Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Updates and Meeting this Week

I am woefully behind in updating this blog. Firstly, the group wants to congratulate Joanna Northover in successfully defending her Master's thesis and in being hired for a job at the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology. Good luck with everything Joanna!

Additionally, I am attempting to organize accomodations for this year's CSEE meeting in Banff, Alberta. Please contact me at dfraser1@connect.carleton.ca if you are attending and interested in sharing a chalet or something equivalent with Carleton students.

This week we are discussing the following paper:

Zanno, L.E. and P.J. Makovicky. 2011. Herbivorous ecomorphology and specialization patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution. PNAS 108:232-237.

I hope to see you all at Mike's Place this evening.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

First Meeting of the New Year

We have (pretty much) unanimously decided to move the meeting time to Wednesdays at 5:30 pm.

In the first week we will be discussing the following paper:

Benton, M.J. 2010. The origins of modern biodiversity on land. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2010 365: 3667-3679.

Given that the majority of our discussions have centered on terrestrial fossils, I thought this would be a good start.

I hope to see everyone there and I am looking forward to a new semester of interesting discussions.