Research Group

Current Graduate Students

Mark E. Peter, Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation title: Phylogeny and Evolutionary Paleoecology of Flexible Cinoids.

 

Recent Graduate and Postdoctoral Students

Alyssa M. Bancroft, Ph.D. 2014 Dissertation title: Conodont Biostratigraphy and paleoceanography of Ordovician and Silurian Epicontinental Seas.. Currently, postdoctoral student, University of Iowa

Selina R. Cole, Ph.D. 2017 Dissertation title: Phylogeny, Diversification, and Extinction Selectivity in Camerate Crinoids. Cureently: American Museum of Natural History

Kathryn Hollis, M.S. 2005 Thesis title: Adaptive morphology of crinoid holdfasts in relation to facies distribution of the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation, south-central Kentucky. Currently Collections Manager, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution

Elyssa Krivicich, M.S. 2011 Thesis title: Paleocommunity analysis of crinoids from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean) with localities in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.

Jih-Pai (Alex) Lin, Ph.D. 2007, OSU Presidential Fellow Dissertation title: From a fossil assemblage to a paleoecological community: Time organisms, and environment, based on the Kaili Lagerstätte (Cambrian) and coeveal deposits of exceptional preservation. Currently Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University.

Christina E. O’Malley, M.S. 2005; Ph.D. Dissertation title: Biomarkers in Paleozoic crinoids: Origin, Identity, and phylogenetic significance.

Jeffery G. Richardson, Ph.D. 2003 Dissertation title: Miospore biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and glacio-eustatic response of the Borden Delta (Osagean; Tournaisian-Visean) of Kentucky and Indiana, U.S.A. Currently Associate Professor, Columbus State University.

Elizabeth C. Rhenberg, Post-doctoral Student Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Memphis

David A. Schmidt, Ph.D. 2006 Dissertation title: Paleontology and sedimentary of calcifying microbes in the Silurian of the Ohio-Indiana region an expanded role of carbonate-forming microbial communities. Currently a Director of Environmental Science Program at Wright State University.

David F. Wright, Ph.D., 2016 Dissertation title: Phylogenetic Paleobiology: Phenotypic Diversification and Evolutionary Radiation in Paleozoic Crinoids. Currently, American Museum of Natural History.

 

Recent Undergraduate Students

Jeremy Myers, B..S. 2013

Victor Perez, B.S. 2031 Currently, Ph.D. student, University of Florida.

Jeffery Thompson B.S. 2013 Currently, Postdoctoral Student, University College London