Lecture: M,W, F; 3rd Period, Room 202, Williamson Hall
Lab: Section 3640, Tuesday, 4th and 5th Periods, Room 215,
Williamson Hall
Lab: Section 1808, Monday, 5th and 6th Periods, Room 215,
Williamson Hall
Office Hours
Dr. Ciesielski- M,W, F 4th Period; Room 255 Williamson
Hall
Teaching Assistant- TBA Williamson Hall
Communication
Dr. Ciesielski
phone: 846-1725
email: pciesiel@geology.ufl.edu
T.A.: TBA
email:
Grading
Lecture: 3 hourly exams and a final. Each of these 4 exams
accounts for 15% of the total course grade, together as 60% of the course
grade.
Lab and Field Work: Accounts for 40% of the course grade.
Field trips are required and are10% of your course grade. A breakdown of
the grading of field work and lab activities will be given to you by the
T.A.
Attendance
Required
Field trips are required and can only be missed by an
excused absence. Missing the Kentucky field trip will result in a letter
grade deduction.
Book
Bringing Fossils to Life, by Donald Prothero, McGraw Hill
(ISBN 0-07-366170-8)
Course Objectives
Major objectives of the course are to acquaint you with:
1. how to identify major fossil groups in the field
2. paleontologic field methods and lab techniques
3. taxonomic principles
4. biostratigraphic concepts and tools
5. temporal changes in fossils assemblages that will
give you the capability of determining the ages of rocks and sediments.
6. methods of interpreting paleoenvironments using fossil
assemblages, and
7. patterns of evolution.