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Hermann Pfefferkorn

Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
School of Arts & Sciences.
University of Pennsylvania.

Pfefferkorn studies ancient climate transitions as a means of understanding what ecological changes might take place under modern climate change. Specifically, he focuses on the previous icehouse to greenhouse transitions that occured in the Carboniferous and Permian between 304 and 260 million years ago, looking at paleoclimatology, landscape reconstruction, paleoecology, plant taphonomy, and whole plant reconstruction using plant fossils.

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