2Autumn Pugh awarded MSL grant
May 9, 2016Congratulations to DTP strudent Autumn Pugh, who has been awarded a £1500 grant from The Malacological Society of London (MSL). The MSL research grant scheme awards around 5 Early Career Research Grants per year to support research on molluscs that is likely to lead to publication.
Autumn proposed a research project entitled 'The severity timing and causality of the early Toarcian mass extinction event in Bulgaria'. The aim of the project is to establish the severity, timing and causality of the early Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) mass extinction in Bulgaria. This will be achieved by documenting the occurrences of marine invertebrates, in particular molluscs, across the Pliensbachian–Toarcian interval. A record of faunal turnover during this time will provide the first faunal record of the early Toarcian mass extinction event in Bulgaria. The faunal variability and palaeoecological changes documented across this interval will allow the extinction event and its driving mechanisms to be better constrained, both temporally and geographically, across Europe.