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Peter Ward (paleontologist)
Peter Douglas Ward (born 1949) is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide. He has written numerous popular science works for a general audience and is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
Life and work
His parents, Joseph and Ruth Ward, moved to Seattle following World War II. Ward grew up in the Seward Park neighborhood of Seattle, attending Franklin High School, and he spent time during summers at a family summer cabin on Orcas Island.
Ward's academic career has included teaching posts and professional connections with Ohio State University, the NASA Astrobiology Institute, the University of California, McMaster University (where he received his PhD in 1976), and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 1984.
Ward specializes in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the Permian–Triassic extinction event, and mass extinctions generally. He has published books on biodiversity and the fossil record. His 1992 book On Methuselah's Trail received a "Golden Trilobite Award" from the Paleontological Society as the best popular science book of the year. Ward also serves as an adjunct professor of zoology and astronomy.
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Famous quotes by Peter Ward:
"Mr. Spitzer has redefined the office of Attorney General. He has consistently supported working families, while also showing no fear in taking on Wall Street moguls and other big shots. He has fought hard on behalf of exploited workers and consumers. We firmly believe there is no better choice to lead New York State than Eliot Spitzer."
"Life As We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life"
"He is the new broom, and he can sweep clean."
"Fox is ... untainted and he can make a clean break with the past and start over. Certainly in areas of corruption and government performance, I think you're going to see a different style, and new opportunities to lay down new practices."
"The PAN party higher-ups, the senior officials and elected officials, don't trust him very much. They don't see him as ideologically reliable to the core values of the PAN. He's seen as a maverick. But clearly, if he gets stuck or tied up in those conflicts, that would impact on his ability to govern."
"Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in the Earth's History"
"It doesn't surprise me -- gold is facing some big problems."
"Changes in oxygen may have been a huge driver for mammalian evolution. Nature is so damned complicated."
"They constantly violate our contract, so we're not going to allow them to be part of any multi-employer negotiations."
"Guests who stay at the Hilton are paying premium dollars for a safe, secure, well-run hotel, and they deserve to have that. I don't know what's worse, all the Hilton violations or the way they keep covering them up."
Peter Ward
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- The Best of Old Skool Ibiza released: 2002
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Peter Ward, Paleontologist - The Ancient Nautilus
As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New Caledonia to see and trap living nautiloids. He’s interested in the adaptations that allowed this species to survive when all others died out. The tough nautilus shell protects the animal and its shell, designed for buoyancy, keeps pressure even so it can rise from the depths and descend again. Ward paints a picture of what life was like 500 million years ago when the first nautilus left the ocean floor. Ward is thrilled to try to see a nautilus rising from depths to feed on the reef on a night dive.
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Living Fossils: Surviving through Time (Peter Ward)
Peter Ward, paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington, delves into one of the great mysteries of evolution, what Charles Darwin called "living fossils." Ward discusses these unevolved animals with Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar. There is no simple explanation for their survival. Ward shares new theories concerning mass extinctions of species and the aftermath of meteoric impact.
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What's next for human civilization? With Peter Ward.
On today's episode, we get existential with Peter Ward, a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth – where it came from, how it ends, and what it means for us. Peter is a professor at the University of Washington and the Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide, as well as an award-winning author and adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum. Peter delves into some of the greatest threats to human civilization – such as the melting of the ice caps, asteroids, and nuclear war – and explains why we as a species need to evolve our intelligence to find solutions to these pressing problems. He talks about mass extinction and what it might look like for our planet, the science fiction movies that come closest to predicting the future, and the prospect of life o...
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Big Think Interview With Peter Ward | Big Think
Big Think Interview With Peter Ward New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An interview with the biologist and paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Ward: Peter Ward conducts his research within The Environment Institute's Sprigg Geobiolgy Centre at the University of Adelaide. Peter Ward has been active in Paleontology, Biology, and more recently, Astrobiology for more than 40 years. Since his Ph.D. in 1976, Ward has published more than 140 scientific papers dealing with paleontological, zoological, and astronomical topics. H...
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Ep 76: Peter Ward on Life on Earth
Life on earth is a crazy accident. We have no idea how it arose or whether it will survive. Peter Ward joins Vasant Dhar in episode 76 of Brave New World to chat about the origins of our planet, the many extinctions and resurgences of life, and the future of our species. Useful resources: 1. Peter Ward on Wikipedia, University of Washington and Amazon. 2. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe -- Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. 3. A New History of Life -- Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink. 4. The Medea Hypothesis -- Peter Ward. 5. The Flooded Earth -- Peter Ward. 6. Roy Chapman Andrews on Amazon. 7. Jason and the Golden Fleece -- Apollonius of Rhodes. 8. Hercules, My Shipmate -- Robert Graves. 9. The Gaia Hypothesis. 10. SETI Institute. 11. Rare Earth Hypothesis. 12. Th...
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Peter Ward's Hero | Big Think
Peter Ward's Hero New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The biologist and paleontologist remembers “the smartest man [he’s] ever known.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Ward: Peter Ward conducts his research within The Environment Institute's Sprigg Geobiolgy Centre at the University of Adelaide. Peter Ward has been active in Paleontology, Biology, and more recently, Astrobiology for more than 40 years. Since his Ph.D. in 1976, Ward has published more than 140 scientific papers dealing with paleontological, zoological, and astronomical topics. He is an acknowledged world exper...
