Re: paleonet Geobiology

[apparent elk <kaplanp@xxxxxxxxx>]

These days, geology departments seem to be advertising for "geobiologists"
as a shorthand for either
	 (1) "paleontologists"
or
	 (2) "interdisciplinary folks interested in the biological
		mediation of geological processes (and sometimes vice versa)"

But usually the position is aimed at just one of these groups, not both.

As for Blackwell's journal, I have to assume that the latter connotation
(i.e., Earth systems processes) will be the journal's focus.


So, as a point of general discussion: Is it useful/beneficial for
paleontologists to identify as geobiologists in a time when this
growing subdiscipline's focus (if it can be said to have one) is
diverging from mainstream paleontology?


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