BRUCE SMITH LIEBERMAN
Professor of Geology and Senior Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, 120 Lindley
Hall, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
785-864-2741 / blieber@ku.edu (fax 785-864-5276)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Columbia University, Geological Sciences, March
1994, thesis adviser Niles Eldredge.
Thesis title: "The Evolution of the Hamilton Group Fauna and a
Hierarchical Perspective on
Evolutionary Analysis"
M.A. Columbia University,
Geological Sciences, May 1991
B.A. Harvard University,
Geological Sciences, Summa Cum Laude, June 1988
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
1/96-7/98- Harvard University, with Andrew Knoll, NSF
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Earth Sciences- Analysis of Evolutionary
Patterns During the Cambrian Radiation
1/94-12/95- Yale University, with Elisabeth Vrba,
researching Global Environmental Change, Habitat Formation, and Evolution of a Freshwater Molluscan Fauna.
GRANTS AWARDED
Revisionary systematics of Cheirurid trilobites. I am one of two PIs along with Jonathan Adrain, University of Iowa. NSF Systematic Biology RevSys, 9/07-9/10, $450,000 for 3 years ($213,000 under my control)
An integrative paleontological and paleoenvironmental study of the Middle Cambrian Spence, Wheeler, and Marjum soft-bodied faunas of Utah. I am the sole PI, Bob Gaines, Pomona College, Mary Droser, UCRiverside, and Derek Briggs, Yale University are co-PIs, NSF Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology, 9/05-9/07, $250,000 for 2 years ($110,000 under my control)
Did a gamma ray burst cause
the late Ordovician mass extinction? Along with Adrian
Melott,
Claude Laird, Mikhail Medvedev, Department of Physics, and Larry
Martin,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, NASA, 5/04-5/07, $417,552
Archiving the history of life: High-density storage
to solve space needs for an invertebrate paleontology research and teaching
collection, I'm the PI along with co-PIs Roger Kaesler and Steve Hasiotis NSF
DBI, 5/2004-5/2007, $251,708
Self Faculty Scholar Award,
1/03-12/06, $150,000
A Sequence, Chemo-, and
Biostratigraphic Study of Late Early Cambrian Rocks,
Southern
Selwyn Basin, Mackenzie Mountains, N.W.T., Canada, along with Mike
Pope,
Washington State University, NSF Geology and Paleontology, 9/01-8/05,
$212,000
for 2 years ($117,000 under my control)
Early Cambrian Climate and
Evolution, along with Mike Pope, Washington State
University,
and Mario Coniglio, University of Waterloo, National Geographic,
Awarded
5/01, $20,000
Research Experience for
Undergraduates, along with 11 other colleagues in Dept. of
Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology, KU, NSF-REU- 3/01-3/04, $181,000
Characterization of the
Fauna of the Middle Cambrian Nelson Limestone: A Fauna of
Relevance
to Antarctic Geology, NSF-OPP Antarctic Geology and Geophysics-
8/00-12/02,
$60,000
Assessing the Long Term
Effects of Invasive Species Using the Fossil Record,
NSF/EPSCoR-
2/00-5/01, $35,000
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
in the Earth Sciences- awarded 5/95- 2 years, $72,000
Conchologists of America
Graduate Student Research Grant-1990 and 1993- $1,500
Theodore Roosevelt Research
Grant for Study of the North American Fauna-1993-$1,500
Long Island Shell Club
Grant-in-Aid of Research-1993- $1,000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(EXCLUDING POST-DOCS)
Associate Professor, with
tenure, University of Kansas, 8/02-
Assistant Professor,
University of Kansas, 8/98-7/02
Instructor, Harvard
University, Spring 1998.
Instructor, Yale University,
1995.
OTHER POSITIONS AND SABBATICALS
Acting Director, Paleontological Museum, 8/05-
Interim Director, Paleontological Institute and
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 8/05-
Visiting Professor, Department of Geology and
Geophysics, Yale University and
visiting
curator, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, Peabody Museum of Natural
History, 8/15/04-12/31/04. Funds provided by Yale Institute for Biospheric
Studies
and
Yale Peabody Museum.
Courtesy Assistant and Associate Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, since
1999
Curatorial Associate, Peabody Museum of Natural
History, Yale University, since 12/95 - and helped re-organize fossil type
collections during summer of 1995.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Research featured on NSF Multimedia Gallery:
http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_search_list.cfm?CFID=151796&CFTOKEN=89288855&jsessionid=3e30862001145647477836
Fellow of the
Paleontological Society, appointed 2005
Jan F. and Mary L. van Sant
Geology Excellence Award ($4000 cash)- 2003
Schuchert Award, to a
paleontologist under 40 whose research and career demonstrates
excellence
and promise, Paleontological Society- 2002
Jan F. and Mary L. van Sant
Geology Excellence Award ($5000 cash)- 2000
Paleontological Society
distinguished lecturer- 2000-2003
Marquis Who's Who in
America, Science and Engineering, 5th Edition, 1999
Honorable Mention, Best
Paper for 1998, Journal of Paleontology
Rudin Doctoral Fellowship for Graduate Research at the
American Museum of Natural History- 1989-1993
Honorable Mention, Best
Paper for 1991, Journal of Paleontology
Phi Beta Kappa, 1988
John Harvard
Scholarship-1985-1988
Donald Pritzker Memorial
Scholarship-1985-1986
Harvard College
Scholarship-1984-1985
BIBLIOGRAPHY - BOOKS
Lieberman, B. S. 2000. Paleobiogeography: Using
Fossils to Study Global Change, Plate Tectonics, and Evolution. Plenum
Press/Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York.
Reviews:
Favorably in American Scientist vol. 89, Jan.-Feb. 2001
Favorably
in Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 76,Sept. 2001
Recommended
in Choice vol. 38, April 2001
Favorably
in brief review in American Paleontologist vol. 9, Feb. 2001
Mentioned
in Harvard Magazine, May-June 2001
Favorably
in Northeastern Naturalist vol. 11(3), 2004
Adrain, J., G. D. Edgecombe, and B. S. Lieberman,
editors. 2001. Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: An Analytical Approach. Plenum
Press/Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York.
Reviews: Favorably in Palaeontological
Association Newsletter no. 50, 2002
Favorably in Paleobiology vol.
29(2), p. 298-302, 2003
Lieberman, B. S., A. Stigall Rode, editors. 2005.
Paleobiogeography: Generating New Insights into the Coevolution of the Earth
and Its Biota. Paleontological Society Papers 11, Paleontological Society,
Lawrence, KS, 158 pp.
Lieberman, B. S., and R. A. Kaesler. Prehistoric
Life: Evolution in the Fossil Record. Blackwell Scientific. In prep.
Wiley, E. O., and B. S. Lieberman. Phylogenetics, 2nd
edition. J. Wiley & Sons, New York. In prep.
