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The Living Story of Sulawesi
Submitted by admin on June 17, 2008 - 12:14pm.Date Posted:
Jun 17 2008
Title of News:
The Living Story of Sulawesi
Summary:
The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is a 12,000-square-mile jigsaw puzzle. During the past 25 million years, drifting tectonic plates tore four separate paleo-islands from the far corners of the South Pacific and smashed them together in a steamy corner of Southeast Asia.
This turbulent history has turned Sulawesi into a complex biological cipher. Today, it houses a mélange of species with confusing origins: some may have been passengers on the original islands, some may have arrived afterward, and some may have evolved from the mix.
Jim McGuire, curator of herpetology at Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and a professor of integrative biology, is studying how these species evolved and came to be distributed on Sulawesi today.
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http://sciencematters.berkeley.edu/archives/volume5/issue37/story3.php
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Berkeley Geochronology Center
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:13pm.Name of Research Center:
Berkeley Geochronology Center
Description:
The Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC) is a non-profit scientific research institution dedicated to establishing the history of the Earth, its various inhabitants, and its interactions with the rest of our Solar System, throughout the 4.6 billion years of our Planet's existence. Using the most advanced technology available, BGC scientists determine the ages of rocks and other materials to date important events in geological and biological history. Through understanding such information in geologic context, BGC research provides key insights into such processes as continental drift, volcanism, mountain building, mass extinctions, climate change, and the evolution of humankind itself.
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Stratigraphy and Earth History
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 12:48pm.Department:
EPS
Course Number:
115
Course Title:
Stratigraphy and Earth History
Instructor:
Alvarez
Description:
Collecting, analyzing, and
presenting stratigraphic data; dating and correlating sedimentary rocks;
recognizing ancient environments and reconstructing Earth history; seismic
and sequence stratigraphy; event stratigraphy and neocatastrophism;
applications of stratigraphy to climate change, petroleum geology, and
archaeology
Units:
4
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Undergraduate
Barnosky, Anthony D.
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 1:20pm.Name of Person:
Anthony D. Barnosky
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Department:
Integrative Biology, Professor
Research Interests:
Anthony Barnosky studies how changes in the physical environment (such as climate change and mountain building) contribute to the evolution of mammal species and faunas at varying temporal and geographic scales. Field aspects of the work include collecting fossils from long stratigraphic sequences that can be well-dated by biostratigraphic, paleomagnetic, or radioisotopic techniques. Lab analyses utilize database and GIS systems to identify faunal changes through space and time; the faunal patterns are then compared with independently identified changes in the physical environment to test various evolutionary and biogeographic predictions.
Stephens, Scott
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:24am.Name of Person:
Scott Stephens
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Department:
ESPM, Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Scott Stephens is interested in the interactions of wildland fire and ecosystems. This includes how prehistoric fires once interacted with ecosystems, how current wildland fires are affecting ecosystems, and how future fires and management may change this interaction. He is also interested in wildland fire policy and how it can be improved to meet the challenges of the next decades. How fire will be affected by climate change is a new area of research.
Teen pregnancy the norm among dinosaurs
Submitted by sprowles on January 23, 2008 - 3:37pm.Date Posted:
Jan 14 2008
Title of News:
Teen pregnancy the norm among dinosaurs
Summary:
Until recently, paleontologists had found only one dinosaur fossil that was identifyably female: a T. rex that was 18 and pregnant when it died. UC Berkeley researchers now report two more - fossil bones from a 10-year-old female Allosaurus and an 8-year-old female Tenontosaurus - that together indicate dinosaurs grew quickly and became sexually mature before reaching their adult size. Because these dinosaurs typically lived only 30 years, female dinosaurs got pregnant and laid eggs in adolescence.
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UCB News Center
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Mozingo, Louise
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:55pm.Name of Person:
Louise Mozingo
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Department:
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Professor Mozingo’s research and creative work focuses on ecological design, landscape history, and social processes in public landscapes. Landscape architectural research usually considers ecology, history, and social factors separately; the purpose of Professor Mozingo’s scholarship is to breach the intellectual boundaries between them to produce a synthetic critical perspective of landscape architecture as a complex cultural artifact.
Hass, Robert
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 3:04pm.Name of Person:
Robert Hass
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Department:
English, Professor
Research Interests:
20th-Century American Literature. Creative Writing. Poetry. Professor Hass works on contemporary American poetry and translation; he has also been interested recently in environmental history and literature.
Laboratory for Environmental and Sedimentary Geochemistry
Submitted by cmjones on May 7, 2007 - 1:35pm.Name:
Laboratory for Environmental and Sedimentary Geochemistry
Description:
To study both the modern and past environment with geochemical and sedimentary evidence. These studies are important in addressing society’s concern with how human activities are changing Earth’s climate and natural environment.
University of California Museum of Paleontology
Submitted by cmjones on April 24, 2007 - 10:09am.Name of Library of Museum:
University of California Museum of Paleontology
Description:
The mission of the University of California Museum of Paleontology is to investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth's biota through research and education.
Location:
1101 Valley Life Sciences Building