The 2007 Workshop: Sino-US Collaborative Research on Critical Transitions in History of LifeAnother workshop in the series on the Critical Transitions in the History of Life was held at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science October 10-14th 2007. The workshop was well attended with a mix of scientists from both the United States and China. The three critical transitions chosen for this meeting were: 1) The Ordovician radiation; 2) the K/T boundary; and 3) Himalayan Uplift.
The meeting was organized around a plenary session where each of the transitions was introduced. Selected Powerpoint® presentations can be found here. An introduction to the Ordovician radiation was presented by Arnie Miller of the University of Cincinnati. This was followed by discussions moderated by Linda Kah and Renbin Zhan.
For the K/T boundary, we heard presentations by Brian Huber, Kirk Johnson, and Sun Ge Followed by group discussion.
Xiaoming Wang led the discussion of the Himalyan uplift followed by discussions.
On Friday participants were treated to a visit at the K/T boundary sites in the Denver Basin led by Kirk Johnson, followed by excursions to Dinosaur Ridge and Table Mountain and Red Rocks. See the group photo
The 2006 Workshop: Sino-US Collaborative Research on CRITICAL TRANSITIONS IN HISTORY OF LIFE (II) June 22-24, 2006 Beijing and Liaoning, China
The 2006 China-US Workshop on “Critical Transitions In History Of Life (II)” was held in Beijing at the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) on June 22, 2006. This was a sequel to the 2005 US-China Workshop in Washington to review and discuss the bilateral scientific collaboration between Chinese and US geologists and paleontologists.
NSF Beijing Science & Technology
Symposium: A Celebration of US-Sino Collaboration
| The Opening Ceremony of the NSF-Beijing Office,
May 24, 2006On May 24th a U.S.-China Conference was held to celebrate decades of S&T cooperation and the opening of NSF Beijing Office. The conference was held in the 2nd Conference Hall of the Kunlun Hotel, on May 24th (Wednesday) from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The meeting featured dignitaries from the US NSF and the NSF China as well as presentations from both US and Chinese scientists who described their cooperative research. Here are links to the contributions from our project.
- US-China Collaborative Research on Critical Transitions In History of Life
- The Earth-Time Initiative
- China-US collaboration on Permian-Triassic Extinction and Recovery
- China-US Collaboration on Neogene Mammalian Faunal Evolution and Climate Changes
US-China Workshop In Geology
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Paleontology |
Critical Transitions in the History of Life, Washington, DC, November 5 & 6,
2005This scientific workshop brought together the US and Chinese scientists most active in geochronology, sedimentology, isotope and organic geochemistry, and paleontology in both China and the US in order to develop integrated research plans based on shared knowledge and information.
