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SUMMARY:The transition to a forested planet: Devonian forest ecosystems in
  New York and Svalbard - Dr Chris Berry (University of Cardiff)
DTSTART:20150216T170000Z
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CONTACT:Jack Wright
DESCRIPTION:The Devonian transition from small herbaceous plants to forest
  trees is one of the key episodes in the evolution of the Earth System\, w
 hich is believed to have had important consequences for global sediment dy
 namics\, weathering\, and atmospheric composition. In the last 5 years dra
 matic evidence has emerged for the 'footprints' of the earliest forests\, 
 based on in situ discoveries in New York State (Gilboa\, Cairo) and Svalba
 rd. The talk will look at the nature of these discoveries\, how they infor
 m us about the timing and geography of the spread of earliest forests\, an
 d together with new understanding of the form and size of early trees\, pr
 esent a new understanding of early forest ecology.\n\nGilboa Research: htt
 ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M0j4ZdaJF8\n\nBiography:\n\nStudied palaeont
 ology with Simon Conway-Morris and Barrie Rickards and sedimentology with 
 Peter Friend and Tony Dixon (amongst others!) at Cambridge University befo
 re undertaking research on the Middle Devonian flora of Venezuela at Cardi
 ff University. Worked on reconstructions of cladoxylopsid trees with Murie
 l Fairon-Demaret in Liege\, Belgium with a Royal Society European Exchange
  Fellowship\, before returning to Cardiff as a University of Wales Researc
 h Fellow and then as lecturer in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences. W
 orks extensively in USA\, Greenland and Svalbard\, South America and China
 .
LOCATION:Harker Room 1\, Department of Earth Sciences
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