The Triassic climate – Workshop on Triassic palaeoclimatology

Bolzano/Bozen (I), June 3-7, 2008

The climate during the Triassic? That’s easy… everything was warm and dry…

…or, at least this is what you generally find when, in textbooks, you look for a description of the Triassic climate. But it wasn’t probably so. Although valuable studies on Triassic climate exist, researchers from various regions and fields of Earth Sciences worked alone or in small groups, dealing mostly with short time intervals. There is a need of a more comprehensive picture of the Triassic climate through time and space, which could only stem from the interaction of research groups that worked, so far, isolated.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers interested in the Triassic paleoclimate. Participants will be invited to present methodological approaches and significant case histories of paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions at regional and global scale. Studies involving new interdisciplinary methods are particularly welcome.

The workshop is supported by the Museum of Nature South Tyrol and the Geological Survey South Tyrol. The scientific sessions will be held at the Museum, in the city of Bozen/Bolzano (Bindergasse 1/Via Bottai, 1).

Organising and Scientific Committee

Evelyn Kustatscher (Museum of Nature South Tyrol)

Piero Gianolla (University of Ferrara)

Lorenz Keim (Geological Survey of South Tyrol)

Nereo Preto (University of Padova, and IGG-CNR, Padova)

Guido Roghi (IGG-CNR, Padova)

Abstract book in PDF format

Special Volume of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

The Special Volume of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology on Selected papers from the Workshop on Triassic palaeoclimatology at the Museum of Nature South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 3-8 June 2008, edited by Evelyn Kustatscher, Nereo Preto and Paul Wignall, is now available here.