Virtual Event-- Be a Paleoecologist: Follow up
Image by Ray Bouknight
We had a lot of fun yesterday figuring out long-term changes in the environment of a location by looking at fossils from different periods in time- if you missed the guided virtual activity, the video is on our Facebook page here and you can find the downloadable documents here.
As I promised yesterday, here are the answer keys for the sites to analyze on your own:
Image by Daderot
For more information about fossils from the different geologic periods in specific states, check out the Paleontology Portal. Remember that not every state will have a fossil from each time period (and, as we saw yesterday with New Hampshire, some don’t have much to work with in general…), but you can start looking for patterns and differences between places across the United States.
As part of our celebration of women in STEM, here are a few women paleoecologists to check out:
Dr. Jacquelyn Gill at the University of Maine
Dr. Denise Su at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Once you’ve started piecing together the history of one location, you can compare it with others and get a sense of how the surface of the Earth has changed over its long history- it’s a huge puzzle on a geologic time scale!
