GSA 2024 in Anaheim, Cambrian paleobiology, and Disneyland!
We are back home after a fabulous week at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting at Anaheim, California! The IP lab led the organization of the day-long topical session Evolution of Marine Life in the Cambrian, coordinated by Rudy-Lerosey-Aubril, Javier Ortega-Hernández, and our colleagues Bob Gaines (Pomona College) and Sara Pruss (Smith College). With a wooping count of eight oral presentations featuring postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and pre-doctoral interns, the lab was robustly represented during the meeting. Of course, no conference is complete without a bit of bonding, and Disneyland was too close to let go of this opportunity!
The lab on the last day of GSA 2024. From right: Karma Nanglu (Fezouata enigmatic metazoans), Sarah Losso (trilobite leg biomechanics), Maddi Waskom (Cambrian tiering paleoecology), Javier Ortega-Hernández (Marjum biota from Utah), Marc Mapalo (Cambrian stem-group tardigrades), Solène Bourdas (olenellid guts from Canada), Walker Weyland (Ediacaran paleobiology), and Rudy Lerosey-Aubril (Pioche biota from Nevada). Not pictured Edna Rodriguez-Sánchez (arthropod gill macroevolution)
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IP Lab bonding time at Disneyland. From right: Karma Nanglu (Shan Yu #1 fan), Maddi Waskom (lead us to Space Mountain), Sarah Losso (drag me to Hell-frog), Marc Mapalo (Chewbacca's best buddy), Edna Rodriguez-Sánchez (Disney pin-queen), Walker Weyland (strong with The Force), Solène Bourdas (loves digging a little deeper), and Javier Ortega-Hernández (will only eat corndogs) |