2015 Round-up

Spicebush

2015 was a busy year. Some highlights:

Early in the year, the Fossil Calibration Database and Fossil Calibration Series were launched in the online journal Palaeontologia Electronica; these projects were the outcome of the Fossil Calibrations Working Group. The database was announced in papers published in Palaeontologia Electronica and Systematic Biology.

Over the summer, I visited the University of Alberta Paleobotanical Collections in Edmonton to examine fossils held there. I also attended the Botany 2015 meeting and gave a talk on the Miocene floras of Tierra del Fuego. I co-authored another talk on Cretaceous and Paleogene angiosperms of Patagonia. 

In October, I gave a seminar at the University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology titled "Water ferns, ancient wetlands, and a case of mistaken identity."