Summer means field season
As many of the Historical Geobiology Lab's field areas are in northern Canada, summer is the time to get out on the rocks. Lab member Malcolm Hodgskiss is continuing his work on Paleoproterozoic carbonates in the Belcher Islands, Nunavut. Meanwhile, Tom Boag investigated Ediacaran fossils and paleoenvironments in the Wernecke Mountains of Yukon and Cariboo Mountains of British Columbia, along with Erik Sperling and collaborators Justin Strauss and James Busch from Dartmouth College. We also made our third and final trip to the spectacular upper canyon of the Peel River in north-central Yukon--perhaps the most complete and best exposed early to mid-Paleozoic basinal succession in the world, during late July. This trip included lab members Erik Sperling and Richard Stockey, and collaborators Justin Strauss (Dartmouth), Tiffani Fraser (YGS) and Mike Melchin (St. Francis Xavier). Undergraduate visiting student Joe Malinowski (Winter, 2016) was also able to come out and see the rocks he did such a great job analyzing in lab. Tom and Richard are now finishing up in the Cariboos, and Malcolm in the Belchers, and we wish them a safe and productive end to their field seasons!