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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...
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...