10:25 Welcome: Hermann Pfefferkorn and Scott Wing


10:30 Arthur H. JOHNSON, Earth & Environmental Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Above-Ground Net Primary Production of Tertiary Forests
of the Canadian Arctic and its relevance to Methane Emissions

11:00 Scott L. WING, Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution
Plant Diversity through Time at the Local Scale - all Boredom, no Terror

11:30 Gene HUNT, Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution
Pace and Directionality in Phyletic Evolution

12:00 Rachel Ann MERZ, Biology, Swarthmore College
Functional Morphology, Molecular Phylogeny and the Evolution of
Segmented Worms: Fossils to the Rescue?

LUNCH at 12:30 pm

1:30 Steve C. WANG, Statistics, Swarthmore College
Modeling Terrestrial Food Web Collapse in the End-Permian Extinction

2:00 Emily G. ALLEN, Geology, Bryn Mawr College
Extinction Selectivity and the Evolution of Paleozoic Ammonoid Suture Morphology

2:30 Brian T. HUBER, Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution
Paleoceanographic Controls on Formation of mid-Cretaceous “Black Shales”:
Productivity Driven or a Preservational Artifact?

COFFEE BREAK at 3:00 pm

3:30 Marguerite A. TOSCANO, Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution
Reconstructing Holocene Sea-level Changes from the Coral Reef and
Mangrove Records of the Wider Caribbean

4:00 Ian G. MACINTYRE, Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution
Lithified and Unlithified Mg-Calcite Precipitates in Tropical Reef
Environments: Possible Analogs in the Fossil Record

4:30 Sigitas PODENAS, Zoology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
and Research Associate, Entomology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Crane Flies (Diptera, Tipuloidea) from Baltic Amber (Eocene)

5:00 Ted DAESCHLER, Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
A New Sarcopterygian at the Fish-Tetrapod Transition