Science brought University of Wyoming geochronologist Kevin Chamberlain to Siberia, but it was the Russian people and culture that impressed him the most.

Scientists at the Laboratory of Geochronology and Geodynamics will be investigating the correlation between magmatic processes and mass death of biological species at the end of the Ordovician period. Using radioisotope dating, researchers will see what happened almost 400 million years ago and estimate the ecological conditions of that time.