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Earth's mass extinctions | Peter Ward
http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics ...
published: 28 Jan 2009 -
Out Of The Blank #1044 - Peter Ward
Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth—where it came from, how it ends, and what that means. His research is focused on the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which he explores at field sites in France and Spain. He also looks at speciation patterns and ecology of the living cephalopods. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. In addition to his academic work, he is committed to public outreach, and has written a number of popular books for the a general audience. Peter's Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_(paleontologist) https://www.ess.washington.edu/people/profile.php?pid=ward--peter My Links: https://linktr.ee/outoftheblank_podcast
published: 07 Mar 2022 -
Life's Resilience Response to Hydrogen Sulfide: Peter Ward at TEDxRainier
Revealing astonishing new findings, Biologist Peter Ward shares how low dose exposure to hydrogen sulfide dramatically increases growth rates and yield for wheat, bio-fuel algae, and other plants. Dr. Peter Ward is a professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He specializes in mass extinction events and also serves as an astrobiologist with NASA. Ward is the author of more than a dozen books, including Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (with Donald Brownlee), Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere. Peter spoke at TED2008. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video ...
published: 21 Jan 2013 -
Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?” | The Great Simplification #08
On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward. Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what happened in Earth’s history when ocean currents stopped, and why a reduction in elephant poaching is contributing to the destruction of coral reefs. Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is author of over a dozen books on Earth's natural history including On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions; Under a Green Sky; and The Medea Hypothesis, 2009, (listed by the New York Times as one of the “100 most important ideas of 2009”). Ward gave a TED talk in 2008 about mass extinctions. Show Notes - (linked notes ...
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Peter Ward, Paleontologist - The Ancient Nautilus
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As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New Caledonia to see and trap living nautiloids. He’s interested in the ada...
As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New Caledonia to see and trap living nautiloids. He’s interested in the adaptations that allowed this species to survive when all others died out. The tough nautilus shell protects the animal and its shell, designed for buoyancy, keeps pressure even so it can rise from the depths and descend again. Ward paints a picture of what life was like 500 million years ago when the first nautilus left the ocean floor. Ward is thrilled to try to see a nautilus rising from depths to feed on the reef on a night dive.
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As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New Caledonia to see and trap living nautiloids. He’s interested in the adaptations that allowed this species to survive when all others died out. The tough nautilus shell protects the animal and its shell, designed for buoyancy, keeps pressure even so it can rise from the depths and descend again. Ward paints a picture of what life was like 500 million years ago when the first nautilus left the ocean floor. Ward is thrilled to try to see a nautilus rising from depths to feed on the reef on a night dive.
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Living Fossils: Surviving through Time (Peter Ward)
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Peter Ward, paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington, delves into one of the great mysteries of evolution, what Charl...
Peter Ward, paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington, delves into one of the great mysteries of evolution, what Charles Darwin called "living fossils." Ward discusses these unevolved animals with Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar. There is no simple explanation for their survival. Ward shares new theories concerning mass extinctions of species and the aftermath of meteoric impact.
https://wn.com/Living_Fossils_Surviving_Through_Time_(Peter_Ward)
Peter Ward, paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington, delves into one of the great mysteries of evolution, what Charles Darwin called "living fossils." Ward discusses these unevolved animals with Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar. There is no simple explanation for their survival. Ward shares new theories concerning mass extinctions of species and the aftermath of meteoric impact.
- published: 26 Apr 2014
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What's next for human civilization? With Peter Ward.
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On today's episode, we get existential with Peter Ward, a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth – where it came from, how it ends, and wha...
On today's episode, we get existential with Peter Ward, a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth – where it came from, how it ends, and what it means for us. Peter is a professor at the University of Washington and the Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide, as well as an award-winning author and adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
Peter delves into some of the greatest threats to human civilization – such as the melting of the ice caps, asteroids, and nuclear war – and explains why we as a species need to evolve our intelligence to find solutions to these pressing problems. He talks about mass extinction and what it might look like for our planet, the science fiction movies that come closest to predicting the future, and the prospect of life on other planets.
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On today's episode, we get existential with Peter Ward, a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth – where it came from, how it ends, and what it means for us. Peter is a professor at the University of Washington and the Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide, as well as an award-winning author and adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
Peter delves into some of the greatest threats to human civilization – such as the melting of the ice caps, asteroids, and nuclear war – and explains why we as a species need to evolve our intelligence to find solutions to these pressing problems. He talks about mass extinction and what it might look like for our planet, the science fiction movies that come closest to predicting the future, and the prospect of life on other planets.
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Big Think Interview With Peter Ward | Big Think
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An interview with the biologist and paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Peter Ward:
Peter Ward conducts his research within The Environment Institute's Sprigg Geobiolgy Centre at the University of Adelaide.
Peter Ward has been active in Paleontology, Biology, and more recently, Astrobiology for more than 40 years. Since his Ph.D. in 1976, Ward has published more than 140 scientific papers dealing with paleontological, zoological, and astronomical topics.
He is an acknowledged world expert on mass extinctions and the role of extraterrestrial impacts on Earth. Ward was the Principal Investigator of the University of Washington node of the NASA Astrobiology Institute from 2001-2006, and in that capacity led a team of over 40 scientists and students. His career was profiled by the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter William Dietrich in The Seattle Times article "Prophet, Populist, Poet of Science."
Peter has written a memoir of his research on the Nautilus for Nautilus magazine's "Ingenious" feature entitled "Nautilus and me. My wonderful, dangerous life with the amazing Nautilus."
His books include the best-selling "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe" (co-author Donald Brownlee, 2000), "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future" (2007), and "The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?" (2009).
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Peter Ward: Peter Ward, W-A-R-D. Department of Geology and Department of Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Question: Based on your findings in Antarctica, how do you rnassess the future of the planet?
Peter Ward: Well, the earth has certainly gone through a lot rnof hot times and cold times back and forth, and forth and back. And rnwhat I do is study deep time by looking at CO2 levels and relative rntemperatures and we are coming out of a cold time and moving into a hot rntime. However, for this particular time in history, we should be movingrn back into a cold time.
