Fossilworks Intensive Workshop in Analytical Palaeobiology
A five-week intensive training workshop focusing on methods used by analytical palaeobiologists was held at NCEAS between 2005 and 2009 and at Macquarie University between 2005 and 2015. The workshop is now indefinitely cancelled due to lack of financial support.
Most participants were PhD students. Topics included community palaeoecology, diversity estimation, speciation and extinction, phylogenetics, phenotypic evolution, and geometric morphometrics. Both simulation modelling and data analysis methods were employed. Training combined lectures and practical exercises. Participants were given hands-on instruction in programming using R and taught to use other analytical software. In addition to the workshop coordinator, each week a new instructor was present. Instructors included John Alroy, Michael Foote, Nigel Hughes, Gene Hunt, Michal Kowalewski, Graeme Lloyd, Tom Olszewski, Mark Patzkowsky, David Polly, Pete Wagner, and Mark Webster. At various times, support was provided by the Australian Research Council, NCEAS, NESCent, the Palaeontological Association, the Paleontological Society, and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
2015 participants
Chris Dean | Imperial College London | Polly Russell | University of Bath |
Blake Dickson | Harvard University | Camilla Souto | University of California, Berkeley |
Elizabeth Dowding | University of New South Wales | Melanie Tietje | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin |
Emilia Jarochowska | GeoZentrum Nordbayern | Fiona Walker | University of Bristol |
Sarah Maccracken | University of Maryland/Smithsonian Institution | Andrzej Wolniewicz | University of Oxford |
Jenny Peteya | University of Akron |
2014 participants
Mairin Balisi | University of California, Los Angeles | Haley O'Brien | Ohio University |
Tom Cullen | University of Toronto | Alejandra Ortiz | New York University |
Sauruv Dutta | IISER Kolkata | Sandra Schachat | Smithsonian Institution |
Adam Kocsis | Eötvös University | Laura Stroik | Arizona State University |
Andreas Lauchstedt | Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Jon Tennant | Imperial College London |
David Moss | Syracuse University | Collin VanBuren | University of Cambridge |
2013 participants
Tomasz Borszcz | Institute of Oceanology (PAS) | Emily Orzechowski | College of William and Mary |
Neil Brocklehurst | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | Silvia Pineda-Munoz | Macquarie University |
Aidan Couzens | Flinders University | Mark Puttick | University of Bristol |
Andrew Du | George Washington University | Nadia Scott | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Daniel Field | Yale University | Stephanie Smith | University of Washington |
Julieta Gallego | Cornell University | Davey Wright | Ohio State University |
Derek Larson | University of Toronto |
2012 participants
Jérémie Bardin | Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle | Rafal Nawrot | Universität Wien |
Kirstin Brink | University of Toronto | David Nicholson | University of York |
Sahale Casebolt | University of Florida | Celeste Pérez Ben | Universidad de Buenos Aires |
John Clarke | University of Oxford | Luna Sánchez | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Martin Ezcurra | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Roland Sookias | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Anneke Madern | Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis | Laura Soul | University of Oxford |
2011 participants
Gabrial Aguirre | University of Otago | Manja Hethke | University of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Meghan Balk | University of New Mexico | Sabine Nürnberg | Humboldt University Berlin |
Caleb Brown | University of Toronto | Shubhabrata Paul | University of South Florida |
Jonathan Calede | University of Washington | Peter Smits | Monash University |
Lucy Chang | University of California, Berkeley | Allison Stegner | University of California, Berkeley |
Andy Grass | University of Iowa | Valerie Syverson | University of Michigan |
2010 participants
Jessie Atterholt | University of California, Berkeley | Alex Janevski | University of Michigan |
Monica Carvalho | Pennsylvania State University | Julien Millet | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin |
Max Christie | University of Georgia | Jon Mitchell | Appalachian State University |
Liz Ferrer | University of California, Berkeley | John Renaudie | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin |
Frank Forcino | University of Alberta | Kathleen Ritterbush | University of Southern California |
Clotilde Hardy | Université de Bourgogne | Priya Tamma | National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore |
2009 participants
Mark Bell | University of Bristol | Felix Marx | University of Bristol |
Katie Collins | University of Wellington | Heike Mewis | Museum für Naturkunde |
Federico Degrange | Museo de La Plata | Gary Motz | University of Akron |
Aaron House | University of Cincinnati | Alejo Scarano | Museo de La Plata |
Annie Lagomarcino | University of Cincinnati | Amelinda Webb | Yale University |
Kaitlin Maguire | University of California, Berkeley | Shawn Whiteman | University of New Mexico |
2008 participants
Tracy Aze | Cardiff University | Emily Lindsey | University of California, Berkeley |
Karen Bacon | University College Dublin | Luis Felipe Opazo | University of Plymouth |
Diego Balseiro | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba | Juan José Rustan | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba |
Javier Echevarria | Museo de La Plata | Daniel Thomas | University of Otago |
Liz Freedman | Montana State University | Michael Tuite | University of Virginia |
Michelle Lawing | Indiana University | Laura Wilson | Universität Zürich |
2007 participants
Andrea Cobbett | University of Bath | Murat Maga | University of Texas, Austin |
Felipe de la Parra | University of Florida | John Orcutt | University of Oregon |
Kathy Hollis | University of Colorado, Boulder | Claire Samant | Université de Poitiers |
Philip Jardine | University of Birmingham | Susan Standen | Case Western Reserve University |
Soïzic Le Fur | Université de Poitiers | Susumu Tomiya | University of California, Berkeley |
Graeme Lloyd | University of Bristol | Vera Weisbecker | University of New South Wales |
Ayse Atakul | Middle East Technical University | Stephen Goodyear | University of Texas, Austin | ||
Mara Brady | University of Chicago | Sarah Kolbe | University of Copenhagen | ||
Andres Cardenas | University of South Florida | Sarda Sahney | University of Bristol | ||
Brad Deline | University of Cincinnati | Krister Smith | Yale University | ||
Jessica Gilner | Florida Institute of Technology | Bryan Valencia | Florida Institute of Technology | ||
Ann Goewert | University of North Carolina | Richard Wilkinson | Cambridge University |
2005 participants
Jessica Blois | Stanford University | Matt O'Donnell | Pennsylvania State University | ||
Devin Buick | University of Cincinnati | Jocelyn Sessa | Pennsylvania State University | ||
Sylvain Gerber | Université de Bourgogne | Adam Tomasovych | Universität Würzburg | ||
Zack Krug | Pennsylvania State University | Patrick Wall | Syracuse University | ||
Elise Nardin | Université de Bourgogne | Mike Weiser | University of Arizona | ||
Mike Nowak | Duke University |