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RNDr. Ladislav Slavík, CSc.

Position: 
head of department, scientist

Phone: 
+420 233 087 247
Fax: 
+420 220 922 670
E-mail: 
slavikatgli [dot] cas [dot] cz

Address: 
Rozvojová 269, 165 00 Praha 6 - Lysolaje, Czech Republic
Room number: 
Suchdol 333
Workgroup: 
Department of Paleobiology and Paleoecology
Specialization: 
Multi-proxy global correlation of Mid Palaeozoic marine sedimentary successions

Researcher ID: A-3088-2011

Multi-proxy global correlation of Mid Palaeozoic marine sedimentary successions, palaeogeography, Silurian and Devonian conodont biostratigraphy, paleobiotic crises/extinction events and recoveries, carbonate successions

Most relevant responsibilities:

Member of the Board of the Institute of Geology AS CR, v.v.i., since 2012
Department Chair, Department of Paleobiology and Paleoecology, Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, since 2011
Secretary and Titular member of the International Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy SDS/ICS, IUGS, since 2012
Corresponding member of the International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, SSS/ICS, IUGS, since 2011
Alternating Member of the Doctoral Examination Committee in Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Praha, since 2012
Voted member of Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2010-2014)

Education:

2001:CSc. (Ph.D) degree, Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Subjects: Stratigraphy, Paleontology, Regional Geology, Biostratigraphy. Ph.D.-thesis: Pragian conodont fauna and zonation in the Barrandian area.
1999: RNDr., Institute of Geological Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Subjects: Biostratigraphy, Structural Geology and Tectonics, Regional Geology, Sedimentology, Hydrogeology. RNDr.-thesis: Lower Devonian Conodont biostratigraphy from selected sections of the Prague Synform.
1992 – 1997: MSc., Institute of Geological Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Subjects: Biostratigraphy, Structural Geology and Tectonics, Regional Geology, Sedimentology, Hydrogeology. MSc.-thesis: Pragian conodonts from the Čertovy schody Quarry near Koněprusy.
1995: BSc., Institute of Geological Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Subjects: General Geology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Hydrogeology.

Positions held – professional employment record:

2008 (3 months): Institut für Umweltgeologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany – Resumption of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship.
2004 – 2005 (14 months): Institut für Umweltgeologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany – Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship.
2004 – present: Institute of Geology of the CAS,v.v.i., Position: Senior Research scientist, Dept. of Terrane Architecture and Litosphere Evolution (2004-2006) and Depatment of Paleobiology and Paleoecology (since 2006), Department Chair (since 2011).
2003 (3 months) – Invited Researcher, Department of Geology, University of Valencia, Spain.

Leadership of scientific projects:

2017-2019. Czech Science Foundation, GAČR, No. GA17-06700S: Přídolí Series in the Prague Synform - proposal for chronostratigraphic subdivision
2012-2015. ASCR International research programme, No. M100131201: Hi-res correlation and dating of Mid-Palaeozoic sedimentary sequences of Peri-Gondwana using integrated biostratigraphy and chemo-physical methods.
2009-2013. Czech Science Foundation, GA ČR, No. 205/09/0703: Integrated late Silurian (Ludlow-Přídolí) stratigraphy of the Prague Synform.
2006-2008. Grant Agency of the ASCR, No. KJB300130613, GA AV: Integrated biostratigraphy of the Lower Devonian of Central Bohemia matched against magnetic susceptibility and gamma-ray logs in outcrops.
2002-2004. Czech Science Foundation, GA ČR, No. 205/02/P014 (post-doc project): Conodont biozonation of the Lochkovian Stage in the Prague Synform.

Other projects:

Member of research team of 4 projects in past 10 years.
Contributor to IGCP/UNESCO programmes: IGCP 421, IGCP 499, IGCP 596, IGCP 591 and IGCP 580

Editorial work:

Bulletin of Geosciences, Member of Editorial Board, since 2013.
Fossil Imprint, Member of Editorial Board, since 2016
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments – Co-editor of Special Issue, IGCP 596, 2016
Editor in Chief of the Annual Report of the Institute of Geology, ASCR, 1999 – 2007

Recent Publications:

Manda, Š., Štorch, P., Slavík, L., Frýda, J., Kříž, J. & Tasáryová, Z. (2012): Graptolite, conodont and sedimentary record through the late Ludlow Kozlowskii Event (Silurian) in shale-limestone succession of Bohemia. – Geological Magazine 149 (3): 507–531.doi:10.1017/S0016756811000847

