Teaching and Outreach

2024-2025 Online (free) class called Comparative anatomy in vertebrate paleontology with Sylvain Adnet funded by Unisciel : Under construction

2024-2025 Online (free) class called Practicals in micropaleontology funded by Unisciel : Under construction

2020-ongoing Collection pédagogique d'objet géologique en 3D de la SGF – Collaborative collection of 3D fossils, rocks, outcrop on sketchfab (SGF)

https://sketchfab.com/sgfrance

2020 MicroVirtualPal – Teaching micropaleontology with numerical 3D reconstructions funded by the Fonds d'Investissement Pédagogique (AMU)

3D reconstructions of microfossils seen in practicals using X-ray tomography, hosting 3D reconstructions on Sketchfab website, linking annoted 3D reconstructions to the dedicated class and proposing on-line fossil description lessons on the moodle application of AMu (AMETice) and Unisciel (Socles3).

https://sketchfab.com/Secteur_Sci_Techno-AMU/collections/collection-sciences-de-la-terre

2018 VirtualPal – Teaching paleontology with numerical 3D reconstructions funded by the Fonds d'Investissement Pédagogique (AMU)

3D reconstructions of fossils seen in practicals using 3D photogrammetry, hosting 3D reconstructions on Sketchfab website,linking annoted 3D reconstructions to the dedicated class and proposing on-line fossil description lessons on the moodle application of AMu (AMETice) and Unisciel (Socles3).

https://sketchfab.com/Secteur_Sci_Techno-AMU/collections/collection-sciences-de-la-terre
Online (free) class from this project called Practicals in invertebrate paleontology : https://socles3.unisciel.fr/course/view.php?id=229

Since September 2024                     Aix-Marseille université, Marseille: New habilitation under construction

Since September 2018                     Aix-Marseille université, Marseille:

- L1 UE Terre habitable: Tutorials on Earth Sciences basics. (14 h)

- L2 Terre UE Méthodes Numériques 1: Tutorial 'Counting, uncertainty and transfer function' and Tutorial 'Cyclicity in the sedimentary record'. (6 h)

- L2 SBG UE Paléontologie: Practicals on invertebrate paleontology, paleobotany and micropaleontology. (24 h + 1 day fieldwork)

- L2 SBG UE Paléontologie: Vertebrate evolution classes and tutorials on the dinosaurs endothermy and the structure of the Cretaceous terrestrial and marine food chains. (10 h)

- L2 Mer UE Structure et évolution géologique des océans : Global tectonic from rifting to subduction and/or mountains formation; tectonic, evolution and sedimentology of sedimentary basins. (30 h)

- L3 Terre UE Paléontologie évolutive: Vertebrate evolution classes and tutorials on the dinosaurs endothermy and the structure of the Cretaceous terrestrial and marine food chains. (13 h)

- L3 Terre UE Bassins sédimentaires: Field work on Lower-Middle Jurassic carbonate deposits near Toulon and on the Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene of the Arc basin and the Sainte-Victoire mountain. (2 days fieldwork)

- L3 SBG UE Paléoenvironnements: Classes and tutorials on the differents types of paleoenvironments and the important changes in the history of Life. (15 h + 1 day fieldwork)

- M1 ESPE UE Investigations, complexité en sciences et projet d'enseignement: Practicals in geological mapping and paleoenvironments. (27 h)

- M1 STPE Réservoirs UE Stratigraphie séquentielle: Field work in the Cretaceous platform near Cassis. (4 days fieldwork)

September 2014  - September 2018                    Aix-Marseille université, Marseille:

- L1 UE Option d'ouverture: Initiation to writing and presentation of bibliographic work on a subject about the interest of geology for modern society. (30h)

- L2 Terre-SVT-Bio UE Paléontologie, Histoire de la biosphère: Practicals on invertebrate paleontology, paleobotany and micropaleontology . (48h)

- L2 Mer UE Structure et évolution des océans: Global tectonic from rifting to subduction and/or mountains formation; tectonic, evolution and sedimentology of sedimentary basins. (32h)

- L3 Terre UE Bassins sédimentaires: Field work on Lower-Middle Jurassic carbonate deposits near Toulon. (6h)

- M1 ESPE UE Sciences de la Terre 2: Practicals in geological mapping and paleoenvironment identifications. (18h)

- M1 GR2M UE Stratigraphie séquentielle: Field work in the Cretaceous platform near Cassis. (40h)

- M2 GR2M UE Stratigraphie sismique: Advance in bio-chimio-cyclostratigraphie. (12h)

September 2013 - August 2014                     Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne:

- L1 UE Terre et Univers: Introduction to petrology (macroscopic identification of minerals, magmatic and sedimentary rocks) ; Introduction to Paleontology (fossilisation, history of life, morphological identifications of invertebrates); Introduction to geological mapping. (38h)

- L1 UE Terre Solide: Oceanography, carbon cycle and climate, field work. (36h)

- L2 ST UE Géologie et Société: Initiation to writing and presentation of bibliographic work on a subject about the interest of geology for modern society. (15h)

- L2 ST UE Cartographie Géologique: Geological mapping with construction, 3D to 2D, identification of geological structures. (15h)

- L2 ST UE Etude de cas sur le terrain: Introduction to field work (1/2 day), Jurassic from the Monts d'or (sedimentology, 1 day), Limagne and the chaîne des Puys (tectonic and magmatic,1 day). (12h)

- L2 BBC UE Cartographie Géologique: Geological mapping with construction, 3D to 2D, identification of geological structures. (12h)

- L3 ST UE Paléontologie: History of Life, evolution theories, morphological evolution of invertebrates and microfossils, application for biostratigraphy, paleoenvironmental phylogenetical reconstructions. (30h)

- L3 ST UE Géologie de la France: History of French sedimentary basins and mountains ranges, paleogeographical and tectonical evolution of France. (18h)

- L3 BGSTU UE Géologie Terre Interne: Introduction to paleontology, history of Life, morphological evolution of invertebrates, application to biostratigraphy and phylogenetical reconstructions. (12h)

- M1 BGSTU UE Enseigner la géologie 1: Sedimentology from rock formations to dynamics. (9h)

- M1 BGSTU UE Enseigner la géologie 2: Stratigraphy (litho-, magneto-, bio-, chemio-, cyclo-, sequence, genetic) (3h); Sedimentary basins, formation, classification and identification. (8h)

September 2008 - May 2012                     Université Claude  Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne:

- L1 UE Géosciences 1: Introduction to Earth Sciences with  exercises about stratigraphy, geochemichal cycles, natural hazards, plates tectonics, climatology, solar system organization, mountains ranges formation). Mapping practicals with  introduction to topographic and geological maps. Paleontology practicals with cephalopods and lamellibranchs morphological identification, identification of a phylogenetic lineage and morphological constrains. (193h)

- L2 ST UE Sédimentation et formations Quaternaires: Sedimentary petrology practicals, macroscopic and microscopic identification of sediments and sedimentary structures, depositional environments. (68h)

- L2 BGSTU UE Géologie Objets et Méthodes: Sedimentary petrology practicals, macroscopic and microscopic identification of sediments and sedimentary structures, depositional environments. (28h)

- M1 BGSTU UE Géologie: Introduction to sequence stratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy. (4h)

- M2 ST-PCTP UE Approches expérimentales et théoriques de la physique des minéraux: X ray micro-fluorescence application to micropaleontology. (2h)