Applied Paleontology University of Valencia

Overview

We offer a master degree in Applied Paleontology at University of Valencia. Palaeontology is a discipline based on the study and interpretation of life’s past on Earth through fossils. Included within Natural Sciences, it posses its own body of doctrine and shares fundaments and methods with Geology and Biology, with which is intrinsically integrated. 

In fact, palaeontology gives these sciences back the fundaments previously provided in the form of inputs or contributions to other fields of science due to the wide range of possible applications in paleobiological research (Evolution, Biodiversity, Continental Drifts, Climate change...).

Key Features 

• Hence, the most usual application of palaeontology is the basic contribution to other sciences through the study of fossil remains. Nonetheless, palaeontology is useful within many other areas (many are not directly related to Geology or Biology), which are clearly under-exploited in comparison to other European countries or outside of Europe (United States, Canada, Australia, etc.). 

• These areas include, for example, the application of palaeontology in oil exploration, in mining and other geological resources, usefulness in civil engineering, in environmental impact and climate change studies, in archaeology , in forensic Palynology, in medical palynology, protection of natural and cultural heritage and in extension to society (museum studies, dissemination, theme park).