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Project fully funded

12/9/2016

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I finally recieved note upon the decision on the funding of the GOBE-Project. What can I say, I will be studying the "GOBE" in western desert of the USA for the next three years. Whoot-whoot.
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May be some personal notes here... This letter means an awful lot. It means that I can carry on doing things that I love and that I was trained for, since setting out to study geology (in 2002) with the decision to specialise on palaeontology in 2006. When my first Postdoc ended, I realised (with some off the  map applications) that this kind of training would bring me nowhere on the open job market. Lucky enough the SNF granted the precursor project for one year - putting me out of trouble for yet another 12 months. I immediatly started to revise the proposal for the GOBE-Project, which was initially rejected by the DFG . So I knew that there would be just one shot left before running out of money. Because "providing for family" ranks clearly before "having a cool job", failing on this would have meant to leave academia and to leave palaeontology. Anytime when short funding periods terminated and I faced the drop-out, I felt this enterprise to be so futile altogether. Of course such moaning and groaning is not very popular and people (me included) rather show their achievements instead of their setbacks. All I want to say is that this is just the other side of the coin. It felt so good to see all this effort finally being rewarded and to be allowed to carry on. So I'd rather get back to work instead of writing sentimental blog posts. A big "thank you" to all the people who supported me during all these years. 

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