Museums of Vienna

Hello out there! This post marks the start of ~6 weeks of travel for me, visiting museums in Europe and doing field work with my students. As much as I love this part of the job things can get extremely busy, especially when trying to keep up with emails/demands from home. Nevertheless, I will try to blog every so often when I have something fun. And that, I have!

Last week my student Chiara and I visited Vienna (Wien), Austria! We looked at some beautiful corals at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien and the Geologisches Bundesanstalt Museum and also toured around a bit for fun.

Here are some of the lovely corals we saw....

Phlocophylia caliculata

Stylocoenia taurinensis close up

Thamnastrea rectilamellosa corallites look like the spiderman symbol

Distichophyllia norica

Retiophyllia norica

A lost specimen... 

I think it is a Triassic Palaeastraea cyathophylloides

Once we had what we needed from the collections we perused the rest of the two museums.

 And had some Sachertorte...

 Beautiful ammonites from Canada

Some amazingly huge ooids (pisoids)

More Triassic corals

Jurassic horseshoe crabs from the Solenhofen

Solenhofen Squids

We also saw a little of Vienna

Over the weekend we visited a few sites (and got wet), then did some more sightseeing in the Alps (and got wet).

Wet corals 

Cold and wet, but there is Apfel Strudel!