Seminar: Dr. William Daniels

Wednesday, April 12 | 3:30 PM

Environmental changes during the woolly mammoth extinction at St. Paul Island

The woolly mammoths of St. Paul Island are an ecological oddity, surviving for thousands of years longer than mammoths on the continental mainland. Their eventual demise around 5,500 years ago remains somewhat mysterious. In this talk, Dr. Daniels will present organic geochemical reconstructions of the paleoclimate and paleoecology of St. Paul Island and discuss the implications for island fauna extinctions.

Event Speaker
A photo of William Daniels on a frozen lake holding a sediment core

Dr. William Daniels, University of Minnesota Duluth, Earth & Environmental Science