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Peter McAllister Rees
Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona
Email: arees@email.arizona.edu
Website: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rees/
Employment Eligibility
2006-current
U.S. Permanent Residency in the Category of ‘Outstanding Professor/Researcher’
Employment History
2006-current
Adjunct Lecturer, University of Arizona
2004-current
Associate Research Scientist, University of Arizona
2003-2004
Research Associate, University of Arizona
1999-2003
Research Associate, University of Chicago
2002
Adjunct Lecturer, Northwestern University
1994-1999
Research Fellow, Open University, UK
1993-1994
Visiting Research Scholar, University of Chicago
1991-1993
Research Fellow, Oxford University, UK
1990-1991
Research Fellow, Natural History Museum, UK
Education
1985-1990
University of London and British Antarctic Survey. Ph.D. (Geology) 1990:
‘Palaeobotanical contributions to the Mesozoic geology of the northern Antarctic Peninsula
region’ (Advisors: W.G. Chaloner and M.R.A. Thomson)
1988-1989
Visiting Student, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
1981-1985
University of Edinburgh. B.Sc. (Geology, Hons.) 1985. Merit awards in Geology, Geography,
Information Systems and Oceanography
Teaching Summary
Courses Taught
2008
GEOS 308: Paleontology - University of Arizona
2008
NATS 101: A Geological Perspective - University of Arizona
2007
GEOS 308: Paleontology - University of Arizona
2006
GEOS 308: Paleontology - University of Arizona
2002
GEOL 312: Earth's Changing Climate - Northwestern University
2001
PHY SCI 110: Environmental History of the Earth - University of Chicago
1995-1997
S269: Earth and Life (Open University Press, 1997) - Open University, UK
1996
Life and the Environment, a Geological Perspective - Oxford University, UK
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My teaching interests and goals have a common theme, namely to make Earth History and Processes “come alive”
for students. This can start with collecting in the field, describing and identifying in the lab, and going all the way to
interpreting global-scale patterns and processes (e.g. geography and climate) through time. I’ve found that students
appreciate having a sense of the context and significance of their discoveries, something that gives purpose to their
studies. They also appreciate passion and enthusiasm, which I enjoy sharing.
My two most recent courses (GEOS 308: Paleontology and NATS 101: A Geological Perspective) were quite
different in scope and scale. GEOS 308 had 35 students, mostly juniors and seniors; NATS 101 had almost 300
students, mostly freshmen. However, there are common elements in my teaching approach. With GEOS 308, I
taught the labs as well as lectures so was able to integrate hands on activities in lab with the bigger picture aspects
taught during lecture. NATS 101 represented a challenge in terms of sheer student numbers but I was able to
introduce several hands on class activities during lectures. Those plus the use of video clips helped break up the
lectures and added an element of dynamism to the topics being covered.
Evaluations (available on request) from students and faculty have been extremely positive for all my courses.
Field Trips Taught
University of Arizona
Northwestern
University of Chicago
University of London
Short field trips in southern Arizona for GEOS 308: Paleontology (2006, 2007, 2008).
Short field trips in Illinois related to a course in paleoclimatology (2002).
Texas (1994, 2000); Montana, Wyoming and Utah (1995); Novia Scotia (1997).
Field methods courses on mapping, paleontology and sedimentology
Isle of Arran, Scotland (1986) and the Lake District, England (1987).
General geology and field mapping (graduate teaching assistant).
