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General Interest, Evolution

 I Want to Be a Paleontologist! - an online brochure from the Paleontological Research Institution.

 I want to collect dinosaurs!Information on field opportunities, as well as other paleontological links, can be found on Russ Jacobson's Dino Russ's Lair.

Tell me more about evolution!

Understanding Evolution has been designed to be ³your one-stop source for information on evolution.² The material it provides on the science and history of evolutionary biology and paleontology is clear, concise, and authoritative. Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial website, developed and maintained by the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education, with support from the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Talk.origins is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology. Their archive provides mainstream scientific responses to the many frequently asked questions (FAQs) and frequently rebutted assertions that appear in talk.origins.

The PaleoNet Pages are an on-line clearinghouse for paleontological information. Features of the PaleoNet Pages include: information and on-line subscription/unsubscription instructions with e-mail links to all PaleoNet listservers; access to PaleoNet Archives, PaleoNet FTP Site, the PaleoNet Gopher and the PaleoNet Forum (an experiment in the creation of an electronic paleontological journal. Also links to: other on-line paleontological resources, a collection of public-domain images of paleontological objects/subjects, an on-line listing of positions for professional paleontologists, and lots of other things!

International Plant Taphonomy Meetings. The purpose of the International Plant Taphonomy Meetings is to stimulate scientific research and to promote contacts among scientists engaged in the study of plant taphonomy, including living and fossil plants of all geological periods.

Museums

The homepage of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology has marvelous graphics.

The homepage of the Field Museum of Natural History  features an on-line version of  the Life Over Time exhibit and current information about Sue the T-rex.

The Florida Museum of Natural History has searchable databases on its web site. The Florida Geological Survey collection joins the Pierce Brodkorb fossil bird collection, and the Invertebrate Paleontology type collection as multi-parametered searchable on-line databases.

The Science Museum of Minnesota recently launched the world debut of an exhibit entitled When the Dinosaurs Were Gone, and along with it, an When the Dinosaurs Were Gone web site. On the website, visitors can explore interactive panoramas of the plant andnimal life of the Paleocene era, print out and color their own forest or underwater dioramas, go on an interactive fossil dig, see actual videos of the excavation at Wannagan Creek in South Dakota, and much more.

Homepage for the The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.

The Cincinnati Museum Center has just published its Web page. Of particular interests to paleontologists are details of the Invertebrate and Vertebrate paleontology research programs, information on the Cincinnati Fossil Festival, and an inventory of the major holdings of the invertebrate paleontology collection.

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science has a page on Dinosaurs in New Mexico.

 Located on the banks of the Ohio River in Clarksville, Indiana at I-65 exit 0 is the Falls of the Ohio State Park. The 386-million-year-old fossil beds are among the largest naturally exposed Devonian fossil beds in the world.

The bilingual web site of the Canadian Museum of Nature includes information about exhibits, research activities, and collections, along with a changing line-up of nature-related information and fun activities. More specifically, there is a page foR their newest exhibit, Great Asian Dinosaurs.

The Section of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has information regarding recent discoveries in vertebrate paleontology.

The Fundy Geological Museum in Nova Scotia, Canada has, among other exhibits, fossils of some of the earliest dinosaurs.

The new  Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is under construction on the campus of the University of Oklahoma.

The British Geological Survey has fossils on its home page, aw well as descriptions of all the main collections that they hold, plus full contact details.

Departments

Department of Geology at the College of Wooster. The study of invertebrate fossils has been a strong component of the Wooster geology curriculum since its beginning.  Since 1981 Wooster's paleontologist has been Mark Wilson, who specializes in the evolution and paleoecology of hard substrate faunas, with additional interests in early carbonate diagenesis and Pleistocene sea-level dynamics.

Organizations

 The American Geophysical Union is an international scientific society with more than 35,000 members in over 115 countries. For over 75 years, AGU researchers, teachers, and science administrators have dedicated themselves to advancing theunderstanding of Earth and its environment in space and making the results available to the public.

