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Welcome to NAPC 2019! Thank You for Making the Journey to Riverside from All Corners of the Globe to Participate in This Meeting Welcome to NAPC 2019! Thank you for making the journey to Riverside from all corners of the globe to participate in this meeting. We are delighted to have participants from 34 countries attending, and that attendees include hundreds of students, and also many teachers and avocational paleontologists. Wide interest in NAPC11 allows us to offer a rich program of activities, including over 40 symposia and topical sessions with associated workshops and other forums, varied fieldtrips, and a slate of technical workshops both on campus and in sister organizations in the So Cal area. Our approach has been to solicit proposals that reflect the current interests of the community at large and we extend our most grateful thanks to all who have worked to produce such a varied and, we trust, stimulatingly diverse program. Thank you again for coming to Riverside! NAPC 2019 Organizing Committee Members: MARY DROSER University of California, Riverside NIGEL HUGHES University of California, Riverside NICOLE BONUSO California State University, Fullerton DAVID BOTTJER University of Southern California DOUG EERNISSE California State University, Fullerton ROBERT GAINES Pomona College AUSTIN HENDY Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County DAVID JACOBS University of California, Los Angeles JESS MILLER-CAMP University of Indiana RICHARD NORRIS Scripps Institute, University of California, San Diego KAUSTAV ROY University of California, San Diego PETER SADLER University of California, Riverside MARK SPRINGER University of California, Riverside XIAOMING WANG Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County MICHAEL VENDRASCO Pasadena City College MATTERS RELATED TO THE MEETING MAY BE ADDRESSED TO [email protected] The Paleontological Society is committed to safe and inclusive events and meetings for all attendees. The Code of Conduct https://paleosoc.org/ethics-and-inclusion/ applies to all members of the Society and to all participants in Society and Society-sponsored events. In this spirit, the Paleontological Society is implementing “This IS PS” (Inclusive and Safe Paleontological Society) to help ensure adherence to the Code of Conduct at Society-sponsored events. If you are the subject of or witness prohibited behavior at a Society-sponsored event, immediately notify any member of the This IS PS team. Team members can be identified by buttons with the This IS PS logo. The This IS PS team comprises several Society member-leaders who have been trained to receive and give reports of any incidences of prohibited behavior at Society-sponsored events. This IS PS liaisons will listen respectfully without assumptions or judgment. 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S W TH NAPC 2019 Schedule of Events SATURDAY2:00pm - 8:00pm Dorm check-in and meetingJUNE registration begin 22 2:00pm - 8:00pm Dormat Glen check-in Mor Apartments and meeting registration begin 4:00pm - 8:00pm atPizza Glen and Mor pool Apartments party for Glen Mor guests 4:00pm - 8:00pm Pizza and pool party for Glen Mor guests SUNDAY7:00am - 9:00am Registration and check-inJUNE 23 7:00am8:20am - 9:00am10:20am RegistrationWelcome/Plenary and check-in Session 8:20am11:00am -- 10:20am12:00pm Welcome/PlenarySymposium and Technical Session Sessions 11:00am12:00pm - - 12:00pm 1:00pm SymposiumLunch and Technical Sessions 12:00pm - 1:00pm LunchEssentials of Publishing Workshop- Cambridge 12:00pm - 1:00pm EssentialsUniversity Pressof Publishing (HUB 355 Workshop-) Cambridge 1:00pm - 5:00pm UniversitySymposium Press and Technical(HUB 355 )Sessions 1:00pm - 5:00pm6:00pm SymposiumPoster Session and Technical Sessions 1:00pm5:30pm -- 6:00pm6:45pm PosterGraduate Session Student Wine Tasting and Cheese 5:30pm - 6:45pm GraduateReception Student (Geology Wine building Tasting courtyard) and Cheese 6:30pm - 9:00pm ReceptionStreet taco (Geology buet and building Mariachi courtyard) band (HUB plaza) 6:30pm - 9:00pm Street taco buet and Mariachi band (HUB plaza) MONDAY7:00am - 8:00am Registration JUNE 24 7:00am8:00am - 8:00am12:00pm RegistrationSymposium and Technical Sessions 8:00am - 12:00pm6:00pm SymposiumPoster Session and Technical Sessions 8:00am10:00am - -6:00pm 2:00pm PosterMission Session Inn tours for guests - family event 10:00am12:00pm - 1:00pm2:00pm MissionLunch Inn tours for guests - family event 12:00pm - 1:00pm LunchStudent Equity, Inclusion & Diversity Event- Finding your 12:00pm - 1:00pm Studentcommunity Equity, and Inclusion building &a supportDiversity network Event- Finding (HUB 355your) 