{"id":1395,"date":"2011-08-03T06:34:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T10:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2011-08-03T06:34:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T10:34:28","slug":"upcoming-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight, the Orlando Cafe Scientifique<\/a> will host a talk about the Cambrian Explosion<\/p>\n

Presenter: Werner, John
\nWhen: Wednesday, 3 August 2011 – 7:00pm – 8:30pm
\nVenue: Taste
\nWhere: 717 W. Smith Street, Orlando<\/p>\n

The Cambrian \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Explosion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a colorful name sometimes given to the adaptive radiation of animals with bilateral symmetry, seen in the early Cambrian period, approximately 540 to 510 million years ago. This critical span in life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history has been a topic of keen interest for not only scientists but also many nonscientists ever since the publication of Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould (1989). In that provocative work, Gould emphasized the bizarre morphology and problematic taxonomy of some of the invertebrate fossils of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. In the twenty-plus years that have followed, new discoveries from the fossil record and the living world have been producing a better picture of early animal evolution, shedding light on the origins of some of the major branches on the animal tree of life (including arthropods, mollusks, and vertebrates). Furthermore, the explosiveness of this adaptive radiation has been defused by improvements in the record of Early Cambrian and Neoproterozoic (pre-Cambrian) fossils. Proposed causes of the Cambrian radiation are numerous and varied; in this talk we will explore the merits of the most prominent ideas.<\/p>\n

John Werner has been a professor of Earth Sciences in the Physical Sciences Department at Seminole State College since 2003. He obtained a B.S. in geology from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in geology (concentration in invertebrate paleontology) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at UIUC, he earned that school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest award for undergraduate teaching. At Seminole State, he has originated three courses in geology, including Fossils and the History of Life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Florida State University Coastal & Marine Lab Conservation Lecture Series<\/a> for August 11, 2011 will feature the History and Natural History of Dog Island.<\/p>\n

The event will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the FSUCML Auditorium in St. Teresa, Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 The lecture will be presented by Dr. Fran James, FSU Biological Science Faculty Member Emeritus.<\/p>\n

Dog Island is the easternmost barrier island off the panhandle of Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 A review of its history and natural history can tell us how human and natural forces have shaped its present condition and what it may be like in the future.\u00c2\u00a0 Today it is an ecological treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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