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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...
October 31, 2014
Geologists are letting the air out of a nagging mystery about the development of animal life on Earth. Scientists have long speculated as to why animal species didn’t...
October 10, 2014
The Task Force is chaired by Sterling Professor of Economics, William Nordhaus.  Robin was appointed through the the Graduate Student Assembly while the other two student...
October 2, 2014
Eurypterids, or sea scorpions, immediately caught paleontologist Richard Laub’s attention when he became a curator at the Buffalo Museum of Science in 1973. Browsing the...
October 1, 2014
Daniel Field (Geology and Geophysics) is “passionate about the evolution of vertebrate animals” and spends much of his time photographing wildlife and collecting fossils....
September 17, 2014
Dave has been asked to deliver a prestigious talk at the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco, December 2014.  Dave, who plans to speak about the origins of plate tectonics,...