Graduate Student (PhD) Supervision
2000-2005
1995-1999
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University of Chicago
Open University, UK
Open University, UK
David Sunderlin: ‘Permian phytogeography and climates’
Nicola Simpson: ‘Carbon isotopes and the evolution of C4 plants’
Elizabeth Kennedy: ‘Cretaceous floras and climates of New Zealand’
Students mentored:
Jessica Conroy, University of Arizona (graduate student TA for GEOS 308: Paleontology, 2006)
Derek Hoffman, University of Arizona (preceptor for GEOS 308: Paleontology, 2006 and 2007)
Charlene Estrada, University of Arizona (Honors Equivalency Project, 2006 and GEOS 308 Preceptor, 2007)
Chris Noto, BS, University of Chicago (now: SUNY Stony Brook, New York)
Karin Goldberg, PhD, University of Chicago (now: Unisinos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Andrey Bekker, BS, University of Chicago (now: Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Alistair McGowan, PhD, University of Chicago (now: Natural History Museum, London)
Helen Morgans, PhD, Oxford University (Jurassic paleobotany and field work, Yorkshire, UK)
Also, 4 student preceptors for GEOS 308 (Fall 2008) and 15 student TAs/Preceptors for NATS 101 (Spring 2008)
Students Funded
2005-2006
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1999-2000
University of Arizona (Dept. of Management Information Systems). Javier Espinoza: online
database interoperability and GIS
University of Arizona (Dept. of Management Information Systems). Niranjan Kesani and Jacinto
Maquera: online database development and interoperability
University of Chicago. Matt Kosnik: online database development
University of Chicago. Grace Lee: website development
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Research Summary
Focused on understanding patterns and causes of changing geography, climate and biota through geologic
time. I integrate my own field and specimen-based research with syntheses based on museum collections and the
published literature. Research tools range from rock hammers to web-based information technology. Contributions
have included fieldwork-based as well as global-scale syntheses of the Late Carboniferous through Late
Cretaceous, ~250 million years of major geographic and climatic change, with profound effects on flora and
fauna. More broadly, my research addresses the following topics:
- Biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography, and paleoclimate interpretations
- Patterns of vegetation diversity, evolution and extinctions through time
- Effects of geographic and climatic change on biota
My website (http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rees/) highlights many of these research interests and results.
As a co-PI of the GEON (Geosciences Network) project, I developed and continue to coordinate the
Paleointegration Project (PIP). PIP comprises interoperable global-scale fossil and sedimentary rock databases, as
well as GIS mapping tools. The PIP databases and tools are accessible from my web site as well as the GEON
portal (http://www.geongrid.org/). The GEON version has additional tools and databases accessed via web services.
I will have a copy of the full suite to take with me to a new home server.
PIP requires truly interdisciplinary collaboration on a global scale, perhaps best evidenced by the list of ten coauthors for my GSA talk last May on “Phanerozoic Earth and Life: The Paleointegration Project”:
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007GE/finalprogram/abstract_121912.htm. I envisage the next phase of PIP having
multiple collaborators (e.g., paleogeographers, climate modelers, geochemists, paleontologists) working toward fully
integrating global climate models and proxy global climate data for many different time intervals from the
Carboniferous through Cenozoic. Confirmed potential collaborators include: (1) Climate modelers - Jeff Kiehl
(NCAR), Paul Valdes (Bristol, UK), Arne Winguth (UT Arlington); (2) Paleogeographers - David Rowley (University
of Chicago), Jan Golonka (Krakow, Poland), Chris Scotese (UT Arlington); (3) Geochemists - Kerstin Lehnert
(Lamont-Doherty); (4) Paleontologists - Wolfgang Kiessling (Humboldt, Berlin), John Alroy (UC Santa Barbara),
Maureen O’Leary (Stony Brook).
One particularly exciting future direction will be integration and direct comparisons of geological data with
paleoclimate simulations. Examples include the Community Climate System Model (CCSM3) from NCAR (Jeff
Kiehl) and the Hadley Centre Climate Model (HadCM3) from Bristol (Paul Valdes), for Permian, Jurassic,
Cretaceous and Paleocene-Eocene hothouse intervals. An important byproduct will be the ability to compare model
results with any proxy data present in each grid cell, enabling quantitative data-model and model-model
comparisons.
Fieldwork
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Alaska (Matanuska Valley). Jurassic and Paleocene/Eocene paleobotany, sedimentology and
environments. With David Sunderlin (Lafayette College).
Canada (Nova Scotia and PEI). Permian paleobotany, stratigraphy and climates.
