Session: Innovative Approaches to Studying Organisms and Environments in Deep-Time (2014 SACNAS National Conference)

Friday, October 17, 2014: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM

LACC 303AB (Los Angeles Convention Center)

Chair:

Dena Smith, PhD, Executive Director, STEPPE-Geological Society of America

Description: The fossil record documents the ecological and evolutionary response of organisms to past environmental change and therefore is invaluable for understanding our modern world. Researchers present current findings and novel approaches, incorporating paleontology, sedimentology, geochemistry and evolutionary-developmental biology to study the past and communicate global change science to the public.

Sponsored by: STEPPE - Geological Society of America

10:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

10:20 AM

Implications of Carbon Cycle Changes to Terrestrial Paleoclimate in Deep Time
Marina Suarez, PhD , Assistant Professor , University of Texas at San Antonio

10:40 AM

Elements of Fossils: What the Geochemistry of Fossils Can Tell Us about the Past
Celina Suarez, PhD , Assistant Professor , University of Arkansas

11:00 AM

The influence of Cenozoic climate change on North American mammalian evolution and ecology
Jonathan Marcot, PhD , Research Assistant Professor , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:20 AM

Insights into macroevolutionary patterns from evolutionary developmental biology
Karen Sears, PhD , Assistant Professor , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:40 AM

The biotic impacts of global change from deep time to the Anthropocene: Understanding Global Change, a new web resource at the University of California Museum of Paleontology
Lisa White, PhD , Director of Education and Outreach , University of California, Berkeley

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