Research
Paleobiologist and Curator of Paleobotany. B.A.
(1974) Drexel University; M.S. (1976), Ph.D.
(1979) University of Illinois. Research specialties:
morphology, systematics, and paleoecology of
late Paleozoic plants, particularly the structure
of late Paleozoic ecosystems and the relationship
between long-term ecological and evolutionary
patterns. Member, ETE
Program. Science Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample project:
Identification of Pennsylvanian-age compression
plant fossils, and quantitative analysis of
one or more floras.
Dr.
DiMichele has hosted 12 participants in the
RTP:
Jorge
Alvarez (2006)
- project
summary
Julie Carlton (1991)
- project
summary
Josh Campbell (1997)
- project summary
Charlene Fricker (1994
& 1995)
- project
summary
Lisa Gawen (1990)
- project
summary
Tene Greene (1996)
- project summary
Richard Lupia (1991)
- project
summary
Erik Martin (2000)
- project
summary
Megan Paustian (2002)
- project
summary
John Perrine (1992)
- project
summary
Kris Rhodes (2007)
- project
summary
Traesha Robertson (1997)
- project summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
Research
Paleobiologist and Curator of Fossil Mammals.
B.A. (1966) Colorado State University; Ph.D.
(1970) Columbia University. Research specialties:
Tertiary Mammalia of North America and Central
Asia; mammalian biostratigraphy; stratigraphy
of Tertiary continental deposits of western
North America. Science Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Emry has hosted 1 participant in the RTP:
Chad
Schennum (2000)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
Senior
Scientist and Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates.
B.A. (1980) Colgate University; Ph.D. (1985)
University of California, Santa Barbara. Research
specialties: Evolutionary innovation, particularly
the Cambrian metazoan radiation; post mass extinction
biotic recoveries; evolutionary rates and isotope
geochronology; evolutionary history and systematics
of Cambrian-Triassic gastropods; Burgess
Shale. Science Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample project:
Studies of evolutionary rates; study of Devonian
or Permian gastropods, including morphology,
systematics and photography.
Dr.
Erwin has hosted 7 participants in the RTP:
Stephanie
Fuentes (2000)
- project
summary
Philip Gottshall (1995)
- project summary
& (1996)
- project summary
Eugene Hunt (1995)
- project
summary & (1996)
- project summary
Matthew Kosnik (1994)
- project
summary
Jonathan Marcot (1994)
- project
summary
Carla Nappi (1997)
- project summary
Stephen Schellenberg (1992)
- project
summary
One
(1) scientific publication and one (1) presentation
resulted from their collaboration:
- Fuentes
S. and D.H. Erwin. 2000. Biogeography
and Stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Ediacaran
Fauna. Geological Society of America, Abstracts
with Program. - - ABSTRACT
- Kosnik,
M.A. 1995. Byzantia: a new genus
(Gastropoda: Neritopsidae) from the Permian
of west Texas. Journal of Paleontology 71(1):
53-56. - - ABSTRACT
Research
Paleobiologist and Curator of Foraminifera.
B.A. (1981) University of Akron; M.S. (1984),
Ph.D. (1988) Ohio State University. Research
specialties: Study of Cretaceous climate and
oceanography; biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography
of Cretaceous and Paleogene foraminifera; evolution
and extinction dynamics of Late Cretaceous and
Paleogene planktonic foraminifera; Cretaceous
strontium and light stable isotope isotope stratigraphy.
Science Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample
project: Stable isotopic analysis
and population dynamics of planktic foraminifera
across ocean anoxic events during the mid-Cretaceous.
Dr.
Huber has hosted 14 participants in the RTP
and 1 RET participant:
Sally
Adkins (1993)
- project
summary
Navarro Bharat (2002 RET) - project
summary
Diana Chapa (2000)
- project
summary
Valerie Cheshire (1993)
- project
summary
Joshua Dembsky (1994)
- project
summary
Laura Holladay (2001)
- project
summary
Ryan Houston (1996)
- project summary
Molly Markey (1998)
- project
summary
Consuelo Marino (1992)
- project
summary
Heather McCarren (2002)
- project
summary
Jennifer Olson (1992)
- project
summary
Nancy Price (2003)
- project
summary
Erin
Saupe (2006)
- project
summary
Jocelyn Sessa (1999)
- project
summary
Diana Thiel (1998)
- project
summary
Four
(4) scientific publications and two (2) presentations
resulted from their collaboration:
-
Erbacher, J., C. Hemleben, B.T. Huber, and
M. Markey. 1999. Correlating environmental
changes during early Albanian Oceanic Anoxic
Event 1b using benthic foraminiferal paleoecology.
