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Recent news
Sep 2018: Several of our summer 2018 interns are featured in this #RacerInternships story.
Newsletters
Fall 2018 Newsltter -Download PDF here
Seminars-Spring 2019
Temporary location change-all seminars are in Blackburn, room 135 on Fridays at 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm (unless otherwise noted). For more information or to volunteer to present a future seminar, please contact Dr. Michelle Casey.
| Date | Topic | Guest Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2/1/19 | Why We Need Conservation Paleobiology: Just Ask Johnny Depp | Dr. Patricia Kelley, emeritus faculty from University of North Carolina Wilmington and Paleontological Society Distinguished Speaker |
| 2/15/19 | Conservation / Restoration of Kimball Creek | Dr. Howard Whiteman, Murray State University |
| 3/1/19 | Paleoindian Archaeology of the Carson-Conn-Short Site (40BN190): Late Pleistocene Adaptations in the Lower Tennessee Valley | Dr. Scott Jones, owner Midsouth Cultural Resource Consultants |
| 3/8/2019 | Geology, Exploration and Mining in the Kentucky-Illinois Fluorspar District | Dr. Donald Lumm, President-Elect, KY-AIPG |
| 3/29/19 | New frontiers in terrestrial paleoclimate proxy development | Dr. Bill Lukens, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Geosciences |
| 4/19/19 |
The evolution of a continent as revealed by seismic-wave attenuation |
Dr. Colleen Dalton, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University |
| 4/26/19 |
500 Million Years of Parasite-Host Interactions: Ecological and Evolutionary Lessons from Ugly Shells |
Dr. John Huntley, Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri |