It was then – in 2004 – that he applied to be considered as participant to our yearly summer fieldwork in the Haţeg Basin, where we were looking for and excavating something rather ‘exotic’ – dinosaur and other vertebrate fossils from the end of the Mesozoic Era. This event represented an unexpected chance to meet again my younger colleague, and to learn about his accomplishments as a researcher, long after I first met him – and I would like to recall before anything else that encounter since, I feel, it is highly relevant when it comes to truly comprehend the nature of his achievements synthesized in this book.Ī little more than 10 years ago, Marius was a student at the Faculty of Geography of the University of Bucharest, and as such, he followed a short introductory course on Geology.
He has defended his thesis – entitled “ The Palaeontology of the MIS 3 cave bear bone assemblage from the Urşilor Cave of Chişcău – Osteometry, Palaeoichnology, Taphonomy, and Stable Isotopes” in April 2015, and I was honoured by the invite to be member in his Examination Committee. Marius Robu, appointed researcher at the Department of Karst and Cave Protection, in the “Emil Racoviţă” Institute of Speleology of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.
The book you’re holding represents the published version of the Ph.D.
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