UT Paleontology Seminar Series
All are welcome to attend the Subsurface, Surface & Life program’s weekly seminars on Paleontology.
These talks are on Thursdays at 11am CST. While normally held on campus, please acquire and use a Zoom account during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UT Paleontology seminars for 2020-2021 is managed by John Moretti and includes:
| Date | Speaker/Affiliation | Field/Title | Location |
| Feb. 11 |
Brown University, University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
Diversity in Vegetation and Fire Responses after Pleistocene Megaherbivore Extinction Across the Eastern US. | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Feb. 25 |
Matthew A. Brown
Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections, JSG
|
The early history of vertebrate paleontology in Texas (1850s-1940). | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Mar. 4 | Jasmine Nelson
Jackson School of Geosciences (Clarke Lab) |
Phylogenetic Proxies for Hearing in Extinct Reptiles. | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Mar. 11 | Dr. Pamela R. Owen
Texas Memorial Museum |
The role of paleontology for informal science programs and public outreach, Capromeryx, Slaughter Creek site | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Mar. 18 | SPRING BREAK | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) | |
| Mar. 25 | Sinjini Sinha
Jackson School of Geosciences (Martindale Lab) |
Early Jurassic Exceptional Preservation and Extinctions. | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Apr. 1 | Simon Scarpetta
Jackson School of Geosciences (Bell Lab) |
PhD Talk:Â Miocene Modernization of the North American Lizard Fauna. | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Apr. 8 | Katelyn McDonough
Texas A&M University |
Human Paleoecology in the High Desert: 12,000 Years of People-Plant Dynamics in Oregon. | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Apr. 15 | Sarah N. Davis
Jackson School of Geosciences (Clarke Lab) |
Estimating the Distribution of Carotenoid Coloration in Skin and Integumentary Structures of Birds and Extinct Dinosaurs. | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Apr. 22 | Oona Takano
University of New Mexico |
Late Pleistocene birds, Raptor evolution in North America, Fossil bird communities | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| Apr. 29 | Dr. Daniel Stockli
Jackson School of Geosciences (UTChron) |
Direct Dating of Fossils by Calcite U-Pb Geochronology and the Impact on Chronostratigraphy. | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |
| May 6 | Dr. Melissa Kemp
Integrative Biology |
Conservation paleobiology, Evolutionary ecology, Island biogeography, Ancient DNA | Zoom (contact jamoretti@utexas.edu) |