10:30 Welcome


10:40 Steffen KIEL, Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History
Origin of the Deep-Sea Vent Faunas: Fossils, Larval Development, and the Role of Bottom Water Temperature


11:20 Steve C. WANG, Statistics, Swarthmore College
Estimating Absolute Diversity: How many Dinosaur Genera were there?

12:00 Stephen R. MADIGOSKY, Environmental Science, Widener University
Phenology of Tropical Emergent Trees located at the Amazon Conservatory
of Tropical Studies (ACTS), Iquitos, Peru

12:40 LUNCH

1:40 Jason J. HEAD, Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History
Quantitative Approaches to the Evolution of Snakes


2:20 Matthew CARRANO, Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History
Magungatholus, Masiakasaurus and the evolution of abelisaurs

3:00 COFFEE BREAK

3:20 Eduardo LEORRI, Geology, University of Delaware
Environmental Transformation and Regeneration of the Bilbao Estuary, N. Spain:
Microfaunal and Geochemical Proxies

4:00 Suzanna RICHTER, Earth & Environmental Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Limitations of Wood-Cellulose delta 18O as an Indicator of Climate on Millennial Time Scales

4:40 Hermann W. PFEFFERKORN, Earth & Environmental Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania
& David HEWITT, Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University
Paleobiogeography of Carboniferous Floras from Rhode Island: American versus European Affinities