Earth History and Paleobiology
Faculty and students apply a variety of geological, geobiological, and geochemical approaches in studying the Earth's past physical and biological history. Recent research projects include:
- stratigraphic correlation of hominid fossil sites in Kenya and Ethiopia;
- ichnology and paleoecology of Cretaceous marine systems;
- paleobiology of dinosaur populations;
- paleoecology of the Cretaceous Colorado Plateau.
Faculty: Brown, Ekdale, Roth, Irmis.
Cover article of Nature, by authors including our Dean F. Brown and graduate student P. Gathogo, on discovery of a new East African hominid.
Graduate student summer field trip to East Africa.
Cover article of Nature first-authored by Assoc. Prof. S. Sampson, on discovery of a new type of dinosaur in Madagascar.
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