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Workshop 5
“Anthropogenic Climate Destabilization: A Worst-case Scenario”
Participant Biography
September 12–14, 2008 | Bellevue, Washington
Peter D. Ward
Peter D. Ward, Ph.D., is Professor of geological sciences, Professor of zoology, and Curator of Paleontology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Ward is currently examining the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event with studies in France and Spain involving detailed fieldwork that concentrates on ammonites and bivalves. He is also researching speciation patterns and ecology of the living cephalopods Nautilus and Sepia. A final field of research is examining the stratigraphic history of West Coast Cretaceous basins through detailed biostratigraphy and basin analysis.
Dr. Ward has written extensively on evolution and mass extinctions, and has been involved with many radio and television features. Since earning his Ph.D. in 1976, he has published more than numerous scientific papers dealing with these topics. He has chaired an international panel on the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction and served as Editor for the volume Global Catastrophes in Earth History, which was sponsored by the National Academy of Science and NASA. He was elected as a Fellow of the California Academy of Science in 1984; has been nominated for the Schuchert Medal, an award of the Paleontological Society; was named Gallager Professor of Geology at the University of Calgary; and was awarded an Affiliate Professorship at the California Institute of Technology. He was elected as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 1984. His 1992 book On Methuselah’s Trail received a “Golden Trilobite Award” from the Paleontological Society as the best popular science book of the year.
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