Short Biography
Peter Ward
Professor
Office: KIN-162
ESS Mailing Address
Phone: 206-543-2962, 685-3825
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
E-Mail: ward@ess.washington.edu
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Research Groups: Isotope Geochemistry, Astrobiology, Paleontology
Areas of Interest:
Paleontology
Current Research Interests:
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.
Graduate Students:
Ken MacLeod: Worldwide extinction patterns in inoceramid bivalves
David Backus: Extinction patterns in Cambrian trilobites
Lynn Catlin: Mass extinctions of ammonites
Bruce Crowley: Middle Cretaceous ammonites from the North Cascades
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.