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Upcoming EPS Events

There is no EPS Colloquium this week (Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011) due to Thanksgiving holiday break.

Our next EPS Colloquium (Wednesday, November 30th, 2011) will be by Dr. David Sunderlin (Lafayette College) who will speak on Paleocene/Eocene fossil forests in southern Alaska. Talk begins at 12 noon, Wright Lab Auditorium. All are welcome


EPS in the News


... here's a new book on evolutionary theory just out by EPS' Prof. George McGhee!

Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful

McGhee, G. R. 2011. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge (MA), 322 pp.

...read more at Cambridge Press


EPS Video Links

- Click here for a Rutgers SAS Signature Course YouTube Video, staring EPS' Ken Miller, in Sea Change: Rise and Fall of the Jersey Shore.

- Click here for a Rutgers First Year Byrne Seminar student essay on Our Excellent Rutgers Adventure Studying Volcanoes in Costa Rica. and Click here for Costa Rica Memories, a YouTube Video staring EPS' Michael Carr, Vadim Levin, Pablo Ruiz with an allstar cast of students.


New EPS Publications

- all EPS authors are in bold -

- Slah Boulila, Bruno Galbrun, Kenneth G. Miller, Stephen F. Pekar, James V. Browning, Jacques Laskar, James D. Wright, 2011. On the origin of Cenozoic and Mesozoic “third-order” eustatic sequences, Earth-Science Reviews, Vol. 109, Issues 3-4, pp. 94-112. ISSN 0012-8252, 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.09.003.

- Comment on “Atmospheric PCO2 Perturbations Associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province”
Michael R. Rampino and Ken Caldeira. Science 4 November 2011: 594. and...Response to Comment on “Atmospheric PCO2 Perturbations Associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province” Morgan F. Schaller, James D. Wright, and Dennis V. Kent. Science 4 November 2011: 594.

- Alex M.P. Cicchino, Elena Zanella, Gianfilippo De Astis, Roberto Lanza, Federico Lucchi, Claudio A. Tranne, Giulia Airoldi, Sara Mana, 2011. Rock magnetism and compositional investigation of Brown Tuffs deposits at Lipari and Vulcano (Aeolian Islands — Italy), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 208, Issues 1-2, 1 November 2011, Pages 23-38, ISSN 0377-0273, 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2011.08.007.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377027311002368

- Lepre, C.J., Roche, H., Kent, D.V., Harmand, S., Quinn, R.L., Brugal., J.-P., Texier, P.-J., Lenoble, A., and Feibel, C.S. 2011. Nature 477, p. 82–85.doi:10.1038/nature10372

- Ashley, G.M., Ndiema, E., Harris, J. W. K., Kiura, P.W., Spencer, J.Q.G. 2011. Paleoenvironmental context of archaeological sites, implications for subsistence strategies under Holocene climate change, northern Kenya. Geoarchaeology, International Journal, online 29 SEP 2011
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20374

- Dupuis, C., Aubry, M.-P., King, C., Knox, R. O’B., Berggren, W. A., Youssef, M., Galal, W. F., and Roche, M., 2011. Genesis and geometry of tilted blocks (gravitational collapse structures) in the Theban Mountain, near Luxor (Upper Egypt). Journal of African Earth Sciences vol. 61 (2011) pp. 257-279. 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2011.06.001

- Soliman, M., Aubry, M-P., Schmitz, B., and Sherrell. R., 2011. Enhanced coastal paleoproductivity and nutrient supply in Upper Egypt during the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM): Mineralogical and geochemical evidence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 310 (2011), pp. 365–377.

- Henza, A.A., Withjack, M.O., Schlische, R.W., 2011. How do the properties of a pre-existing normal-fault population influence fault development during a subsequent phase of extension? Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 33, Issue 9, pp. 1312-1324; ISSN 0191-8141; DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2011.06.010.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191814111001076

- Whiteside, J.H., D.S. Grogan, P.E. Olsen, and D.V. Kent, 2011, Climatically driven biogeographic provinces of Late Triassic tropical Pangea: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 8972 - 8977.

- Aubry, M.-P., Bord, D., and Rodriguez, O., 2011. New taxa of the Order Discoasterales Hay 1977. Micropaleontology, vol. 57, n° 3, p. 269-287.

