| Talks are on Wednesdays, 4:00 to 5:20 pm in 30 Pacific Hall. |
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| Tea and cookies are served in Cascade 200 beginning at 3:30 p.m. Many of these talks will be part of a graduate course in Precambrian paleobiology meeting at 10:00 a.m. Thursdays in Cascade 200. To schedule time with any of the speakers, or to suggest new speakers, contact Greg Retallack (541-346-4558). |
April 2 - Dmitri Grazhdankin (University College, Dublin)
“Forbidden Fruits in the Garden of Ediacara”
April 9 - Jeff Myers (Western Oregon University, Monmouth)
“Navigating the Neogene: the Paleobotanical Record of the Later Cenozoic in the Far West”
April 16 - Greg Retallack (University of Oregon)
“Did Ediacaran fossils live on land?”
April 23 - Alan Kaufman (University of Maryland, College Park)
“Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran-aged Doushantuo Formation of South China”
April 30 - Mark Richards (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: TBA
May 7 - Bruce Runnegar (University of California, Los Angeles)
Title: TBA
May 14 - J.W. (“Bill') Schopf (University of California, Los Angeles)
“The Earliest History of Life: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma.”
May 21 - Shuai Xiao (Virginia Technical University, Blacksburg)
“The early evolution of animals and oxygen: a perspective from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation”
May 28 - Josh Roering (University of Oregon)
“Fits and Starts in the Land of Steady”
June 4 - Qusheng Jin (University of Oregon)
“Cracking the complexity of biogeochemical modeling”