Geologist leads $2.1 million NSF project
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Dr. Wan Yang shows research student Ziyue Ju how to properly label and cut rock samples for analysis. Sam O’Keefe/Missouri S&T
Dr. Wan Yang, associate professor of geology and geophysics, has devoted his academic career to unlocking the mysteries of the Permian mass extinction more than 250 million years ago. That geological odyssey now finds him leading an 11-institution consortium that has been collectively awarded a $2.1 million National Science Foundation research grant.
A field sedimentologist and stratigrapher, Yang is the principal investigator for a collaboration that involves scientists from the following institutions:
- Boise State University
- California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco
- Colby College
- Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago
- Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, a branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology in China
- Shandong University of Science and Technology in China
- Southern Methodist University
- University of Freiburg in Germany
- University of Texas at Dallas
- University of Washington
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