Marine Micropaleontology 38: 7-28. - - ABSTRACT
-
Erbacher, J., B.T. Huber, R.D. Norris, and
M. Markey. 2001. Increased thermohaline
stratification as a possible cause for an
oceanic anoxic event in the Cretaceous Period.
Nature 409: 325-327. - - ABSTRACT
- Holladay,
L. and B. Huber. 2001. Ontogenetic morphometric
comparison of middle-late Eocene pseudohastigerinid
planktonic foraminifera using X-radiograph
image analysis. Geological Society of America,
Abstracts with Programs. November 2001.
-
- ABSTRACT
-
Houston, R.M. and B.T. Huber. 1998. Evidence
of photosymbiosis in fossil taxa? Ontogenetic
stable isotope trends in some Late Cretaceous
planktonic foraminifera. Marine Micropaleontology
34: 29-46. - - ABSTRACT
-
Houston, R.M., B.T. Huber, and H.J. Spero.
1999. Photosymbiosis and ontogenetic d18O
and d13C trends in some Maastrichtian planktic
foraminifera: A discussion of intraspecific
variability and methodology. Marine Micropaleontology
36: 169-188. - - ABSTRACT
- Price,
N., B.T. Huber, and K.G. MacLeod. 2003.
Planktonic Foraminiferal Turnover and Paleoceanographic
Change Across the Aptian-Albian Boundary in
the Subtropical North Atlantic. Geological
Society of America, Abstract with Program.
- - ABSTRACT
Using
research grant funding, Dr. Huber has hired
on contract 1 RTP alumni:
Ryan
Houston (1997)
| Gene
Hunt |
(202)
633-1331
|
hunte@si.edu
|
Associate
Curator. B.S. (1995) Duke University; Ph.D.
(2003) University of Chicago. Research specialties:
long-term evolutionary changes; fossil ostracodes.
Science Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Hunt has hosted 2 participant in the RTP:
Julia
Brown (2006)
- project
summary
Satrio
Wicaksono (2007)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
Research
Paleobiologist and Curator of Fossil Arthropods.
B.A. (1980) California State University, Fresno;
M.S. (1986) University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee;
Ph.D. (1990) University of Chicago. Research
specialties: interactions between plants and
insects in the fossil record; fossil arthropods,
particularly insects; evolution of mouthparts
of insects; member ETE
Program. Science Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample
project: Evaluation of insect-mediated
damage of plants from selected fossil floras
by microscopical and morphometrical techniques.
Dr.
Labandeira has hosted 8 participants in the
RTP:
Jorge
Alvarez (2006)
- project
summary
Laura
Burrows (1993)
- project
summary
Asher Cutter (1996)
- project
summary
Nick Garland (1999)
- project
summary
Emily Greenfest (1997)
- project
summary
Cesar Nufio (1994)
- project
summary
Claire Obordo (1993
& 1994)
- project
summary
Matthew Palmer (1998)
- project
summary
One
(1) publication and four (4) scientific presentations
resulted from their collaboration:
- Greenfest,
E.F. and C. Labandeira. 1997. Insect folivory
on a Lower Permian (Sakmarian) riparian flora
from north-central Texas. Geological Society
of America, Abstract with Program 29(6): 262.
- - ABSTRACT
- Obordo,
C., L. Burrows, and C. Labandeira.
1994. Insect-mediated herbivory from the Late
Pennsylvanian and Early Permian red-bed floras
of north-central Texas. Geological Society
of America, Abstracts with Programs 26(7):
A-59. - - ABSTRACT
-
Palmer, M., C.C. Labandeira, K. Johnson,
and W. Wehr. 1998. Diversity and intensity
of insect herbivory on the Middle Eocene Republic
Flora: comparing the fossil record with the
recent. Geological Society of America, Abstract
with Program 30. - - ABSTRACT
-
Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, P.D.
Coley, and A.D. Cutter. 2001. Insect
herbivory, plant defense, and early Cenozoic
climate change. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 98: 6221-6226. - - ABSTRACT
-
Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, and
A.D. Cutter. 1999. Effects of Paleocene-Eocene
warming and subsequent drying on plant-animal
associations. Geological Society of America,
Abstracts with Programs. 31(7): A122. - -
ABSTRACT
Using
research grant funding, Dr. Labandeira has hired
on contract 2 RTP alumni:
Cesar
Nufio (1995)
Dena Smith (1996)
Research
Geologist. B.Sc. Eng. (1957) Queen's University,
Kingston, Canada; Ph.D. (1967) McGill University,
Montreal, Canada. Research specialties: carbonate
petrography; geological aspects of tropical
coral-reef ecosystems; Holocene reef history
in the western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific;
shallow-water marine geology of the U.S. continental
shelf; problems in submarine cementation. Science
Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Macintyre has hosted 1 participant in the RTP:
Michael
Holcomb (2001)
- project
summary
One
(1) publication resulted from their collaboration:
Holcomb,
M., Pandolfi, J.M., Macintyre, I.G., and
Budd, A.F. 2004. Use of X-radiographs to distinguish
members of the Montastraea annularis reef-coral
species complex. Hydrobiologia, vol 530/531
p 211-222.
