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Paleontological Society Short Course on Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology

Saturday, 30 October, 8am - 5pm (Free of Charge!)
Go to Schedule and Supplementary Materials

PS Sponsored Sessions at GSA 2010r - Denver, CO

Topical Sessions
T22. Exposing Myths and Misrepresentations of Climate Change and Evolution Science: Strategies and Case Studies for Geoscientists, Educators, Policy Makers, and the Press
Organizers: George T. Stone, Michael E. Mann, Andrew M. Buddington

T66. Geochronology of the American West: In Honor of the Careers of Bill Cobban and John Obradovich and the Roots of EARTHTIME
Organizers: S.A. Bowring, Kirk R. Johnson, Brad S. Singer

T70. Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Fossils
Organizers: Matthew J. Kohn, Dennis O. Terry, David Grandstaff

T77. Common Approaches to Investigating Patterns and Processes of Bioerosion across Substrates
Organizers: Anthony Walton, Ferran Garcia-Pichel/Elisabeth Chacon, Mark Wilson, Patrick Wyse Jackson

T111. Teaching Paleontology in the Twenty-First Century: Resources for Teaching Paleontology at the Undergraduate Level
Organizers: Margaret M. Yacobucci, Rowan Lockwood, Warren D. Allmon, Bruce J. MacFadden

T112. Paleontology, Paleobiogeography, and Stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous North American Seas: A Tribute to Bill Cobban
Organizers: Richard A. MacKenzie, Corinne Myers

T113. Geological and Paleobiological Collections: Best Practices for Preservation, Access, and Use in a Changing World
Organizers: Ann Molineux, Tim White, Christopher Michael Holl

T114. Symbiosis as a Driver of Global Change in Ancient and Modern Earth Systems (Posters)
Organizers: Laurie Anderson, Annette Summers Engel

T115. The Precambrian-Cambrian Ecosphere (R)evolution: Insights from Chinese Microcontinents
Organizers: Christoph E. Heubeck, Maoyan Zhu, Shaoyong Jiang

T116. Links between Mesozoic Climate and Biodiversity
Organizers: Gregory D. Price, Richard J. Twitchett, Peter J. Harries

T117. Lagerstatte through Time: An Examination of Exceptional Preservational Pathways from the Terminal Proterozoic through Today
Organizers: James D. Schiffbauer, Marc Laflamme

T118. Filling the Hole: Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology of Caves and Karst
Organizers: Roy Plotnick, Ira D. Sasowsky

T121. The Western Interior Seaway Revisited (Posters)
Organizers: Dee A. Cooper, Roger W. Cooper

T143. Stratigraphic Standards: Where Have They Gone, What Should They Do, Where Should They Go?
Organizers: Arthur Donovan, Brian R. Pratt, L.E. Edwards

The PS is also listed as a sponsor for a Pardee Symposium entitled “Symbiosis as a Driver of Global Change in Ancient and Modern Earth Systems,” which is tied to T114 above. 

North American Paleontological Convention Information:

The 9th North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) was held on the campus of the University of Cincinnati, June 21-26, 2009. The centrally-located Cincinnati region is world renowned for its Upper Ordovician fossils and strata, and has a long-established heritage of paleontological research and teaching. Full details can be found at the meeting website: http://www.napc2009.org/.

 

Teaching Paleontology in the 21st Century Information:

Teaching Paleontology in the 21st Century - July 30 - Aug 3, 2009; Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institution. An exciting collaborative effort focused on enhancing the teaching of paleontology at the undergraduate level. This workshop brought together college and university faculty who teach paleontology to explore a wide variety of topics related to teaching paleontology effectively both in paleontology courses and as parts of other courses taught in the geoscience curriculum.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/paleo/workshop09/index.html

 

THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY

PS Annual Meeting, October 5-9, 2008, at the GSA annual meeting in Houston, Texas.

Centennial Celebration
Technical programming schedule for GSA 2008

2008:  PS Centennial Short Course

Houston, Texas, annual meeting of GSA, October 5-9, 2008. Short course coordinated by Tricia Kelley, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, (910) 962-7406.  For more information, contact Tricia Kelley at kelleyp@uncw.edu

PDF Versions of Short Courses Available

• Comparative Paleoecology of Fossils and Fossil Assemblages by Andrew M. Bush
• Evolutionary Patterns in Fossil Lineages by Gene Hunt
• Beyond the “Big Five”
  Extinctions as Experiments in the History of Life by Rowan Lockwood
• Tracking Species in Space and Time:
  Assessing the relationships between paleobiogeography, paleoecology, and macroevolution by Alycia L. Stigall
• Geobiological Events in the Ediacaran Period by Shuhai Xiao

 

PS Annual Meeting, October 28-31, 2007, at the GSA annual meeting, in Denver, Colorado

Please see the special GSA Meeting issue of Priscum.