10:30 Welcome


10:40 Ronald E. MARTIN

Geology, University of Delaware
Plankton, Nutrient Availability, and Carbon Burial through Time:
Implications for the Fossil Record of Biodiversity


11:20 Peter DODSON

Earth & Environmental Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Counting Dinosaurs 2003


12:00 Ellis L. YOCHELSON

Paleontology, U.S. Geological Survey
A Strange Middle Proterozoic Fossil

12:40 LUNCH

1:40 Steve C. WANG

Statistics, Swarthmore College
Modeling Evolutionary Trends: Don’t Forget the Variance

2:20 William A. DiMICHELE & Dan C. CHANEY

Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History
Wetlands to Wetspots: the Fate and Significance of Wetland Elements in Permian Seasonally Dry Landscapes

3:00 COFFEE BREAK

3:20 Roberto IANNUZZI

Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Phytogeography and Plant Migration in the Late Paleozoic of South America

4:00

Hermann W. PFEFFERKORN, Earth & Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania

Jun WANG, Chinese Academy of Natural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Swamps and Volcanoes: Plant Taphonomy in the Early Permian of Inner Mongolia