Major Transitions in History of Life

Faculty

	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 ...
	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).

Research Faculty

Sean S Gulick Marine and planetary geophysical imaging at nested resolutions and ground truth through drilling, coring, logging, and sampling. Tectonic processes, tectonic-climate interactions, and geohazards of convergent margins and transitional tectonic environments. Role of catastrophism in the geologic record including impact cratering, hurricanes, and tectonic events. Planetary habitability, impact generated ecosystems, biotic ...

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