Discussion Assignments

WEEK	DATE	TOPIC	STUDENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR GUIDING THE DISCUSSION*
3	Sept 7	Extinctions in the sea Raup and Sepkoski 1982; Alego et al. 1998	Taylor Betzen Shania Krawic Alicia Beck
4	Sept 14	When life nearly perished Raup 1994 PNAS, Benton and Twitchett 2003	Patrick Zedalis Claire Lynch Micah Katzu Sarah Park
6	Sept 21	Triassic-Jurassic: paving the way for giant beasts? Jablonski 1986; Mander et al. 2010	Johnathan Cordova Phil Mayhew Marissa Trujillo
7	Oct 3 or 5	K-Pg: the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs and rise of mammals Schulze et al. 2010, Robertson et al. 2004, Wilf et al. 2006	Emanuel Lucero Consuela Osborne Mercedes Metzgar
9	Oct 19	The Cenozoic mammal record and onto the Late Pleistocene and the migration of hominins across the globe Smith et al. 2010; Secord 2012 (Smith 2012); Oppenheimer 2012	Hana Martin Haley Kohn Adelene Armenta
11	Nov 2	Terminal Pleistocene: the peopling of the Americas Lyons et al. 2004, Johnson 2009, Smith et al. 2016	A.Thomas Saran Glover Miranda Buck
12	Nov 9	Holocene extinctions Williams et al. 2015; Smith et al., in review	Tynique Williams Nadia Garcia Michaela Dolly
13	Nov 16	Bison on the Great Plains and the passage of the passenger pigeon Ellsworth and McComb 2003; Bison Timeline	Ryan Carter Flannery Norton Sarah Durlano Rebecca Hohsfield
14	Nov 21	The 6th mass extinction? The modern biodiversity crisis Ceballos et al. 2007; Dirzo et al. 2014	Clarissa Fernandez J. Jason Lau Lyle Thomas
15	Nov 30	The 6th mass extinction? The modern biodiversity crisis Plotnick et al. 2016	Elliot Johnson Martha Archila Ryan Gillett

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