WHEN: Friday, September 25, 7:30 PM.
WHERE: Mines and Minerals Resources Building, next to the Faculty Club, Room 101. The Mines and Minerals Building is home of the Kentucky Geological Survey. It is conveniently located on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington. A map in pdf format is available for downloading.
SPEAKER: Dr. Alycia Stigall, Department of Geological Sciences and Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies at Ohio University
TOPIC: Tracking species through space and time: The impact of invasive species during the Late Devonian Mass Extinction and Late Ordovician Richmondian InvasionThe
KPS will meet at 7:30 PM on Friday, September 25 on
the first floor of the Mining and Minerals Resources Building on the
University
of Kentucky campus (see above
for more details).
This month we our speaker will be Dr. Alycia L. Stigall from the Department of Geological Sciences and Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies at Ohio University. Alycia will speak on "Tracking species through space and time: The impact of invasive species during the Late Devonian Mass Extinction and Late Ordovician Richmondian Invasion."Alycia’s research focuses understanding how changes in the biogeographic distributions of species contributes to changes in ecology and evolution (specifically extinction and speciation). She is particularly interested in the long-term (1000's of years) effects of invasive species—something we can only learn from the fossil record. Alycia's research in paleobiogeography has centered on the Devonian of North America and the Late Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch. Her KPS talk will discuss the impact of invasive species in both the Late Devonian Mass Extinction and the Late Ordovician Richmondian Invasion. Alycia is also an expert in crustacean paleobiology, specifically phyllocarids and conchostracans. As part of this work, she's conducted fieldwork in Antarctica and worked on fossils from as far away as Madagascar. Her website is: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~stigall/
Because
of the reopening of the University of Kentucky Faculty Club, parking in
the lot
behind the Mines and Minerals Building may be difficult.Please be aware
that there
is free parking
available at the large parking structure located adjacent to the Mines
and
Minerals Building at the North end of Hilltop Avenue (see map pdf
above).
Bring
your unidentified specimens for us to see!