Monthly Meetings

November Speaker 

   Our November DVPS Meeting will be held Sunday, November 8th at 3 PM in person at the Edelman Fossil Museum, 66 Million Mosasaur Way, Sewell, NJ.  It will also be shown via Google Meet.  Information to access the Google Meet link for this meeting will be provided by email a day or two in advance. 

Our speaker will be Dr. Jonathan Wilson.  Dr. Wilson is a paleobotanist and the Edward Drinker Cope Professor of Environmental Biology at Haverford College. His research is focused on the evolution of land plants and understanding plant-environmental interactions in Earth history, including the evolution of forests, impact of past climate change, and major mass extinctions. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Earth and Planetary Science from Johns Hopkins University, completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech before arriving at Haverford. His field work and teaching has taken him around the world, from Colorado to Trinidad and Tobago to China, and he is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the Paleontological Society.

The title of his talk will be “Plants: the next paleobiological revolution”.

Over the last six decades, paleobiologists have transformed our understanding of invertebrate and vertebrate biodiversity and how these extinct organisms functioned, from marine ecosystem engineers to feathered dinosaurs. Today, new approaches integrating mathematical models and ecophysiological insights are transforming our understanding of how plants have shaped and responded to Earth system processes, including in deep time. Investigating the rich record of plant anatomy in the fossil record sheds light on plant evolutionary history and is transforming our understanding of how terrestrial ecosystems responded to, and shaped, the Earth over the last 400 million years.

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