Russia (Chukotka, Siberia). Cretaceous paleobotany, sedimentology and environments.
Antarctica (Hope Bay and Botany Bay). PhD research. Jurassic paleobotany, sedimentology,
paleoecology, stratigraphy and paleogeography.
Greece (Athos Peninsula). Tethyan limestones and dike swarms.
Scotland (Isle of Skye). Senior undergraduate independent field mapping project: Tertiary
granites, skarn mineralization, Jurassic marine sediments and fossils.
Research Funding
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$45,000. Occidental Oil and Gas; Shell International; Total Oil.
‘Paleogeography of Sedimentary and Oil source Rocks: a Geoinformatics Approach’.
$400,000. NSF EAR 02-25585. ‘ITR Collaborative research: GEON, a Research Project to Create
Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences’. (PI: Flessa, Co-PI: Rees).
$169,617. NSF ATM 00-00545. ‘A Partnership in Modeling Earth System History’. (PI: Barron, Penn
State; subcontract to Ziegler, UofC).
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$15,290. University of Chicago. ‘A Web-based Approach to Earth Science Teaching’.
$99,327. NSF ATM 96-32160. ‘Collaborative Research: Analysis of Simulated and Observed Changes
in Climate and Environments Across the Permian Deglaciation’. (PI: Kutzbach, U-Wisconsin).
$76,769. NSF EAR 96-32286. ‘Collaborative Research: Analysis of Simulated and Observed Changes in
Climate and Environments Across the Permian Deglaciation’. (PI: Ziegler, UofC)
$13,000. Open University, UK. ‘Cretaceous vegetation and climate of Siberia’.
$150,000. NERC, UK. ‘Mesozoic Vegetation and Climates of Gondwana’.
Other Professional Activities
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Journal of Earth Science Informatics - Editiorial Board member
GEON Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, Beijing, China.
IGCP 506 (Marine and non-marine Jurassic: global correlation and major geological events)
Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Seattle. ‘Evolutionary and ecological links between
terrestrial and marine ecosystems in the Phanerozoic’. Co-chaired with Wolfgang Kiessling.
IGCP 469 (Variscan terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments)
Paleobiology Database (Paleobotany Working Group meetings)
Geological Society of America and Geological Society of London, ‘Earth System Processes’
conference, Edinburgh UK. ‘Global change in the late Paleozoic’. Co-chaired with Ethan Grossman.
Reviews of Manuscripts and Funding Proposals
Journals and Books:
Ameghiniana; Antarctic Science; Cambridge University Press; Geology; Nature; Oxford
University Press; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Palaios; PNAS;
Science; The Journal of Geology
Funding Organizations: Lindemann Trust; NSF; Natural Environment Research Council, UK; Royal Society of London,
UK; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Publications
Authored or co-authored 8 books and book chapters, 22 journal articles, and over 50 abstracts, book reviews and
other articles:
Books and Book Chapters
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Rees, P.M. & Cleal, C.J. Lower Jurassic floras from Hope Bay and Botany Bay, Antarctica. Special Papers in
Palaeontology No. 72. Blackwell Publishing: 96pp.
Rees, P.M., Ziegler, A.M. & Valdes, P.J. Jurassic phytogeography and climates: new data and model
comparisons. In: Huber, B.T., Macleod, K.G. & Wing, S.L. (eds), Warm climates in earth history. Cambridge
University Press: 297-318.
Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Palaeobotanical databases and palaeoclimate signals. In: Jones, T.P. & Rowe, N.P.
(eds), Fossil plants and spores: modern techniques. Geological Society of London Special Publication: 240-244.
Cleal, C.J. & Rees, P.M. The palaeobotany of Oxfordshire. In: Killick, J., Perry, R. & Woodell, S. (eds), The flora
of Oxfordshire. Pisces Publications: 10-17.
Skelton, P.W., Spicer, R.A. & Rees, P.M. Evolving Life and the Earth. Open University second level course,
S269 Earth and Life. Open University Press: 190 pp.