 The Ecological Society of America. a non-partisan, nonprofit organization of scientists founded in 1915 to: stimulate sound ecological research; clarify and communicate the science of ecology; and promote the responsible application of ecological knowledge to public issues.

The Web site of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists has information about the Association, its publications, activities, and meetings, and how to join. It also includes the issues of the AASP Newsletter.

SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) is an international not-for-profit Society based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. SEPM, through its network of 5,400 members, is dedicated to the dissemination of scientific information on sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, environmental sciences, marine geology, hydrogeology, and many additional related specialties. It publishes PALAIOS, which emphasizes the impact of life on earth history.

The Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (GCSSEPM) and the GCSSEPM Foundation have their own web site.

NAMS is the North American Micropaleontology Section of  SEPM. The purpose of the Section is  to promote all aspects of micropaleontology through application, research and education dealing with morphology, biostratigraphy,  ecology/paleoecology, and geologic history of all groups of microfossils occurring in the stratigraphic record.

The Paleontological Research Institution website features educational resources such as "virtual fieldtrips", and image/data files from the Institution's collections of more than 2 million specimens. Membership and publications information, and an e-mail membership application form are also provided.

Information on the British Palaeontological Association is now available on the WWW. This page contains info about the Palaeontological Association, membership, conferences, council, etc. and includes links to Pal Ass publication details, newsletters and other palaeontological sites on the web.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is committed to advancing  the science of  vertebrate paleontology. This site contains detailed information ofn society activities.

 The University of Kansas Paleontological Institute, publishes the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (jointly with GSA), as well as the U. Kansas Paleontological Contributions.

A homepage maintained by the International Organisation of Palaeobotany contains copies of their newsletter, a plant fossil record database, and a place for discussions.

The International Nannoplankton Association is a semi-formal association of scientists worldwide who have an interest in living or fossil nannoplankton - including coccolithophores, nannoliths, and other nannofossils such as silicoflagellates and calcispheres.

 The Sociedad Espanola de Paleontologia (Spanish Society of Palaeontology) has some documents on-line. They publish an internal bulletin, Noticias Paleontologicas which is available at their gopher. You can access at two last issues of the Revista Espanola de Paleontologia abstracts in the same directory, and also you can obtain more information about the Sociedad Espanola de Paleontologia at their web page.

 The Canadian Paleontological Coalition is an alliance of amateur and professional paleontologists across Canada. Their goals include promoting public awareness and enhancing the interest in the value of paleontology, seeding paleontology groups in every province, acting as a lobbying group for the protection of fossils in Canada and promoting collaborative research in the field of paeontology. To subscribe to their mailing list send e-mail to Majordomo@mars.ark.com and in the body of the message write subscribe CANPAC.

 The Fossil Society (Cleveland, OH) now has a web site, describing its purpose and activities. Glen J. Kuban, president of the society, has put together a very useful site on the Paluxy Dinosaur/"man track" controversy. He also has K-Paleo web site, which features a large menu of paleontology and geology-related Internet resources arranged by category (including over 200 dinosaur links!).

Western Society of Malacologists established in 1968 as a society for the furtherance of research in Malacology. The membership consists of professionals, amateurs, and students. The WSM holds one annual meeting each year.

 The Southern California Paleontological Society  is a non-profit organization of about 200 members. It publishes a bi-monthly bulletin/journal; and holds monthly fieldtrips in the Southwest and monthly meetings at the Page Museum at La Brea.

 The Pander Society is an informal international association of several hundred palaeontologists and stratigraphers who share an interest in conodonts. The primary aim of The Society is to encourage exchange of information about conodont research, and to this end it maintains very useful lists of members addresses, their research interests and a bibliography of conodont related publications.

 The Paleobotany Section of the Botanical Society of Americai s open to anyone interested in fossil plants. Members receive the annual Bibliography of American Paleobotany, which is published by the Section. At the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America, the Paleobotanical Section has an active program of contributed papers, and frequently symposia, workshops and field trips.

