UCD Geology
Each year, at least two graduate seminars (GEL 260) are offered on different topics in paleontology. In the seminars, students read from the primary literature in paleontology to increase their exposure to a wide variety of current research in the field, engage in and lead spirited discussions on the topics to enable them to phrase oral arguments, and prepare original research papers to hone writing skills. A wide variety of seminars on related topics are offered in Evolution and Ecology, Plant Biology, Entomology, Environmental Science and Policy, to name a few, as well as through the Graduate Groups in Ecology, Population Biology, and others.

    Previous seminar topics have included:

  • Paleontology and the Stratigraphic Record
  • Body Size in Ontogeny and Evolution
  • Phylogeny and Morphological Data
  • The Geochemistry and Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
  • Heterochrony and Paleontology
  • Paleontology and Systematic Biology
  • The Character Concept in Evolution, and How Genetics and Biomechanics Shape Characters
  • The Meaning and Interpretation of Diversity in Space and Time
  • Extinction and Its Controls
  • Paleobiogeography
  • Coevolution and Related Interpretations of Interactions Among Living Species and Among Fossil Species
  • Metazoan Phylogeny
  • Chaos Theory
  • Morphometric Analysis
  • Scientific Writing and Public Speaking
  • Biomineralization
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