BIBLIOGRAPHY - JOURNAL
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
*=MONOGRAPH
Hendricks, J. R., B. S. Lieberman, and A. L. Stigall.
2007. Using GIS to study the paleobiogeography of soft-bodied Cambrian
arthropods. Nature Geosciences. In review.
Meert, J. G., and B. S. Lieberman. 2007. The
Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana and its relationship to the
Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation. Gondwana Research Focus Paper. In press.
Lieberman, B. S., and A. L. Melott. 2007. Considering
the case for biodiversity cycles: reexamining the evidence for periodicity in
the fossil record. PLoS One. Accepted.
Hendricks, J. R., and B. S. Lieberman. 2007. New
phylogenetic insights into the Cambrian radiation of arachnomorph arthropods.
Journal of Paleontology. In review.
Hendricks, J. R., and B. S. Lieberman. 2007.
Biogeography and the Cambrian radiation of arachnomorph arthropods. Memoirs of
the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. In review.
Briggs, D. E. G., B. S. Lieberman, J. R. Hendricks,
S. L. Halgedahl, R. D. Jarrard. 2008. Middle Cambrian arthropods from Utah.
Journal of Paleontology. In press.
Lieberman, B. S. 2007. Emerging syntheses between
palaeobiogeography and macroevolutionary theory. Proceedings of the Royal
Society of Victoria. Neil W. Archbold Memorial Publication, eds. G. R. Shi, D.
McCann, J. Talent, and R. Peirson. Accepted.
Lieberman, B. S., W. Miller. III, and N. Eldredge. 2007. Paleontological patterns, macroecological dynamics and the evolutionary process Evolutionary Biology. In press.
Moore, R. A., and B. S. Lieberman. 2007. Preservation
of Early and Middle Cambrian soft-bodied arthropods from the Pioche Shale,
Nevada, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. In review.
Lieberman, B. S. 2007. The Cambrian radiation of
bilaterians: Evolutionary origins and palaeontological emergence; earth history
change and biotic factors. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
In press.
Dilliard, K., M. C. Pope, M. Coniglio, S. T. Hasiotis
and B. S. Lieberman. 2007. Stable isotope geochemistry of the Lower Cambrian
Sekwi Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada: Implications for ocean
chemistry and secular curve generation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology. In review.
Moore, R. A., S. C. McKenzie, and B. S. Lieberman. 2007. A Carboniferous synziphosurine (Xiphosura) from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Montana, USA. Palaeontology 50:1-7.
Dilliard, K., M. C. Pope, S. T. Hasiotis and B. S.
Lieberman. 2007. Third-Order Sequence Stratigraphy of
the Lower Sekwi Formation, Selwyn Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada –
A Record of Active Tectonism on a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Shelf.
Sedimentology. In review.
Lieberman, B. S. 2007. Stephen Jay Gould's evolving,
hierarchical thoughts on stasis in W. D. Allmon and R. Ross (Eds.), The
Legacy of Stephen Jay Gould. Columbia University Press, New York. In review.
Rode, A. L., and B. S. Lieberman. 2006. Quantitative
Paleobiogeography: GIS, Phylogenetic biogeographic analysis, and conservation
insights. Journal of Biogeography 33:2051-2060.
Lieberman, B. S. and A. Stigall Rode. 2005.
Paleobiogeography: Tracking the coevolution of the Earth and its biota. Pp. 1-3
in B. S. Lieberman and A. Stigall Rode (Eds.), Paleobiogeography:
Generating New Insights into the Coevolution of the Earth and Its Biota.
Paleontological Society Papers 11, Paleontological Society, Lawrence, KS.
Lieberman, B. S. 2005. Earth history change: The
pacemaker of evolution. Pp. 5-13 in B. S. Lieberman and A. Stigall Rode
(Eds.), Paleobiogeography: Generating New Insights into the Coevolution of the
Earth and Its Biota. Paleontological Society Papers 11, Paleontological
Society, Lawrence, KS.
Briggs, D. E. G., B. S. Lieberman, S. L. Halgedahl,
and R. D. Jarrard. 2005. A new vetulicolian from the Middle Cambrian of Utah and
the phylogenetic position of a problematic group. Palaeontology 48:681-686.
Rode, A. L., and B. S. Lieberman. 2005.
Paleobiogeographic patterns in the Middle and Late Devonian emphasizing
Laurentia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 222:272-284.
Lieberman, B.S. 2005. Geobiology and
paleobiogeography: Tracking the coevolution of the Earth and its biota.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 219:23-33.
Lieberman, B. S. 2005. Range expansion, extinction,
and biogeographic congruence: a deep time perspective. Pp. 111-124 in L.
Heaney and B. Riddle (Eds.), Frontiers in Biogeography: New Directions in the
Geography of Nature. Sinauer Press, Sunderland, MA.
Lieberman, B. S., and S. T. Hasiotis. 2005.
Paleontology along the Canol Road: Byway of cultural, natural, and evolutionary
history. Kansas Alumni Magazine 103(3):64-65.
Stigall Rode, A. L., & Lieberman, B. S.
(2006) Using environmental niche
modelling to study the Late Devonian biodiversity crisis. Pp. 93-180 in
D. J. Over, J. R. Morrow, and P. B. Wignall (Eds.), Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic
Biotic and Climatic Events:
Towards an Integrated Approach. Developments in Palaeontology and
Stratigraphy, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Lieberman, B. S., and E. S. Vrba. 2005. Stephen Jay
Gould on species selection: 30 years of insight. Paleobiology 31:113-121.
Rode, A. L., and B. S. Lieberman. 2005. Integrating
biogeograpy and evolution using phylogenetics and PaleoGIS: a case study
involving Devonian crustaceans. Journal of Paleontology. 79:267-276.
Eldredge, N., J. Thompson, P. Brakefield, S.
Gavrilets, D. Jablonski, J. Jackson, R. Lenski, B. S. Lieberman, M. McPeek, W.
Miller, III. 2005. The dynamics of evolutionary stasis. Paleobiology
31:133-145.
Randell, R. D., B. S. Lieberman, S. T. Hasiotis, and
M. C. Pope. 2005. New chancelloriids from the early Cambrian Sekwi Formation
with a comment on chancelloriid affinities. Journal of Paleontology
79:1002-1011.
Lieberman, B. S., and J. G. Meert. 2004. Biogeography
and the nature and timing of the Cambrian radiation. Neoproterozoic-Cambrian
Biological Revolutions. J. H. Lipps and B. M. Waggoner, eds. Paleontological
Society Papers 10:79-91.
Lieberman, B.S. 2004. Revised biostratigraphy,
systematics, and paleobiogeography of the trilobites from the Middle Cambrian
Nelson Limestone, Antarctica. University of Kansas Paleontological
Contributions 14:1-23.
