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Calner at Rödvig

Mikael Calner

Professor

Calner at Rödvig

I am a geologist (instagram: thatscandinaviangeologist) with great love for Earth surface processes, depositional systems and the sedimentary rock record. I teach in areas ranging from the microscopical world of rocks and fossils to the evolution of entire sedimentary basins. Besides research and teaching I have a great interest in academic leadership and has acted as director of the research studies in geology and as head of the geology department (2013-2018). I am a member of the Swedish National Committé of Geology (Royal Academy Of Sciences).

Contact details
Organisation
  • Lithosphere and Biosphere Science
  • Visiting address: Sölvegatan 12, Lund
  • Room number: 335
  • Service point: 16
Webpage

News and activities

Calner Lab Drillcore Archive

Over the years I have recovered a number of drillcores from the Lower Palaeozoic of southern Sweden. These cores are available in Lund for sampling for joint collaborations.

  • Ottenby drillcore (unknown year): Middle Cambrian Bårstad and Äleklinta members (Borgholm Formation), 10 boxes, excellent condition.
  • Lusklint drillcore (2022): Llandovery-Wenlock, Gotland (Ireviken Event) (Crafoord Foundation grant 20220567)
  • Kinnekulle drillcore (2016): Cambrian, Ordovician and basal Silurian of the Kinnekulle table mountain (Crafoord Foundation grant 20140806 and the Royal Physiographic Society)
  • Altajme drillcore (2015): Llandovery and Wenlock of Gotland (NSF PI B. Cramer)
  • Tingskullen drillcore (2010): Ordovician of Öland (GOBE) (Crafoord Foundation grant 20080860)
  • Borenshult drillcore (2007): Ordovician of Östergötland (LOME) (Crafoord Foundation grant 20050748)
  • Hunninge-1 drillcore (2004): Late Wenlock of Gotland (Mulde Event) (Crafoord Foundation grant 20030673)
  • Lindeberget-1 drillcore (2004): Early Ludlow of Gotland (Linde Event) (Crafoord Foundation grant 20030673)
  • Burgen-1 drillcore (2003): Ludlow of Gotland (Lau Event) (Swedish Research Council)
  • Ronehamn-1 drillcore (2003): Ludlow of Gotland (Lau Event) (Swedish Research Council)
  • Uddvide-1 drillcore (2003): Ludlow of Gotland (Lau Event) (Swedish Research Council)

Research projects

I am a specialist in depositional system analysis, sedimentary geology, sequence stratigraphy, and palaeoecology, and utilise fossil sediments and geochemistry to study the interplay of global change in climate, sea-level and biodiversity (minor and mass extinctions).

I work in particular with the Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary cover of the Baltic Shield with comparison to remote basins, in particular in North America and the South China Plate, but also in peri-Gondwana terrains such as the Iberian peninsula. Main lines of research concentrates on time intervals of major global change, in particular the Global Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE), the end-Ordovician glaciation and mass extinction, and the series of minor extinction events in the Silurian. I have particular interest in the environmental drivers during these events.   

In modern carbonate sedimentology I focus on the the anatomy and mineralogy of recent and sub-recent ooids in the Bahamas complex and utilize synchrotron light FE-SEM and LA-ICP-MS to characterize the microworld and geochemistry of ooids. This project also aims to reveal the oceanographic and ecological significance of widespread calcareous oolites that developed in the aftermath of some of the mass extinctions in Earth history.

Teaching

My teaching focuses on sedimentary processes and products on wide spatial and temporal scales – from river systems and deserts in the continental interiors to the pelagic rain in the deep ocean, and from the Precambrian to the recent. Students learn to identify ancient depositional environments through facies analysis and also to study how these systems evolved through time by means of sequence stratigraphy – in carbonate as well as clastic or mixed basins. Since my research background mainly is within carbonate rocks, palaeoecology and palaeontology is a natural and well integrated part of my teaching. Most of my exercises and field excursions are based on either the 'old' marine Cambro-Devonian Baltoscandian basin of south-eastern Scandinavia or the Swedish segment of the 'young' marine-continental Mesozoic Danish basin to the southwest. In the core laboratory in the basement of our department I have assembled a few hundreds of metres of Palaeozoic intracratonic stratigraphy. These cores are regularly used in my teaching for two reasons. It gives the students frequent opportunities to study 'the real thing', as a complement to field excursions, and a 'first-row-insight' into my research about the marine environment, climate change and extinction events during the Palaeozoic.


 Publication list from Google scholar

Publications

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