Spicer, R.A., Rees, P.M. & Herman, A.B. The Cretaceous vegetation and climate of Asia: some insights. In:
Sahni, A. (ed.) Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments, Memoir, Geological Society of India, 37: 405433.
Ziegler, A.M., Rees, P.M., Rowley, D.B., Bekker, A., Qing Li & Hulver, M.L. Mesozoic assembly of Asia:
constraints from fossil floras, tectonics and paleomagnetism. In: Yin, A. & Harrison, M. (eds), The tectonic
evolution of Asia. Cambridge University Press: 371-400.
Spicer, R.A., Rees, P.M. & Chapman, J.L. Cretaceous phytogeography and climate signals. In: Allen, J.R.L.,
Hoskins, B.J., Sellwood, B.W., Spicer, R.A. & Valdes, P.J. (eds), Palaeoclimates and Their Modelling. Chapman
& Hall: 69-78.
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Cleal, C.J., Rees, P.M., Zijlstra, G. & Cantrill, D. A clarification of the type of the morphogenus Nilssoniopteris
Nathorst (Gymnospermophyta, Bennettitales, fossiles). Taxon, 55(1): 219-222.
Rees, P.M., Noto, C.R., Parrish, J.M. & Parrish, J.T. Late Jurassic climates, vegetation and dinosaur
distributions. Journal of Geology, 112: 643-653.
Ziegler, A.M., Eshel, G., Rees, P.M., Rothfus, T.A., Rowley, D.B. & Sunderlin, D. Tracing the tropics across
land and sea: Permian to present. Lethaia, 36: 227-254.
Cleal, C.J. & Rees, P.M. The Middle Jurassic flora from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK. Palaeontology, 46: 739801.
Hesselbo, S.P., Morgans-Bell, H.S., McElwain, J.C., Rees, P.M., Robinson, S.A. & Ross, C.E. Carbon-cycle
perturbation in the Middle Jurassic and accompanying changes in the terrestrial paleoenvironment. Journal
of Geology, 111: 259-276.
Rees, P.M. Land-plant diversity and the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology, 30: 827-830.
Rees, P.M., Ziegler, A.M., Gibbs, M.T., Kutzbach, J.E., Behling, P. & Rowley, D.B. Permian phytogeographic
patterns and climate data/model comparisons. Journal of Geology, 110: 1-31.
Gibbs, M.T., Rees, P.M., Kutzbach, J.E., Ziegler, A.M., Behling, P. & Rowley, D.B. Simulations of Permian
climate and comparisons with climate-sensitive sediments. Journal of Geology, 110: 33-55.
Kennedy, E.M., Spicer, R.A. & Rees, P.M. Quantitative palaeoclimate estimates from Late Cretaceous and
Paleocene leaf floras in the northwest of the South Island, New Zealand. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 184: 321-345.
Spicer, R.A., Ahlberg, A., Herman, A.B., Kelley, S.P., Raikevich, M.I. & Rees, P.M. Palaeoenvironment and
ecology of the middle Cretaceous Grebenka flora of northeastern Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, 184: 65-105.
Winguth, A.M.E., Heinze, C., Kutzbach, J.E., Maier-Reimer, E., Mikolajewicz, U., Rowley D.B., Rees, P.M. &
Ziegler, A.M. Simulated warm polar currents during the Middle Permian. Paleoceanography, 17(4): 1057, 1-19.
Ziegler, A.M., Rees, P.M. & Naugolnykh, S. The Early Permian floras of Prince Edward Island, Canada:
differentiating global from local effects of climate change. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39: 223-238.
Rees, P.M., Gibbs, M.T., Ziegler, A.M., Kutzbach, J.E. & Behling, P.J. Permian climates: Evaluating model
predictions using global paleobotanical data. Geology, 27 (10): 891-894.
Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Climate signals from pre-angiosperm floras: a rigorous and repeatable approach. In:
Akhmetiev, M.A. & Doludenko, M.P. (eds), Vakhrameev memorial conference, GEOS: 55-60.
