I study the ecological information contained in natural accumulations of bones (death assemblages). Through a multidisciplinary approach that brings together ecology, wildlife management, conservation biology, paleobiology, and GIS, my research explores the ecological data contained in bone accumulations from the modern, sub-fossil, and fossil realms. Using fieldwork, quantitative analyses, and statistical modeling, I am refining our understanding of the biological data that is contained in bone accumulations and providing new tools for recovering those data from recent, historical, and fossil accumulations.
Faculty, Staff, and Students
Tenure-Track Faculty
Thomas Algeo
Professor, Geology
504 Geology-Physics Building
Specialization in sedimentary geochemistry with applications to paleoceanographic and global systems analysis. Research is directed along three broad themes: Environmental change at the Permian/Triassic boundary, the relationship of land plant evolution to weathering rate changes and global events during the Middle to Late Devonian, and the development of trace-metal redox proxies to study paleomarine systems.
Carlton E. Brett
Professor, Geology
510 Geology-Physics Building
Brooke E Crowley
Professor, Geology Graduate Director, Stable Isotope Ecology, Quaternary Paleoecology, Geology
503 Geology-Physics Building
Andrew D. Czaja
Associate Professor, Precambrian Paleobiology, Astrobiology, and Geochemistry, Geology
506 Geology-Physics Building
Aaron Diefendorf
Professor, Organic and Isotope Geochemistry, Geology
610 Geology-Physics Building
Craig Dietsch
Associate Professor --, Geology
500D Geology-Physics Building
Attila I Kilinc
Professor of experimental and computational geochemistry, Geology
Tom V Lowell
Professor, Glacial and Quaternary Geology, Geology
604 Geology-Physics Building
Joshua H Miller
Assistant Professor, Geology
509 Geology-Physics Building
Reza Soltanian
Assistant Professor, Geology
508 Geology-Physics Building
Daniel Murray Sturmer
Assistant Professor, Geology
602 Geology-Physics Building
Amy Townsend-Small
Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Geology
605 Geology-Physics Building
Dylan Ward
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director, Geomorphology and Numerical Modeling, Geology
502 Geology-Physics Building
Yurena Yanes
Assistant Professor, Geology
520 Geology-Physics Building
Adjunct Faculty
Brenda R Hanke
Geology
Glenn W. Storrs
Adjunct Professor, Geology
Geology-Physics Building
Affiliate Faculty
Christopher L Atchison
Geoscience Education, Geology
600E Teachers College
Kenneth Barnett Tankersley
Associate Professor, Curator, Court Archaeological Research Facility, Geology
456 Braunstein Hall
Emeriti Faculty
Madeleine Briskin
Emeritus Professor, Geology
507 Geology-Physics Building
Warren D. Huff
Professor, Geology
614 Geology-Physics Building
Clay mineralogy, paleovolcanology, tephrochronology
J. Barry Maynard
Professor, Geology
Arnold I Miller
Professor Emeritus of Geology, Geology
609 Geology-Physics Building
An evolutionary paleobiologist and paleoecologist, with research and teaching interests in biodiversity throughout geological time and in the present day. Current projects include the investigation of geographic and environmental selectivity during global mass extinctions and major diversification events; assessment of anthropogenic impacts on shallow-water molluscan communities as recorded in skeletal accumulations; numerical modeling of time-averaged fossil assemblages; and assessments of the distributions of animals and plants along present and past environmental gradients.
Post-Doc Fellows/ Research Associates
Faranak Behzadi
Geology
Corey D Wallace
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Geology
Geology-Physics Building
Staff
Kate D. Cosgrove
Business Manager, Geology
500 Geology-Physics Building
Sarah J Hammer
Laboratory Manager, Geology
623B Geology-Physics Building
Michael L. Menard
Technical Professional II, Geology
623A Geology-Physics Building
Krista Smilek
Director Academic, Geology
500 Geology-Physics Building
Graduate Students
Jason M Cesta
Geology
Megan Casey Corcoran
Graduate Assistant, Geology
Reza Ershadnia
Graduate Assistant, Geology
Abigail Amanda Kelly
Graduate Assistant, Geology
For more information, my website is scaleofscience.com.
Samuel Augustus Little
Geology
Andrew Carlton Michel
Graduate Assistant, Geology
Clark Taylor Ward
Graduate Assistant, Geology
Jonas Zajonz
Graduate Assistant, Geology