Paul Copper, Laurentian University

Research

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PARRC Anticosti Fossil and Carbonate Reef Research Group Global mass extinctions The global carbon cycle through the last half billion years

Latest funding

Global reef expansion and collapse: radiation, evolution and mass extinction of mid-paleozoic reef and peri-reef biotas
NSERC · 2001 · Principal investigator
$448,500
Global reef expansion and collapse: radiation, evolution, mass extinction of reef dwellers in the Paleozoic
NSERC · 1996 · Principal investigator
$297,550
Third international brachiopod congress - 1995, September 2-5, 1995
NSERC · 1995 · Principal investigator
$14,000

All 4 grants and awards

No publications available.

Global reef expansion and collapse: radiation, evolution and mass extinction of mid-paleozoic reef and peri-reef biotas

Principal investigatorNSERC2001Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Copper, Paul

$448,500

Global reef expansion and collapse: radiation, evolution, mass extinction of reef dwellers in the Paleozoic

Principal investigatorNSERC1996Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Copper, Paul

$297,550

Third international brachiopod congress - 1995, September 2-5, 1995

Principal investigatorNSERC1995Conference Grants (H)

Principal investigators: Copper, Paul

$14,000

Evolution, paleoecology and mass extinctions of Phanerozoic reef ecosystems; taxonomy and evolution of atrypid brachiopods; ordovician-devonian event biostratigraphy

Principal investigatorNSERC1991Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Copper, Paul

$294,420

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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