NAI
Francis Macdonald
Harvard University
Current Projects
- Environmental Evolution and Complex Life — 2016 NAI
- Paleontological, Sedimentological, and Geochemical Investigations of the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic Transition — 2015 NAI
- Taphonomy of Microbial Ecosystems — 2015 NAI
- Early Animals: Taphonomic Controls on Fossil Record — 2015 NAI
- Early Animals: Evolution of Complex Multicellularity — 2015 NAI
- Evolution of Precambrian Life and Primary Producers — 2015 NAI
- Paleontological, Sedimentological, and Geochemical Investigations of the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic Transition — 2014 NAI
- Early Animals: Predation, Oxygen and Preservation in Early Animal Evolution — 2014 NAI
- Life and Environments: Geochemistry of Late Precambrian Oxygenation — 2013 NAI
- Life and Environments: Proterozoic Geology, Geochemistry and Paleontology — 2013 NAI
- Atmospheric Oxygen and Complex Life — 2012 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2012 NAI
- Protists of the Neoproterozoic — 2011 NAI
- Molecular and Isotopic Investigations Across the Neoproterozoic — 2011 NAI
- Geochemical Signatures of Multicellular Life — 2011 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2011 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2010 NAI
- Environmental Oxygen and the Rise (And Fall) of Metazoans — 2010 NAI
- Magnetic Biosignatures — 2003 NAI
- Coevolution of Life and Planets — 2001 NAI
- Coevolution of Life and Planets — 2000 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., MacDonald, F. A., Dalton, L., & Matys, E. (2011). Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 308(1-2), 29–40. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.030
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Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., MacDonald, F. A., Gooday, A. J., Dalton, L., & Matys, E. D. (2011). Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716-635 Ma) cap carbonates. Geology, 40(1), 67–70. doi:10.1130/g32535.1
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Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., MacDonald, F. A., Gooday, A. J., Dalton, L., & Matys, E. D. (2011). Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716-635 Ma) cap carbonates. Geology, 40(1), 67–70. doi:10.1130/g32535.1
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Bosak, T., MacDonald, F., Lahr, D., & Matys, E. (2011). Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia. Geology, 39(12), 1123–1126. doi:10.1130/g32384.1
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Cohen, P. A., Schopf, J. W., Butterfield, N. J., Kudryavtsev, A. B., & MacDonald, F. A. (2011). Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists. Geology, 39(6), 539–542. doi:10.1130/g31833.1
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Johnston, D. T., MacDonald, F. A., Gill, B. C., Hoffman, P. F., & Schrag, D. P. (2012). Uncovering the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle. Nature, 483(7389), 320–323. doi:10.1038/nature10854
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Pruss, S. B., Bosak, T., MacDonald, F. A., McLane, M., & Hoffman, P. F. (2010). Microbial facies in a Sturtian cap carbonate, the Rasthof Formation, Otavi Group, northern Namibia. Precambrian Research, 181(1-4), 187–198. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.06.006
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See Project - Halverson, G.P., MacDonald, F.A., Strauss, J.V., Smith, E.F., Cox, G.M. & Hubert-Theou, L. (2011). Updated definition and correlation of the lower Fifteenmile Group in the central and eastern Ogilvie Mountains. In: MacFarlane, K.E. & Sack, P.J. (Eds.). Yukon Exploration Geology 2011. Whitehorse. See Project
- Rooney, A.D., Strauss, J.V., Dudás, F.Ö., Selby, D., Hallmann, C. & MacDonald, F.A. (2012, Accepted). The synchronous demise of a 50 Myr duration Snowball Earth. Nature Geoscience. See Project
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