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Peter D. Ward Paleontology Office: KIN-162    (Mailing Address) Phone: 206-543-2962 Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared) E-Mail: ward* * to send email, replace * with @ess.washington.edu

Areas of Interest:
Paleontology

Research Groups:
Analytical Geochemistry
Astrobiology
Paleontology

Current Research:
Peter Ward is currently examining the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event with studies in France and Spain involving detailed field work which concentrates on ammonites and bivalves. Ward is also researching speciation patterns and ecology of the living cephalopods Nautilus and Sepia. A final field of research is examining the stratigraphic history of West Coast Cretaceous basins through detailed biostratigraphy and basin analysis.

Selected Publications:
Ward, P., 1987, The Natural History of Nautilus. Allen and Unwin, London, 267 p.

Ward, P., 1990, The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in the marine realm: a 1990 perspective, GSA Special Paper, v. 247, p. 425-431.

Ward, P., 1991, On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 212 p.

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