Current Graduate Students

Alyssa M. Bancroft, Ph.D. candidate Dissertation topic: Conodont Biostratigraphy and paleoceanography of Ordovician and Silurian Epicontinental Seas.

Christina E. O'Malley, M.s. 2005; Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation title: Phylogenetic significance of biomarkers in Paleozoic and Living crinoids.

Mark E. Peter, Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation title: Silurian crinoids -- Waldron Shale and Evolutioanry Paleoecology.

Recent Graduate Student Graduates

Kathryn Hollis (formerly Bremar), M.S. 2005 Thesis title: Crinoid Biomarkers (Borden Group, Mississippian): Implications for Phylogeny.

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 Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University.

Gilbert O'Conner, M.S. 2007 Thesis title: Paleoecology of a near-reef community in the Brassfield Formation (Lower Silurian) Oakes Quarry Park, Fairborn, Ohio.

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

David A. Schmidt, Ph.D. 2006 Thesis 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.

Postdocs

None at Present