PCP PIRE
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The PCP PIRE is organizing its second ALL HANDS meeting to be held in Gainesville, Florida on November 1-2, 2012.
The attendees to the event are our Principal Investigators, Students, Stakeholders, External Advisory Committee, and NSF officers.
The goals of the meeting are to bring project participants and partners together to:
1. Communicate about research discoveries, international experiences, and educational and outreach activities; and
2. Review project goals and plans for the PCP PIRE.
Pre-Meeting Activities (Optional)
Thursday November 1, 2012
PaleoClim Workshop, Download agenda
6:00-8:00 Breakfast at hotel
8:30 Bus from Paramount Plaza Hotel to University of Florida
8:45 Coffee/Tea Meet-and-Greet
9:00-9:05 Amanda Waite & Austin Hendy, Welcome and Introductions
9:05-9:10 Doug Jones (FLMNH), Welcome and Introductions
9:10-9:40 Feature Presentation | Carlos Jaramillo (STRI) | Title TBA
9:45-11:30 Terrestrial Paleoclimate short presentations | Moderator: Aaron Wood
Presenters: Jon Bloch, Aldo Rincon, Sean Moran, Hannal Reigel, Alexander Antonelli, Jorge Piño, Chanika Symister, Sharon Holte
11:30-12:30 Lunch and Discussion
12:30-13:00 Feature Presentation | Pierre Sepulchre (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace)| Title TBA
13:00-14:00 Paleoceanography short presentations | Moderator: Andrea Dutton
Presenters: Ellen Martin, Amanda Waite, Carlos de Gracia, Catalina Pimiento, Lauren Toth, Camilo Montes, Austin Hendy, Nicole Canarozzi
14:00 - 15:00 Brainstorming Session – Paleoclimate and Paleogeography – Reitz Union 287
Facilitator: Carlos Jaramillo
Particpants: Jaramillo, Bloch, Jones, Martin, Dutton, Waite, Hendy A, Antonelli, Sepulchre, Pimiento, Holte, Toth, Ellis.
16:00-17:00 | Keynote address, Andre Droxler, Rice University (co-hosted with the UF Department of Geological Sciences), CSE E119
“Caribbean Gateways: A Complex Cenozoic History of Wide Open Passages to Partially and fully Closed Isthmuses”
17:30-18:30 | Collections tours, Florida Museum of Natural History, Dickinson Hall
18:30-19:00 | All Hands Ice Breaker Social (Sponsored by the Florida Museum of Natural History), Dickinson Hall Lobby
17:15 - 18:15 Brainstorming Session – Colombian Collaborations – 230 Dickinson Hall
Facilitator: Carlos Jaramillo
Particpants: Jaramillo, Montes, MacFadden, Bloch, Hendy A, Foster, Montes, Pimiento, Herrera, Pardo, Acero, Ellis.
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Meeting Activities
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
06:00-8:00 Breakfast at the hotel
08:00 Bus from Paramount Plaza Hotel to University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 1A
Introductions | Moderator Doug Jones
8:30-8:35 Doug Jones (FLMNH)
8:35-8:40 Sobha Jashankar (UF Office of Research)
8:40-8:45 David Sammons (UF International Center)
8:45-8:50 Carlos Jaramillo (STRI)
8:50-8:55 Jessica Robin (NSF)
8:55-9:00 Bruce MacFadden (FLMNH)
9:05-9:30 Feature Presentation| Lauren Toth: Climatic control of coral reef development in the tropical eastern Pacific
9:30-10:10 Poster presentations | Coffee break | Moderator: Nicole Cannarozzi
10:20-12:20 Session 1: Partnerships and Collaboration | Moderator: Bruce MacFadden
10:20-10:25 Bruce MacFadden (FLMNH): Importance of networking and collaboration to PIRE-PCP
10:25-10:35 Camillo Montes (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia) | Title TBA
10:35-10:45 Andres Pardo (University of Caldas, Colombia) | Title TBA
10:45-10:55 Jorge Pino (UF Biology) - From ideas to actions: promoting awareness about science beyond the lab bench
10:55-11:05 Catalina Pimiento (UF Biology): Designing and teaching a blended course in Paleontology of Panama
11:40-11:50 Carlos DeGracia (STRI): The fossil billfishes of Central America and their paleogeographic implications
11:50-12:00 Carson Phillips (UF Biology): It takes a village to mold a scientist: The importance of partnerships and collaborations for successful research
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
12:15-13:15 Brainstorming Session – Exhibits – Smathers 1A
Facilitator: Doug Jones/Eldredge Bermingham
Particpants: Jones, Berminghan, Morgan, Jaramillo, MacFadden, Bloch, Angehr, MacMachon, Hendy K, Oviedo,
Pimiento, Acero, Rojas, Dunkel.
