paleonet Paleo Soc Short Course at GSA, Nov. 6, 2004, Denver.

["Jere H. Lipps" <jlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2004 SHORT COURSE, DENVER, COLORADO, NOVEMBER 6

 

"Biological Revolutions in the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian"

The Paleontological Society's Annual Short Course will be offered on Nov.
6 in Denver, CO, just preceding the Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting in the Denver Convention Center.  Information on the GSA
Annual Meeting can be obtained at
www.geosociety.org.  The
Annual Meeting will be attended by 4000-5000 geologists.  The
meeting will be replete with 424 paleontological papers, paleontologists
constituting the single largest group of specialists at the
meeting.  

 

The Paleontological Societys 2004 Short Course "Biological
Revolutions in the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian" organized by
Jere H. Lipps (University of California, Berkeley) and Ben Waggoner
(University of Central Arkansas) will precede the GSA Annual
Meeting   (see
http://www.paleosoc.org/). 
The Short Course will last all day on November 6, 2004, in the Denver
Convention Center.  Just show up, itis free.  There will be a
book of the papers presented to go with the course.  A price has not
yet been established but it will probably around $20 to $25.  The
book will be published in November as a Paleontological Society Papers,
and will be announced on the Paleontological Societys web site
(http://econtent-01.its.yale.edu/paleo/papers.html).

Speakers and Topics

Jere H. Lipps:  Problems in Neoproterozoic and Cambrian
paleobiology:  Introduction to the Short Course

Russell Shapiro:  Microbialites

Susannah Porter:  Protists

Frank Corsetti:  Isotopes

Jim Valentine and Jere Lipps:  Evolution of Neoproterozoic
animals and the Cambrian radiation

Stefan Bengston:  Small Shelly Fossils

Bruce Lieberman and J. G. Meert:  Biogeography: Its utility
for understanding and the nature and timing of the Cambrian
radiation

Ed Landing and Stephen R. Westrop:  Environmental patterns in
the origin and diversification loci of Early Cambrian skeletalized
Metazoa:  Evidence from the Avalon microcontinent

Steve Rowland and Milissa Hicks:  The Early Cambrian
experiment in reef building byMetazoans.