Professor Derek Briggs, a Geology Graduate talks in the School of Natural Sciences

January 2011

Professor Briggs, currently Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and a graduate of Geology (1972) received an honarary degree on Friday afternoon (10th December).

The School of Natural Sciences presented a public lecture by Renowned Palaeontologist Professor Derek Briggs entitled ‘Extraordinary Fossils: Windows on the History of Life on Earth’ on the Friday afternoon.

You can view the talk at this link: http://www.youtube.com/trinitycollegedublin#p/a/u/1/EYiD_o4VW88

A graduate of the College, Professor Derek Briggs had a distinguished career as a palaeontologist with positions in Cambridge, London, Bristol, Chicago and Yale before being appointed to this highly prestigious role in 2008. He is recognised internationally for his research on the preservation and evolutionary significance of exceptionally preserved fossils.  He is the author and editor of a number of books that have become benchmarks in Paleontology, including The Fossils of the Burgess Shale and Paleobiology – a Synthesis.