James Witts
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeoecology @NHM_London. Views my own.
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15-05-2016 08:32:10
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Our paper on the impact of the Messinian salinity crisis on Mediterranean marine biota is finally out in Science Magazine 🥳🥳🥳 Daniel García-Castellanos marta coll Francesca Bosellini Niklas Hohmann @[email protected] and many more iMARES MedSalt Salt Giant FWF Universität Wien science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
#FossilFriday this week features beautiful specimens of the lobsters Palaeastacus sussexiensis and Glyphea willetti from the #Chalk, now in Natural History Museum collections looked after by Richie Howard
#MaastrichtianMonday James Witts and Prof. Andy Gale from ChaSE are in Maastricht 🇳🇱, presenting a poster at a meeting celebrating 175 years since Andrè Dumont first described the original type section for this stage of the #Cretaceous!
🌋Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction📷. New research in Science Magazine on how mega-El Niño solve a decades old problem in unifying both land and marine extinctions. The deadliest extinction in Earth's History. #sciencetwt #sciencetwt science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Please find our outreach article on our recent article in The Conversation by David Bond, Paul Wignall and myself. What happens when El Niño gets out of control? Global Extinction ☠️💀☠️ #ClimateCollaps Original paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. tinyurl.com/3h8jzvh7
Preparing my geosociety #GSA2024 talk on initial results of our fieldwork investigating the ecological impact of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction on Seymour Island, #Antarctica. Enjoy this beautiful #ammonite (Anagaudryceras) from right below the K-Pg boundary!
Come check out our geosociety session Monday morning on the K-Pg boundary: 08h00-12h00 in room 204C 🦖☄️🌋! We got a diverse programme, incl a talk on clumped isotopes within the Chicxulub crater by yours truly at 09h30 😎! James Witts GSA Planetary Geology Division The Paleontological Society GSA Sedimentary Geology Division GSA Geobiology
Starting now in Room 204C, our geosociety #GSA24 session on the K-Pg #extinction! We have a great interdisciplinary line-up of speakers covering many aspects of this fascinating interval of geological time from all over the globe.