Dissertation Research: The Neogene Mass Extinction in the Western Atlantic: Determining the Influence of Methodology on Patterns of Extinction and Faunal Turnover

9520457 ESPRIKMAN这个奖项将有助于支持在加州大学伯克利分校的学生的博士论文研究。 该奖学金将提供少量的供应资金，并将使学生能够参观和研究在美国的化石软体动物材料的主要收藏品，以及在瑞士巴塞尔的自然历史博物馆，在那里发现重要的古生物学藏品。这是一项重要的研究，因为学生将试图评估采样策略和比较方法来估计灭绝的腹足动物群的生物多样性。 建立这种方法的可靠性是非常重要的，通过地质时间来解决动物群的变化，特别是在西大西洋调查新近纪的质量迁移。 这个奖项将有助于培养一位年轻的古生物学家。 更重要的是，这个学生的工作对于其他更高级的研究人员在建立估计化石群落生物多样性的方法方面可能非常重要。 ***

9520457 HICKMAN This award will contribute support to the doctoral dissertation research of a student at the University of California, Berkeley. The award will provide minor funding for supplies and will enable the student to visit and study major collections of fossil mollusk material in the United States as well as the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland where important paleontological holdings are found. This is an important study because the student will be attempting to assess sampling strategies and compare methods for estimating biodiversity for extinct faunas of gastropods. Establishing reliability of such methods is very important for addressing faunal change through geological time and especially for investigating Neogene mass extinctions in the western Atlantic. %%% This award will contribute to the research training of a young paleontologist. More importantly, the work of this particular student could be very important for other more senior researchers in establishing methods for estimating biodiversity in fossil communities. ***