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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