Biotic Changes Through Time & Impact of Global Change

Faculty

	Christopher J Bell Vertebrate paleontology and evolutionary morphology, North American Pliocene and Pleistocene small mammal biostratigraphy and biochronology, osteology, anatomy, and systematics of squamate reptiles and turtles, Impacts of climate change on vertebrate communities; history of science
	Lisa D Boucher Paleobotany, Evolutionary Biology, Paleoecology, Biogeography, Plant Anatomy
	Elizabeth J Catlos Tectonics, geochronology, petrology, and metamorphic geology. Garnet and accessory-mineral (zircon, monazite) geochronology and pressure-temperature (P-T) paths. Himalayan lineaments, the Main Central Thrust, and earthquake geohazards in Nepal. Extension, transfer zones, and Hellenic arc subduction in western Anatolia (Turkey). Western Carpathian exhumation and critical minerals (Slovakia). Detrital zircon U-Pb dating of ...
	Julia A Clarke Evolution of anatomical novelty, vertebrate paleontology, systematic biology, avian vocalization and the evolution of flight, fossil birds. Dinosaurs.
	Ben Kligman Vertebrate paleontology, morphology, paleoecology, and biogeography; Biostratigraphy, phylogeny, and taphonomy; Major evolutionary innovations in the origins of living tetrapod groups; (especially lepidosaurs and lissamphibians); Vertebrate paleocommunity reconstruction and analysis, and extinctions in the non-marine fossil record (particularly in the early Mesozoic).
	Rowan C Martindale Triassic and Jurassic reef paleoecology, mass extinctions (Triassic-Jurassic, 201 Ma), carbon cycle perturbation events in deep time, ocean acidification in deep time, Oceanic Anoxic Events, invertebrate paleontology (corals, sponges, algae, microbes), Mesozoic marine communities and ecosystems, exceptional fossil preservation (Lagerstätten), paleoecology, marine ecology, Geoscience Education, educational game design, carbonate petrography, ...

Research Faculty

Cornelia Rasmussen Paleoecology, geobiology, geochemistry, geochronology, sedimentology

Affiliated Faculty

Chris Kirk fossil, primate, Primates, evolution, Eocene, Oligocene, Paleogene, adapid, adapoid, adapiform, omomyoid, omomyid, omomyiform, anthropoid, haplorhine, haplorrhine, tarsier, lemur, strepsirrhine, mammal, synapsid, mammaliaform, mammal, vision, eye, retina, hearing, auditory, cochlea, semicircular canal, nasal cavity, nasal fossa, olfaction, olfactory, turbinal, turbinate, olfactory bulb, Texas, Big Bend, Tornillo Basin, Canoe Formation, Devil's Graveyard ...

Research Staff

Kelly Hattori Carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic systems, salt-sediment interactions, reefs, ocean anoxic events and effect on carbonate deposition