1:00pm - 5:00pm Symposiumcommunity and and building Technical a support Sessions network (HUB 355) 1:00pm5:00pm -- 5:00pm6:00pm SymposiumNSF Town Hall and (HUB Technical 355) Sessions 5:00pm - 6:00pm NSFPublic Town lands Hall panel (HUB (HUB 355 )269 ) 5:00pm6:00pm - 6:00pm9:30pm PublicDinner landsand Rale panel ( HUB(HUB 302 269)) 6:00pm - 9:30pm Dinner and Rale (HUB 302) TUESDAY JUNE 25 7:00am - 8:00am Registration 7:00am8:00am - 8:00am5:00pm RegistrationLocal field trips, museum trips, and workshops 8:00am - 5:00pm7:00pm LocalDisneyland field trips, - family museum event trips, and workshops 8:00am - 7:00pm5:00pm DisneylandK-12 Teacher - STEMfamily Workshop event 8:00am12:00pm - -5:00pm 1:00pm K-12Lunch Teacher STEM Workshop 12:00pm6:30pm - - 8:30pm 1:00pm LunchBBQ (HUB plaza) 6:30pm - 8:30pm BBQ (HUB plaza) WEDNESDAY JUNE 26 7:00am - 8:00am Registration 7:00am8:00am - 8:00am12:00pm RegistrationSymposium and Technical Sessions 8:00am - 12:00pm6:00pm SymposiumPoster Session and Technical Sessions 8:00am12:00pm - -6:00pm 1:00pm PosterLunch Session 12:00pm - 1:00pm LunchEquity, Inclusion & Diversity Event - Using your 12:00pm - 1:00pm Equity,Power andInclusion Privilege & Diversity for Good Event (HUB - 355Using) your 1:00pm - 5:00pm PowerSymposium and Privilege and Technical for Good Sessions (HUB 355) 1:00pm5:00pm -- 5:00pm6:30pm SymposiumConservation and Paleobiology: Technical Sessions Welcome to the Real 5:00pm - 6:30pm ConservationWorld panel ( HUBPaleobiology: 302) Welcome to the Real 6:30pm - 10:00pm WorldBanquet panel (Hindraker (HUB 302 lawn) ) 6:30pm - 10:00pm Banquet (Hindraker lawn) THURSDAY JUNE 27 7:00am - 8:00am Registration 7:00am8:00am - 8:00am12:00pm RegistrationSymposium and Technical Sessions 8:00am - 12:00pm6:00pm SymposiumPoster Session and Technical Sessions 8:00am12:00pm - -6:00pm 1:00pm PosterLunch Session 12:00pm1:00pm - -5:00pm 1:00pm LunchSymposium and Technical Sessions 1:00pm6:00pm -- 5:00pm8:00pm SymposiumBeer, soft drinks, and Technicaland snacks Sessions (Geology courtyard) 6:00pm - 8:00pm Beer, soft drinks, and snacks (Geology courtyard) FRIDAY JUNE 28 8:00am - 11:00am Check out. Post-meeting field trips depart. 8:00am - 11:00am Check out. Post-meeting field trips depart. 5 S W TH Sunday, June 23 Morning Welcome/Plenary Session | Testament of Time N. HUGHES 8:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks M. DROSER, N. HUGHES 8:20 Natural History and the Future R. AHMED UNLH 8:50 Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography P. CRANE 9:20 Writer versus scientist: compromise and comprehension R. FORTEY 9:50 The Power of Paleontology and the Arts as Collaborative Forces S. SUMIDA, E. REGA 10:20 Coffee Break Symposium 3 | Plankton and Earth System Evolution P. HULL, S. KIRKLAND TURNER 11:00 Tropical and polar plankton demonstrate contrasting sensitivities to climate change HUB S. TRUBOVITZ throughout the Late Neogene 260 11:15 Diversity dynamics and climate change in Cenozoic marine siliceous plankton D. LAZARUS 11:30 Delayed calcareous nannoplankton boom-bust successions in the earliest Paleocene Chicxulub impact crater H. JONES Symposium 7 | Cambrian Konservat- Lagerstätten and the emergence of modern-style marine ecosystems R. LEROSEY-AUBRIL, R. GAINES, X. ZHANG 11:00 The Marble Canyon Burgess Shale fossil deposit – HUB British Columbia, Canada: New field discoveries, geologic setting, prospects and significance 302 N J. B. CARON 11:30 The Chengjiang-type fossil assemblages from the lower Cambrian Yu’anshan Formation of Qujing, eastern Yunnan and its taphonomic and paleoecological significance F. ZHAO 11:45 Understanding exceptional preservation through comparative micro-analysis of fossils from the Cambrian Kinzers Formation (~514–509 Mya) of central Pennsylvania, USA M. B. MEYER CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 Topical 38 | Macroevolutionary Dynamics L. LASSITER, T. SMILEY 11:00 How predictable is extinction? Forecasting species HUB survival at million-year timescales P. SMITS 11:15 The Signor-Lipps Effect in Paleobiology, 269 Paleoecology and Evolution J. LIPPS 11:30 Synchronous changes of speciation and extinction in mid-Paleozoic zooplankton: “instantaneous” coupling of macroevolutionary dynamics J. CRAMPTON 11:45 Revisiting Romer: Eurypterid Influence on Early Vertebrate Evolution L. LASSITER CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Symposium 19 | Paleozoic Extinctions: Environmental Call and Biotic Response D. BOYER, P. COHEN 11:00 The Rise and Fall of the ‘Age of Fishes’: Vertebrate L. SALLAN Responses to Paleozoic Extinctions UNLH 11:30 A high-resolution marine invertebrate biodiversity
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