Professor Gastaldo’s research focuses on several key paleontological and sedimentological questions.\u00a0 These include: (1) the nature of the terrestrial fossil record over deep time; (2) the taphonomic processes (death, decay, disarticulation) involved in preserving the biosphere in the sedimentary record; (3) the nature of coal and coal-bearing systems; and (4)\u00a0 how fossil assemblages are used to understand ecosystem stability, perturbation (short- and long-term disturbance), turnover, extinction, and replacement.<\/p>\n
Over the course of his career, he has undertaken both macrofossil and microfossil studies in, and published results with a wide variety of collaborators on:<\/p>\n
Recently, Professor Gastaldo was featured in an article about NASA satellite imagery of the Rajang River Delta <\/a> in their Earth Observatory Image of the Day : 5 March 2018<\/p>\n Professor Gastaldo’s research focuses on several key paleontological and sedimentological questions.\u00a0 These include: (1) the nature of the terrestrial fossil record over deep time; (2) the taphonomic processes (death, decay, disarticulation) involved in preserving the biosphere in the sedimentary record; … Continue reading \n