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13:30-14:50 Session 2: Student Research and Outreach | Moderator: Gary Morgan
13:30-13:40 Gary Morgan (NMMNH): PCP-PIRE and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History
13:40-13:50 Jon Bloch (FLMNH): Title TBA
13:50-14:00 Aldo Rincon: Terrestrial fossil vertebrates from Panama: Biostratigraphic and paleogbiogeographic implications of the early Miocene Las Cascadas fossil assemblage
14:00-14:10 Fabiany Herrera (UF Biology): Title TBA
14:10-14:20 Luz Helena (UF Journalism): Give jargon a break: E-newsletter and USA Science Festival
14:20-14:30 Kassie Hendy (FLMNH): PCP-PIRE Cruises the Fossil Freeway
14:30-14:40 Andy Kilmer (UF Biology): Title TBA
14:40-14:50 Austin Hendy (FLMNH): Digitizing FLMNH's Panama fossils: enhancing accessibility and education from afar
14:50-15:20 Poster presentations/coffee break | Moderator: Nicole Cannarozzi
15:30-16:30 Session 3: Boots on the Ground: International Experiences and Training | Moderator: Aaron Wood
15:30-15:40 Jason Carr (SDSM): Seven Months in Panama: Experiences and Professional Development as a PCP-PIRE Intern
15:40-15:50 Sharon Holte (UF Biology): Late Pleistocene Megafauna of Panama
15:50-16:00 Jill Holliday (UF Biology): PCP-PIRE Outreach: The California Teachers Project
16:00-16:10 Daniel Johnston (Santa Cruz School District)| Title TBA
16:10-16:20 Cheryl McLaughlin (UF Education): Rethinking Professional Development: Facilitating Science Teacher Learning in Multiple Contexts
16:30-17:10 Feature Presentation and closing remarks | Moderator: Austin Hendy
16:30-16:55 Alexandre Antonelli (University of Gothenberg, Sweden): The Biological Implications of an Earlier Isthmus
16:55-17:05 Egbert Leigh (STRI): Reflections on meeting from a neontologist
17:05-17:10 Bruce MacFadden (FLMNH)
17:30-18:30 External Advisory Committee – Smathers 1A
Facilitator: Shari Ellis (FLMNH)
Particpants: MacFadden, Jaramillo, Jones, Bloch, Morgan, Flynn, Rubinoff, Saleska, Escobar, Robin, Bernett, Ellis, Dunkel.
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Posters
MacLaughlin, Cheryl. “Research experience for teachers (Ret): Using paleontology fieldwork in the Panama Canal to support professional learning”
Martin, Jeffrey. “New freshwater molluscs from the Panama Canal Miocene Cucaracha Formation and paleoenvironmental reconstruction implications”
Perez, Nicolas & Stiles Rosselli, Elena. “Volunteers in the Smithsonian: A way of integrating students into research”
Ramirez, Diego. “Detrital geochronology and low-temperature thermochoronology in the Isthmus of Panama”
Riegel, Hannah. “Paleoenvironments of the Upper Cucaracha Formation (early Miocene, Panama): Evidence from Pedofacies and Fluvial Deposits”
Wood, Aaron. “Ecomorphology of early Miocene horses from Panama: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions”
