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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> <meta content="Offering lectures, field trips, publications on paleontology, fossils, dinosaurs, evolution." name="description" /> <meta content="paleontology, fossils, dinosaurs, evolution, field trips, lectures." name="keywords" /> <meta content="none, default" name="Microsoft Theme" /> <meta content="tl, default" name="Microsoft Border" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" pbzloc="32"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" pbzloc="37" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td height="905" pbzloc="41" valign="top" width="124"> <p align="center"><img alt="nyps_logox.jpg (9797 bytes)" height="111" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/nyps_logox.jpg" width="112" /></p> <p align="center" pbzloc="39"><a href="http://nyps.org/about.htm" pbzloc="26"><img alt="about.jpg (2803 bytes)" height="24" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/about.jpg" width="120" /> </a><a href="http://nyps.org/join.htm"><img alt="join.jpg (2360 bytes)" height="24" pbzloc="48" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/join.jpg" width="120" /> </a><a href="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement.htm"><img alt="meetings.jpg (3955 bytes)" height="24" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/meetings.jpg" width="120" /> </a><a href="http://nyps.org/field.htm" pbzloc="7"><img alt="field.jpg (4748 bytes)" height="24" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/field.jpg" width="120" /> </a><a href="http://nyps.org/publicat.htm" pbzloc="18"><img alt="pub.jpg (4518 bytes)" height="24" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/pub.jpg" width="120" /> </a><a href="http://nyps.org/education.htm" pbzloc="8"><img alt="edu.jpg (4289 bytes)" height="24" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/edu.jpg" width="120" /> </a><a href="http://nyps.org/links.htm"><img alt="links.jpg (2755 bytes)" height="24" pbzloc="18" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/links.jpg" width="120" /> </a><a href="http://nyps.org/news.htm" pbzloc="12"><img alt="News.jpg (4829 bytes)" height="24" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/News.jpg" width="120" /> </a><a href="http://nyps.org/index.htm" pbzloc="38"><img alt="home.jpg (2680 bytes)" height="24" src="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/home.jpg" width="120" /> </a></p> <p align="center" pbzloc="3"> </p> <p align="center" pbzloc="72"> </p> </td> <td height="905" pbzloc="11" valign="top" width="10"> </td> <!--msnavigation--> <td height="905" pbzloc="25" valign="top" width="838"> <table border="0" pbzloc="22" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center" width="100%"> <div align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><big><big><font color="#000080"><strong>NEW YORK </strong></font></big></big></font></b></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100%"> <div align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><big><big><font color="#000080"><strong pbzloc="10">PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY</strong></font></big></big></font></b></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="100%"> <div align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><big><big><big><font color="#000080"><strong pbzloc="15">MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT</strong></font></big></big></big></font></b></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr color="#000080" /> <table border="0" pbzloc="6" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td pbzloc="21" rowspan="7"> <div align="center" pbzloc="17"> <div class="yiv6207331806gmail_default" pbzloc="12" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(29,34,40); font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial"> <p pbzloc="4"> </p> <p pbzloc="9"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><em>A NEW VIEW OF THE DINOSAUR ASSEMBLAGES</em></strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><em>OF CHINA AND THEIR FUNDAMENTALLY</em></strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><em pbzloc="7">COLD-ADAPTED ORIGINS</em></strong></span></span></p> <p pbzloc="17"><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong pbzloc="19">Dr. Paul E. Olsen</strong></span></p> <p pbzloc="22"><span style="font-size: 20px">Storke Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 20px">Columbia University & AMNH Research Associate</span></p> <p pbzloc="11"><span pbzloc="24" style="font-size: 20px">Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px"><strong pbzloc="33">Sunday, February 16, 2025 2:00 P.M.</strong></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px"><strong pbzloc="20">THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD ONLINE</strong></span></span></em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span pbzloc="31" style="font-size: 20px"> </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p pbzloc="30" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 20px">Recent work by me and my colleagues over the past 19 years place the famous dinosaurs of China in a new, larger perspective in climate and evolution. Traditionally, attributed to Pompeii-like volcanic catastrophes, we have shown that the spectacular Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous strata, with their flattened and 3D fauna, instead record normal life and death processes preserved in a succession of lacustrine and fluvial depositional environments. We show through phylogenetic bracket analysis, that dinosaurs are primitively cold adapted, and though exploration of the Junggar Basin of NW China, we show they lived in the arctic in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic, which had freezing wintertime conditions despite very high atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>. Together, China’s Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing deposits show clear evidence of a massive true polar wander event. The whole shell of the Earth rotated with respect to its spin axis with East Asia translating south from the Arctic to the southern mid-latitudes and subtropics and back to mid-latitudes structuring the depositional environments that preserved those spectacular dinosaur assemblages, giving us a new perspective of their significance.