If we take the entire ice ages in the last 2 ½ million years, we’ve rnbeen in a 10,000 year calm of warmth, and it’s time to go cold again, rnand yet it doesn’t seem to be in our cards because of all the carbon rndioxide we have put into the system. In fact, we are now at levels thatrn the world has not seen for the last 40 million years and we will soon rnbe at carbon dioxide levels that were 100 million years ago when we had arn true hothouse world.
So, the game has been changed.
Question: What specific research did you conduct during rnyour Antarctic expedition?
Peter Ward: Our Antarctic work is to look at the nature of rnglobal temperatures at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Cretaceous rnended 65 million years ago. The **** end, and I do believe this is thatrn large asteroid hit us in the Yucatan Peninsula causing the mass rnextinction. But we’re trying to see what happened in the 10 million rnyears prior to that because we know at that time; there was a gigantic rnvolcanic event in India. These are a big flood basalts they’re called. rn It’s not a single point source volcano, but imagine enormous areas of rnthe earth, creeping lava coming out of the cracks and flowing slowly allrn around scaring dinosaurs to death, probably running in front of this rnstuff, probably killed a few dinosaurs, but what it did do was vent an rnenormous quantity of volcanic carbon dioxide and other gasses into the rnatmosphere.
Now, we wanted to know, was there any precursor to the impact. Was rnthe impact just the coup de grace coming on an already affected world rnand it does seem to be that? And the best place to look at this – the rnbest place to understand anything about global warming isn’t at the rntropics. That’s where temperatures change the least, but it’s at the rnpoles where you have the greatest absolute change. So, we found a ten rndegrees centigrade change from colder to warmer in the last two to threern million years prior to the impact itself. The place really did warm rnup, and fast, from a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere. Now, there’s rnobviously parallels to what’s going on in the world today.
Question: What was your methodology in measuring CO2 levelsrn in Antarctica?
Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/big-think-interview-with-peter-ward/
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An interview with the biologist and paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Peter Ward:
Peter Ward conducts his research within The Environment Institute's Sprigg Geobiolgy Centre at the University of Adelaide.
Peter Ward has been active in Paleontology, Biology, and more recently, Astrobiology for more than 40 years. Since his Ph.D. in 1976, Ward has published more than 140 scientific papers dealing with paleontological, zoological, and astronomical topics.
He is an acknowledged world expert on mass extinctions and the role of extraterrestrial impacts on Earth. Ward was the Principal Investigator of the University of Washington node of the NASA Astrobiology Institute from 2001-2006, and in that capacity led a team of over 40 scientists and students. His career was profiled by the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter William Dietrich in The Seattle Times article "Prophet, Populist, Poet of Science."
Peter has written a memoir of his research on the Nautilus for Nautilus magazine's "Ingenious" feature entitled "Nautilus and me. My wonderful, dangerous life with the amazing Nautilus."
His books include the best-selling "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe" (co-author Donald Brownlee, 2000), "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future" (2007), and "The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?" (2009).
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Peter Ward: Peter Ward, W-A-R-D. Department of Geology and Department of Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Question: Based on your findings in Antarctica, how do you rnassess the future of the planet?
Peter Ward: Well, the earth has certainly gone through a lot rnof hot times and cold times back and forth, and forth and back. And rnwhat I do is study deep time by looking at CO2 levels and relative rntemperatures and we are coming out of a cold time and moving into a hot rntime. However, for this particular time in history, we should be movingrn back into a cold time.
If we take the entire ice ages in the last 2 ½ million years, we’ve rnbeen in a 10,000 year calm of warmth, and it’s time to go cold again, rnand yet it doesn’t seem to be in our cards because of all the carbon rndioxide we have put into the system. In fact, we are now at levels thatrn the world has not seen for the last 40 million years and we will soon rnbe at carbon dioxide levels that were 100 million years ago when we had arn true hothouse world.
So, the game has been changed.
Question: What specific research did you conduct during rnyour Antarctic expedition?
Peter Ward: Our Antarctic work is to look at the nature of rnglobal temperatures at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Cretaceous rnended 65 million years ago. The **** end, and I do believe this is thatrn large asteroid hit us in the Yucatan Peninsula causing the mass rnextinction. But we’re trying to see what happened in the 10 million rnyears prior to that because we know at that time; there was a gigantic rnvolcanic event in India. These are a big flood basalts they’re called. rn It’s not a single point source volcano, but imagine enormous areas of rnthe earth, creeping lava coming out of the cracks and flowing slowly allrn around scaring dinosaurs to death, probably running in front of this rnstuff, probably killed a few dinosaurs, but what it did do was vent an rnenormous quantity of volcanic carbon dioxide and other gasses into the rnatmosphere.
Now, we wanted to know, was there any precursor to the impact. Was rnthe impact just the coup de grace coming on an already affected world rnand it does seem to be that? And the best place to look at this – the rnbest place to understand anything about global warming isn’t at the rntropics. That’s where temperatures change the least, but it’s at the rnpoles where you have the greatest absolute change. So, we found a ten rndegrees centigrade change from colder to warmer in the last two to threern million years prior to the impact itself. The place really did warm rnup, and fast, from a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere. Now, there’s rnobviously parallels to what’s going on in the world today.
Question: What was your methodology in measuring CO2 levelsrn in Antarctica?
Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/big-think-interview-with-peter-ward/
- published: 24 Apr 2012
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Ep 76: Peter Ward on Life on Earth
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Life on earth is a crazy accident. We have no idea how it arose or whether it will survive. Peter Ward joins Vasant Dhar in episode 76 of Brave New World to cha...
Life on earth is a crazy accident. We have no idea how it arose or whether it will survive. Peter Ward joins Vasant Dhar in episode 76 of Brave New World to chat about the origins of our planet, the many extinctions and resurgences of life, and the future of our species.
Useful resources: 1. Peter Ward on Wikipedia, University of Washington and Amazon. 2. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe -- Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. 3. A New History of Life -- Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink. 4. The Medea Hypothesis -- Peter Ward. 5. The Flooded Earth -- Peter Ward. 6. Roy Chapman Andrews on Amazon. 7. Jason and the Golden Fleece -- Apollonius of Rhodes. 8. Hercules, My Shipmate -- Robert Graves. 9. The Gaia Hypothesis. 10. SETI Institute. 11. Rare Earth Hypothesis. 12. The Drake Equation. Check out Vasant Dhar’s newsletter on Substack. Subscription is free!
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Life on earth is a crazy accident. We have no idea how it arose or whether it will survive. Peter Ward joins Vasant Dhar in episode 76 of Brave New World to chat about the origins of our planet, the many extinctions and resurgences of life, and the future of our species.
Useful resources: 1. Peter Ward on Wikipedia, University of Washington and Amazon. 2. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe -- Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. 3. A New History of Life -- Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink. 4. The Medea Hypothesis -- Peter Ward. 5. The Flooded Earth -- Peter Ward. 6. Roy Chapman Andrews on Amazon. 7. Jason and the Golden Fleece -- Apollonius of Rhodes. 8. Hercules, My Shipmate -- Robert Graves. 9. The Gaia Hypothesis. 10. SETI Institute. 11. Rare Earth Hypothesis. 12. The Drake Equation. Check out Vasant Dhar’s newsletter on Substack. Subscription is free!
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The biologist and paleontologist remembers “the smartest man [he’s] ever known.”
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Peter Ward:
Peter Ward conducts his research within The Environment Institute's Sprigg Geobiolgy Centre at the University of Adelaide.
Peter Ward has been active in Paleontology, Biology, and more recently, Astrobiology for more than 40 years. Since his Ph.D. in 1976, Ward has published more than 140 scientific papers dealing with paleontological, zoological, and astronomical topics.
He is an acknowledged world expert on mass extinctions and the role of extraterrestrial impacts on Earth. Ward was the Principal Investigator of the University of Washington node of the NASA Astrobiology Institute from 2001-2006, and in that capacity led a team of over 40 scientists and students. His career was profiled by the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter William Dietrich in The Seattle Times article "Prophet, Populist, Poet of Science."
Peter has written a memoir of his research on the Nautilus for Nautilus magazine's "Ingenious" feature entitled "Nautilus and me. My wonderful, dangerous life with the amazing Nautilus."
His books include the best-selling "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe" (co-author Donald Brownlee, 2000), "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future" (2007), and "The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?" (2009).
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Question: Who are your heroes, scientific or otherwise?
Peter Ward: My heroes were actually the great dinosaur hunters of the American Museum, Roy Chapman Andrews, Granger and those guys. Sagan is certainly a hero. I have a lot of heroes within my own disciplines that are probably too arcane, but Stephen J. Gould is perhaps my greatest hero. I knew him very well. I knew him well enough that I got in trouble a lot with him. He sort of viewed me as his cantankerous younger brother. He once told me, “Peter, you’ll never be great, but you’re pretty good.” Now, that’s quite a slap in the face, right? We all want to be great. But it was from Steve, so I’m great and you’re not as great as me, but I like the fact that you’re doing good work. It was that sort of relationship, okay. But I miss him. I miss his voice. He was the greatest single public speaker I’ve ever, ever heard. He was also the smartest man I’ve ever known. I’ve known quite a few intelligent people, but his processing speed was beyond belief. It’s a great voice lost.
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The biologist and paleontologist remembers “the smartest man [he’s] ever known.”
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Peter Ward:
Peter Ward conducts his research within The Environment Institute's Sprigg Geobiolgy Centre at the University of Adelaide.
Peter Ward has been active in Paleontology, Biology, and more recently, Astrobiology for more than 40 years. Since his Ph.D. in 1976, Ward has published more than 140 scientific papers dealing with paleontological, zoological, and astronomical topics.
He is an acknowledged world expert on mass extinctions and the role of extraterrestrial impacts on Earth. Ward was the Principal Investigator of the University of Washington node of the NASA Astrobiology Institute from 2001-2006, and in that capacity led a team of over 40 scientists and students. His career was profiled by the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter William Dietrich in The Seattle Times article "Prophet, Populist, Poet of Science."
Peter has written a memoir of his research on the Nautilus for Nautilus magazine's "Ingenious" feature entitled "Nautilus and me. My wonderful, dangerous life with the amazing Nautilus."
His books include the best-selling "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe" (co-author Donald Brownlee, 2000), "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future" (2007), and "The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?" (2009).
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Question: Who are your heroes, scientific or otherwise?
Peter Ward: My heroes were actually the great dinosaur hunters of the American Museum, Roy Chapman Andrews, Granger and those guys. Sagan is certainly a hero. I have a lot of heroes within my own disciplines that are probably too arcane, but Stephen J. Gould is perhaps my greatest hero. I knew him very well. I knew him well enough that I got in trouble a lot with him. He sort of viewed me as his cantankerous younger brother. He once told me, “Peter, you’ll never be great, but you’re pretty good.” Now, that’s quite a slap in the face, right? We all want to be great. But it was from Steve, so I’m great and you’re not as great as me, but I like the fact that you’re doing good work. It was that sort of relationship, okay. But I miss him. I miss his voice. He was the greatest single public speaker I’ve ever, ever heard. He was also the smartest man I’ve ever known. I’ve known quite a few intelligent people, but his processing speed was beyond belief. It’s a great voice lost.
Recorded on January 11, 2010
Interviewedrn by Austin Allen
- published: 24 Apr 2012
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Earth's mass extinctions | Peter Ward
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http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by l...
http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
- published: 28 Jan 2009
- views: 314457
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Out Of The Blank #1044 - Peter Ward
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Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth—where it came from, how it ends, and what that means. His research is focused on the...
Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth—where it came from, how it ends, and what that means. His research is focused on the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which he explores at field sites in France and Spain. He also looks at speciation patterns and ecology of the living cephalopods. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. In addition to his academic work, he is committed to public outreach, and has written a number of popular books for the a general audience.
Peter's Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_(paleontologist)
https://www.ess.washington.edu/people/profile.php?pid=ward--peter
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Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth—where it came from, how it ends, and what that means. His research is focused on the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which he explores at field sites in France and Spain. He also looks at speciation patterns and ecology of the living cephalopods. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. In addition to his academic work, he is committed to public outreach, and has written a number of popular books for the a general audience.
Peter's Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_(paleontologist)
https://www.ess.washington.edu/people/profile.php?pid=ward--peter
My Links:
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- published: 07 Mar 2022
- views: 187
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Life's Resilience Response to Hydrogen Sulfide: Peter Ward at TEDxRainier
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Revealing astonishing new findings, Biologist Peter Ward shares how low dose exposure to hydrogen sulfide dramatically increases growth rates and yield for whea...
Revealing astonishing new findings, Biologist Peter Ward shares how low dose exposure to hydrogen sulfide dramatically increases growth rates and yield for wheat, bio-fuel algae, and other plants.
Dr. Peter Ward is a professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He specializes in mass extinction events and also serves as an astrobiologist with NASA. Ward is the author of more than a dozen books, including Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (with Donald Brownlee), Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere. Peter spoke at TED2008.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
https://wn.com/Life's_Resilience_Response_To_Hydrogen_Sulfide_Peter_Ward_At_Tedxrainier
Revealing astonishing new findings, Biologist Peter Ward shares how low dose exposure to hydrogen sulfide dramatically increases growth rates and yield for wheat, bio-fuel algae, and other plants.
Dr. Peter Ward is a professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He specializes in mass extinction events and also serves as an astrobiologist with NASA. Ward is the author of more than a dozen books, including Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (with Donald Brownlee), Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere. Peter spoke at TED2008.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
- published: 21 Jan 2013
- views: 6270
1:15:07
Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?” | The Great Simplification #08
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On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s c...
On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what happened in Earth’s history when ocean currents stopped, and why a reduction in elephant poaching is contributing to the destruction of coral reefs.
Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is author of over a dozen books on Earth's natural history including On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions; Under a Green Sky; and The Medea Hypothesis, 2009, (listed by the New York Times as one of the “100 most important ideas of 2009”). Ward gave a TED talk in 2008 about mass extinctions.
Show Notes - (linked notes at https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/08-peter-ward)
00:45 - Peter Ward website and books
03:00 - We need a little bit of CO2, but it’s easy to have too much CO2
04:20 - Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (co-written with Dan Brownlee)
04:40 - Excessive heat and mortality
05:12 - Volcanic activity responsible for past CO2 spikes
05:40 - Previous mass extinctions
05:57 - Non-animal mass extinctions
07:18 - Uneven atmospheric heating
08:00 - Ocean currents and how they work
08:51 - Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)
09:12 - Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
10:25 - Fossil fuel availability
10:50 - Under a Green Sky
11:50 - The Gulf Stream
13:22 - What lives at the bottom of the ocean?
15:13 - Shallow ocean grasses and climate
19:11 - Oxygen in the ocean has dropped 2%
20:20 - North pacific ocean increasing acidity
20:48 - Billions of sea creatures died during summer ‘21 heat wave
23:11 - 30% of houses in Seattle have air conditioning
23:50 - Positive feedback loop
25:00 - We are highly attuned to smell hydrogen sulfide
25:45 - 400 ppm of hydrogen sulfide will kill a human
28:25 - Fred Hutchinson Institute
28:50 - Warm blooded animals are more sensitive to H2S than cold blooded
29:45 - Atlantic meridional overturning circulation has slow 15-20% in the last 30-40 years
31:56 - We’ve lost 15% of the amazon, if we lose 20% it will tip into a carbon source
34:10 - In the last 20,000 years sea level rise has gone up 450 ft
34:30 - How many of the world’s ports are built 3ft above sea level
34:52 - Wet bulb temperature + *Factual Correction - Higher wet bulb temperatures do not prevent sweating, it makes sweating less effective
36:15 - What temperature can mammals still reproduce at
40:10 - Eric Steig
41:48 - Social media algorithms encourage polarization and extremes
44:25 - 40% of students at the University of Minnesota are using some mental health aid
45:39 - A switch to renewables completely will not fix all of our issues
45:45 - The energy Americans use outside of the body is 100x the amount they eat
46:08 - 20% of Americans lost everything during COVID
48:13 - The Flooded Earth
48:41 - Northern Europe most at risk for sea level rise
49:46 - Rice is the number one food source for the largest portion of people
49:53 - Bangladesh rice crop destruction via salinization
53:31 - Sam Wasser
55:58 - Giant clams are replacing ivory
57:23 - We’ve lost 50% of animals since the late 1960s
57:55 - 5,500 mammal species and 10 million other species we share the earth with
59:07 - Save the Nautilus
1:01:25 - 25 million dollars worth of clams being shipped to China
1:01:49 - Giant clams are extinct in many places
1:03:23 - We’ve underpaid for the main income to our economies
1:03:30 - We can shift away from GDP as measure for success
1:04:49 - Male libido and the exotic trade market
1:06:25 - Pangolin scales second most trafficked item
1:12:10 - Human biases and drives
1:12:31 - We are energy blind
1:13:00 - Emergence
1:13:40 - Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of the ivory trade
#PeterWard #TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens
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On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what happened in Earth’s history when ocean currents stopped, and why a reduction in elephant poaching is contributing to the destruction of coral reefs.
Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is author of over a dozen books on Earth's natural history including On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions; Under a Green Sky; and The Medea Hypothesis, 2009, (listed by the New York Times as one of the “100 most important ideas of 2009”). Ward gave a TED talk in 2008 about mass extinctions.
