Patricia H. Kelley, PhD (Image provided)
Paleoecologist Patricia H. Kelley, professor emerita at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will deliver the 21st annual American Rock Salt Lecture in Newton Hall 214 on April 3 at 7:30 pm. Kelley’s talk, “Conservation Paleobiology: Using the Dead to Save the Living,” is free and open to the public.
Kelley is an evolutionary paleoecologist. Her work focuses on the preservation of biodiversity and how interactions between prehistoric predators and prey affected their evolution. Kelley earned her PhD at Harvard University and taught at the University of Mississippi and the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she worked until her retirement in 2017.
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and the American Rock Salt Company LLC have partnered on the American Rock Salt Lecture on Geology since 2004.