- Morley, A., Schulz, M., Rosenthal, Y., Mulitza, S., Paul, A., and Rühlemann, C. 2011. Solar modulation of North Atlantic central Water formation at multidecadal timescales during the late Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters Vol. 308, Issues 1-2, pp. 161-171, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.043.

- Muttoni, G., Scardia, G., Kent, D.V., Morsiani, E., Tremolada, F., Cremaschi, M., and Peretto, C., 2011. First dated human occupation of Italy at ~ 0.85 Ma during the late Early Pleistocene climate transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 307, Issues 3-4, pp. 241-252. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.025.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X11003086)

- Olsen, P. E., D. V. Kent, and J. H. Whiteside, 2011. Implications of the Newark Supergroup-based astrochronology and geomagnetic polarity time scale (Newark-APTS) for the tempo and mode of the early diversification of the Dinosauria. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences, vol. 101, p. 201-229.

- Miller, K.G., G.S. Mountain, J.D. Wright, and J.V. Brownin, 2011. A 180-million-year record of sea level and ice volume variations from continental margin and deep-sea isotopic records. Oceanography 24(2), p. 40–53. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2011.26.

- Benoit, M. H., M. Torpey, K. Liszewski, V. Levin, and J. Park. 2011. P and S wave upper mantle seismic velocity structure beneath the northern Apennines: New evidence for the end of subduction, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q06004, doi:10.1029/2010GC003428. (http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2010GC003428.shtml).

- Joordens, J.C.A., Vonhof, H.B., Feibel, C.S., Lourens, L.J., Dupont-Nivet, G., van der Lubbe, J.H.J.L., Sier, M.J., Davies, G.R., Kroon, D. 2011. An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. vol. 307, p.1-8. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.005.

- Katz, M.E., Cramer, B.S., Toggweiler, J.R., Esmay, G., Liu, C., Miller, K.G., Rosenthal, Y., Wade, B.S., and Wright, J.D., 2011. Science vol. 332 no. 6033, p. 1076-1079. DOI: 10.1126/science.1202122.

- Pusz, A.E., Thunell, R.C. and K.G. Miller, 2011. Deep water temperature, carbonate ion, and ice volume changes across the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition, Paleoceanography, vol. 26, PA2205, doi:10.1029/2010PA001950.

- Rosenthal, Y., A. Morley, C. Barras, M. E. Katz, F. Jorissen, G.-J. Reichart, D. W. Oppo, and B. K. Linsley (2011),Temperature calibration of Mg/Ca ratios in the intermediate water benthic foraminifer Hyalinea balthica, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q04003, doi:10.1029/2010GC003333.

- Schaller, M.F., Wright, J.D. and Kent, D.V. 2011. Atmospheric pCO2 Perturbations Associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science [Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1199011]. Click here for article in Science.

- Mollel, G.F., Swisher III, C.C., Feigenson, M.D., and Carr, M.J. 2011. Petrology, geochemistry and age of Satiman, Lemagurut and Oldeani: sources of the volcanic deposits of the Laetoli area, in Harrison, Terry (Ed.), Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context, Volume 1: Geology, Geochronology, Paleoecology and Paleoenvironment Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, 1st Edition., 2011, XIII, 401 p. 215 illus., 2 in color., Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9955-6

- Bemis, K., Walker, J., Borgia, A., Turrin, B., Neri, M., and Swisher II, C. 2011. The growth and erosion of cinder cones in Guatemala and El Salvador: Models and statistics, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 November 2010, ISSN 0377-0273, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.11.007. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VCS-51H7034-1/2/96e4c0945cf5bc29e1ac5b3734f3e711)

- Huang, G.D. , Roecker, S.W. and Levin, V. 2011. Lower-crustal earthquakes in the West Kunlun range, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L01314, doi:10.1029/2010GL045893.

- Wade, Bridget S., Pearson, Paul N., Berggren, W. A. and Pälike, Heiko, 2011. Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the Geomagnetic Polarity and Astronomical Time Scale. Earth Science Reviews, vol. 104, (1), p. 111-142. (doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.09.003).