Valdes, P.J., Spicer, R.A., Rees, P.M. & Neilson, R.P. Late Jurassic climate and vegetation: comparisons
between geological data and climate/biogeographic models. In: Akhmetiev, M.A. & Doludenko, M.P. (eds),
Vakhrameev memorial conference, GEOS: 17-24.
Rees, P.M. Revised interpretations of Mesozoic palaeogeography and volcanic arc evolution in the northern
Antarctic Peninsula region. Antarctic Science, 5(1): 77-85.
Rees, P.M. Caytoniales in Early Jurassic floras from Antarctica. Geobios, 26(1): 33-42.
Rees, P.M. Mesozoic floras from the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des
Sciences, Série II, 316(11): 1651-1657.
Rees, P.M. Dipterid ferns from the Mesozoic of Antarctica and New Zealand and their stratigraphical
significance. Palaeontology, 36(3): 337-356.
Rees, P.M. & Cleal, C.J. Marked polymorphism in Archangelskya furcata, a pteridospermous frond from the
Jurassic of Antarctica. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 49: 85-100.
Spicer, R.A., Rees, P.M. & Chapman, J.L. Cretaceous phytogeography and climate signals. Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London (B), 341: 277-286.
Rees, P.M. & Smellie, J.L. Cretaceous angiosperms from an allegedly Triassic flora at Williams Point, Livingston
Island, South Shetland Islands. Antarctic Science, 1(3): 239-248.
Conference Abstracts, Book Reviews and Miscellaneous Articles
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Rees, P.M., Alroy, J., Scotese, C., Memon, A., Rowley, D.B., Parrish, J.T., Weishampel, D.B, Platon, E.,
O'Leary, M.A. & Chandler, M.A. Phanerozoic Earth and Life: The Paleointegration Project. Abstracts, GSA
Geoinformatics Division (May 2007).
Scotese, C.R., Main, D., Goswami, A., Rees, P.M., Noto, C.R., & Weishampel, D.B. A Cladistic Approach to
Dinosaur Biogeography: New Maps, New Patterns, and New Ideas. SVP Annual Meeting.
Sunderlin, D., Rees, P.M., Lutz, K. & Nockleby, K. Warm Paleoenvironmental Indicators in the
Paleocene/Eocene Chickaloon Formation, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Abstracts, GSA Cordilleran Section
(May 2007).
Rees, P.M. An Exciting New Phase for the Paleointegration Project (PIP). GEON February Newsletter.
Rees, P.M. Web-based Databases and Paleobiogeography. Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography:
Biodiversity in Space and Time Conference, Cambridge, UK.
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Rees, P.M. & Espinoza, J. Online Databases and Paleomaps. Geoinformatics 2006 meeting, Reston,
Virginia.
Rees, P.M. GEON Paleointegration Project launched. GEON June Newsletter.
Rees, P.M. Interactive Search of Fossil and Sedimentary Databases Available. GEON April Newsletter.
Rees, P.M. New Sedimentary and Fossil Databases. Deep Time Geosystems Newsletter.
Rees, P.M. & Kesani, N. A Hierarchical Coding Scheme for Integrating Geologic Databases. Abstracts,
GEON 3rd annual meeting, San Diego.
Rees, P.M., Noto, C. & Weishampel, D. A New Online Database of Dinosaur Distributions. Abstracts, SVP
65th annual meeting, Tempe.
Rees, P.M. Global Dinosaur Distributions using GEON. Science Grid This Week: Image of the Week.
http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/2005/1026/
Rees, P.M. Deployment of DINO database, using GEON Service Oriented Architecture framework. GEON
September Newsletter
Scotese, C.R. & Rees, P.M. The spatial-temporal information matrix (STIM cube): An efficient way to store
geological information. Absracts, GSA, Denver.
Sims, H., Rees, P.M., Stein, W.E., Tiffney, B., Gensel, P., Wing, S., Raymond, A., Johnson, K., Wilf, P.,
Gastaldo, R. and Looy, C. Temporal and spatial patterns in the evolution of within-community plant diversity.
