Students
The Department of Geology offers several undergraduate degrees, including a B.A., a B.S., and a B.S. with a specialization in Paleobiology, as well as an M.S. degree in Geology.
My current M.S. students are:
Steven King
expected 2009
Jessica Lawrence
expected 2008: A Total Evidence Analysis of the Evolutionary History of the Thunnisaur Ichthyosaurs
Former M.S. students include:
Richard MacKenzie III
M.S. 2007: Exploring Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Ammonoid
Geographic Range and Its Relationship to Origination and Extinction
Rates Using GIS
Marc Spencer
M.S. 2007: Implications of a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Stem-Based Clade Ornithischia within the Dinosaurian Monophyly
Chris Klug
M.S. 2007: Analyzing Fossils and Isotopes to Investigate a Possible
Permo-Triassic Boundary Section, Bilk Creek Mountains, Humboldt County,
Nevada
Chris Wright
M.S. 2006: Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the
Middle Devonian Dundee Formation at Whitehouse, Lucas County, Ohio
Rituparna Bose
M.S. 2006: Epizoans on the Brachiopods from the Devonian Dundee Formation of Ohio
Justin Richardson
M.S. 2005: Freshwater Carbonates: Is Fossil Preservation in Travertine
Deposits Applicable to Martian Research?, co-advised with Jim Evans
Melanie Bergolc
M.S. 2004: A Paleoenvironmental Analysis Using Fossil Insects in Late Quaternary Deposits of Indiana and Ohio
Michael Senglaub
M.S. 2004: Paleoecology of the Lower Devonian Esopus and Carlisle Center Formations (Tristates Group) of New York State
Rita Obiozo
M.S. 2003: Interpretation and Assessment of Two Reservoirs in the Niger
Delta (Nsimbo Field), Nigeria JV Acreage, Using Sequence Stratigraphic
and Structural Concepts, co-advised with Norm Levine
Lori Manship
M.S. 2003: Pattern Matching: Implementing GIS Applications for Paleontological Classification of Ammonitic Sutures
Karen Waggoner
M.S. 2003: Systematics and Taphonomy of Middle Turonian (Upper
Cretaceous) Ammonites of the Chispa Summit Formation of Trans-Pecos,
Texas