Guest Speaker(s): Dr Steve Hasiotis

Steve Hasiosis is currently Professor of Ichnology at The University of Kansas. Steve studies organism-media interactions and their implications for paleontology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleoenvironments, paleoecology, paleopedology, paleohydrology, and paleoclimate. His research focuses on interactions in the continental realm, where organism activity relates to the history of the soil formation and the record of paleo-biodiversity not recorded by body fossils in deposits where they are lacking. His interests include the distribution of trace fossils in the continental realm, evolution of organism behaviour, evolution of continental ecosystems, the interpretation of past climates from paleosols, and effects of extinctions on soil biota and their recovery.