Meetings and Activities

Date and Time	Place	Talks
February 5. 2007, 6:30 PM	Brighton Town Hall (Rochester). Community Meeting Room, Click here for Google Map and directions.	H. David Sheets: What is a mass extinction anyway? Approaches to characterizing uncertainty in biodiversity patterns
October 17, 2006 6:30 PM	Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution. Click here for directions.	Several folks will present trial runs on their GSA talks. Including: Nan Arens : A vein attempt at testing hyptheses in early angiosperm eco-morphological evolution: canalization of leaf architecture. and Ursula Smith: Application of protoconch and apical ontogeny in systematics of the New Zealand turritellid gastropods.
April 24, 2006 6:30 PM	Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution. Click here for directions.	Michael Pratt: Mark Twain's interest in paleotnology
February 21, 2006 6:30 PM	Finger Lakes Institute of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Click here for directions.	Ian West & Nan Arens : A general theory of mass extinctions?
November 16, 2005 6:30 PM	SUNY Cortland, Geology Department, Bowers Hall Rm. 336. Click here for directions.	Raymond Gildner: A numerical look at ammonoid sutures
September 28, 2005 6:30 PM	Syracuse University, Heroy Geology Lab, Rm 210. Click here for maps and directions.	Heather Baugh: Can we see the forest for the trees? Faunal stability and spatio-temporal scale in the Devonian Hamilton Group, New York State Patrick Wall: The Effect of Sedimentary Rock Outcrop Area on Estimates of Marine Phanerozoic Diversity
December 7, 2004 6:30 PM	Finger Lakes Institute of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Click here for directions.	Nan Arens and Dave Kendrick:  Leaf venation of lower Cretaceous early angiosperms Seven Undergraduate Students will present posters on their undergraduate research topics!
November 3, 2004 6:30 PM	Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution. Click here for directions.	John Bunge:  Estimating the number of species
September 27, 2004 6:30 PM	Syracuse University, Heroy Geology Lab, Rm 210. Click here for maps and directions.	Nicole Miklus:  Ostracodes as Indicators of Allerød through Younger Dryas Environments at three Fossil Mastodon Sites in New York State Heather Baugh:  Does Abundance Promote Survivorship During Background Extinction Intervals? A Case Study Using Bivalves from the Yorktown Formation
February 24, 2004 6:00 PM	SUNY Cortland, Geology Department, Bowers Hall Rm. 336. Click here for directions.	Chris McRoberts: Mass Extinction, Faunal Turnover, and Isotope Excursions: Towards Defining the Triassic/Jurassic Boundary
February 2, 2004 6:00 PM	Syracuse University, Heroy Geology Lab. Click here for maps and directions.	Linda Ivany: The Paleogene Greenhouse to Icehouse Transition in Antarctica: a Shallow-Marine Perspective
October 26, 2003 6:00 PM	Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution. Click here for directions	Laura Stafford: Population dynamics of Eocene Venericardia hatcheplata" (and maybe some practice GSA talks?)
April 28, 2003 6:30 PM	Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution. Click here for directions	Peter Nester: Geometry of a Late-Pleistocene Basin, Hyde Park, New York, Integrating Field Observation Techniques and Ground Penetrating Radar Jim Sherpa: The Hyde Park Mastodon: Osteology and Taphonomy
April 1, 2003 6:30 PM	Syracuse University, Heroy Geology Lab. Click here for maps and directions.	Laura Stafford: Population dynamics of early Eocene Venericardia hatcheplata (poster) Christy Visaggi: A census of Miocene shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs Devin Buick: Morphology and Life History of Eocene Cucullaea Bivalves from Antarctica (poster)
February 26, 2003 6:30 PM	Colgate University, Geology Department, Lathrop Hall, Linsley Museum. Click here for directions.	Emily Constantine: Diatoms and global change in Antarctica. Constance M. Soja: Silurian islands in the Uralian Seaway.
January 29, 2003 6:30 PM	SUNY Cortland, Geology Department, Bowers Hall Rm. 340. Click here for directions.	Emily Hopkin: Biochronology of halobiid bivalves from the Middle and Upper Triassic of Nevada. Chris McRoberts: The Triassic/Jurassic transition and bivalve biochronology in northeast British Columbia, Canada.

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