2015

"Understanding the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction: Problems and Progress" by Seth Finnegan (UC Berkeley) Abstract: The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction was one of the largest extinction events in the history of the marine realm. The extinction has long...

Speaker: Christina Frieder (USC) Abstract: Interactions between organic and inorganic processes are fundamental to development and growth. The initiation of shell formation in extant shelled molluscs appears to be an evolutionarily conserved process...

Speaker: Greg Fournier (MIT) Abstract: Date calibrations for applying molecular clocks to phylogeny are typically provided by fossil or other geologically preserved evidence. However, for the vast majority of the Tree of Life, no fossil record exists...

Speaker: Jed Fuhman (USC Dornsif)

Speaker: Benjamin Passey (Johns Hopkins University) Abstract: The study of triple oxygen isotope variations (D 17O) in the hydrological cycle and atmosphere has progressed significantly in the last ten years, and new analytical methods permit high...

Speaker: Dr. Katja Meyer (Willamette University)

Speaker: Dr. Shanan Peters (University of Wisconsin)

Speaker: Pupa Gilbert (UW, Madison) Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard University Abstract: Organisms harness mineral chemistry and physics to form biominerals for their evolutionary advantage. How they do it is the question here. 20-nm resolution data reveal 3...