Cornette, J. L., and B. S. Lieberman. 2004. Random
walks in the history of life. PNAS 101:187-191.
Meert, J. G., and B. S. Lieberman. 2004. A
palaeomagnetic and palaeobiogeographic perspective on latest Neoproterozoic and
early Cambrian tectonic events. Journal of the Geological Society of London
161:1-11.
Note:
Article featured in on April 8, 2004
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/504141/
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/article2576.html
http://www.am850.com/main.asp?News_Id=9902
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/uof-usb040704.php
and several other news alert web
sites. Also featured on
Lawrence
Journal Word, Cover story, April 9, 2004
and
4/13/04 AM
Interview on KUJH-TV, 4/9/04
First "News Note" in Geotimes,
June 2004, p. 8
Headline story on discovery
news.com-
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040412/firstanimal.html
Featured
on Science Magazine online-
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2004/413/2
University
Daily Kansan, article, 4/19/04
Daily
Union, Junction City, KS, article, 4/27/2004
La
Recherce (French equivalent of Scientific American), Juin 2004,
No.
376, p. 14
Rode, A., and B. S. Lieberman. 2004. Using GIS to
study the biogeography of the Late Devonian biodiversity crisis.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 211:345-359.
Melott, A. L., B. S. Lieberman, C. M. Laird, L. D.
Martin, M. V. Medvedev, B. C. Thomas, J. K. Cannizo, N. Gehrels, and C. H.
Jackman. 2004. Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass
extinction? International Journal of Astrobiology 3:55-61.
Note:
Article featured in Nature.Com, September 25, 2003
www.nature.com/nsu/030922/030922-7.html
and NewScientist.Com,
September 24, 2003
www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994198
and The
Guardian, October 2, 2003
www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,1053475,00.html
and The
Oread, November 21, 2003
/www.oread.ku.edu/Oread03/Nov21/blast.html
and
Lawrence Journal-World December 29, 2003, p. B1-3
and
Associated Press Science Stories Featured story, January 8, 2004 and
also Cnn.com and space.com such that also appeared in
over 1000 papers
worldwide including Houston Chronicle, Chattanooga Times Free
Press,
Leader-Post
(Saskatchewan), etc.
DenverPost, May 11, 2004, www.denverpost.com/
stories/0,1413,36~53~2135093,00.html
Rocky Mountain News, May 11, 2004, rockymountainnews.com/
Drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2858748,00.html
Note:
A related article was featured on the front page of BBC Online,
April
11, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4433963.stm
in Geotimes June 2005, vol. 50, 8-9, in American
Paleontologist, Spring
2005,
vol. 13, no. 2, p. 26.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Paleobiogeography: The
relevance of fossils to biogeography. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
34:51-69.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Taking the pulse of the
Cambrian radiation. Journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology 43:229-237.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Schuchert Award Speech.
Journal of Paleontology 77:815-816.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. A new soft-bodied fauna: the
Pioche Formation of Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 77:676-692.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Unifying theory and methodology
in biogeography. Evolutionary Biology 33:1-25.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Biogeography of the Cambrian
radiation: deducing geological processes from trilobite evoluton. Special
Papers in Palaeontology 70:59-72.
Rode, A. L., B. S. Lieberman, and A. J. Rowell. 2003.
New Early Cambrian bradoriida (Crustacea?) from Antarctica. Journal of
Paleontology 77:691-697.
Cornette, J. L, B. S. Lieberman, and R. H. Goldstein.
2002. Documenting a significant relationship between macroevolutionary
origination rates and Phanerozoic pC02 levels. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 99:7832-7835.
Note:
Article featured in New Scientist, June 22, 2002
Lieberman, B. S. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis of some
basal Early Cambrian trilobites, the biogeographic origins of the eutrilobita,
and the timing of the Cambrian radiation. Journal of Paleontology 76:672-688.
Rode, A., and Lieberman, B. S. 2002. Phylogenetic and
biogeographic analysis of Devonian phyllocarid crustaceans. Journal of
Paleontology 76:271-286.
Lieberman, B. S. 2002. Biogeography with and without
the fossil record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 178
(1-2):39-52.
Lieberman, B. S. 2001. A probabilistic analysis of
rates of speciation during the Cambrian radiation. Proceedings of the Royal
Society, Biological Sciences 268: 1707-1714.
Lieberman, B. S. 2001. Analyzing speciation rates in
macroevolutionary studies. Pp. 340-358 in J. Adrain, G. D. Edgecombe,
and B. S. Lieberman (eds.), Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: An Analytical
Approach. Plenum Press/Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York.
Adrain, J., G. D. Edgecombe, and B. S. Lieberman.
2001. Paleobiology: An Empirical Historical Science. Pp. 1-7 in J.
Adrain, G. D. Edgecombe, and B. S. Lieberman (eds.), Fossils, Phylogeny, and
Form: An Analytical Approach. Plenum Press/Kluwer Academic Publishers, New
York.
Lieberman, B. S. 2001. Phylogenetic analysis of the
Olenellina (Trilobita, Cambrian). Journal of Paleontology 75: 96-115.
Lieberman, B. S., and R. L. Kaesler. 2000. Scientific
value of collections of natural history museums: the concept of completeness.
Paleontological Society Special Publication No. 10: 109-117.
Cartwright, P., R. Kaesler, B. S. Lieberman, and A.
Melott. 2000. A Kansan's Guide to Science. Kansas Geological Survey Educational
Series 15: 1-19.
Lieberman, B.S. 2000. Applying molecular
phylogeography to test paleoecological hypotheses: a case study involving Amblema
plicata (Mollusca, Unionidae).
Pp. 83-103 in W. D. Allmon and D. Bottjer (eds.), Evolutionary
Paleoecology. Columbia University Press, New York.
Smith, L. H., and B. S. Lieberman. 1999. Disparity
and constraint in olenelloid trilobites and the Cambrian radiation.
Paleobiology 25:459-470.
Lieberman, B. S. 1999. Testing the Darwinian legacy
of the Cambrian radiation using trilobite phylogeny and biogeography. Journal
of Paleontology 73:176-181.
Lieberman, B. S. 1999. Presentation of the 1998
Harrell L. Strimple award to LeGrand Smith. Journal of Paleontology 73:727.
Lieberman, B.S. 1999. Turnover pulse in trilobites
during the Acadian Orogeny. Proceedings of the Appalachian Biogeography
Symposium. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications Number
7:99-108.
*Lieberman, B. S. 1999. Systematic revision of the
Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian). Bulletin of the Yale University Peabody
Museum of Natural History 45:1-150.
Lieberman, B. S. 1998. Cladistic analysis of the
Early Cambrian olenelloid trilobites. Journal of Paleontology 72:59-78.
White, R.D. and B.S. Lieberman. 1998. Type Catalog of
Trilobites in the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Yale University Postilla
214:1-151.
