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Joint 70th Rocky Mountain Annual Section / 114th Cordilleran Annual Section Meeting - 2018

Paper No. 65-4
Presentation Time: 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

USING FOSSILS OF THE PALEOBIOLOGY DATABASE (PBDB) TO EXPLORE THE TECTONIC LINKAGE OF THE AMERICAS


BENTLEY, Callan, Geology program, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA 22652, UHEN, Mark, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, BERQUIST, Peter J., Geology Department, Thomas Nelson Community College, Hampton, VA 23670, LOCKWOOD, Rowan, Department of Geology, The College of William and Mary, PO Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187, LUKES, Laura A., Stearns Center, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, RYKER, Katherine, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, GEORGE, Christian O., Department of Biology, High Point University, One University Parkway, High Point, NC 27268 and SUNDELL, Ander, Department of Physical Sciences, College of Western Idaho, 5500 E. Opportunity Way, Nampa, MI 83687

In this poster, we describe and demonstrate a student activity we developed utilizing the Paleobiology Database's (PBDB's) user-friendly "Navigator" interface. The activity has students to explore the tectonic implications of the Great American Biotic Interchange, an event where North American species moved into South America and (to a lesser extent) vice versa. Students use the PBDB Navigator ( https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/ ) to access information about the time/space distribution of several terrestrial fossil taxa, plot maps of these results, formulate hypotheses about the timing of the build-up of the Isthmus of Panama (and hence the connection between North and South America), and then test those hypotheses using several other sources of online data. The activity has been piloted using our project's research protocols, and refined based on feedback from multiple colleagues using a rubric. It is now available for any educator to utilize: https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/intro/activities/180125.html

Session No. 65--Booth# 33

T27. Geoscience and Environmental Science Education in the Cordillera and Rockies: Research and Practice (Posters)
Thursday, 17 May 2018: 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Outdoor Tents (DoubleTree by Hilton)
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 5
doi: 10.1130/abs/2018RM-313930
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