Loss Lecture with Dr. Andrew Knoll
Join Dr. Andrew Knoll for the annual Loss Lecture and learn more about the evolution of Earth surface environments, and the relationships between the two.
Date:
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Kearney Hall, Cleary Family Auditorium
Free and open to the public, the lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 9, in Cleary Family Auditorium in Kearney Hall.
Life on Earth couldn’t have begun on an oxygen-rich planet, yet you couldn’t live without it. Those two facts, by themselves, tell us that Earth surface environments have changed markedly through time. Exploration of this issue shows that major events in Earth’s oxygen history reflect the interactions between physical and biological processes, and they go a long way toward explaining the timetable of evolution, as inferred from fossils and molecular clock estimates.
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