Short Courses

2025 Paleontological Society Short Course - Open Science, Collaboration, and Reproducibility in Paleontology

2024 Paleontological Society Short Course - From the earth to the repository and beyond: fossil collecting and collections issues at every level

2023 Paleontological Society Short Course - Diversity, equity, and inclusion in paleontology: application of principles to make paleontology a more just discipline. 

Past Short Courses

2022 Paleontological Society Short Course - Ecological Models Applied to Fossil Data

2019 Paleontological Society Short Course - Quantitative Methods in Phylogenetic Paleobiology

2018 Paleontological Society Short Course - Pedagogy and Technology in the Modern Paleontology Classroom

2017 Paleontological Society Short Course - Biochemical Approaches in Paleobiology and Paleoecology

2016 Paleontological Society Short Course – Virtual Paleontology

2015 Paleontological Society Short Course – Earth-Life Transitions

2013 Paleontological Society Short Course – Ecosystem Paleobiology and Geobiology

2012 Paleontological Society Short Course - Reconstructing Earth's Deep-Time Climate - The State of the Art in 2012

2011 Paleontological Society Short Course - Corals and Reef Evolution: Crises, Collapse, and Changes

2010 Paleontological Society Short Course - Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology

PDF Versions of Past Short Courses

• 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