Master Paleontology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoenvironments - Lille University

The objective of the programme is to train students to answer questions of interest to both academia (paleobiology, macroevolution, climate change and impact on the biodiversity...), industry (resource exploration in sedimentary basins, paleoenvironmental reconstructions), and geoconservation (development of geotourism and related economic and societal impacts, geoheritage management and conservation, cultural and scientific values).The Master programme provides students with discipline specific knowledge, concepts, skills, habits of mind (data use and reasoning), and professional, transferable skills (communication, project management, transfer of knowledge, interpersonal collaboration...) to make them able to deal with all aspects of fundamental and applied paleontology:- Methods of analysis, treatment, and intervention in Sedimentary Geology (sequence stratigraphy; facies analysis, characterization of geological material)- Application of principles and technical skills for paleontological and paleoenvironmental analyses (statistics in macroevolution and paleoecology, scientific communication, geobiological processes, paleoclimatology)Technical skills in applied paleontology (micropaleontological and biostratigraphic analyses, industrial and environmental applications)- Skills and methods in geoconservation (case studies in management of geological collections and geosites, regulatory protection in France and abroad, scientific dissemination, ...)