(CANCELLED) The Sedimentary Record of Early Eukaryotic Evolution
- Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Building: Environmental Science Centre
Room: C205
Join us for our final seminar series event of the year featuring Galen Halverson, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, T.H. Clark Chair of Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology, and James McGill Professor at McGill University. He will be presenting a one-hour session titled The Sedimentary Record of Early Eukaryotic Evolution.
Biography
Galen Halverson is the T.H. Clark Chair of Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology and a James McGill Professor at McGill University, where he has been based since 2010. He is a sedimentary geologist and isotope geochemist who began his research career studying the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth and whose research is largely focused on the evolution of the Proterozoic Earth system and sedimentary basins. Galen and his research group conduct fieldwork in the Arctic, Australia, southern Africa, and elsewhere aimed at better understanding the details of Proterozoic supercontinental assembly and break-up, incremental oxygenation of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, the links between paleoenvironments and eukaryotic evolution, and the drivers and consequences of major climatic and biogeochemical perturbations. Stemming from his role in the Cryogenian Subcommission, Prof. Halverson is increasingly using his experience working on diverse sedimentary successions, combined with no chronological approaches, to define and calibrate the Proterozoic Geological Time Scale.
Join the Trent School of the Environment for the 2019-2020 Seminar Series! The seminar series is a casual way to meet colleagues, professors, students and guest speakers, while also learning about ongoing research and issues related to the environment. All seminar series events are hosted in the Geography Lab ESC C205 (across the hall from the School of the Environment's main office) from 12 p.m.- 1 p.m.
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Posted on March 12, 2020