Title
Professor of Geology(1992)
Degree
BA, Denison University, 1977; PhD, University of Oregon, 1985
Teaching Experience
Smith College; University of Oregon
Specialties
Evolution: Dinosaurs to Darwin; Paleontology of Marine Life; Seminar on Reefs; Tropical Field Course on Modern and Pleistocene Reefs; Darwin and the Victorian Age of Discovery; Tectonics and Earth History; The "Sixth Extinction" (FSem)
Interests
Paleontology and sedimentology of ancient reefs in Alaska, Russia, Australia, and Mongolia; dinosaur eggs
Selected Publications
Author of "Unscrambling dinosaur eggs" (American Paleontologist, 2008)
Author of "Silurian-bearing terranes of Alaska" (in The Terrane Puzzle: New Perspectives on Paleontology and Stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera, 2008)
Co-author of "Provenance, depositional setting, and tectonic implications of Silurian polymictic conglomerates in Alaska’s Alexander terrane" with Colgate student (in The Terrane Puzzle: New Perspectives on Paleontology and Stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera, 2008)
Author of "Silurian metazoan bioherms and biostromes, southeastern Alaska (Alexander terrane)" (in Facies from Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations, 2007)
Co-author of "Silurian skeletal stromatolite reefs, southeastern Alaska (Alexander terrane) and Ural Mountains, Russia with Colgate student, A.I. Antoshkina and B. White (in Facies from Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations, 2007)
Co-author of "Late Silurian reconstruction indicated by migration of reef biota between Alaska, the Urals, and Siberia (Salair)" with A.I. Antoshkina (Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 2006)
Author of "Fossil microbial reefs" (McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2005)
Co-author of "Paleoecology of sponge-hydroid associations in Silurian microbial reefs" with four Colgate students, A.I. Antoshkina and B. White (Palaios, 2003)
"Debating whether dinosaurs should be 'cloned' from ancient DNA to promote cooperative learning in an introductory evolution course" with D. Huerta (Journal of Geoscience Education, 2001)
"Development and decline of a Silurian stromatolite reef complex, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska" with B. White, A.I. Antoshkina, and four Colgate students (Palaios, 2000)
"Using an experiment in burial taphonomy to delve into the fossil record" (Journal of Geoscience Education, 1999)
"Coeval development of Silurian stromatolite reefs in Alaska and the Ural Mountains: implications for paleogeography of the Alexander terrane" with A.I. Antoshkina (Geology, 1997)
"Island-arc carbonates: characterization and recognition in the ancient geologic record" (Earth-Science Reviews, 1996)
"Taphonomy and paleobiological implications of Middle Devonian (Eifelian) nautiloid concentrates, Alaska" with B. White and three Colgate students (Palaios, 1996)
"Early Devonian paleomagnetic data from the Lower Devonian Karheen Formation suggest Laurentia-Baltica connection for the Alexander terrane" with D.R. Bazard, R.F. Butler, and G. Gehrels (Geology, 1995)
"Significance of Silurian stromatolite-sphinctozoan reefs" (Geology, 1994)
Numerous other articles and abstracts
Professional Experience
U.S. Geological Survey; U.S. Forest Service
Distinctions
Colgate Presidential Scholar; University Professor; Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year; Several NSF grants, Colgate Picker Fellowships, National Academy of Science grant, Pew grants, GSA research grants; numerous other awards and grants
Board Membership
Past President and Trustee, Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca, NY)