Sentences with word «paleoecology»

Szpak P, Gröcke DR, Debruyne R, MacPhee RDE, Guthrie RD, Froese D, Zazula GD, Patterson WP, Poinar HN (2010) Regional differences in bone collagen ∂ 13C and ∂ 15N of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe.
For those five summers he taught a six - week field and lab - based course in marine paleoecology at Bodega Marine Laboratory in northern California — a course that drew students from all over the world.
► The Illinois State Museum, which houses research projects like the Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community, «may be forced to close,» becoming «the innocent victim of a budget fight between the state's new Republican governor and the Democratic legislators who control the General Assembly,» Laura Olivieri reported in a Monday ScienceInsider.
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community — which takes its name from one of nature's premier accumulators, the pack rat — is one of many research projects based at the Springfield - based museum, which houses extensive collections showcasing the natural, cultural, and artistic history of the state.
Tom has a B. S. in Zooarchaeology from the University of Florida and an M.S. in Quaternary paleoecology from the University of Maine.
«When I look at my research, I think first of how students can connect to it,» says Wilson, who has published on evolutionary paleoecology in leading journals.
Late Quaternary paleoecology and paleoclimatology of the Ross Sea: The diatom record.
We know how fast natural systems can change from paleoecology work — because they either moved along with the climate or they died out if the rate of change was too fast.
Jacquelyn Gill researches paleoecology and plant ecology — in other words, she studies the history of the global climate over millions of years — at the University of Maine.
The relevance of crocodiles to Olduwan hominin paleoecology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
«We have spent more than 30 years working in this site and are only now becoming aware of its scientific importance for understanding the first European migratory wave,» says lead author Eudald Carbonell of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Tarragona.
Weissbrod's research involves analysis of microvertebrate remains from a wide range of prehistoric and historic sites in Israel and the Caucasus dealing with paleoecology and human - ecosystem interactions.
Late Quaternary sedimentology and benthic foraminiferal paleoecology of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
Ben Novak completes his masters thesis, synthesizing the results of population genetics, dietary ecology, and forest paleoecology.
His complex works often deal with subjects that comprehend time in a precise and sometimes extravagant manner: mineral exploitation and island geopolitics, climate science and neo-imperialism, theories of economy as much as paleoecology.
This field guide focuses on the glacial geology and paleoecology beginning in the Paradise Valley and progressing southward into northern Yellowstone National Park.
Photo courtesy of the Montana State University Paleoecology Lab.
The text focuses on understanding the impacts of human - induced climate change, but draws on multiple lines of evidence, including paleoecology, modeling, and current observation.
I came across the ultimate Arctic paleoecology time - saver yesterday, a very readable 2012 review of Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg fossils by Eberle with free full text.
Peteet, D.M., D.C. Pederson, D. Kurdyla, and T. Guilderson, 2007: Hudson River paleoecology from marshes: Environmental change and its implications for fisheries.
Paleoecology of Early Pennsylvanian vegetation on a seasonally dry tropical landscape (Tynemouth Creek Formation, New Brunswick, Canada).
Dr. Xiaoming Wang, Curator and Head of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Dr. Denise Su, Curator & Head of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have published a paper with colleagues in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology on the discovery of one of the largest otter species ever found.
Listings and search results from this page include data archived by the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology / NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and by the Neotoma Paleoecology Database.
The discovery of a wetter climate a mere few thousand years ago represents «a classic surprise in paleoecology,» says paleoecologist Sara Hotchkiss of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
While finishing his undergraduate education, he put his near - professional photographic skills to work chronicling a paleoecology project conducted by a University of Maine researcher on the island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles, with funding from the National Geographic Society.
Engelman; along with Federico Anaya, professor of geological engineering at Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías, in Potosí, Bolivia; and Darin Croft, anatomy professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, describe the animals, where they fit in the family, and their paleoecology and paleobiology in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
As a graduate student in paleobiology at UC Davis, Farmer had developed an interest in studying the paleoecology and preservation potential of fossils, something that would lie largely dormant over the next decade while he tried his hand at other things.
Titled «Origin, Paleoecology and Extirpation of Bluebirds and Crossbills in the Bahamas Across the Last Glacial - Interglacial Transition,» the authors are Janet Franklin, distinguished professor of biogeography in UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and David Steadman, curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.
Surprisingly, only few additions to our knowledge of dodo anatomy, paleoecology and extinction have been made since Owen's 1866 seminal publication, a vast library of semi-popular works on the dodo notwithstanding.
Dr John Stewart, Associate Professor in Paleoecology and Environmental Change at Bournemouth University (BU), is part of a team which analysed data on rabbit bone remains, found in archaeological excavations of caves in the Iberian Peninsula.
Her research interests include paleoceanography, paleoclimate, paleoecology, micropaleontology, abrupt climate and oceanographic changes, long time series, Arctic, sub-Arctic and subtropical areas.
Research interests: Paleoanthropology; Plio - Pleistocene hominin evolution; evolution of the genus Homo; paleoecology; taphonomy; Africa.
Research interests: Paleoanthropology; paleoecology, environmental context of human evolution; early hominid habitat use; taphonomy; zooarchaeology; East Africa; Oldowan
She is recognized nationally and internationally for her scholarly contributions and leadership activities in the areas of paleoecology and paleoclimate.
This grittier side of paleoecology is important to consider, because these ancient animals lived in a landscape that had far more going on than just interactions between animals eating other things.
Anderung C, Danise S, Glover AG, Higgs ND, Jonsson L, Sabin R, Dahlgren TG (2014) A Swedish subfossil find of a bowhead whale from the late Pleistocene: shore displacement, paleoecology in south - west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (Balaena swedenborgii Liljeborg, 1867).
Work continues on the paleoecology of the Passenger Pigeon to re-evaluate historic hypotheses of the species» biology.
Project leader Ben Novak begins researching the historical ecology of the Passenger pigeon, starting with population genetics studying the paleoecology of eastern N. American forests.
Ben's educational pursuits have advanced Revive & Restore's passenger pigeon de-extinction work, earning a master's degree in Ecology & Evolution on «Deciphering the Ecological Impacts of the Passenger Pigeon: a synthesis of paleogenetics, paleoecology, morphology, and physiology».
Core faculty members advise students and conduct research in primate and human paleontology, evolutionary morphology, paleoecology, dental anthropology, molecular systematics, genetics, phylogeography, and primate behavior and life - history.
CUNY faculty advise students and conduct research in paleoanthropology, paleoprimatology, human and primate population genetics, primate behavior and nutritional ecology, hominin behavior and paleoecology, comparative and functional morphology, bioarchaeology, systematics, geometric morphometrics, forensic and skeletal biology, and conservation biology.
In your undergrad years study the following: genetics, ecology, molecular ecology, paleontology / paleoecology, bioinformatics — really delve into bioinformatics, molecular biology and cellular biology.
His areas of expertise are paleoceanography of surface and deep - ocean circulation using micropaleontological and geochemical tracers; planktonic foraminiferal ecology and paleoecology; and paleoclimatology from cave deposits.
These include: 1) finding and describing new fossils in Precambrian strata, 2) using analytical tools to examine those fossils in order to determine taxonomic affinity, taphonomy, functional morphology, and paleoecology, 3) using modern analogs to determine phylogenetic relationships and physiology of early eukaryotes and animals, and 4) combining multiple sources of data to create a timeline of biotic and abiotic events in the Precambrian.
Models of early hominin diets based on the diets of living primates — both human and non-human, paleoecology, and energetics.
paleoecology the branch of ecology concerned with identifying and interpreting the relationships of ancient plants and animals to their environment
An understanding of climate requires an amalgamation of astronomy, solar physics, geology, geochronology, geochemistry, sedimentology, plate tectonics, palaeontology, paleoecology, glaciology, climatology, meteorology, oceanography, ecology, archaeology and history.
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