 The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) exists exclusively for scientific and educational purposes, to advance the study of micropalaeontology and to disseminate knowledge in this field among professionals and to the public at large. Although established and still managed in Britain, TMS has a substantial international membership. The Society publishes The Journal of Micropalaeontology and a series of Special Publications. The Society comprises six specialist groups which study Foraminifera, Microvertebrates, Nannofossils, Ostracods, Palynology and Silicofossils.

The Cushman Foundation, a non-profit public foundation, was founded in 1950 for the purpose of publishing results of research on Foraminiferida and allied organisms.  The Cushman Foundation publishes the Journal of Foraminiferal Research.

 The Palaeontologische Gesellschaft  is the society for German speaking paleontologists. The Society currently has about one thousand members, mostly from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. They publish the journal Palaeontologische Zeitschrift and the newsletter "Palaeontologie aktuell."

The Australian Palaeontology web site resources include access to the Directory of Australasian palaeontologists, an archive of images and an animation of Australian tectonic history, comprehensive links to paleo web sites, and links to the Riversleigh Society, a group supporting Australian palaeontological research.

The South African Society for Amateur Palaeontologists (SASAP) was founded to act as a forum for the many people who are interested in fossils and evolution.One of the main objectives of SASAP is to make palaeontology more accessible to the man in the street.

The Dry Dredgers is an association of amateur geologists in the Cincinnatti area dedicated to the knowledge and enjoyment of fossils. The association was founded in 1942 and continues to bring together those interested in the life of prehistoric times.

The National Center for Science Education, Inc., is a nonprofit membership organization (most of whom are scientists) working to keep evolution in the public K-12 schools.

The  Kentucky Paleontological Society and the fossils section of the Kentucky Geological Survey page.  

Journals -including those published by the Paleontological Society

Research Funding

The Paleobiological Fund is a recently formed nonprofit organization established to support and enhance paleobiological and paleontological research and education in order to increase our knowledge about the evolution of all life forms and processes through fossil data.This year the Fund's Student Research Grant Program under went its first grant cycle and awarded $12,500 to graduate and undergraduate student researchers.

Joseph A. Cushman Awards for Student Research.
The Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research administers the Joseph A. Cushman Awards for Student Research,
including the William V. Sliter Research Award. These awards, each with a maximum amount of  $1000, are to support research dealing with foraminifera or allied groups. Proposals are judged upon scientific merit and financial need and partially
support M.S. or Ph.D. research projects not currently funded through other grants.  For more information, contact: Jennifer Jett, Cushman Foundation, MRC- 121 Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0121, USA. 

Databases

A home page for the JOIDES DSDP/ODP Micropaleontological Reference Centers (MRCs) includes an overview of the purpose, collection holdings, and facilities of the MRCs, names, addresses, phone and fax numbers of the MRC curators and spreadsheet listings (including sample level, age and fossil zone) of the foraminifer and diatom samples stored at the MRCs.These listings can easily be downloaded directly into spreadsheet or database format.

The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) UCMP data model combines and standardizes data from all of the museum's various collections, archives and research libraries into one system. This system allows collection managers to retain specialized information from each discipline, while standardizing basic information common to all divisions (basic locality data, taxonomic data structures, type specimens).

Extant Planktic Foraminifera and the Physical Environment in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans - An atlas based on CLIMAP and Levitus (1982) data.

The Gulf of St. Lawrence Microfossil Catalogue contains images of Late Quaternary foraminifers and ostracods from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Links to 380 images are now available.

 The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates is available online.

The 50 Large Marine Ecosystems are regions of ocean space encompassing coastal areas from river basins and estuaries to the seaward boundaries of continental shelves and coastal current systems .They are relatively large regions of distinct bathymetry, hydrography,productivity and trophically dependent populations. Available information includes: maps of the LMEs; descriptions of LMEs including initial information on productivity, fisheries, ecosystem health and pollution, socioeconomic issues, and governance;  GIS data (ARC Export format) and FGDC compliant metadata defining LME boundaries; current news on LME research; and contact information for LME experts.

Matthew Kosnik has established the Paleobiology Source Code and Software Archive.  This site is a repository for source code and compiled programs of interest to paleobiologists.