</span></p> <p pbzloc="10"><span style="font-size: 20px"> </span></p> <p pbzloc="33" style="text-align: left"> </p> </div> </div> <div align="center" pbzloc="8"> <p pbzloc="46"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b pbzloc="43">N.Y.P.S. MEETING DATES FOR THE YEAR</b></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left">These are the meeting dates of the New York Paleontological Society for the 2024-2025 season. We normally meet at 2:00 P.M. in a room at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (79th Street and Central Park West). However, due to policy changes and new construction, the Museum is unable to assign any rooms for meetings for any groups at this time. Exactly when the Museum will allow groups like our Society to reserve rooms is uncertain.</p> <p style="text-align: left"> But, since room availability may change, it has been decided to hold <strong>online meetings on the regular dates and times</strong> so that the schedule remains the same whether the meeting is in a room or online. One advantage of online meetings is that they will be recorded so members who can’t attend at the meeting time can view the whole meeting afterwards at their convenience.</p> <p style="text-align: left"> </p> <p style="text-align: left"> Our Annual Party would normally be held at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn, but new construction may effect the availability of a large enough venue space. Note, due to the nature of the party (many tables, events, talks and wonderful food), this event <em>cannot</em> be held online.</p> <p style="text-align: left"> </p> <p pbzloc="40" style="text-align: left"> As of this writing, all of the dates this year are on the <strong>third Sunday of the month, except April’s</strong>. Also, our Annual Holidays Party would be held if possible on a Saturday (the date to be determined), but, again, the available venue space and rules may effect this event. The dates are as follows:</p> </div> <div align="center" pbzloc="45"> <table border="0" pbzloc="48" style="height: 184px; width: 641px" width="641"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div pbzloc="50"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font pbzloc="67">September 15, 2024</font></span></span></div> </td> <td> <div pbzloc="41"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font pbzloc="69">December 7 or 14, 2024*</font></span></span></div> </td> <td> <div pbzloc="70"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span pbzloc="71" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">March 16<font pbzloc="54">, 2025</font></span></span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div pbzloc="48"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font pbzloc="50">October 20, 2024</font></span></span></div> </td> <td> <div pbzloc="51"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font pbzloc="52">January 19, 2025</font></span></span></div> </td> <td> <div pbzloc="73"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font pbzloc="75">April 27, 2025 **</font></span></span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div pbzloc="64"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font pbzloc="66">November 17, 2024</font></span></span></div> </td> <td> <div pbzloc="3"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font pbzloc="53">February 16, 2025</font></span></span></div> </td> <td> <div pbzloc="58"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font pbzloc="76">May 18, 2025</font></span></span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <div pbzloc="34"> </div> <div pbzloc="60"> <p pbzloc="62"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NOTE: All the above dates (for online <strong><em>or</em></strong> in-room meetings) are <strong>third Sundays</strong> of their respective months, <strong>except April’s (**) which is the fourth Sunday</strong>.</span></p> <p pbzloc="91"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> * Our Annual Party (a Saturday) - venue and date to be determined <em pbzloc="58">if possible</em></span></span></p> <p pbzloc="37"><span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></span></p> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" height="20"> <div align="center" pbzloc="62"> <p pbzloc="62" style="text-align: left"> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p pbzloc="5"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> </tr> <tr valign="top"> </tr> <tr valign="top"> </tr> <tr valign="top"> </tr> <tr valign="top"> </tr> <tr> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="center" pbzloc="47"> </p> <p align="center"><font size="1"><a href="http://nyps.org/about.htm"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" pbzloc="27">About</font></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <a href="http://nyps.org/join.htm">Join</a> <a href="./New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement_files/New York Paleontological Society Meeting Announcement.htm">Meetings</a> <a href="http://nyps.org/field.htm" pbzloc="19">Field Trips</a></font></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://nyps.org/publicat.htm">Publications</a> <a href="http://nyps.org/education.htm">Education</a> <a href="http://nyps.org/links.htm">Links</a> <a href="http://nyps.org/news.htm">News Links</a> <a href="http://nyps.org/index.htm">Home</a></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3"> </font> <!--msnavigation--></p> </td> </tr> <!--msnavigation--> </tbody> </table> <p pbzloc="48"> </p> <p> </p> <p pbzloc="16"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </body> </html>