We are excited to share that Gabriela Mángano has joined the Editorial Board of Sedimentology as an Associate Editor. Sedimentology publishes on a variety of topics in sedimentology including on modern & ancient sedimentary environments, sequence stratigraphy, and sediment-organism interactions. Congratulations to Gabriela on her new position!
Category: Sabbatical 2019-2020
Luancaia igen. nov., a molting trace fossil
Research in Northern Spain yielded some spectacular Devonian trace fossils. While they may look superficially similar to classic resting traces like Rusophycus, they lack any scratch imprint and have a distinctive axial ridge. In fact, their morphology is strikingly similar to the dorsal side of the euarthropod Camptophyllia. Detailed research by Mangano and workers in Scientific Reports determined that these traces instead represent evidence of infaunal molting. Their new article formally describing these traces and the palaeoecologic and paleonenvironmental implications they hold is available for free until January 16th through this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1c8ca73N~0BeE
Trip to Muenster & Tallin, & a successful PhD defense!
Luis Buatois continued his lecture tour during the first week of December with a stop at the University of Muenster (Germany) giving a Department Seminar on the work of animals in space and time. This was followed by a visit to Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) for an invited talk on the trace fossil record of early Paleozoic evolutionary events and as external of the PhD defence of Ursula Toom. The trip to Estonia includes a visit to the Sarghava Field Station, the most likely host of the next Workshop on Ichnotaxonomy.
Dr. Toom’s research looks at the Ordovician and Silurian trace fossil record of Estonia, with some fantastic tomographic work. Her work isn’t done though! A prolific researcher, Ursula continues to shed light on the ancient life in Estonia from her position at Tallinn University. You can congratulate Dr. Toom and follow her research on her ResearchGate profile, and download her thesis from it’s record here.
Written by Dr. Luis Buatois and Brittany Laing
Sabbatical activities in Lyon and Lausanne.
Sabbatical activities continued for Gabriela Mángano and Luis Buatois who visited the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France) and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) within the framework of research on the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event during the last couple of weeks of November. In Lyon, Gabriela was an invited speaker for the European seminar with a talk on the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition and an interactive lecture for Master Students in Earth Sciences. Luis did a Department Seminar on the applications of ichnology in paleoenvironmental reconstructions.
By Luis Buatois
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