Allister Rees

Research: Earth and Life through Time, understanding global-scale changes in geography and climate, consequences for plant and animal life, interactions and feedbacks during the past 550 million years, and implications for the future. Some of my contributions can be seen using the above links.

Understanding global-scale changes of climate, geography and life across such vast time scales can only be achieved through interdisciplinary collaboration. I'm grateful to the many colleagues across disciplines (e.g. climate modelers, paleogeographers, geochemists and paleontologists) for their generosity and sharing of my integrative vision. The resulting databases and tools are available via the GEON PaleoIntegration Project (PIP), which I coordinate. You can read a pdf summary of PIP here.

Teaching: In addition to the teaching resources available for anyone via PIP, I teach Paleontology (GEOS 308) and have previously taught Geological Perspective (NATS 101) courses at the University of Arizona.