, explains our methods and the aim of our project. Some fun UW-Videos are included as well!

The first BSc student in our project finished his BSc thesis. Congratulations, Felix Puff to a great thesis! As Felix was very hard-working during his project, we decided to keep him a little longer in our team. So you will be hearing more from Felix in the near future.

Sebastian Valerio is starting his MSc thesis with us. He will analyze pictures from recent Sudanese reefs. Welcome in our team!

We are happy to announce that two students joined us in our project. Anna Haider and Felix Puff will be doing their Bachelor thesis with us! Felix will analyze photo-quadrat pictures we took in fossil & recent reefs in Egypt and Sudan, while Anna is still exploring the possibilities and she is currently having a first glance at fossil sediments. Welcome in our project!

We are honored to have Prof. Michal Kowalewski as a guest professor at the University of Vienna for two weeks. He is giving a course on multivariate methods in palaeobiology and took the time to have a look at our project and discuss the next steps for our analysis with us. We are thankful for the great tips and welcome you to Vienna, Michal!

Angelina and Martin went to Modena to meet many colleagues working with fossil corals and other reef associated organisms. We heard many talks, had great chats and a wonderful time in Italy. Thanks to the organizers and all participants!

We went to NAPC 2019 in California, USA! Our PhD student Angelina gave a presentation to introduce our project and the first preliminary data to the scientific community. We got great feedback and met many interesting researchers. What a great week!

Our PhD student Angelina participated at a one-week species distribution modelling course at the University of Vienna. She learned how to prepare her data, which models she can use and how to evaluate the outcome. This will be viable knowledge further in our project, when we will use the fossil and modern data together with climate predicitions to look into future potential habitats for reef corals in the Red Sea. And the course was great fun too!