Lieberman, B. S. 1997. Early Cambrian paleogeography
and tectonic history: a biogeographic approach. Geology 25:1039-1042.
*Lieberman, B.S. and G. Kloc. 1997. Evolutionary and
biogeographic patterns in the Asteropyginae (Trilobita, Devonian). Bulletin of
the American Museum of Natural History 232:1-127.
Carvalho, M. D. G., G. D. Edgecombe, and B. S.
Lieberman. 1997. Devonian calmoniid trilobites from the Parnaiba Basin, Piaui
State, Brazil. American Museum Novitates 3192:1-11.
Lieberman, B. S. and S. Dudgeon. 1996. An evaluation
of stabilizing selection as a mechanism for stasis. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology 127:229-238.
Lieberman, B.S. and N. Eldredge. 1996. Trilobite
biogeography in the Middle Devonian: geological processes and analytical
methods. Paleobiology 22:66-79.
Lieberman, B.S., and E. Vrba. 1995. Hierarchy theory,
selection, and sorting: a phylogenetic perspective. BioScience 45:394-399.
Lieberman, B.S., C.E. Brett, and N. Eldredge. 1995.
Patterns and Processes of Stasis in two Species Lineages from the Middle
Devonian of New York State. Paleobiology 21:15-27.
Lieberman, B.S. 1995. Phylogenetic Trends and
Speciation: Analyzing Macroevolutionary Processes and Levels of Selection. Pp.
299-321 in D. Erwin and R. Anstey (eds.), New Approaches to Speciation
in the Fossil Record. Columbia University Press, New York.
Lieberman, B.S., C.E. Brett, and N. Eldredge. 1994.
Patterns and Processes of Stasis and Change in Brachiopod Species Lineages.
American Museum of Natural History Novitates No. 3114, 23pp.
*Lieberman, B. S. 1994. Evolution of the trilobite
subfamily Proetinae and the origin, evolutionary affinity, and extinction of
the Middle Devonian proetid fauna of Eastern North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of
Natural History 223:1-176.
Lieberman, B.S., W.D. Allmon, and N. Eldredge. 1993.
Levels of Selection and Macroevolutionary Patterns in the Turritellid
Gastropods. Paleobiology 19:205-215.
Lieberman, B.S. 1993. Systematics and Biogeography of
the "Metacryphaeus Group," (Trilobita,Devonian) with a Comment
on Adaptive Radiations and the Geological History of the Malvinokaffric Realm.
Journal of Paleontology 67:549-570.
Lieberman, B.S. 1992. An Extension of the SMRS
Concept into a Phylogenetic Context. Evolutionary Theory 10:157-161.
Lieberman, B.S., G.D. Edgecombe, and N. Eldredge.
1991. Systematics and Biogeography of the "Malvinella Group,"
Calmoniidae (Trilobita, Devonian). Journal of Paleontology 65:824-843.
A- BOOK REVIEWS, B- POPULAR
PUBLICATIONS, C- POPULAR TALKS, D- RADIO/TV BROADCASTS AND MEDIA INTERVIEWS,
E-MISCELLANEOUS
A)
Lieberman, B. S. 2006. Book review: Charles Darwin, Geologist. Quarterly Review of Biology 81:157.
Lieberman, B. S. 2006. Book review: Biogeography: An ecological and evolutionary
approach. Palaeontological Association Newsletter. In press.
Lieberman, B. S. 2005. Book review: Cambro-Ordovician Studies I, Memoir 30 of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. Palaios 20:506.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Book review: Palaeobiology II. Quarterly Review of Biology
78:470.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Paleobiogeography: Integrating
Plate Tectonics and Evolution. Priscum 12(1):9-11.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Book review: Palaeobiogeography and biodiversity change: the
Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic radiations. Palaeontologia Electronica, Vol.
6(1). (palaeo-electronica.org)
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Book review: Exceptional Fossil Preservation. Quarterly Review
of Biology 78:218.
Lieberman, B. S. 2002. Book review: Deep Time: Paleobiology's Perspective. Quarterly
Review of Biology 77:317.
Lieberman, B. S. 2002. Software review: PaleoBase: Macrofossils Part 1.0. Palaios 17:118.
Lieberman, B. S. 2001. Book review: Fossil Crinoids. Quarterly Review of Biology 76:70.
Lieberman, B. S. 2001. Book review: Phylogenetic analysis of morphological data.
American Paleontologist 9:12-14.
Lieberman, B. S. 2000. Book review: The Fossils of the Hunsruck Slate: Marine Life in
the Devonian. Quarterly Review of Biology 75:309.
Lieberman, B. S. 1998. Book review: Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny. American
Journal
of Science 298:699-700.
Lieberman, B. S. 1998. Book review: Evolutionary Paleobiology. Quarterly Review of
Biology 73:65.
Lieberman, B.S. 1996. Book review: Refiguring Life. New York Times Review of Books,
July 14, p. 17.
Lieberman, B.S. 1993. Book
review: Development and Evolution.
BioScience 43:252-3.
Lieberman, B.S. 1993. Book review: The Living Earth. Quarterly Review of Biology
68:252-3.
Lieberman, B.S. 1993. Book review:
Understanding Catastrophe. Quarterly Review of Biology 68:251.
B)
Lieberman, B. S. 2005. Olenellina. McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, New York, NY.
P. Cartwright, and B. S. Lieberman. 2005. Science
Challenged. Letter to the Editor, Lawrence Journal-World, May 7.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Contributor to Glossary of
Geology, 5th edition, J. Jackson (ed.),
AGI.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Natural Selection. The
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Biogeography. The Encyclopedia
of Biodiversity. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.
Lieberman, B. S. 2000. University Daily Kansan,
letter to the editor, July 19.
Ruden, D., P. Cartwright, and B. S. Lieberman. 1999.
Evolution is science. Topeka Capital-Journal, July 1.
Lieberman, B. S. 1998. Contributor to Glossary of
Geology, 4th edition, J. Jackson (ed.),
AGI.
Lieberman, B.S. 1995. Paleontology. The Academic
American Encyclopedia. Grolier Press, Danbury, CT.
Lieberman, B.S. 1994. Trilobita. The Academic
American Encyclopedia. Grolier Press, Danbury, CT.
C)
Dinosaurs, What Did They Look Like and How Did They
Evolve? October 9, 2006, Raintree Montessori School, Lawrence, KS.
Fossils and Geological Time, April 25, 2005, Raintree
Montessori School, Lawrence, KS.
African Dinosaurs, December 3, 2004, New England
School of Montessori, Milford, CT.
Dinosaurs and other fossils. March 3, 2003, Raintree
Montessori School, Lawrence, KS.
The Fossils Speak: The Evidence for Darwin's Theory.
July 9, 2000, University of Kansas Natural History Museum.
