Institute of Geology, Tallin University of Technology
(+372) 620 3010
Urmas Kõljalg / Professor, Director of the Museum of Natural History, University of Tartu / mycology / urmas.koljalg@ut.ee (Chair of Estonian national consortium)
Tiiu Kull / Professor / botany / tiiu.kull@emu.ee (Vice Chair of Estonian national consortium) Olle Hints / Professor / paleontology / olle.hints@ttu.ee (Vice Chair of Estonian national consortium)
Dr. Atko Heinsalu / +372 59123761 / atko.heinsalu@ttu.ee / paleolimnology
The institute has four research departments, department of collections and administration
Permanent (P) | Non – Permanent (NP) | |
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a) TOTAL scientific staff | 37 | 0 |
b) Scientific staff linked to Collections | 15 | 0 |
c) Post-docs / PhD students | 6 | 0 |
d) Others (Associates, etc.) | 0 | 0 |
TOTAL (a+b+c+d) | 37 | 0 |
Permanent (P) | Non – Permanent (NP) | |
---|---|---|
e) Exhibitions | 0 | 0 |
f) Collection Managers / technicians | 4 | 2 |
g) Others | 11 | 0 |
TOTAL (e+f+g) | 15 | 2 |
Most researchers are funded from projects with duration of 3-6 years, being non-permanent in that sense. PhD students not shown as they do not belong to staff sensu stricto.
1. Geochemistry (XRF, XRD, ICP-MS) 2. Isotope-paleoclimatology (MS) 3. Radiocarbon dating 4. Sedimentology 5. Micropaleontology (various optical microscopes, SEM) 6. Imaging (digital cameras, scanners etc) 7. Sample preparation (rock saws, crushers, mills, lapping and polishing, thin-section preparing).
Typology | Primary types | Individual specimens/objects | % registered cards | % recorded cards in database | |
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1.1 | Palaeontology | 1200 | 375000 | 27 | |
1.2 | Mineralogy | 0 | 700 | 71 | |
1.3 | Geology | 0 | 200000 | 65 | |
1.4 | Drill cores (boxes) | 5000 |
Typology | Primary types | Individual specimens/objects | % registered cards | % recorded cards in database |
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5000 Boxes with drill cores
books, manuscripts, periodicals, fieldnotes, maps, fotographs Photographs (films, slides, photos, archived digital images): 10000 Field notebooks and manuscripts: 1000

Educational programmes for schoolchildren, teachers etc, especially in the field-station (http://geoeducation.info and http://sarghaua.info)
Curriculum of Earth Sciences and geotechnology (together with partner departments in the university)
1. Collection databases
2. Systematic palaeontology
Initiatives related to Earth Science collections