Projects

researcher, head of the Department of Paleobiology and Organismal Evolution, chairman of the Scientific council
Mgr. Adam Tomašových, DrSc.

International

Finished
  • Continental crises of the Jurassic: Major Extinction events and Environmental Changes within Lacustrine Ecosystems
    Program: UNESCO
    Duration: 1. 1. 2014 – 31. 12. 2018
  • Brachiopods As SEnsitive tracers of gLobal mariNe Environment: Insights from alkaline, alkaline Earth metal, and metalloid trace element ratios and isotope systems
    Program: Horizon 2020
    Duration: 1. 10. 2015 – 31. 12. 2018
  • Temporal resolution in benthic assemblages: assessing and modeling the roles of burial dynamics, seafloor type, and intrinsic factors using (un)natural experiments
    Program: Bilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 1. 2012 – 1. 12. 2014
  • Bivalves in Time and Space: Testing the accuracy of methods to reconstruct ancestral morphology, dates, geography, and diversification patterns
    Program: Bilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 1. 2010 – 31. 12. 2011
  • Quantifying sedimentary capture of biological information
    Program: Bilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 11. 2006 – 30. 6. 2009
  • Estimating impacts of past natural and anthropogenic disturbances on shelf macrobenthic communities using dead-shell assemblages
    Program: Bilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 6. 2008 – 31. 5. 2009
  • Triassic/Jurassic boundary events
    Program: UNESCO
    Duration: 1. 1. 2003 – 31. 12. 2006

National

Current
  • Comparative taphonomy of micro- and macroinvertebrates: tracing the intensity of the taphonomically-active zone through time
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 7. 2023 – 30. 6. 2027
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    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2023 – 31. 12. 2026
Finished
  • Preservation potential and effects of hypoxic events on benthic communities in the fossil record
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2019 – 31. 12. 2022
  • Evaluating preservation potential of benthic responses to hypoxic and anoxic events in the fossil record
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 11. 2018 – 30. 6. 2022
  • Tracing changes in seawater temperature during the end-Triassic mass extinction and during the Early Jurassic in the western Tethys (Western Carpathians and Eastern Alps)
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2015 – 31. 12. 2018
  • Assessment of taphonomic and geochemical methods in evaluating the stability of marine ecosystems during the Jurassic
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2011 – 31. 12. 2014
  • Assessing taphonomic and geochemical approaches in evaluating spatial and temporal turnover of marine invertebrate paleocommunities
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 5. 2011 – 31. 10. 2014
  • Paleoenvironments and biofacies of Mesozoic lithostratigraphic units in the Western Carpathians
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2009 – 31. 12. 2011
  • Evaluating and modeling ecological stability and turnover of Jurassic communities
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 6. 2008 – 30. 6. 2011
  • Evolutionary ecology and preservation of macrobenthic ecosystems on the Jurassic pelagic carbonate platforms
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2008 – 31. 12. 2010