Show Notes - (linked notes at https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/08-peter-ward)
00:45 - Peter Ward website and books
03:00 - We need a little bit of CO2, but it’s easy to have too much CO2
04:20 - Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (co-written with Dan Brownlee)
04:40 - Excessive heat and mortality
05:12 - Volcanic activity responsible for past CO2 spikes
05:40 - Previous mass extinctions
05:57 - Non-animal mass extinctions
07:18 - Uneven atmospheric heating
08:00 - Ocean currents and how they work
08:51 - Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)
09:12 - Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
10:25 - Fossil fuel availability
10:50 - Under a Green Sky
11:50 - The Gulf Stream
13:22 - What lives at the bottom of the ocean?
15:13 - Shallow ocean grasses and climate
19:11 - Oxygen in the ocean has dropped 2%
20:20 - North pacific ocean increasing acidity
20:48 - Billions of sea creatures died during summer ‘21 heat wave
23:11 - 30% of houses in Seattle have air conditioning
23:50 - Positive feedback loop
25:00 - We are highly attuned to smell hydrogen sulfide
25:45 - 400 ppm of hydrogen sulfide will kill a human
28:25 - Fred Hutchinson Institute
28:50 - Warm blooded animals are more sensitive to H2S than cold blooded
29:45 - Atlantic meridional overturning circulation has slow 15-20% in the last 30-40 years
31:56 - We’ve lost 15% of the amazon, if we lose 20% it will tip into a carbon source
34:10 - In the last 20,000 years sea level rise has gone up 450 ft
34:30 - How many of the world’s ports are built 3ft above sea level
34:52 - Wet bulb temperature + *Factual Correction - Higher wet bulb temperatures do not prevent sweating, it makes sweating less effective
36:15 - What temperature can mammals still reproduce at
40:10 - Eric Steig
41:48 - Social media algorithms encourage polarization and extremes
44:25 - 40% of students at the University of Minnesota are using some mental health aid
45:39 - A switch to renewables completely will not fix all of our issues
45:45 - The energy Americans use outside of the body is 100x the amount they eat
46:08 - 20% of Americans lost everything during COVID
48:13 - The Flooded Earth
48:41 - Northern Europe most at risk for sea level rise
49:46 - Rice is the number one food source for the largest portion of people
49:53 - Bangladesh rice crop destruction via salinization
53:31 - Sam Wasser
55:58 - Giant clams are replacing ivory
57:23 - We’ve lost 50% of animals since the late 1960s
57:55 - 5,500 mammal species and 10 million other species we share the earth with
59:07 - Save the Nautilus
1:01:25 - 25 million dollars worth of clams being shipped to China
1:01:49 - Giant clams are extinct in many places
1:03:23 - We’ve underpaid for the main income to our economies
1:03:30 - We can shift away from GDP as measure for success
1:04:49 - Male libido and the exotic trade market
1:06:25 - Pangolin scales second most trafficked item
1:12:10 - Human biases and drives
1:12:31 - We are energy blind
1:13:00 - Emergence
1:13:40 - Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of the ivory trade
#PeterWard #TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens
- published: 23 Feb 2022
- views: 15305
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Peter Ward, Paleontologist - The Ancient Nautilus
As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New C...
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Peter Ward, Paleontologist - The Ancient Nautilus
Peter Ward, Paleontologist - The Ancient Nautilus
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As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New Caledonia to see and trap living nautiloids. He’s interested in the adaptations that allowed this species to survive when all others died out. The tough nautilus shell protects the animal and its shell, designed for buoyancy, keeps pressure even so it can rise from the depths and descend again. Ward paints a picture of what life was like 500 million years ago when the first nautilus left the ocean floor. Ward is thrilled to try to see a nautilus rising from depths to feed on the reef on a night dive.
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Living Fossils: Surviving through Time (Peter Ward)
Peter Ward, paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washi...
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Living Fossils: Surviving through Time (Peter Ward)
Living Fossils: Surviving through Time (Peter Ward)
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Peter Ward, paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington, delves into one of the great mysteries of evolution, what Charles Darwin called "living fossils." Ward discusses these unevolved animals with Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar. There is no simple explanation for their survival. Ward shares new theories concerning mass extinctions of species and the aftermath of meteoric impact.
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What's next for human civilization? With Peter Ward.
On today's episode, we get existential with Peter Ward, a paleontologist and astrobiologis...
published: 10 Nov 2022
What's next for human civilization? With Peter Ward.
What's next for human civilization? With Peter Ward.
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On today's episode, we get existential with Peter Ward, a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth – where it came from, how it ends, and what it means for us. Peter is a professor at the University of Washington and the Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide, as well as an award-winning author and adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
Peter delves into some of the greatest threats to human civilization – such as the melting of the ice caps, asteroids, and nuclear war – and explains why we as a species need to evolve our intelligence to find solutions to these pressing problems. He talks about mass extinction and what it might look like for our planet, the science fiction movies that come closest to predicting the future, and the prospect of life on other planets.
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Big Think Interview With Peter Ward | Big Think
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An interview with the biologist and paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Peter Ward:
Peter Ward conducts his research within The Environment Institute's Sprigg Geobiolgy Centre at the University of Adelaide.
Peter Ward has been active in Paleontology, Biology, and more recently, Astrobiology for more than 40 years. Since his Ph.D. in 1976, Ward has published more than 140 scientific papers dealing with paleontological, zoological, and astronomical topics.
He is an acknowledged world expert on mass extinctions and the role of extraterrestrial impacts on Earth. Ward was the Principal Investigator of the University of Washington node of the NASA Astrobiology Institute from 2001-2006, and in that capacity led a team of over 40 scientists and students. His career was profiled by the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter William Dietrich in The Seattle Times article "Prophet, Populist, Poet of Science."
