Dr. William I. Ausich Professor Department of Geological Sciences 86 Orton Hall 155 S. Oval Mall The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210 E-mail - ausich.1@.osu.edu

Office..............(614) 292-3353 Department.....(614) 292-8746 Fax.................(614) 292-1496

Instruction:
       Undergraduate:
           GS 110 History of Life on Earth -- Global Change in the Biosphere
           GS 122 Historical Geology
           GS 581/582 Field Geology I & II

       Graduate:
           GS 602 Carbonate Depositional Systems
           GS 614 Paleobiology
           GS 615 Paleoecology
           GS 801 Seminar in Sedimentology and Sedimentary Rocks
           GS 810 Seminar in Stratigraphy

       Recent M.S. thesis advising:
            Lebold, J. 1998.  Quantitative analysis of epizoans on Silurian stromatoporoids within the Brassfield Formation.

           Glass, A. 2000.  Suspension-feeding niche differentiation of late Pennsylvanian (Missourian) crinoids: A comparison of the
                Middle Paleozoic and late Paleozoic crinoid macroevolutionary faunas.

           Schneider, K.A.  2000.  Paleoecology and taxonomy of frame builders of the Brassfield Formation, Llandoverian
                (Lower Silurian) Fairborn, Ohio.

      Recent Dissertation advising:
           Li, A. 2000.  Paleontology and paleoecology of the Nada Member, Borden Formation  (Lower Mississippian) in Eastern Kentucky.

           Richardson, J.G. (in progress).  Sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippian in the eastern United States.