Mount Royal University hosted their 5th annual Science & Technology Day to celebrate student research and stimulate discussion across scientific disciplines.
Paul Hoffman, one of the greatest and most charismatic scientific story-tellers of our time, is the 2018 keynote speaker for the Faculty of Science and Technology Research Days. Paul is world renown for his “United Plates of America” concept of how the North American continent originated, and for his outspoken support for “Snowball Earth,” the theory that glaciers extended from pole to pole over land and sea for millions of years, shortly before the evolutionary explosion of multicellular animal life. He predicts that a legacy of Snowball Earth exists in the genomes of living organisms.
Paul’s theorizing is grounded in over fifty years of geological field work in northern Canada and southern Africa, driven by his curiosity about the world beneath our feet. He found that the scope of geological history is such that even the field geologist must learn to think at different times like a chemist, a physicist, an astronomer and a biologist. He was originally drawn to geology because he thought it meant going to wild places, making amazing discoveries, and giving famous lectures. He was not disappointed.
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