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A member of the Comet Research Group investigation, Dr Ballard provides forensic evidence of suspected continental fires across North America in the paleo record, and specifically links them to the initiation Younger Dryas period. The co-author of several important papers on the Younger Dryas Cataclysm, she presents findings from research conducted in Michigan and Tennessee, including charcoal data and the discovery of salacious aggregates as a marker for fire. Dr. Ballard exemplifies the best of informed and open-minded scientific investigation of cosmic catastrophes.