Slavík, L. & Carls, P. (2012): Post-Lau Event (late Ludfordian, Silurian) recovery of conodont faunas of Bohemia. – Bulletin of Geosciences 87(4), 815-832. DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1368 Slavík, L., Carls, P., Hladil, J. & Koptíková, L. (2012): Subdivision of the Lochkovian Stage based on conodont faunas from the stratotype area (Prague Synform, Czech Republic). – Geological Journal 47, 616-631. DOI: 10.1002/gj.2420

Mavrinskaya, T. & Slavík, L. (2013): Correlation of Early Devonian (Lochkovian–early Pragian) conodont faunas of the South Urals (Russia). Bulletin of Geosciences 88(2), 283–296.

Holcová, K. & Slavík, L. (2013): The morphogroups of small agglutinated foraminifera from the Devonian carbonate complex of the Prague Synform, (Barrandian area, Czech Republic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386, 210–224.

Rohr, D.M., Blodgett, R.B. Santucci, V. & Slavík, L. (2013): Shallow and Deep Water Origins of Silurian Rocks at Glacier Bay, Alaska. Alaska Park Science 12(1), 36-41. ISSN 1545-4967.

Slavík, L., Štorch, P., Manda, Š. & Frýda, J. (2014): Integrated stratigraphy of the Ludfordian in the Prague Synform. GFF 136:1, 238-242 DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2013.851733

Baranov, V.V., Slavík, L., Blodgett, R.B. (2014): Early Devonian polygnathids of Northeast Asia and correlation of Pragian/Emsian strata of the marginal seas of Anqarida. Bulletin of Geosciences 89: 3, 645-678. ISSN: 12141119 DOI: 10.3140/bull.qeosci.1483

Slavík, L. (2014): Revision of the conodont zonation of the Wenlock-Ludlow boundary in the Prague Synform. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 63, 4, 305-311. doi: 10.3176/earth.2014.35

Chadimová, L., Vacek, F., Sobień, K., Slavík, L., Hladil, J. (2015). Petrophysical record of the Late Silurian shallow-water carbonate facies across the Lau Event (Prague Synform, Czech Republic) and dynamic time warping alignment of the magnetic susceptibility logs. In: Da Silva, A.C., Whalen, M.T., Hladil, J., Chadimová, L., Chen, D., Spassov, S., Boulvain, F., Devleeschouwer, X. (Eds.), Magnetic susceptibility application: a window onto ancient environments and climatic variations. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 414 (1), 133-155. ISBN 978-1-86239-721-7

Valenzuela-Ríos, J.I., Slavík, L., Liao, J.-C., Calvo, H., Hušková, A. & Chadimová, L. (2015): The middle and upper Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) conodont successions in key peri-Gondwana localities (Spanish Central Pyrenees and Prague Synform) and their relevance for global correlations. Terra Nova, 27, 409–415. DOI: 10.1111/ter.12172

Slavík, L. (2016). The Pragian GSSP at Velká Chuchle in the Prague Synform (Lower Devonian). In Suttner, T.J., Kido, E., Königshof, P., Waters, J.A., Davis, L., Messner, F. (eds), Planet Earth - In Deep Time. Palaeozoic Series: Devonian & Carboniferous. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, 264 pp.: 74-75. Stuttgart.

Slavík, L., Valenzuela-Ríos, J.I., Hladil, J., Chadimová, L., J.I., Liao, J.-C., Hušková, A., Calvo, H., & Hrstka, T. (2016): Warming or cooling in the Pragian? Sedimentary record and petrophysical logs across the Lochkovian-Pragian boundary in the Spanish Central Pyrenees. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 449: 300-320.

Štorch, P., Manda, Š., Slavík, L. & Tasáryová, Z. (2016): Wenlock-Ludlow boundary interval revisited: New insights from the off-shore facies of the Prague Synform, Czech Republic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53: 666-673.

Da Silva, A.C., Hladil, J., Chadimová, L., Slavík, L., Hilgen, F.J., Bábek, O. & Dekkers, M.J. (2016): Refining the Early Devonian time scale using Milankovitch cyclicity in Lochkovian–Pragian sediments (Prague Synform, Czech Republic). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 455: 125-139.

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