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Research Spotlight
Professor Sue Kidwell uses the fossil record from the last thousand years to understand changes in biological baselines due to human populations.
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Stewart Edie is a paleobiologist who wants to understand why some groups of organisms are more diverse that others, and how extinction prunes the tree of life.
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Graham Slater is a paleobiologist who uses phylogenetic trees and statistical models to ask questions about the evolution of morphological diversity.
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TC Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellowship Announced
September 22, 2019
Applications are now being accepted for the Department of Geophysical Science's TC Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellowship. Click the link above for more information!
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Open Faculty Positions Announced
September 22, 2019
The Department of Geophysical Sciences is pleased to invite applications for open faculty positions. Please click the link above for more information!
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Heck makes the New York Times!
September 20, 2019
Associate Prof. Phillip Heck of the Field Museum was just interviewed by the New York Times and UChicago News! He coauthored a recent paper in Science Advances deriving an extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordivician ice age by analyzing fossil meteorites. Congratulations, Prof. Heck!
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Sue Kidwell awarded Wilbur Cross
September 20, 2019
Prof. Susan Kidwell has been awarded the 2019 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement by Yale University, honoring her exceptional contributions to the field. She was one of four scholars awarded the medal this year, featured in a Yale News article. Congratulations, Prof. Kidwell!