Workshops

Canada’s Fossil Heritage- Celebrating 50 Years of Burgess Shale Research

Dr. Katie Maloney is a paleontologist interested in the co-evolution of the biosphere and geosphere. She is the Rebanks Fellow in Natural History at ROM, and is currently studying Burgess Shale Seaweed. Dr. Maloney will be joining the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in August 2025. During graduate school at the University of Toronto, she became fascinated by ancient fossils and rocks that provide clues to how Earth's ecosystems have dramatically changed through time. As a NSERC Postdoctoral Scholar at McGill University, she documented the ecological expansion of Neoproterozoic seaweed. Her research uses field-based, paleoenvironmental analysis to target: (1) the diversification and evolution of early eukaryotes; (2) the paleobiology and paleoecology of seaweed; and (3) ecosystem reconstruction of critical transitions in Earth’s history.