Senior
Geological Oceanographer and Curator of Sedimentology.
B.Sc. (1956) Cornell University; M.S. (1958)
Brown University; D.Sc. (1961) Grenoble University;
Post-Doctoral (1964) Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution. Research specialties: geoarcheology
of coastal sites; sedimentology and marine geology
of deltas, continental shelf, slope, and basin
sediments; ancient deep-sea deposits in the
modern and ancient record. Science Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Stanley has hosted 1 participant in the RTP:
Anne
Jefferson (1999)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
Research
Paleobiologist and Curator of Cenozoic Mollusks.
B.A. (1959), M.S. (1961) University of Wisconsin;
Ph.D. (1966) Columbia University. Research specialties:
Marine bivalvia, particularly evolution throughout
the Phanerozoic, morphology, shell ultrastructure,
larval development, biogeography, and biostratigraphy;
monographic studies of living scallops and their
Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil record. Science
Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Sample
project: The origin of the Bivalvia
and a phylogeny of major groups.
Research
Paleobiologist and Curator of Paleobotany, Co-director
ETE Program.
B.A. (1976), Ph.D. (1981) Yale University. Research
specialties: paleoecology; angiosperm history
and systematics; plant taphonomy; Cenozoic and
Mesozoic paleoclimate; fossil plants of the
Rocky Mountain region. Science Unit: Department
of Paleobiology.
Dr.
Wing has hosted 16 participants in the RTP:
Anthony
Alvarez (2004)
- project
summary
Mark Carter (1990)
- project
summary
Josh Chamot (1997)
- project
summary
Suzanne Furesz (1989)
- project
summary
Donna Jacob (1990)
- project
summary
Scott Kruger (1993
& 1994)
- project
summary
Jill McElderry (1991)
- project
summary
Teresa McLain (1990)
- project
summary
Melissa McQuoid (1990)
- project
summary
Corinne Miles (1988
& 1989)
- project
summary
Michael Nowak (2002)
- project
summary
Monika Palunas (1989)
- project
summary
Ana Luz Porzecanski (1995)
- project summary
Anna Ruesink (1992)
- project
summary
Alvaro Sagasti (1993)
- project
summary
Dena Smith (1991)
- project
summary
One
(1) scientific presentation has resulted from
their collaboration:
- Sagasti,
A., S. Kruger, R. Chapman, and
S. Wing. 1993. Quantitative foliar physiognomy.
Paper presented. Geological Society of America,
Abstracts with Programs. Boston, Massachusetts
25(6): A390-A391. - - ABSTRACT
Paleobiology
Advisors
Archive
The
following have previously hosted students
in the Research Training Program, but are
either no longer in residence at the Museum
or are otherwise unavailable to host new students.
Research
Paleobiologist, B.S. (1979) University of
Notre Dame; M.S. (1982) University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee; Ph.D. (1987) University of California,
Davis. Research specialties: ecological dynamics,
stability, and disturbance of Pleistocene
and living coral reefs over broad spatial
and temporal scales; the effects of local,
regional, and global environmental change
on coral reef species distribution patterns,
Cenozoic and recent reef coral biogeography,
evolution and extinction in reef coral species
complexes.
Dr.
Pandolfi hosted 2 participants in the RTP
and 1 RET participant:
Michael
Holcomb (2001)
- project
summary
Clemontene Rountree (RET 2003)
- project
summary
Rudyard Sadleir (1998)
- project
summary
Research
Paleobiologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology.
B.A. (1967) Washington University; M.A. (1968),
Ph.D. (1973) Harvard University. Research specialties:
paleoecology of terrestrial environments, especially
in the later Cenozoic of Africa and Pakistan;
continental sedimentation; vertebrate taphonomy
in recent and ancient contexts; human paleoecology,
evolution of terrestrial ecosystems; Co-director,
Research
Paleobiologist and Curator of Dinosaurs. B.S.
(1991) Brown University; M.S. (1995), Ph.D.
(1998) University of Chicago. Research specialties:
large-scale evolutionary patterns in dinosaurs,
dinosaur systematics, functional morphology
and biomechanics. Science
Unit: