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Activity

2025

• THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF LAKE MERRITT, OAKLAND
  13 Urban Estuary: Lake Merritt, Jewel of Oakland
  Wednesday, 2 April 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  El Dorado

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2024

• ORIGINS OF THE MODERN ANTARCTIC MARINE BIOTA-- PLATE TECTONIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC RECONFIGURATIONS
  T166 Conservation Paleobiology and Species Invasions I: Impacts of Biogeographic Shifts and Changing Community Structure in the Past and Present
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  204C
• GEOLOGIC MISINFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: THE FACEBOOK PROBLEM
  T41 Teaching Media Literacy in the Geological Sciences (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D

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2023

• "IT IS NOT AN INSUPERABLE DIFFICULTY THAT FORAMINIFERA HAVE NOT PROGRESSED IN ORGANIZATION SINCE EVEN THE LAURENTIAL EPOCH; FOR SOME ORGANISMS WOULD HAVE TO REMAIN FITTED FOR SIMPLE CONDITIONS OF LIFE, AND WHAT COULD BE BETTER FITTED FOR THIS END THAN THESE LOWLY ORGANIZED PROTOZOA?“ CHARLES DARWIN, 1872
  T194 Cushman Foundation Symposium: In Pursuit of Understanding the Distribution of Benthic Foraminifera: Honoring the Career of Martin A. Buzas
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  321

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2022

• HELEN TAPPAN: SUCCESS IN PALEONTOLOGY THROUGH DEDICATION, ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS, AND HARD WORK
  44 Success in the Face of Adversity: Telling the Stories of Women in Geology
  Friday, 8 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 2:55 PM

  North Meeting Room 205
• ESTER ENGLISH RICHARDS APPLIN, 1895-1972, MICROPALEONTOLOGIST: SUCCESS IN A MAN’S WORLD
  44 Success in the Face of Adversity: Telling the Stories of Women in Geology
  Friday, 8 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 2:55 PM

  North Meeting Room 205

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2019

• EVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION IN THE PELAGIC REALM OF EARTH’S OCEANS
  T222 Extinction Selectivity and Climate Change: How Are Patterns across Time, Space, Taxa, and Habitat Similar, and How Are They Different?
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 227ABC, North Building
• LIMITS OF ATMOSPHERIC PCO2 IN RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT AND PREDICTING FUTURE CLIMATE: THE ROLES OF GLOBAL REFLECTANCE AND CONTINENT DISTRIBUTION
  T36 Oceans and Climates throughout Earth’s History: From Proxy Reconstructions to Model Assessments (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building

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2018

• ORIGIN OF SKELETONIZED PROTISTS AND METAZOANS: GENOMIC AND FOSSIL EVIDENCE
  199 D23. Paleontology, Evolution and Development
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 141
• FORAMINIFERAL ART: FROM HAND DRAWINGS TO PUBLIC SCULPTURES
  T58 Evolution of Paleontological Art
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 233
• PALEO-PHILATELY: ART AND EDUCATION IN PALEONTOLOGY
  T58 Evolution of Paleontological Art
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 233

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2016

• NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS CONFRONTING SCIENTIFIC ILLITERACY
  T41 Museums at the Forefront of the History and Philosophy of Geology II
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 303

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2015

• ORIGIN AND AGE OF HETEROTROPHIC SKELETAL MICROBIAL EUKARYOTES
  T69 Timing of the Origins and Evolution of Unicellular Eukaryotes
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 316

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2011

• LIFE HISTORY AND DISPERSAL IN FORAMINIFERA
  T231 Frontiers in Foraminiferal Research I: Biology/Ecology/Paleoecology
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200H-J

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2009

• DEVELOPMENT OF MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES FOR COASTAL SETTINGS: NEW AND OLD
  T205 Coastal Problems, Micropaleontological Approaches
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Portland Ballroom 255
• THE PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF PALEONTOLOGIC FIELD SITES WORLDWIDE
  T125 Geoheritages, Geoantiquities, and Geomorphosites
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  B113

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2008

• Foraminifera Used In the Construction of Miocene Polychaete Tubes, Monterey Formation, California, USA
  T339 Field and Quantitative Paleontology, Micropaleontology, and Taxonomy: A Memorial to Roger L. Kaesler
  Thursday, 9 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Paleo-Hazard recognition in coastal settings—microfossil determinations of the history and precursors of major catastrophic events
  806 Applied Micropaleontology: Tools and Techniques for the 21st Century
  Tuesday, 7 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Paleontology and the Public--The Last 100 Years
  180 Breakthroughs in Paleontology: The Paleontological Society Centennial Symposium
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Evolutionary History of Photosymbiosis and Its Implications for the Future of Reefs
  T207 Crises on the Reefs? Anticipating the Effects of Global Warming on Reefs by Reference to the Fossil Record—Is the Past Really the Key to the Present in the New Field of Conservation Paleobiology?
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2007

• DIVERSIFICATION OF CRYPTIC GENETIC TYPES IN PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA: RELATIONSHIP TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES OF THE PAST 15 MA
  T165 Environmental Change and Evolution: Micropaleontological Case Studies
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2004

• EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF PROTISTS
  T171 Protistan Paleobiodiversity: Understanding Evolutionary Patterns
  Tuesday, 9 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• THE CONTINUING PLIGHT OF MICROFAUNA IN AN URBAN LAGOON
  162 Paleontology VIII: Processes of Fossilization
  Tuesday, 9 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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Date Unknown

• FORMATION AND TAPHONOMY OF THE SHARKTOOTH HILL BONEBED, A UNIQUE ACCUMULATION FROM THE MID-MIOCENE OF CALIFORNIA
  144 Paleontology (Posters) II: Environments, Ecosystems, and Interactions
• PLEISTOCENE MARINE PALEOENVIRONMENTS ON THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
  144 Paleontology (Posters) II: Environments, Ecosystems, and Interactions