News
March 22, 2023: Kang et al., "Nitrate limitation in early Neoproterozoic oceans delayed the ecological rise of eukaryotes", published in "Science Advances", press release.
January 1, 2023: Scott Evans started a faculty position at Florida State University.
November 7, 2022: Evans et al., "Environmental drivers of the first major animal extinction across the Ediacaran White Sea-Nama transition", published in PNAS, press release.
August 19, 2022: Morrison successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Nolan!
January 28, 2021: Gan et al., "Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period" published in "Nature Communications". press release.
January 21, 2021: Shuhai was presented the NAS Award in the Evolution of Earth and Life - Mary Clark Thompson Medal.
February 24, 2020: Tang et al., "A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte", published in "Nature Ecology & Evolution". pdf is here. Virginia Tech news release is here.
January 23, 2020: Okubo et al., "Hydrothermal influence on barite precipitates in the basal Ediacaran Sete Lagoas cap dolostone, São Francisco Craton, central Brazil", published in "Precambrian Research". pdf is here.
December 24, 2019: Wang et al., "Wide but not ubiquitous distribution of glendonite in the Doushantuo Formation, South China: Implications for Ediacaran climate", published in "Precambrian Research".
November 26, 2019: Shuhai Xiao elected as a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
September 19, 2019: Shuhai Xiao named a Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellow.
September 22, 2019: Xiao et al., "Surfing in and on microbial mats: Oxygen-related behavior of a terminal Ediacaran bilaterian animal", published in "Geology".
September 4, 2019: Chen et al., "Death march of a segmented and trilobate bilaterian elucidates early animal evolution", published in "Nature".
August 19, 2019: Gilbert et al., "Biomineralization by particle attachment in early animals", published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA".
July 30, 2019: Zhang et al., "Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara biota", published in "Geobiology".
July 26, 2019: Tang et al., "Spiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals", published in "Nature Communications".
July 16, 2019: Dana Korneisel successfully defended her M.S. thesis "Are ‘exceptionally’ preserved skeletal fossils necessarily exceptional chemically and cytologically?" Congratulations to Dana!
June 17, 2019: Cui et al., "Sedimentological and chemostratigraphic investigations of the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Gaojiashan, South China", published in "Geological Magazine".
May 11, 2019: Julia Arrouy et al., "A new record of late Ediacaran acritarchs from La providencia group (Tandilia System, Argentina) and its biostratigraphical significance", published in "Journal of South American Earth Sciences".
May 6, 2019: Tang et al., "A problematic animal fossil from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation, South China", published in "Journal of Paleontology".
March 2, 2019: Cai et al., "Calibrating the terminations of Cryogenian global glaciations", published in "Geology".
Feb 11, 2019: Zhou et al., "Calibrating the terminations of Cryogenian global glaciations", published in "Geology". See news article here in Science.
Jan 28, 2019: Wan et al., "Repositioning the Great Unconformity at the southeastern margin of the North China Craton", published in "Precambrian Research".
Jan 17, 2019: Ye et al., "A systematic description of new macrofossil material from the upper Ediacaran Miaohe Member in South China", published in "Journal of Systematic Palaeontology", pdf is available here.
Jan 12, 2019: Ye et al., "Detrital graphite particles in the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation of South China: Implications for sedimentary provenance and tectonic history", published in "Precambrian Research", pdf is available here.
Jan 8, 2019: Junyao Kang joined VT Geobiology as a PhD student. Junyao graduated from Peking University in 2018 with a BS degree in Geology. Welcome to Blacksburg, Junyao.
Dec 14, 2018: Qing Tang was conferred a PhD degree in Geosciences from Virginia Tech. Congratulations, Dr. Tang!