99 Evolution of Life in the Cambrian Seas: Biotic, Biogeochemical, and Sedimentological Contexts, Part I
This session is dedicated to studies that illuminate the biotic, geobiological, sedimentological, and geochemical contexts of the evolution of early animal life in the oceans, with a particular focus on the Cambrian Period.
Monday, 20 October 2025
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
HBGCC, 304B
Participants
- Chair Rudy Lerosey-Aubril
- Chair Robert Gaines
- Chair Javier Ortega-Hernandez
- Chair Lidya Tarhan
Presentations
-
8:05 AMAmy Hagen, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Kelsey Moore, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Sara Pruss, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Prescott Vayda, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Benjamin Gill, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA413313 (Technical Sessions)
-
8:20 AMInvestigating the Cambrian seaweed conundrum with new macroalgal morphologies from the Burgess ShaleKatie Maloney, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Steven LoDuca, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI and Jean-Bernard Caron, Royal Ontario Museum, Dept Natural History, Toronto, ON413406 (Technical Sessions)
-
8:35 AMSandy Cui, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Carl Simpson, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO and Talia Karim, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO and Nicole Mizrahi, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO and Sahily Rahman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO412497 (Technical Sessions)
-
8:50 AMSara Pruss, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Emily Smith, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Andrey Zhuravlev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and Andrew Knoll, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA413212 (Technical Sessions)
-
9:10 AMAdam Woods, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA and Tania Garcia, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA and Nils Voight-Bui, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA and Kenneth Alvarez, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA413710 (Technical Sessions)
-
9:25 AMWalker Weyland, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Robert Gaines, Pomona college, Claremont, California and Robert Coleman, Unaffiliated, Round Lake Beach, Illinois and Jacob Skabelund, Unaffiliated, Wellsville, Utah and Javier Ortega-Hernández, Harvard Univerisity, Cambridge, Massachusetts413012 (Technical Sessions)
-
9:40 AMAdriane Lam, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY and Jennifer Bauer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan and James Lamsdell, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV and Kelsey Lucas, University of Calgary, Calgary and Elise Nardin, Universität zu Köln, Cologne and Mark Nikolic, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY and Martina Nohejlová, Czech Geological Survey, Prague and Joseph Panzik, Binghamton University, First-Year Research Immersion, Binghamton, NY and Stephen Pates, University College London, London and Alexis Rojas, University of Bologna, Bologna and Fernanda Serra, Cicterra Conicet - UNC, Cordoba and Sarah Sheffield, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY and Luis Collantes, Yunnan University, Kunming and María Suárez, University of Zürich, Zürich and Bradley Deline, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA and Elizabeth Dowding, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlanger and Harriet Drage, University of Lausanne, Lausanne and Jorge Esteve, Complutense University, Madrid and James Holmes, Uppsala University, Uppsala and Katherine Jordan-Burmeister, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN and Lukáš Laibl, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague412159 (Technical Sessions)
-
10:15 AMEduardo Alatorre-Acevedo, University of California,Davis, Davis, California and Dawn Sumner, University of California,Davis, Davis, CA412050 (Technical Sessions)
-
10:30 AMAshley Rivas, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Sara Pruss, Smith College Geosciences, Northampton, MA and Benjamin Gill, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Lidya Tarhan, Yale University, New Haven, CT413442 (Technical Sessions)
-
10:45 AMEmmy Smith, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland and Mary Lonsdale, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Anne-Sofie Ahm, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC and Uyanga Bold, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar and John Higgins, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ412310 (Technical Sessions)
-
11:00 AMKiri Maza, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Maya Thompson, Stanford, Stanford, CA and Erik Sperling, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Michelle Norman, Utah State University, Logan and Carol Dehler, Geosciences USU, Logan, UT and Scott Melnyk, University of Utah, Salt Lake City and Lauren Birgenheier, University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics Department, Salt Lake City, UT and Jerzy Blusztajn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole and Chadlin Ostrander, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT414285 (Technical Sessions)
-
11:15 AMKayla Irizarry, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA and Kimberly Lau, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA and Mark Patzkowsky, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA414722 (Technical Sessions)
-
11:30 AMNatalie Hermosillo, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Benjamin Gill, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Amy Hagen, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Lidya Tarhan, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Sara Pruss, Smith College, Northampton, MA414352 (Technical Sessions)