The Cambrian Radiation: Investigating Biology's Big
Bang. November 27, 1999, Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History, New
Haven, CT.
Trilobites and biogeography. August 29, 1999,
Kansas-Missouri Paleontological Society.
Cell-lineage selection and the evolution of Tertiary
gastropods. June, 1991, New York Paleontological Society.
D)
"Do cosmic forces control life on Earth?", MSNBC.com,
and Space.com April 23, 2007. Interview and research mentioned, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18277613 ;
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070423_cosmic_evo.html .
"Early Life", Discovery Channel Radio (SETI Radio
Network), 10 minute interview on the Cambrian explosion, www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktj2j9MMIsE&b=178892,
March 22, 2007.
"Extinctions", interview and research featured,
National Geographic Channel television series "Naked Science", November 2,
2006.
"Wikipedia v. Britannica: Reader Beware", interview, Geotimes, April, 2006, vol. 51(4), p. 46-47.
"Evolution of a Controversy", interview and photograph, Kansas Alumni
Magazine, Issue 1, 2006, p. 23-29.
"Teaching Biology in Kansas", interview on KUJH-TV
(Cable, Lawrence, KS) News, November 1, 2005, 5:30PM.
"Gamma rays the likely cause of mass extinctions",
interview, July 30, 2005, New Scientist.
"Do we live in a cosmic shooting gallery?",
interview, November 2005, Astronomy Magazine, p.34-41.
"Gamma Ray Bursts and mass extinctions",
interview on KUJH-TV (Cable, Lawrence, KS) News, November 12, 2003, 5:30PM.
"Move Over, Laurentia", interview in Science,
September, 13, 2002.
"Nature Steps on the Gas:Is the Rate of
Evolution Going to Speed Up Again?", interview and article featured in New
Scientist, June 22, 2002.
"Evolution Back in Kansas", interview on
Science in Action, BBC World Service. February 9, 2001.
"Fossils Support Darwin's Theory",
interview and photograph, University Daily Kansan, July 12, 2000.
"Scope's Week Activities", interview,
KSHB-TV (NBC, Kansas City) News, July 9, 5PM and 10PM.
"Survival of the Fittest", interview and
photograph, Kansas Alumni Magazine, 2000
no.
1.
"Fossils evolving in Kansas", interview on
the Leading Edge, BBC World Service. September 10, 1999.
"Evolution and Creationism", interview on
Science in Action, BBC World Service. August 25, 1999.
"Horseshoe Crabs: Bluebloods of the Oceans",
interview for National Public Radio,
September,
1990.
E)
Back of the book review blurb and acknowledged on
inside cover for "Mystery Predator of the Cambrian", J. Roach, 2007, DeepTime
Press.
INVITED SYMPOSIA AND TALKS
Exploring major patterns in the history of animal
life. Geological Society of America Joint North Central/South Central Sectional
Meeting, Roger L. Kaesler-Scientist and editor: his contributions to
paleontology through research and the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
(S2). Sponsored by the
Paleontological Society, Lawrence, KS, April 12, 2007
Macroevolutionary Synthesis: Fossils, Life and the
Environment. Invited speaker at symposium on Hierarchy Theory and Evolution,
Festival della Scienza, Genoa, Italy, November 4, 2006.
Citation for Roger L. Kaesler's Geological Society of
America Distinguished Service Award, Presidential Address and Awards
Ceremony. Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 21, 2006,
Biogeographic Patterns and Evolutionary Processes
During the Cambrian Radiation. Invited key note speaker, symposium on
Palaeobiogeography at the Second International Palaeontological Congress,
Peking University, Beijing, China, June 21, 2006.
Biogeography in Deep Time: Evolution in the Fossil Record.
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, April 14, 2006.
Paleobiogeography: Tracking the coevolution of the
Earth and its biota. Introduction to Paleontological Society sponsored short
course on Paleobiogeography: Generating New Insights into the Coevolution of
the Earth and Its Biota. Held immediately before the Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake
City, UT, October 15, 2005 (with Alycia Stigall Rode).
Earth history change: The pacemaker of evolution.
Paleontological Society sponsored short course on Paleobiogeography: Generating
New Insights into the Coevolution of the Earth and Its Biota. Held immediately
before the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, October 15, 2005.
The Taphonomy of Lower and Middle Cambrian arthropods
from the Pioche Shale of Nevada. Topical session "Paleoenvironments and
taphonomy of Cambrian lagerstatten" at the Geological Society of America
Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, October 19, 2005 (presented by R. Moore).
Soft bodied fossils from the Middle Cambrian of Utah,
USA. Fourth International Symposium on the Cambrian System, August 18th, 2005,
Keynote lecture, Nanjing Institute of Paleontology, Nanjing, China (presented
by Derek Briggs).
Session chair, introductory speaker and discussant,
session "What is evolution?", World Summit on Evolution, Galapagos, Ecuador,
June 9-12, 2005.
The Cambrian Radiation: Investigating Biology's Big
Bang. Palaeontological Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland, May 31,
2005.
Biogeography in Deep Time: Evolution in the Fossil
Record. Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland, May
30, 2005.
The Cambrian Radiation: Investigating Biology's Big
Bang. Seminar series,
Department of Geosciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, April 8, 2005.
Did a Gamma Ray Burst initiate the late Ordovician
mass extinction? Western Interior Paleontological Society Symposium, March 12,
2005, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (presented by W. K. Berry).
Paleobiogeography, Workshop on Historical
Biogeography at the International Biogeography Society meeting, January 5,
2005, National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV.
A new Carbon isotope curve for the Early Cambrian
Sekwi Formation, Selwyn Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada. Topical session
"Ocean chemistry through the Precambrian and Paleozoic" at the Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, November 10, 2004, Denver, CO (presented by
K. Dilliard).
Did a Gamma Ray Burst initiate the late Ordovician
mass extinction? Pardee Keynote Symposium on "Pre-Mesozoic Impacts"
at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 9,
2004.
Biogeography and the Nature and timing of the
Cambrian radiation, Paleontological Society Short Course, Denver, CO, November
6, 2004.
Biogeography in Deep Time: Evolution in the Fossil
Record. Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Seminar Series, Yale University,
New Haven, CT, October 22, 2004.
Distinguished Visiting Speaker Program, California
State University, Northridge, April 29, 2004 "Stasis and stabilizing selection:
evaluating mechanisms of stasis" and April 30, 2004 "The Cambrian radiation:
Investigating biology's big bang".
Stephen Jay Gould: His evolving, hierarchical
thoughts on stasis. Pardee Keynote Symposium on "His view of life:
Reflections on the scientific legacy of Stephen J. Gould" at the
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 2, 2003.
Earliest traces of life on land: arthropod trackways
and other ichna in Early Cambrian (Nevadella zone) intertidal to
supratidal deposits, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Topical session "New perspectives on Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic
development of western Laurentia: in honor of John Cooper" at the
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 4, 2003
(presented by S. Hasiotis).
Deep subtidal deposits, Early Cambrian Sekwi
Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada. Topical session "New
perspectives on Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic development of western
Laurentia: in honor of John Cooper" at the Geological Society of America
Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 4, 2003 (presented by M. Pope).
GIS and phylogenetics, a combined approach to
understanding biogeographic changes in the Late Devonian. Topical session
"Understanding Late Devonian biotic, climatic and oceanographic events:
Toward an integrated approach" at the Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 4, 2003 (presented by A. Rode).
The Cambrian radiation: Investigating paleontology's
big bang. Cornell University, symposium for the opening of the Museum of the
Earth, October 6, 2003, Ithaca, NY.
Macroevolution, biogeography, and the search for
congruence. International Biogeography Society Inaugural Meeting, Mesquite, NV,
January 5, 2003.
Organized Topical Session at Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Paleobiogeography: Integrating Plate Tectonics and
Evolution (T81). Sponsored by the
Paleontological Society, Denver, CO, October 28, 2002.
Paleobiogeography: From Evolution to Global Change.
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, topical session-
Paleobiogeography: Integrating Plate Tectonics and Evolution (T81). October 28,
2002, Denver, CO.
Investigating Biology's Big Bang. University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, Department of Geosciences Seminar Series, February 22,
2002.
Biogeography and Rates of Evolution. University of
Chicago, Evolutionary Morphology Seminar Series, February 7, 2002.
Taking the Pulse of the Cambrian radiation. Society
for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Anaheim, CA, January 6, 2002.
Assessing the role of invasive species in mediating
mass extinctions: a case study using Devonian phyllocarids. North American
Paleontological Convention, Berkeley, CA, June, 2001 (A. Rode presented).
The Cambrian Radiation: Understanding Biology's Big
Bang. Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, March 1,
2001.
Quantitative paleontological approaches to
reconstructing tectonic events involving Gondwanan cratons. American Geophysical
Union Fall Meeting, Tectonophysics Symposium (T07), December 19, 2000, San
Francisco, CA (A. Rode presented).
Biogeography with and without the fossil record.
Evolutionists' Society, November 2, 1999, Lawrence, KS.
Phylogenetic paleobiogeography: strengths, methods,
and case studies. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Paleontological
Society theme session- Beyond Phylogeny Reconstruction: Tree-Based Analyses in
Paleontology, October 25, 1999, Denver, CO.
Presentation of the Strimple Award. Paleontological
Society Luncheon, October 27, 1998,
Toronto,
Canada.
Deep History Biogeography. University of Toronto
Symposium on Biogeography, October 24, 1998, Toronto, Canada.
Using Biogeography to Study Paleogeographic Patterns
and Geological Processes. University of Texas at Arlington, Geology Seminar
Series, December 4, 1997.
A Probabilistic Analysis of the Cambrian Radiation,
and Using Phylogenies to Study Evolutionary Patterns and Processes. 2nd
International Trilobite Conference, St. Catherines, Ontario, August 22 and 23
1997.
Biogeographic Patterns and Geological Processes.
University of Toronto, Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series, October 2, 1996.
Testing Faunal Origination and Stability in the
Hamilton Group Using Phylogenetic Analysis. North American Paleontological
Convention. Symposium on Community
Unity. Washington, D.C., June 11,
1996.
Biogeography and Evolutionary Patterns in Trilobite
Clades of Eastern North America During the Middle Devonian Acadian Orogeny.
Symposium on Appalachian Biogeography. Virginia Polyttechnic Institute, June
27, 1995.
Evolutionary and Biogeographic Impacts of the Acadian
Orogeny on Eastern North American Trilobite Clades. Geological Society of America, Northeastern Sectional
Meeting. Paleontological Society
Symposium on Biotic Responses to Tectonic-Environmental Events. Hartford, CT,
March 21, 1995.
Patterns and Processes of Stasis and Change in
Species-Lineages. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Paleontological
Society Theme Session on New Perspectives on Faunal Stability. Seattle, WA,
October 27, 1994.
Patterns and Processes of Stasis and Change in
Hamilton Group Species-Lineages. Geological Society of America, Northeastern
Sectional Meeting. Paleontological Society Symposium on Variation in Fossil
Taxa. Binghamton, NY, March 29, 1994.
Phylogenetic Trends and Speciation. Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting.
Paleontological Society Symposium on Speciation in the Fossil Record.
Cincinnati, OH, October 27, 1992.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
Spectral analysis of biodiversity cycles and galactic
dynamics. American Physical Society April Meeting, Jacksonville, FL, April 14, 2007 (presented by A. L.
Melott).
New insights into the Cambrian radiation:
phylogenetic patterns in Cambrian arachnomorphs (Arthropoda). Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 24, 2006,
(presented by J. Hendricks).
Reconstructing the Cambrian radiation. Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 24, 2006,
(presented by J. Lipps).
Crown-group cnidarians from the Cambrian of Utah.
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 24,
2006 (with other co-authors).
Biogeography and rates of evolution during a taxic
radiation: calmoniid trilobites (Devonian) of the Malvinokaffric Realm.
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 25,
2006 (presented by F. Abe).
Determination of Sr-isotope composition of the Lower
Cambrian Sekwi Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada, using solution
chemistry and laser ablation. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA, October 25, 2006, (poster presented by K. Dilliard with
several other co-authors).
Integrated Carbon isotope curve, sea level history,
and biostratigraphy for the Early Cambrian Sekwi Formation, Selwyn Basin,
Northwest Territories, Canada, Earth System Processes 2, Geological Society of
America and Geological Association of Canada, August 9, 2005, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada (poster presented by K. Dilliard with several other co-authors).
Random walks in the history of life. Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, November 4, 2003, Seattle, WA (presented by
J. Cornette).
Early Cambrian algal, archaeocyathan, Tabulaconus
mounds, Sekwi Formation, Selwyn Basin, Mackenzie Mountains, Canada Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, November 5, 2003, Seattle, WA (poster
presented by J. Murphy with several other co-authors).
Paleogeography & biogeography in the
Neoproterozoic: some hints about Rodinia. Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting, October 28, 2002, Denver, CO (presented by J. Meert).
A significant relationship between macroevolutionary
origination rates and Phanerozoic PCO2 levels. Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, October 29, 2002, Denver, CO (presented by J.
Cornette).
Hasiotis, S. T., K. A. Dilliard, and M.
C. Pope. 2003. Using Ichnofossils to better understand
depositional processes, facies relationships, and sequence stratigraphy in the
Early Cambrian Sekwi Formation.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Meeting, Abstracts with Programs 12:A72.
Using biogeography to constrain the timing of the
Cambrian radiation. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 8,
2001, Boston, MA.
New Early Cambrian bradoriida (Crustacea?) from
Antarctica: Implications for bradoriid biogeography and evolution. Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, November 8, 2001, Boston, MA (presented by
A. Rode).
Using phylogenetic palaeobiogeography of trilobites
to study Cambrian global change. 3rd International Conference on Trilobites and
Their Relatives. April 4, 2001, Oxford, United Kingdom.
A new Early Cambrian Lagerstatten and Disparate
Selectivities During Cambrian Extinctions. Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting, November 15, 2000, Reno, Nevada.
Using GIS and Phylogenetics to Study the Role of
Invasive Species During the Late Devonian Biodiversity Crisis (along with A.
Rode). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 15, 2000, Reno,
Nevada.
A Probabilistic Analysis of Rates of Evolution During
the Cambrian Radiation. Geological
Society
of America Annual Meeting, October 28, 1998, Toronto, Canada.
Disparity of the Olenelloid Trilobites and the
Cambrian Radiation, GSA Annual Meeting, October 28, 1998, Toronto, Canada.
Early Cambrian Cladistic Biogeography. Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, October 20, 1997.
Levels of Selection and Macroevolutionary Patterns in
the Turritellid Gastropods. North American Paleontological Convention. July 1,
1992.
Cell-lineage Drive and Macroevolutionary Patterns in
the Turritellid Gastropods. Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting.
June 19, 1992.
ABSTRACTS
Lieberman, B. S., and A. L. Melott. 2007.
Spectral Analysis of Biodiversity Cycles and Galactic Dynamics. American Physical Society April meeting
Abstracts, http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2007.APR.E11.7.
Lieberman, B. S. 2007. Exploring major patterns in
the history of animal life. Geological Society of America Joint North
Central/South Central Sectional Meeting, Lawrence, KS, Abstracts with programs.
Lieberman, B. S. 2006. Biogeographic patterns and
evolutionary processes during the Cambrian radiation. Ancient life and modern
approaches: Abstracts of the second International Palaeontological Congress,
Beijing, China, p. 207-208.
Hendricks, J. R., and B. S. Lieberman. 2006. New
insights into the Cambrian radiation: phylogenetic patterns in Cambrian
arachnomorphs (Arthropoda). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA, Abstracts with programs.
Lieberman, B. S., and J. Lipps. 2006. Reconstructing
the Cambrian radiation. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA, Abstracts with programs.
Hendricks, J. R., S. L. Halgedahl, B. S. Lieberman,
and R. D. Jarrard. 2006. Crown-group cnidarians from the Cambrian of Utah.
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Abstracts with
programs.
Abe, F., and B. S. Lieberman. 2006. Biogeography and
rates of evolution during a taxic radiation: calmoniid trilobites (Devonian) of
the Malvinokaffric Realm. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA, Abstracts with programs.
Dilliard, K., G, Hart, J. Vervoort, M. Pope, B. S. Lieberman, and S. T. Hasiotis. 2006. Determination of Sr-isotope composition of the Lower Cambrian Sekwi Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada, using solution chemistry and laser ablation. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Abstracts with programs.
Moore, R. A., and B. S. Lieberman. 2005. The
Taphonomy of Lower and Middle Cambrian arthropods from the Pioche Shale of
Nevada. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs.
Dilliard, K., M. C. Pope, S. T. Hasiotis, and B. S.
Lieberman. 2005. Integrated Carbon isotope curve, sea level history, and
biostratigraphy for the Early Cambrian Sekwi Formation, Selwyn Basin, Northwest
Territories, Canada, Earth System Processes 2, Geological Society of America
and Geological Association of Canada, Abstracts with programs.
Briggs, D. E. G., and B. S. Lieberman. 2005. Soft
bodied fossils from the Middle Cambrian of Utah, USA. Fourth International
Symposium on the Cambrian System, Nanjing Institute of Paleontology, Nanjing,
China, Abstracts with programs.
Lieberman, B. S. 2004. Did a Gamma Ray Burst initiate
the late Ordovician mass extinction? Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting, Abstracts with programs.
Dilliard, K. A., M. C. Pope, S. T. Hasiotis, and B.
S. Lieberman. 2004. A new Carbon isotope curve for the early Cambrian Sekwi
Formation, Selwyn Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs.
Cornette, J., and B. S. Lieberman. 2003. Random walks
in the history of life. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts
with programs.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Stephen Jay Gould: His
evolving, hierarchical thoughts on stasis. Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting, Abstracts with programs.
Hasiotis, S. T., B. S. Lieberman, M. C. Pope, and K.
Dilliard. 2003. Earliest traces of life on land: arthropod trackways and other
ichna in Early Cambrian (Nevadella zone) intertidal to supratidal
deposits, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs.
Pope, M. C., K. A. Dilliard, S. T. Hasiotis, and B.
S. Lieberman. 2003. Deep subtidal deposits, Early Cambrian Sekwi Formation,
Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Abstracts with programs.
Rode, A., and B. S. Lieberman. 2003. GIS and
phylogenetics, a combined approach to understanding biogeographic changes in
the Late Devonian. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with
programs.
Murphy, J., M. C. Pope, K. Dilliard, B. S. Lieberman,
and S. T. Hasiotis. 2003. Early Cambrian algal, archaeocyathan, Tabulaconus
mounds, Sekwi Formation, Selwyn Basin, Mackenzie Mountains, Canada. Geological
Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs.
Lieberman, B. S. 2003. Macroevolution, biogeography,
and the search for congruence. International Biogeography Society Inaugural
Meeting. Abstracts with programs, p. 3-4.
Lieberman, B. S. 2002. Paleobiogeography: From
Evolution to Global Change. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Abstracts with programs.
Meert, J. G., and B. S. Lieberman. 2002.
Paleogeography & biogeography in the Neoproterozoic: some hints about
Rodinia. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs.
Cornette, J. L., B. S. Lieberman, and R. H.
Goldstein. 2002. A significant relationship between macroevolutionary
origination rates and Phanerozoic PCO2 levels. Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs.
Lieberman, B. S. 2002. Taking the pulse of the
Cambrian radiation. SICB Annual Meeting, 2002, Abstracts with programs and
American Zoologist 41:1506.
Lieberman, B. S. 2001. Using biogeography to
constrain the timing of the Cambrian radiation. GSA Annual Meeting, 2001,
Abstracts with programs: A430.
Rode, A., and B. S. Lieberman. 2001. New Early
Cambrian bradoriida (Crustacea?) from Antarctica: Implications for bradoriid
biogeography and evolution. GSA Annual Meeting, 2001, Abstracts with programs:
A379.
Rode, A., and B. S. Lieberman. 2001. Assessing the
role of invasive species in mediating mass extinctions: a case study using
Devonian phyllocarids. North American Paleontological Convention Abstracts with
Programs, PaleoBios 21(2):A109.