 The new Manual of Leaf Architecture, by the Leaf Architecture Working Group (Amanda Ash, Beth Ellis, Leo Hickey, Kirk Johnson, Peter Wilf, and Scott Wing) can be downloaded in pdf format.

Special Interests

The Crustacean Evolutionary Pattern Analysis home page presents the research activities of a group of scientists allied to the Institute for Systematics and Population biology (ISP), a research institute within the Faculty of Biology of the University of Amsterdam. Most of the active research focuses on the phylogeny and biogeography of various crustaceans. Fossils are an important component of this research as are the computer based cladistic and biogeographic analysis tools.

The International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO) is an interdisciplinary, international organization of about 400 researh scientists studying living and fossil Ostracoda.

 A new web site devoted to taphonomy summarizes research of an informal taphonomic group: Centro de Estudios de Almejas Muertas [C.E.A.M.] (Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona). C.E.A.M. research concentrates primarily on taphonomy and paleoecology of mollusks, brachiopods, and insects.

Oyvind Hammer has a Computational Paleontology Homepage. This page is devoted to the use of mathematical models, simulation, computer graphics and computers in general in paleontology.

Zooarchaeology is the analysis of animal remains (e.g., bone, shell) from archaeological sites to reconstruct the cultural lifeways of people and the interrelationships between people, animals, and the environment.

A WWW page dealing with ichnology and trace fossils. The page includes an introduction to the subject of ichnology (focusing specifically on paleoichnology), an extensive set of trace fossil images,  and links to current issues of the Ichnology Newsletter.
 

Personal Pages

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Artwork

Ray Troll's FinArt Pages are a lot of fun!

By visiting Josef Moravec's paleoart gallery you will find his finely detailed illustrations of ancient life.

Berislav V. Krzic, fossil illustrator, has posted Beri's Dinosaur World.

Mike Everhart's Oceans of Kansas Paleontology website, which illustrates  life in the Late Cretaceous, Western Interior Seaway of North America,  is simply spectacular!

Other

 Hadrosaurus foulkii web site takes viewers back in history and down into the 30-foot ravine where the world's first nearly-complete dinosaur skeleton was found in 1858 in New Jersey along the eastern coast of the United States.

This page is for anyone interested in East Asian earth sciences. It includes links to radiolarian pages.

A 3-D cynodont reconstruction by Tim Rowe!

The Lazarus et al. (1995) Revised Chronology of Neogene DSDP Holes from the World Ocean is available on the NGDC World Wide Web page.

 Boxgrove is a village in West Sussex in southern England on the outskirts of which is a quarry which over ten years ago started to reveal part of an ancient sea cliff. The newly launched Boxgrove World Wide web site is devoted to what has been learned from excavations by a team of palaeontologists and archaeologists at the site since 1985, as well as showing some of the finds there of fossilised remains from a wide range of animals. Since 1993 the remains of ancient humans and an abundance of stone tools they made and used has also been uncovered.

The JURASSIC REEF PARK (in German and English; written and webbed by Reinhold Leinfelder, Stuttgart), focuses on: What are the general features of modern and Ancient reefs?
Why were Jurassic reefs so different from modern ones?
Can Jurassic reefs tell us more about the Jurassic world?
Can Jurassic reefs contribute to the understanding of present Global Change?

EARTHWORKS  is an on-line database of  career opportunities for paleontologists, geoscientists, geographers, remote sensing/GIS staff, environmental scientists, climate/atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, etroleum scientists/engineers,geotechnical engineers  and ydrologists/hydrogeologists in the academic, water, upstream oil and gas, civil and mining sectors with particular focus on North America, the UK, the Pacific Rim, Europe and Africa.

 Efforts are now being made to have Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) thoracica,  a Cretaceous bivalve    found in the Coon Creek Formation of West Tennessee designated as the Tennessee state fossil.  To read more about this effort, see the Tennessee State Fossil web site.

A page with  annotated links to internet resources, especially for palaeobotanists (with an Upper Triassic bias).

Numerous dinosaur attractions can be found in the  Grand Junction, Colorado area.

Welcome to http://www.paleoweb.it the first Italian Paleo Portal!
 
 
 
 

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