MindTheGap: Quantifying the completeness of the stratigraphic record and its role in reconstructing the tempo and mode of evolution
Welcome to the webpage of the project.
We develop numerical models to study the structure of the geological record and make better recontructions of past evolutionary dynamics. Our goal is to understand how time, environmental and evolutionary events are represented in imperfect, gappy records and to use this knowledge to reconstruct the history of life and palaeoclimate.
This project is a consortium between Utrecht University and the Netherlands eScience Center. Some software used and developed in this project is a continuation of AstroTOM. See also project record at CORDIS.
Project news
Nonparametric estimation of age-depth models from sedimentological and stratigraphic information is now posted as a preprint for public discussion and peer review. We welcome your comments!
We held the first workshop “Building modeling pipelines for stratigraphic paleobiology in R”. The materials are freely available online
Identification of the mode of evolution in incomplete carbonate successions has just been published in BMC Ecology and Evolution
Niklas Hohmann received the PeerJ prize for the best talk at the Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft
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StratPalpackage (Github | Website) is now available on CRANWe are looking for students interested in spatial distribution of carbonate facies using exceptional historical data
Funded by the European Union (ERC, MindTheGap, StG project no 101041077). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.