Lieberman, B. S. 2001. Using phylogenetic
palaeobiogeography of trilobites to study Cambrian global change. 3rd
International Conference on Trilobites and Their Relatives. April 4, 2001,
Oxford, United Kingdom. Abstracts, p. 21.
Lieberman, B. S. 2000. Quantitative paleontological
approaches to reconstructing tectonic events involving Gondwanan cratons.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2000, Abstracts.San Francisco, 2000,
EOS Transactions AGU, 81(48).
Lieberman, B. S. 2000. A new Early Cambrian
Lagerstatten and Disparate Selectivities During Cambrian Extinctions. GSA
Annual Meeting, 2000, Abstracts with programs: A301.
Rode, A., and B. S. Lieberman. 2000. Using GIS and
Phylogenetics to Study the Role of Invasive Species During the Late Devonian
Biodiversity Crisis. GSA Annual Meeting, 2000, Abstracts with programs:A368.
Lieberman, B. S. 1999. Phylogenetic
paleobiogeography: strengths, methods, and case studies. GSA Annual Meeting,
1999, Abstracts with programs: A138.
Lieberman, B. S. 1998. A Probabilistic Analysis of
Rates of Evolution During the Cambrian Radiation. GSA Annual Meeting, 1998,
Abstracts with programs:A233.
Smith, L. H., and B. S. Lieberman. 1998. Disparity of
the Olenelloid Trilobites and the Cambrian Radiation. GSA Annual Meeting, 1998,
Abstracts with programs:A233.
Lieberman, B. S. 1997. Early Cambrian Cladistic
Biogeography, 1997. GSA Annual Meeting, 1997, Abstracts with programs:A30.
Lieberman, B. S. and E. S. Vrba. 1995. Evolutionary
and biogeographic impacts of the Acadian orogeny on eastern North American
trilobite clades. GSA Northeastern Sectional Meeting. Abstracts with programs:
64-65.
Lieberman, B.S. 1994. Patterns and processes of
stasis in species-lineages. GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs: A454.
Lieberman, B.S. 1994. Patterns and processes of
stasis in species-lineages. GSA Northeastern Sectional Meeting, Abstracts with
programs: 32.
Lieberman, B.S., W.D. Allmon, and N. Eldredge. 1992. Phylogenetic Trends and
Speciation: Analyzing Macroevolutionary Processes. Geological Society of America
Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs:A139.
Lieberman, B.S., W.D. Allmon, and N. Eldredge. 1992. Levels of Selection: An
Analysis of the Forces Driving Diversification in the Turritellid Gastropods.
NAPC V, Paleontological Society Special Publication 6:185.
WORKING GROUPS
Member of working group
studying rates of evolution, NSF sponsored National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara,
1999-2002
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
INCLUDING EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
Coordinating Editor, Treatise
on Invertebrate Paleontology,
Trilobita, 2005-2006
Associate Coordinating
Editor, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Trilobita, 2002-2005,
2007-
Associate Editor, Journal
of Paleontology, 2007-
Editorial board, Evolution:
Education and Outreach, 2007-
Associate Editor, Palaios, 2006-
Associate Editor, Transactions
of the Kansas Academy of Science,
1999-2002
Ballot canvas committee,
Paleontological Society, 2000-
Geological Society of America Annual Meetings Session
Chair- 1997, 2000, 2001
Paleontological Society Committee on Fellowship,
2005-2007
Treasurer and Executive Officer, International
Palaeontological Association, 2006-
United Nations, International Year of Planet Earth
– Scientific Implementation Team – Earth and Life – Origins
of Diversity – 2006-
Briefly evaluated
sensitivity of paleontology resources in Cherokee County, KS for BHE
Environmental,
Inc.
Outside evaluator for Promotion and Tenure file,
Department of Geology, University of Texas, Arlington, 2001.
Outside evaluator for Promotion and Tenure file,
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, 2005.
Outside evaluator for Promotion and Tenure file,
American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 2007.
Advisory committee for Treatise on Invertebrate
Paleontology to the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Fall 2005.
Organized Topical Session at Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Paleobiogeography: Integrating Plate Tectonics and
Evolution (T81). Sponsored by the
Paleontological Society, Denver, CO, October 28, 2002.
Co-organizer for Paleontological Society short course
at Geological Society of America Annual meeting, Fall '05.
Organized Symposium at Geological Society of America
Joint North Central/South Central Sectional Meeting, Roger L. Kaesler-Scientist
and editor: hist contributions to paleontology through research and the
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (S2). Sponsored by the Paleontological Society, Lawrence, KS, April 12,
2007.
Participated in Paleontological Society Short Course,
Denver, CO, November 6, 2004 (see under invited presentations).
Participated in workshop on Historical Biogeography
at the International Biogeography Society meeting, January 5, 2005, National
Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV (see under invited
presentations).
Grants reviewed for: American Chemical
Society; American Philosophical Society; Louisiana Board of Regents; National
Science Foundation Geology and Paleontology/Sedimentary Geology and
Paleobiology; National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs; Swiss
National Science Foundation.
Journal articles reviewed for: American
Malacological Bulletin; American Museum of Natural History publications; Annals
of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Memoirs of the Association of
Australasian Palaeontologists; Bulletin de l'Institut
Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre; Bulletins
of American Paleontology; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences; Evolution:
Education and Outreach; Geological Magazine; Geological Society of America
Memoirs; Geology; Hydrobiologia; Journal of Paleontology; Malacological Review;
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and
Palaeoecology; Palaios; Paleobiology; Sedimentary Record.
Books reviewed for: American Journal of Science; American Paleontologist; BioScience; New York Times Review of Books; Palaeontological Association; Palaeontologia Electronica; Palaios; Quarterly Review of Biology (for titles see above).
Advisor for book projects to: Blackwell Scientific; Columbia University Press; Four A's Publishing (El Dorado, CA); the Systematics Association, UK; and Topics in Geobiology Book Series, Springer Publishing.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Geological
Institute
Geological Society of
America
International Biogeography
Society
International
Palaeontological Society
Kansas Academy of Science
Paleontological Research
Institution
Paleontological Society
Sigma Xi
Society of Integrative and
Comparative Biology
Society of Systematic
Biologists
GRADUATE STUDENTS (M.S.)
WHOSE COMMITTEE I HAVE CHAIRED AND/OR R.A.S I HAVE SUPPORTED
Alycia Rode, 1999-2001, NSF
Graduate Student Fellow, M.S. with Honors, currently
Assistant
Professor, Department of Geology, Ohio University
Jim Cornette, 2001-2002,
M.S. with Honors, currently Denver Museum of Nature and
Science
William Keith Berry,
2004-2005
Robert Randell, 2002-2003
Curtis Congreve, 2006-
GRADUATE STUDENTS (Ph.D.)
WHOSE COMMITTEE I HAVE CHAIRED
Francine Abe, 2004-
(Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, co-advise with
Ed
Wiley)