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, Geosciences
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, Geosciences
510 Geology-Physics Building
Brooke E Crowley
Professor, Geology Graduate Director, Stable Isotope Ecology, Quaternary Paleoecology, Geosciences
503 Geology-Physics Building
Andrew D. Czaja
Associate Professor, Precambrian Paleobiology, Astrobiology, and Geochemistry, Geosciences
506 Geology-Physics Building
Aaron Diefendorf
Professor, Organic and Isotope Geochemistry, Geosciences
610 Geology-Physics Building
Craig Dietsch
Associate Professor, Department Head, Geology, Geosciences
500D Geology-Physics Building
Attila I Kilinc
Professor of experimental and computational geochemistry, Geosciences
Tom V Lowell
Professor, Glacial and Quaternary Geology, Geosciences
604 Geology-Physics Building
Joshua H Miller
Asst Professor, Geosciences
509 Geology-Physics Building
Reza Soltanian
Associate Professor, Hydrogeology, Geosciences
508 Geology-Physics Building
Daniel Murray Sturmer
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
602 Geology-Physics Building
Amy Townsend-Small
Professor, Environmental Science, Geosciences
605 Geology-Physics Building
Dylan Ward
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director, Geomorphology and Numerical Modeling, Geosciences
502 Geology-Physics Building
Yurena Yanes
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
520 Geology-Physics Building
Adjunct Faculty
Brenda R Hanke
Geosciences
Glenn W. Storrs
Adjunct Professor, Geosciences
Geology-Physics Building
Affiliate Faculty
Christopher L Atchison
Professor, Geoscience Education, Geosciences
600E Teachers College
Kenneth Barnett Tankersley
Assoc Professor, Geosciences
456 Braunstein Hall
Emeriti Faculty
Warren D. Huff
Professor, Geosciences
Geology-Physics Building
Clay mineralogy, paleovolcanology, tephrochronology
J. Barry Maynard
Professor, Geosciences
Arnold I Miller
Professor Emeritus of Geology, Geosciences
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.
Paul E Potter
Emeritus Faculty, Geosciences
Post-Doc Fellows/ Research Associates
Faranak Behzadi
Geosciences
Corey D Wallace
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Geosciences
Geology-Physics Building
Staff
Kate D. Cosgrove
Business Manager, Geosciences
500 Geology-Physics Building
Sarah J Hammer
Laboratory Manager, Geosciences
623B Geology-Physics Building
Krista Smilek
Academic Director, Geology, Geosciences
500 Geology-Physics Building
Graduate Students
Lilja Elyse Carden
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Jason M Cesta
Geosciences
Megan Casey Corcoran
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Watts Lambert Dietrich
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Aaron Ray Fletcher
Geosciences
Ian James Forsythe
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Andrew K Hensley
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Cody Martin Kessler
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Samuel Augustus Little
Geosciences
Andrew Carlton Michel
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Hans Hubble Naake
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Brianna Isabel Orrill
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Elizabeth Ann Shade
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Clark Taylor Ward
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences
Jonas Zajonz
Graduate Assistant, Geosciences