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Mikael Calner is a Professor at the Department of Geology, Lund University, and Chair of the Swedish National Committee of Geology. His research focuses on sedimentary geology, sequence stratigraphy, and paleoecology, particularly in the Lower Paleozoic of the Baltic Shield and North America. He investigates global change impacts on climate, sea levels, and biodiversity, with emphasis on mass extinctions like the end-Ordovician glaciation and the Silurian minor events. His carbonate sedimentology work includes recent ooids in the Bahamas and their role in post-extinction oceanography. Teaching involves sedimentary processes across temporal and spatial scales, using fieldwork and core analyses from Scandinavian and Danish basins.
Research interests span Silurian climate dynamics, Ordovician-Silurian stratigraphy, and geochemical signatures of environmental drivers. Projects include collaborations on Baltic Sea subsurface Ordovician strata and South China Ordovician-Silurian correlations. His lab houses extensive Palaeozoic core collections for teaching and research. Calner contributes to UN SDGs related to sustainable development through geoscience insights.
Notable articles highlight climate change impacts in China’s Silurian strata, Ordovician chemostratigraphy in South China, and post-K-Pg extinction Danish sedimentary records. His work integrates biostratigraphy, isotopic data, and field observations to unravel Earth’s environmental history.
