GSA Connects 2021 in Portland, Oregon

Session No. 178
Tuesday, 12 October 2021: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Portland Ballroom 255 (Hybrid Room) (Oregon Convention Center)

T109. Life's Innovations from the Early Earth to the Search on Modern Mars I: Honoring the Career of Andrew H. Knoll

Paleontological Society; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); Geochemical Society

 

Julie K. Bartley, Charles Boyce, Linda Kah, Alan Kaufman, Shuhai Xiao and Nora Noffke, Advocates
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Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:40 PM
DOES A GOOD PROFESSOR IN THE CLASSROOM MATTER? RELAXING MOTIVATED REASONING AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE
ARENS, Nan, Department of Geoscience, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456 and FISHER, Emily, Department of Psychological Science, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456
1:55 PM
EARLY EUKARYOGENESIS AND EUKARYOTIC DIVERSIFICATION (Invited Presentation)
JAVAUX, Emmanuelle, UR Astrobiology (Early Life Traces & Evolution-Astrobiology), University of Liege, allee du 6 Aout 14 B18 AGORA, Sart-Tilman, Liege, 4000, Belgium
2:15 PM
EUKARYOTES WERE LIKELY AEROBIC AND ESTABLISHED IN PROTEROZOIC ECOSYSTEMS
COHEN, Phoebe, Department of Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267 and KODNER, Robin, Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225
2:30 PM
BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA WITH ANAEROBIC MICROBIAL-LIKE METABOLISMS PROVIDE HYPOTHETICAL INSIGHTS INTO EARLY MICROEUKARYOTE EVOLUTION
BERNHARD, Joan1, GOMAA, Fatma2, POWERS, Christopher C.3, UTTER, Daniel R.4, BEAUDOIN, David J.1, EDGCOMB, Virginia P.1, FILIPSSON, Helena L.5, HANSEL, Colleen M.6, WANKEL, Scott D.6 and ZHANG, Ying3, (1)Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, (2)Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, (3)Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, (4)Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, (5)Dept. of Geology, Lund University, Solvegatan 12, Lund, 22362, Sweden, (6)Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543
 
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
PRASINOPHYTE GREEN ALGAE AND THEIR MICROFOSSIL ANALOGS: GEOBIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
KODNER, Robin, Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225 and COHEN, Phoebe, Department of Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267
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3:15 PM
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3:30 PM
BIOMINERALIZATION: INTEGRATING MECHANISM AND EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY
GILBERT, Pupa, Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Geoscience, UW-Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, BERGMANN, Kristin, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, 54-1014, Cambridge, MA 02139 and KNOLL, Andrew H., Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, NC 02138
3:45 PM
PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY ACQUISITIONS OF MINERALIZED SKELETONS IN EUKARYOTES
PORTER, Susannah, MOORE, John L. and RIEDMAN, Leigh Anne, Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
4:00 PM
DARWIN'S DILEMMA: TAPHONOMIC STUDIES HELP CONSTRAIN THE ORIGIN OF ANIMALS
ANDERSON, Ross1, WOLTZ, Christina2, TOSCA, Nicholas J.3, PORTER, Susannah2 and BRIGGS, Derek E.G.4, (1)Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, United Kingdom; All Souls College, University of Oxford, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4AL, United Kingdom, (2)Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1006 Webb Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, (3)Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom, (4)Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511
4:15 PM
SIZE CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LINEAGES
BOYCE, Charles, Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
 
4:30 PM
Concluding Remarks
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