Abstracts, Seventh IOP Conference, Bariloche, Argentina.
Rees, P.M. Patterns of land-plant diversity, climate and geography in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic.
Abstracts, GSA, Seattle.
Sims, H.J., Rees, P.M., Stein, W.E., Tiffney, B.H., Gensel, P.G., Wing, S.L., Raymond, A., Johnson, K.R.,
Wilf, P. & Gastaldo, R.A. Temporal and spatial patterns in the evolution of within-community plant diversity.
Abstracts, GSA, Seattle.
Sims, H.J, Stein, W.E., Rees, P.M., Tiffney, B.H., Looy, C.V., Gensel, P.G., Wing, S.L., Raymond, A., Wilf,
P., Gastaldo, R.A., Johnson, K.R. & Alroy, J. The evolution of within-community land plant diversity over the
Phanerozoic. Abstracts, Botanical Society of America, Mobile.
Sunderlin, D. & Rees, P.M. Regional phytogeography of the Permian Angaran flora. Abstracts, 20th Annual
Mid-Continent Paleobotanical Colloquium, Chicago.
Noto, C.R., Rees, P.M., Ziegler, A.M. & Weishampel, D.B. Rocks, bones, and plants: A pattern of latitudinal
dependence demonstrated by the distribution of Jurassic dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
22(3), 92A-93A
Sims, H.J, Stein, W.E., Wing, S.L., Gensel, P.G., Tiffney, B.H., Gastaldo, R.A., Rees, P.M., Raymond, A.,
Wilf, P. & Johnson, K.R. The evolution of within-community Phanerozoic land plant diversity. Abstracts,
GSA, Denver.
Hesselbo, S.P., Morgans-Bell, H., McElwain, J., Rees, P.M. & Robinson, S.A. A major carbon-cycle
perturbation in the Middle Jurassic and accompanying climatic change adduced from the land-plant record.
Abstracts, EUG XI, Strasbourg.
Rees, P.M., Ziegler, A.M. & Kutzbach, J.E. Permian climates: new data/model results, and insights on
terrestrial vegetation changes across the Permo-Triassic boundary. Earth System Processes, Abstracts,
GSA-GSL, Edinburgh.
McGowan, A.J., Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Diversity patterns and biogeography of terrestrial floras in the
Permian and Triassic. EOS Trans., AGU Spring Meeting Suppl., Washington DC.
Morgans-Bell, H., Rees, P.M., Ziegler, A.M. & Rowley, D.B. Global distribution of ocean water masses during the
Jurassic: delimiting marine climate zones using climate-sensitive sediments. Abstracts, Geoscience 2000,
Manchester.
Rees, P.M., McGowan, A.J. & Ziegler, A.M. Patterns of global plant diversity, geography and climate in the
Permian and Triassic. Abstracts, GSA, Reno.
Ziegler, A.M., Rees, P.M. & Naugolnykh, S. Late Paleozoic climate change in Eastern Canada: differentiating
global from local effects. EOS Trans., AGU Spring Meeting Suppl., Washington DC.
Kennedy, E.M., Spicer, R.A. & Rees, P.M. Palaeoclimate signals in three Maastrichtian and Paleocene floras
from New Zealand. Abstracts, New Zealand Geological Society.
Spicer, R.A., Ahlberg, A.T., Herman, A.B., Kelley, S.P. & Rees, P.M. Mid-Cretaceous north polar vegetation and
climate: a high resolution study. Abstracts, European Geophysical Society, Strasbourg.
Gibbs, M.T., Kutzbach, J.E., Ziegler, A.M. & Rees, P.M. Permian paleoclimate data-model agreements and
discrepancies. EOS Trans., AGU 78, Spring Meeting Suppl., Boston.
Rees, P.M. Review of: Paleobotany. Plants of the past, their evolution, paleoenvironment and application in
exploration of fossil fuels (Agashe, S.N., 1995). [Botanical Journal Linnean Society]
Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Permian and Jurassic climates: strengths and limitations of the fossil plant data.
