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North American Paleontological Convention Information:

The 9th North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) was held on the campus of the University of Cincinnati, June 21-26, 2009. The centrally-located Cincinnati region is world renowned for its Upper Ordovician fossils and strata, and has a long-established heritage of paleontological research and teaching. Full details can be found at the meeting website: http://www.napc2009.org/.

Teaching Paleontology in the 21st Century Information:

Teaching Paleontology in the 21st Century - July 30 - Aug 3, 2009; Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institution. An exciting collaborative effort focused on enhancing the teaching of paleontology at the undergraduate level. This workshop brought together college and university faculty who teach paleontology to explore a wide variety of topics related to teaching paleontology effectively both in paleontology courses and as parts of other courses taught in the geoscience curriculum.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/paleo/workshop09/index.html

THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY

PS Annual Meeting, October 5-9, 2008, at the GSA annual meeting in Houston, Texas.

Centennial Celebration
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2008: PS Centennial Short Course

Houston, Texas, annual meeting of GSA, October 5-9, 2008. Short course coordinated by Tricia Kelley, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, (910) 962-7406. For more information, contact Tricia Kelley at kelleyp@uncw.edu

PDF Versions of Short Courses Available

Comparative Paleoecology of Fossils and Fossil Assemblages by Andrew M. Bush
Evolutionary Patterns in Fossil Lineages by Gene Hunt
Beyond the “Big Five”
Extinctions as Experiments in the History of Life by Rowan Lockwood
Tracking Species in Space and Time:
Assessing the relationships between paleobiogeography, paleoecology, and macroevolution by Alycia L. Stigall
Geobiological Events in the Ediacaran Period by Shuhai Xiao

PS Annual Meeting, October 28-31, 2007, at the GSA annual meeting, in Denver, Colorado

Please see the special GSA Meeting issue of Priscum.

round fossil with hexagonal tiles from an article by Stephen J. Gould

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At the top of this page - amber and Trilobite photos courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; skull and leaf photos courtesy of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado.