Paleonet: Call for Papers: April 2007 meeting in Lawrence, Kansas
Alycia L Stigall
stigall at ohio.edu
Mon Jan 1 16:11:16 UTC 2007
Dear PaleoNet Member, (please excuse cross postings)
This spring, the North Central and South Central sections of the Geological
Society of America are meeting jointly for their sectional meetings in
Lawrence, Kansas April 11 to 13, 2007. A number of excellent
paleontological symposia, theme sessions, field trips, and a short course
have been proposed. Session descriptions of the sessions are listed below.
There are a wide range of topics proposed, and this promises to be an
excellent meeting for paleontologists. I hope that you and/or your
students will submit an abstract and join us this spring for a great
paleontology meeting in the classic Paleozoic rocks of the North American
Midcontinent.
THE ABSTRACT DEADLINE IS JANUARY 23, 2007. Further information about the
meeting and abstract submission are available on the conference website at:
<http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/Northc/07nc-scmtg.htm>. Please contact
me if I can be of any assistance.
I hope to see you in Lawrence!
Best wishes,
Alycia Stigall
2006-2007 North-Central Session Chair for the Paleontological Society
SYMPOSIA
1. Roger L. Kaesler Scientist and Editor: His contributions to
paleontology through research and the Treatise on Invertebrate
Paleontology, Jessica Cundiff (Harvard) and Bruce S. Lieberman (Univ.
Kansas). Roger Kaesler has had a long and illustrious career as a
paleontologist at the University of Kansas; he recently announced his
retirement after more than 40 years of work there. This symposium will
focus on his paleontological studies, which spanned the Phanerozoic and
focused on evolutionary and ecological patterns in ostracods. In
particular, he was among the pioneers in the use of morphometrics and
multivariate statistics to study fossils, and he also used geochemical
techniques. His contributions to paleontology as an editor of the Treatise
on Invertebrate Paleontology are extremely important (for these he recently
received GSA's Distinguished Service Medal) and will also be the subject of
this symposium.
2. Mixed-Up Conodonts: Extracting Useful Information and Solving Geologic
Puzzles Using Stratigraphic Leaks and Redeposited Faunas, James Miller
(Missouri State University) and Stephen Leslie (Univ.of Arkansas at Little
Rock), also sponsored by the Pander Society. The session theme will stress
the special geological information that can be extracted from conodonts
that were deposited, eroded, and redeposited into younger strata. Examples
could be from strata above unconformities, karst deposits, turbidites and
debris-slides, and deposits associated with impact structures. However,
papers dealing with any topic related to conodont research are welcome.
THEME SESSIONS
1. Fossils and Modern Analogs: Using Modern Organisms to Improve
Paleontological Interpretations, Daniel I. Hembree (Ohio Univ.), Brian F.
Platt (Univ. Kansas), Jon J. Smith (Univ. Kansas). The study of modern
organisms is invaluable to the understanding of ancient life and
ecosystems. Modern analog studies allow paleontologists to assess a range
of questions from the behavioral and environmental significance of
ichnofossils to the locomotion styles of vertebrates. This session will
cover a broad range of experimental research of modern organisms and their
application to paleontologic problems. Topics include organism-substrate
interactions, taphonomy, morphology, organism behavior, functional
morphology, biomechanics, and kinematics.
2. Paleontologic Deviates: Taphonomy versus Pathology, Bruce Rothschild
(NE Ohio Univ. College of Medicine) and Larry D. Martin (Univ. Kansas). The
characteristics we utilize to distinguish species must be interpreted in
light of normal variation, taphonomic influences and pathologic
alterations. Some pathologies may even represent species 'identifiers,'
given their selective high frequency. This program addresses
fossilization, invertebrate and vertebrate paleopathology and taphonomic
processes.
3. Sequence Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian
Cyclothems in the North American Midcontinent, Gregory P. Wahlman (BP) and
Philip H. Heckel (Univ. Iowa). This session will present recent
developments and advances in sequence stratigraphic and biostratigraphic
analyses of the classic Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian cyclothems of the North
American midcontinent. It will further provide the opportunity to integrate
the new information into a more comprehensive picture of the stratigraphic
history and correlation of the cyclothems, and to observe and compare the
effects of high frequency sealevel fluctuations on the evolution and
distribution of various fossil groups.
4. Systematic Paleontology in the 21st century: Analyzing evolution,
diversity, and beyond, Alycia L. Stigall (Ohio Univ.) Specimen-based
research provides the framework for theoretical advances in paleontology.
This session will emphasize modern uses of specimen-based data for
analyzing evolutionary patterns in the history of life including
phylogenetics, morphometrics, biogeography and diversity studies.
5. Traces of Life: Micro- to Macroscopic Evidence of Past and Present
Biogenic Activity and their Implications for Marine and Continental
Settings, Stephen T. Hasiotis, Jennifer A. Roberts, and David Fowle (Univ.
Kansas) Ichnofossils preserve a range of behaviors produced by organisms
from microbes to plants and animals (including humans), resulting in
borings, stromatolites, root patterns, tracks and trails, burrows, and
nests in continental and marine deposits. These vestiges preserve evidence
for biotic occurrences that otherwise are not represented by body fossils
for those rocks or period of time. The ichnofossils also provide insights
into the nature of organism-media interactions and processes in the
physicochemical environment in which they were generated. We look for
submissions that use microbial to human behavioral data to address
questions pertaining to biodiversity, taphonomy, environment, soil
formation, ecology, hydrology, and climate in the geologic record.
6. Strategies for Success in Bridging the Gap between Culture, Religion,
and Science in the Geoscience Classroom, Sadredin C. Moosavi (Walden Univ.)
and Elizabeth Heise (Univ. Texas, Brownsville).
7. The Legacy of Raymond Cecil Moore (1892-1974): The 20th Century's
Paleontologist-Stratigrapher Laureate, Daniel F. Merriam and Paul Enos
(Univ. Kansas).
FIELD TRIPS
1. Sequence Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, and Chronostratigraphy of the
Virgilian Stage, northern Midcontinent. April 9-10, Darwin Boardman
(Oklahoma State Univ.) In addition to the sequence stratigraphic analysis
of the Virgilian Stage, this field trip will examine the
Missourian-Virgilian boundary and it relationship with the global
Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary based on conodonts, fusulinids, and
ammonoids. Additionally, the field trip will focus on the often proposed
need for further subdivision of the Gzhelian to include an upper
Bursumian (Orenburgian). The field trip will start on April 8 in
Lawrence, Kansas and end up in Lawrence on April 11.
2. The Weaubleau and Decaturville Impact Structures in West-Central
Missouri: Sorting Out Their Ages Using Redeposited Conodonts and Crinoids
in Breccias, April 13-14, James Miller and Kevin Evans (Missouri State
Univ.), also sponsored by the Pander Society. Visit undisturbed Lower
Ordovician and Mississippian deposits near Osceola and Humansville,
megabreccias and marine resurge breccias associated with the Weaubleau
Impact Structure, and fallback breccias associated with the Decaturville
Impact Structure. Trip emphasizes conodonts and other fossils found in
impact-related breccias and age of impacts.
SHORT COURSE
Recognizing Continental Trace Fossils in Outcrop and Core, April 14,
Stephen T. Hasiotis (Univ. Kansas) also sponsored by SEPM. We discuss
fundamental concepts of continental ichnology by examining lifecycles of
organisms in modern depositional systems. We discuss shortcomings in the
current philosophy of ichnology, andelaborate on differences between
continental and marine organisms and resultant traces. Examples of modern
and ancient trace-making organisms and their traces will be used to
illustrate how the controls on behavior and distribution of continental
organisms can be applied to define continental environments. An
ichnological framework for continental systems is presented that is based
on analogy to specific environmental controls operating in modern
terrestrial and freshwater environments. Modern and ancient trace fossils
in hand samples and rock-sectioned specimens will be used to facilitate
learning.
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Alycia L. Stigall
Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Ohio University
316 Clippinger Laboratories
Athens, Ohio 45701
(740) 593-0393
stigall at ohio.edu
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~stigall/
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