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March 2, 2015
Birds are dinosaurs. That’s a fact underscored by dozens upon dozens of discoveries in the last 30 years. Free of the historic blinders that cast dinosaurs as monstrous...
February 3, 2015
The proposal, ”Origin of the modern avian locomotor system across a neglected evolutionary interval: insights from new methods and new fossils”, was recommended for funding...
January 21, 2015
Yale-led research may have solved one of the biggest mysteries in geology — namely, why do tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface, which normally shift over the course...
January 13, 2015
The title of Johanna’s presentation was “Modeling trace element concentrations in the San Francisco Bay Estuary from remote measurement of suspended solids”.  The AGU...
January 7, 2015
5 Things About Me: Micropaleontologist/Paleoceanographer Ellen Thomas   Ellen Thomas, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist Department of Geology & Geophysics Yale University...
December 3, 2014
“Freezing! Snowball Earth Events: Biologically Induced Initiation and Ocean Circulation”  December 3, 2014, 4:00 p.m, KGL 123 “Hot! Eocene Climate and Arctic Cloud Feedback;...
December 1, 2014
At the Evolution 2014 conference, Yale graduate student Daniel Field was awarded the W.D. Hamilton Award for his research elucidating the origins of bird flight. Field’s work...