Hello all, I just wanted to send a last reminder to the readers of this list about a particular conference session at this year's Geological Society of America 2011. This conference will be held in Minneapolis, from October 9th to the 12th. This session, proposed by Emily King and I, will focus on analyses that use both the fossil record and phylogenetic data to investigate evolutionary dynamics, such as diversification, evolutionary rates and trends. Emily and I would really love to see work that combines molecular phylogenies with fossil data and also work that uses phylogenies of fossil data. If you're doing anything that sounds like it might fit in, we encourage you to submit an abstract for our session (T61) and give an oral presentation on your work.
Those of you who are biologists might be thinking "But Dave, what am I going to do at a geology conference?" GSA 2011 is pretty much the big annual meeting for North American paleontologists and so one can find interesting paleobiology-related sessions running from the start of the conference to its end. There tends to be a large number of general sessions on morphometrics, diversification, macroevolutionary dynamics, functional morphology and mass extinctions. This year, the Paleontological Society is also sponsoring special sessions on "*Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record" and "**Lessons from the Living: Paleontological Investigations Using Modern Analogs".* The abstract submission deadline is July 26th, which is about about ONE WEEK away. You can find out more about GSA 2011 and submit your abstract online here <http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2011/>. The abstract fee is $35.00 for professionals and $20.00 for students. ( http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2011/) Please let me or Emily know if you have any questions. -Dave Bapst, UChicago -- David Bapst Dept of Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago 5734 S. Ellis Chicago, IL 60637 http://home.uchicago.edu/~dwbapst/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo
