Earth's Mass Extinctions

Comets, asteroids and ice ages oh my! In the Earth’s 4.6 Billion years in existence, and the time that life has habituated on it (3.7-3.8billion years), there has been six… mass extinctions. In this episode, we plan to cover them all! From the Ordovician all the way to the Holocene that you… yes you, are living in right now. In three fact packed segments, our Host Sam Stanford and Guest Stars Katherine Parsons and Trevor Rempert plan to quickly address how we know these mass extinction events happened, how they happened, how much disappearance they caused, and finally….. how they changed the course of life! History, paleontology, climatology, physics, astronomy, geology and many other topics will be highlighted in the discussion. Guest Stars: Katherine Parsons; Katherine is a paleo-artist, paleontologist, and geology student graduating in December from Middle Tennessee University and has been working for 4 years at the Earth Experience Museum in Murfreesboro, TN. Katie focuses her studies and work on the late Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Hell Creek Formation and specializes in their fossil reproduction. You can find some of her work on Instagram @katie.digs.dinos. Trevor Rempert; Trevor is a Master’s student at Case Western Reserve University studying Medical Physiology. Prior to his current education, he received his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in Biomedical Engineering. In addition to studying medicine, Trevor is an avid avocational paleontologist whose hobby has taken him across the United States in search of fossils. Trevor’s most recent project involves studying the biodiversity of mosasaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Morocco just prior to the K-T extinction.