Peter has written a memoir of his research on the Nautilus for Nautilus magazine's "Ingenious" feature entitled "Nautilus and me. My wonderful, dangerous life with the amazing Nautilus."
His books include the best-selling "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe" (co-author Donald Brownlee, 2000), "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future" (2007), and "The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?" (2009).
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Peter Ward: Peter Ward, W-A-R-D. Department of Geology and Department of Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Question: Based on your findings in Antarctica, how do you rnassess the future of the planet?
Peter Ward: Well, the earth has certainly gone through a lot rnof hot times and cold times back and forth, and forth and back. And rnwhat I do is study deep time by looking at CO2 levels and relative rntemperatures and we are coming out of a cold time and moving into a hot rntime. However, for this particular time in history, we should be movingrn back into a cold time.
If we take the entire ice ages in the last 2 ½ million years, we’ve rnbeen in a 10,000 year calm of warmth, and it’s time to go cold again, rnand yet it doesn’t seem to be in our cards because of all the carbon rndioxide we have put into the system. In fact, we are now at levels thatrn the world has not seen for the last 40 million years and we will soon rnbe at carbon dioxide levels that were 100 million years ago when we had arn true hothouse world.
So, the game has been changed.
Question: What specific research did you conduct during rnyour Antarctic expedition?
Peter Ward: Our Antarctic work is to look at the nature of rnglobal temperatures at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Cretaceous rnended 65 million years ago. The **** end, and I do believe this is thatrn large asteroid hit us in the Yucatan Peninsula causing the mass rnextinction. But we’re trying to see what happened in the 10 million rnyears prior to that because we know at that time; there was a gigantic rnvolcanic event in India. These are a big flood basalts they’re called. rn It’s not a single point source volcano, but imagine enormous areas of rnthe earth, creeping lava coming out of the cracks and flowing slowly allrn around scaring dinosaurs to death, probably running in front of this rnstuff, probably killed a few dinosaurs, but what it did do was vent an rnenormous quantity of volcanic carbon dioxide and other gasses into the rnatmosphere.
Now, we wanted to know, was there any precursor to the impact. Was rnthe impact just the coup de grace coming on an already affected world rnand it does seem to be that? And the best place to look at this – the rnbest place to understand anything about global warming isn’t at the rntropics. That’s where temperatures change the least, but it’s at the rnpoles where you have the greatest absolute change. So, we found a ten rndegrees centigrade change from colder to warmer in the last two to threern million years prior to the impact itself. The place really did warm rnup, and fast, from a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere. Now, there’s rnobviously parallels to what’s going on in the world today.
Question: What was your methodology in measuring CO2 levelsrn in Antarctica?
Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/big-think-interview-with-peter-ward/
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Ep 76: Peter Ward on Life on Earth
Life on earth is a crazy accident. We have no idea how it arose or whether it will survive...
published: 25 Jan 2024
Ep 76: Peter Ward on Life on Earth
Ep 76: Peter Ward on Life on Earth
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Life on earth is a crazy accident. We have no idea how it arose or whether it will survive. Peter Ward joins Vasant Dhar in episode 76 of Brave New World to chat about the origins of our planet, the many extinctions and resurgences of life, and the future of our species.
Useful resources: 1. Peter Ward on Wikipedia, University of Washington and Amazon. 2. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe -- Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. 3. A New History of Life -- Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink. 4. The Medea Hypothesis -- Peter Ward. 5. The Flooded Earth -- Peter Ward. 6. Roy Chapman Andrews on Amazon. 7. Jason and the Golden Fleece -- Apollonius of Rhodes. 8. Hercules, My Shipmate -- Robert Graves. 9. The Gaia Hypothesis. 10. SETI Institute. 11. Rare Earth Hypothesis. 12. The Drake Equation. Check out Vasant Dhar’s newsletter on Substack. Subscription is free!
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The biologist and paleontologist remembers “the smartest man [he’s] ever known.”
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Peter Ward:
Peter Ward conducts his research within The Environment Institute's Sprigg Geobiolgy Centre at the University of Adelaide.
Peter Ward has been active in Paleontology, Biology, and more recently, Astrobiology for more than 40 years. Since his Ph.D. in 1976, Ward has published more than 140 scientific papers dealing with paleontological, zoological, and astronomical topics.
He is an acknowledged world expert on mass extinctions and the role of extraterrestrial impacts on Earth. Ward was the Principal Investigator of the University of Washington node of the NASA Astrobiology Institute from 2001-2006, and in that capacity led a team of over 40 scientists and students. His career was profiled by the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter William Dietrich in The Seattle Times article "Prophet, Populist, Poet of Science."
Peter has written a memoir of his research on the Nautilus for Nautilus magazine's "Ingenious" feature entitled "Nautilus and me. My wonderful, dangerous life with the amazing Nautilus."
His books include the best-selling "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe" (co-author Donald Brownlee, 2000), "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future" (2007), and "The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?" (2009).
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TRANSCRIPT:
Question: Who are your heroes, scientific or otherwise?
Peter Ward: My heroes were actually the great dinosaur hunters of the American Museum, Roy Chapman Andrews, Granger and those guys. Sagan is certainly a hero. I have a lot of heroes within my own disciplines that are probably too arcane, but Stephen J. Gould is perhaps my greatest hero. I knew him very well. I knew him well enough that I got in trouble a lot with him. He sort of viewed me as his cantankerous younger brother. He once told me, “Peter, you’ll never be great, but you’re pretty good.” Now, that’s quite a slap in the face, right? We all want to be great. But it was from Steve, so I’m great and you’re not as great as me, but I like the fact that you’re doing good work. It was that sort of relationship, okay. But I miss him. I miss his voice. He was the greatest single public speaker I’ve ever, ever heard. He was also the smartest man I’ve ever known. I’ve known quite a few intelligent people, but his processing speed was beyond belief. It’s a great voice lost.