EOS Trans., AGU 78, Spring Meeting Suppl., Boston.
Rees, P.M., Gibbs, M.T., Ziegler, A.M., Kutzbach, J.E. & Behling, P.J. Permian climates: evaluating model
predictions using global paleobotanical data. Abstracts, GSA, Toronto.
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Ziegler, A.M., Gibbs, M.T., Rees, P.M. & Rowley, D.B. A Permian paleogeographic atlas. Abstracts, Upper
Permian stratotypes of the Volga region, Kazan, Russia.
Gibbs, M.T., Ziegler, A.M., Kutzbach, J.E. & Rees, P.M. New Permian paleoclimate data-model comparisons.
Abstracts, GSA, 29(6), A-211, Salt Lake City.
Rees, P.M., Ziegler, A.M. & Gibbs, M.T. A quantitative approach to Permian phytogeography. Abstracts, The
Permian of Eastern Tethys: Biostratigraphy, Paleogeography and Resources. Deakin University, Melbourne.
Valdes, P.J., Spicer, R.A., Rees, P.M. & Neilson, R.P. Vegetation/climate interactions in the distant past.
Abstracts, European Geophysical Society, Vienna.
Parrish, J.M., Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Correspondence of paleolatitudinal diversity in herbivorous dinosaurs
and plants during the Jurassic. Abstracts, North American Paleontological Convention, Washington DC: 301.
Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Mesozoic plant distributions. Abstracts, 9th IPC Conference, Houston.
Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Aspects of Mesophytic vegetation, geography and climate. Abstracts, 5th IOP
Conference, Santa Barbara: 83.
Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Jurassic floras and global climates. Abstracts, North American Paleontological
Convention, Washington DC: 319.
Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Permian floras and climate signals. Abstracts, 30th International Geological
Congress, Beijing: 106.
Rees, P.M. Review of: The enigma of angiosperm origins (Hughes, N.F., 1993). [Geological Magazine]
Rees, P.M. & Ziegler, A.M. Jurassic floral gradients and climates. Abstracts, Palaeontological Association AGM,
Galway.
Rees, P.M. & Spicer, R.A. Reply to ‘Damage from using computers’ by I.A. Dobruskina. International
Organisation of Palaeobotany Newsletter 53.
Ziegler, A.M. & Rees, P.M. Reply to ‘Damage from using computers’ by I.A. Dobruskina. International
Organisation of Palaeobotany Newsletter 53.
Rees, P.M. Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofloras from Antarctica. Abstracts, 4th IOP Conference, Paris:
129.
Rees, P.M. Review of: The Early Miocene Buffalo Canyon flora of western Nevada (Axelrod, D.I., 1991). [Journal
of Biogeography]
Rees, P.M. Review of: The evolution and palaeobiology of land plants (Thomas, B.A. & Spicer, R.A., 1987).
[British Geologist]
Rees, P.M. A diverse Middle Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous flora from the northern Antarctic Peninsula.
Abstracts, 14th International Botanical Congress, Berlin: 287.
Invited Presentations (2000-)
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
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PETM (Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum) data-model workshop, Santa Fe
GEON Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG), San Diego
International GEON workshop, Moscow, Russia
Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity in Space and Time. Cambridge, UK
GEON Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, Beijing, China
GEON Portal Usability Workshop. San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
IGCP 469 (Variscan Terrestrial Biotas and Palaeoenvironments), Cardiff, UK
CHRONOS Paleogeography Workshop, Vienna, Austria
Non-Marine Permian Symposium. New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque
GEON webcast (“Dinosaurs and More: Integration of the DINO and PGAP Databases”), SDSC
DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) Workshop, University of New Hampshire
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle
Symposium in Honor of A.M. Ziegler, University of Chicago
PMESH (Partnership in Modeling Earth System History) Data/Model Meeting, Boulder
Geological Society of America/Geological Society of London Joint Conference, Edinburgh, UK