Susan M. Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College

Current Advisees

Rebecca A. Terry (PhD candidate, final year). Ecological fidelity and temporal resolution of raptor-generated small-mammal death assemblages, and their ecological response to recent environmental change, Great Basin. [2003 recipient NSF graduate fellowship, 2005 recipient EPA STAR fellowship; 2007 National Geographic Society grant in support of research; 2007 recipient of Romer Prize, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology] http://home.uchicago.edu/~rcterry/

Joshua E. Miller (PhD candidate, 5th year). Taphonomy of temperate large-mammal death assemblages: a live-dead analysis of Yellowstone National Park. [2004 recipient of NSF graduate fellowship & 2006 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant] http://home.uchicago.edu/~millerjh/index.html

Christina Belanger (PhD candidate, 3rd year). Physiological and community-level responses of mollusks to climate warming, Miocene of Oregon [2006 recipient of NSF graduate fellowship]

Past Advisees

Bjarte Hannisdal (PhD 2006, Univ. Chicago). "Inferring evolutionary patterns from fossil records using Bayesian inversion: an application to the Miocene of the mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain". [supported by Norwegian federal fellowship for first 3 years; supported by ACS-PRF grant for final 2 years; now post-doctoral fellow, Centre for Geo-Biosphere Research (Norwegian Research Council), University of Bergen] http://www.geraceresearchcentre.com/index.html

Yael Furstenberg (nee Edelman) (MS 1996, Hebrew University; PhD 2004, Univ. Chicago). "Macrobenthic paleoecology of high-productivity marine environments, Cretaceous of Israel and Recent of Namibia" [supported by ACS-PRF and US/Israel Binational Science Foundation grants; now Research Geologist, Geological Survey of Israel] http://www.gsi.gov.il/Eng/

Francesca A. Smith (MS 1996, PhD 2002, Univ. Chicago) "Carbon isotopic record of grass phytoliths as indicators of CO2 levels during paleoclimatic change, Miocene to Recent North America" [1996 Environmental Protection Agency STAR doctoral Fellowship; 2000 & 2001 recipient of Hutchinson Botany Fellowship, Univ. Chicago; post-doctoral fellow Pennsylvania State University in biogeochemistry; now Asst Prof Northwestern University] http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/current/people/faculty/cesca/

Mairi M.R. Best (PhD 2000, Univ. Chicago) "Fates of bivalve skeletal carbonate in tropical siliciclastics and carbonates, Caribbean Panama" [1995 and 1996 recipient of Smithsonian Institution Pre-Doctoral Fellowships; supported by NSF-EAR grant; 2001-present Assistant Professor Dept Earth Sciences, McGill University; now on leave as Science Director, Canadian NEPTUNE project, Victoria, BC] http://www.neptunecanada.ca/people/MairiBest_bio.htm

Raymond R. Rogers (PhD 1995, Univ. Chicago) "Sequence stratigraphic and taphonomic transect of the non-marine Two Medicine / Judith River interval (Upper Cretaceous), Montana" [1993 recipient of Romer Prize, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology; supported by ACS-PRF grant; now Professor and Chair (Geology), Macalester College] http://www.macalester.edu/geology/People/Rogers/

Eric D. Gyllenhaal (PhD 1991, Univ. Chicago) "How accurately can paleo-precipitation and climatic change be interpreted from subaerial disconformities?", 530p. [NSF Graduate Fellowship; supported by NSF-PYI grant; 1991 recipient of Univ Chicago Galler Award for best dissertation, Division of Physical Sciences; 1991 - 1996, Education Dept., Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; 1996 – present Selinda Research Associates -- museum evaluation] http://selindaresearch.com/

Steven M. Holland (PhD 1990, Univ. Chicago) "Distiguishing tectonic and eustatic controls on foreland basin stratigraphy: Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch and Appalachian Basin", 390 p. [NSF Graduate Fellowship; supported by NSF-PYI grant; 1990-1991, University Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ohio State Univ.; James Wilson Award, SEPM 2000; Charles Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society, 2003; now Professor, University of Georgia, Athens] http://www.gly.uga.edu/holland/holland.html

Charles D. Winker (PhD 1987, Univ. Arizona) "Neogene stratigraphy of the Fish Creek-Vallecito section, southern California: Implications for early history of the northern Gulf of California and Colorado Delta", 494p. [supported by NSF-EAR and NSF-PYI grants; 1988 Best Paper Award, Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol.; Senior Research Geologist, Shell International Exploration and Production, Houston]

Nancy Beckvar (1986 M.S. Univ. Arizona). Stratigraphy, taphonomy, and faunal-substrate relations in a Pleistocene marine terrace near Punta Chueca, Sonora, Mexico. [now aquatic contaminants research, National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration, Seattle]

Richard D. Norris (1985 M.S. Univ. Arizona). Taphonomic gradients in shelf fossil assemblages: Pliocene Purisima Formation, California. [PhD 1990 Harvard Univ.; now Professor, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD] http://sio.ucsd.edu/Profile/index.php?who=rnorris

Dennis E. Sylvia (M.S. 1985 Univ. Arizona). Stratigraphy, paleoenvironments, and geohistory analysis of the Mississippian Redwall Limestone and coeval strata, Arizona and Nevada. [USAF; now PhD program, Univ. Texas Austin]

Alison A. Hess (M.S. 1985 Univ. Arizona). Chertification of the Redwall Limstone (Mississippian), Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. [now Senior Project Manager for the Hudson River Superfund Site, Environmental Protection Agency, NYC]