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GSA2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T138. Fossil Specimens 0’s and 1’s: Databases, Standards & including areas of deep-time climate change and evolution.
Mobilization Emphasis on broader impacts will also be made.
Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; iDigBio; STEPPE; University T142. Past and Present Global Biotic Crises: From Microbes
of Colorado Museum of Natural History; Smithsonian National to Megafauna
Museum of Natural History; Paleontological Research Institution
Department of Paleobiology Cosponsor: Paleontological Society
Disciplines: Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy, Disciplines: Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination,
Geoinformatics, Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy, Geochemistry
Advocates: Talia S. Karim; Holly Little; Amanda Millhouse; Advocates: Elsbeth E. van Soelen; Richard J. Twitchett; Wolfram
Gil Nelson; Shelley James Michael Kürschner
This session will focus on innovations and best practices This session will explore biodiversity changes associated with
related to paleontology/geology digitization and data transcrip- major extinction events, including the present one. We welcome
tion efforts. Talks on databases, data management, standards, contributions addressing ecological changes in marine and terres-
schemas, and mobilization of research-quality data through trial ecosystems, including studies of macro- and micropaleon-
online aggregators are welcome. tology, palynology, and organic geochemistry.
GSA TODAY | MAY 2016 T139. High-Precision Geochronological Constraints on the T143. The Early Paleozoic World: Radiations, Extinctions, and
Geologic History of Dinosaur Evolution Paleoenvironmental Change
Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; SEPM (Society for Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research
Sedimentary Geology); GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, Institution
and Volcanology Division; Paleontological Research Institution
Disciplines: Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination,
Disciplines: Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy, Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Geochemistry
Stratigraphy, Geochemistry
Advocates: Matt Saltzman; Stephen Leslie; Erik A. Sperling
Advocates: Jahandar Ramezani; David E. Fastovsky
This session will examine the Early Paleozoic world: Radiations,
This will be an interdisciplinary session highlighting recent extinctions, and paleoenvironmental change.
advances in high-resolution geochronology (radioisotopes,
cyclostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy) applied to the T144. The Permian-Triassic Crisis and Its Aftermath: Biotic,
Mesozoic origin, radiation, and extinction of Dinosauria, the Climatic, and Environmental Upheavals
temporal calibration of its fragmented fossil record, and their
evolutionary implications. Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research
Institution
T140. Evolution, Development, and Paleogenomics
Disciplines: Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination,
Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Geochemistry
Institution
Advocates: Hugo Bucher; Thomas J. Algeo; Peter Roopnarine
Disciplines: Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination,
Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns This multidisciplinary session aims at a better understanding of
the nature of environmental perturbations and of the evolutionary
Advocates: David J. Bottjer; Jeffrey R. Thompson responses of repeatedly and profoundly disturbed ecosystems
during the Permian-Triassic transition.
This session will address recent advances in the integration of
developmental, genomic, and paleontological approaches to T145. Volcanism, Mass Extinctions, and Environmental Change
address evolutionary questions. Topics will include interdisci-
plinary projects combining paleontology with molecular biology, Cosponsors: GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and
development, and genomics. Volcanology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM
(Society for Sedimentary Geology); Paleontological Society;
T141. How to Talk Science: Effective Communication Strategies Paleontological Research Institution
for the Sedimentary Crust
Disciplines: Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination,
Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; SEPM (Society for Stratigraphy, Volcanology
Sedimentary Geology); STEPPE; GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA
Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Geology and Society Division Advocates: Thierry Adatte; Stephen E. Grasby; Gerta Keller; Blair
Schoene
Disciplines: Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination,
Sediments, Clastic, Limnogeology Important new data and observations increasingly link four of
the five major mass extinctions directly to LIPs, as well as PETM
Advocates: Lisa E. Park Boush; Phoebe Cohen; Danielle Serratos and OAEs, particularly based on the fields of paleontology, stra-
tigraphy, geochronology, geochemistry, climate, sedimentology,
This session focuses on best practices and applications for mineralogy, and volcanology.
communicating science related to Earth’s sedimentary crust,
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