Recorded on January 11, 2010
Interviewedrn by Austin Allen
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Earth's mass extinctions | Peter Ward
http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Pe...
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http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.
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Out Of The Blank #1044 - Peter Ward
Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth—where it came ...
published: 07 Mar 2022
Out Of The Blank #1044 - Peter Ward
Out Of The Blank #1044 - Peter Ward
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Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth—where it came from, how it ends, and what that means. His research is focused on the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which he explores at field sites in France and Spain. He also looks at speciation patterns and ecology of the living cephalopods. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. In addition to his academic work, he is committed to public outreach, and has written a number of popular books for the a general audience.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_(paleontologist)
https://www.ess.washington.edu/people/profile.php?pid=ward--peter
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Life's Resilience Response to Hydrogen Sulfide: Peter Ward at TEDxRainier
Revealing astonishing new findings, Biologist Peter Ward shares how low dose exposure to h...
published: 21 Jan 2013
Life's Resilience Response to Hydrogen Sulfide: Peter Ward at TEDxRainier
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Revealing astonishing new findings, Biologist Peter Ward shares how low dose exposure to hydrogen sulfide dramatically increases growth rates and yield for wheat, bio-fuel algae, and other plants.
Dr. Peter Ward is a professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He specializes in mass extinction events and also serves as an astrobiologist with NASA. Ward is the author of more than a dozen books, including Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (with Donald Brownlee), Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere. Peter spoke at TED2008.
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Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?” | The Great Simplification #08
On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalog...
published: 23 Feb 2022
Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?” | The Great Simplification #08
Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?” | The Great Simplification #08
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On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what happened in Earth’s history when ocean currents stopped, and why a reduction in elephant poaching is contributing to the destruction of coral reefs.
Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is author of over a dozen books on Earth's natural history including On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions; Under a Green Sky; and The Medea Hypothesis, 2009, (listed by the New York Times as one of the “100 most important ideas of 2009”). Ward gave a TED talk in 2008 about mass extinctions.
Show Notes - (linked notes at https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/08-peter-ward)
00:45 - Peter Ward website and books
03:00 - We need a little bit of CO2, but it’s easy to have too much CO2
04:20 - Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (co-written with Dan Brownlee)
04:40 - Excessive heat and mortality
05:12 - Volcanic activity responsible for past CO2 spikes
05:40 - Previous mass extinctions
05:57 - Non-animal mass extinctions
07:18 - Uneven atmospheric heating
08:00 - Ocean currents and how they work
08:51 - Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)
09:12 - Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
10:25 - Fossil fuel availability
10:50 - Under a Green Sky
11:50 - The Gulf Stream
13:22 - What lives at the bottom of the ocean?
15:13 - Shallow ocean grasses and climate
19:11 - Oxygen in the ocean has dropped 2%
20:20 - North pacific ocean increasing acidity
20:48 - Billions of sea creatures died during summer ‘21 heat wave
23:11 - 30% of houses in Seattle have air conditioning
23:50 - Positive feedback loop
25:00 - We are highly attuned to smell hydrogen sulfide
25:45 - 400 ppm of hydrogen sulfide will kill a human
28:25 - Fred Hutchinson Institute
28:50 - Warm blooded animals are more sensitive to H2S than cold blooded
29:45 - Atlantic meridional overturning circulation has slow 15-20% in the last 30-40 years
31:56 - We’ve lost 15% of the amazon, if we lose 20% it will tip into a carbon source
34:10 - In the last 20,000 years sea level rise has gone up 450 ft
34:30 - How many of the world’s ports are built 3ft above sea level
34:52 - Wet bulb temperature + *Factual Correction - Higher wet bulb temperatures do not prevent sweating, it makes sweating less effective
36:15 - What temperature can mammals still reproduce at
40:10 - Eric Steig
41:48 - Social media algorithms encourage polarization and extremes
44:25 - 40% of students at the University of Minnesota are using some mental health aid
45:39 - A switch to renewables completely will not fix all of our issues
45:45 - The energy Americans use outside of the body is 100x the amount they eat
46:08 - 20% of Americans lost everything during COVID
48:13 - The Flooded Earth
48:41 - Northern Europe most at risk for sea level rise
49:46 - Rice is the number one food source for the largest portion of people
49:53 - Bangladesh rice crop destruction via salinization
53:31 - Sam Wasser
55:58 - Giant clams are replacing ivory
57:23 - We’ve lost 50% of animals since the late 1960s
57:55 - 5,500 mammal species and 10 million other species we share the earth with
59:07 - Save the Nautilus
1:01:25 - 25 million dollars worth of clams being shipped to China
1:01:49 - Giant clams are extinct in many places
1:03:23 - We’ve underpaid for the main income to our economies
1:03:30 - We can shift away from GDP as measure for success
1:04:49 - Male libido and the exotic trade market
1:06:25 - Pangolin scales second most trafficked item
1:12:10 - Human biases and drives
1:12:31 - We are energy blind
1:13:00 - Emergence
1:13:40 - Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of the ivory trade
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Peter Ward (paleontologist)
Peter Douglas Ward (born 1949) is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide. He has written numerous popular science works for a general audience and is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
Life and work
His parents, Joseph and Ruth Ward, moved to Seattle following World War II. Ward grew up in the Seward Park neighborhood of Seattle, attending Franklin High School, and he spent time during summers at a family summer cabin on Orcas Island.
Ward's academic career has included teaching posts and professional connections with Ohio State University, the NASA Astrobiology Institute, the University of California, McMaster University (where he received his PhD in 1976), and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 1984.
Ward specializes in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the Permian–Triassic extinction event, and mass extinctions generally. He has published books on biodiversity and the fossil record. His 1992 book On Methuselah's Trail received a "Golden Trilobite Award" from the Paleontological Society as the best popular science book of the year. Ward also serves as an adjunct professor of zoology and astronomy.
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