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Think Evolution IV: A summer institute for science educators
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| Aug 28: |
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FC: Charles Marshall, UCMP Director and Professor, Integrative Biology
"What (and who) is new in UCMP"
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| Sep 04: |
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FC: Seth Finnegan, new UCMP Curator and Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology
"Climate change and extinction in the Paleozoic (and beyond?)"
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| Sep 05: |
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EBSC: John Dueber, Assistant Professor, Engineering
"Using synthetic biology to build microbial factories producing biofuels"
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| Sep 11: |
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FC: Lisa White, UCMP's new Assistant Director of Education and Public Programs
"From west coast Neogene ocean and climate change to the recruiting of minorities to sciences"
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| Sep 18: |
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FC: Jon Payne, Stanford University
"Using Lazarus taxa to quantify the completeness of the fossil record"
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| Sep 25: |
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FC: Natalia Villavicencio, UCMP grad student
"Rat middens, vegetation and climate change in the southern Atacama Desert during the last 50,000 years"
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| Oct 02: |
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FC: Dula Parkinson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Paleobiological uses of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Advanced Light Source"
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| Oct 03: |
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EBSC: Michelle Koo Biodiversity Informatics & GIS Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ)
"The big data revolution in natural history museums"
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| Oct 09: |
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FC: Andy Rominger, Environmental Science, Policy & Management
"Clades as thermodynamic units: Using principles from econophysics to predict Phanerozoic diversity dynamics"
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| Oct 23: |
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FC: Rob Asher, Cambridge
"Better late than never: Dental ontogeny in afrotherians and other mammals"
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| Oct 30: |
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FC: Tom van Hoof, University of Utrecht
"Applying palaeoecological and sedimentological techniques to evaluate and compare basin development in Carboniferous coal fields"
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| Nov 06: |
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FC: Pat Holroyd, UCMP Museum Scientist
"UCMP's secret archives and our effort to catalogue them"
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| Nov 07: |
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EBSC: Todd Dawson, Professor, Integrative Biology and Environmental Science, Policy & Management
"Out of the mist and into the mayhem: The biology of redwoods in the changing world"
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| Nov 13: |
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FC: Jenna Judge, UCMP grad student
"A 3D investigation of the morphology of lepetellid limpets (Lepetella sierrai): hypotheses on feeding ecology and symbiosis"
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| Nov 20: |
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FC: Susumu Tomiya, new UCMP Ph.D.
"North American Cenozoic mammalian carnivore community dynamics"
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| Nov 27: |
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FC: Jim Valentine, UCMP Curator and Professor Emeritus, Integrative Biology
"Implications of modern ocean circulation patterns to major biogeographic patterns, and their implications for the fossil record"
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| Dec 05: |
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EBSC: Mark Laidre, Miller Fellow, Integrative Biology
"The co-evolution of communication and cooperation" |
