Publications (Link to list of publications)

University Degrees

Appointments

Grants

2005:

NSF #0447019 Investigating Early Triassic Ocean Chemistry during the Protracted Recovery from the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction, $150,000, two years

2004:

NSF #0418083: Collaborative Research: Biogeochemistry of the Snowball Earth $109,426, two years

USC Zumberge Fund, $25,000, one year

USC Undergraduate research fund: $7500, one year

2003:

NASA-JPL DRDF Complexity analysis and stromatolites as biosignatures?  $25,000

Synergistic Activities

Professional service:

Associate Editor: Geobiology (Blackwell).

Associate Editor: Palaios (SEPM).

Treasurer, Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division, Geological Society of America

Symposia Organizer, 2004 (Denver) and 2005 (Salt Lake City) GSA Annual Meeting.

Geological Society of America Research Grants Committee member-at-large, 2002-2005.

Vice President, Pacific Section SEPM (term 2001-2002).

Pacific Section SEPM Fall 2002 Fieldtrip Leader  (90 participants).

Pacific SEPM Editor, Book 93.

Field excursion co-leader (with P. Link and N. Lorentz) for GSA National meeting in Salt Lake City, October 2005.

Field excursion co-leader (with M. Abolins) for GSA National meeting in Reno, November 2000.

Faculty advisor for 2^nd Annual Southern California Graduate Student Geobiology Conference, USC, April 2005.

Teaching:

Voted Professor of the Year 2000-2001 by USC Earth Science students

Voted “leader of best field experience “ 2000-2001 by USC Earth Science students

Sigma Gamma Omega Chapter  (Earth Science Honor Society) faculty advisor, Fall 2000-present

Undergraduate research advisor for seven students, six have presented results at the USC Undergraduate Research Symposium, and 4 have won awards at the symposium.

Primary graduate advisor for 6 students (see below)

WISE (Women in science and engineering) Mentor, summer 2003

Agouron Institute lecturer, summer 2003, Wrigley Institute Geobiology course (two lectures)

Agouron Institute lecturer, summer 2004, Wrigley Institute Geobiology course (two lectures)

Agouron Institute lecturer, summer 2005, Wrigley Institute Geobiology course (four lectures and led the second one week field trip to the White-Inyo region of Eastern California/Western Nevada)

Guest Instructor, Amherst College, February 2005 (two lectures)

Guest Instructor, Stanford University, April 2005 (one lecture)

Recent Invited Talks:

UCLA (March 2004)

Caltech (March 2004)

University of Maryland (October 2004)

Stanford University (January 2005)

Amherst College (February 2005)

UC Berkeley (November 2005)

University of Texas (April 2006)

California State University Long Beach (April 2006)

Honors:

Honorable mention, best paper in Palaios (SEPM), 2005

Geological Society of America commendation for service (awarded 2005)

Best poster, Astrobiology meeting, NASA Ames Research Center, California (2000)

Students:

Current Students (primary advisor):

Jake Bailey (PhD)

Nate Lorentz (PhD)

Sean Loyd (PhD)

Pedro Marenco, co-advised with D. Bottjer (PhD)

Victoria Petryshyn (PhD)

Kiri Wagstaff (MS) 

Current Students (secondary advisor):

David Ginsburg (Marine Biology, outside member, PhD)

Kirk Domke (PhD)

Catherine Jamet (PhD)

Orion Johnson (PhD)

Katherine Marenco (PhD)

Jingmai O'Connor (PhD)

Jamal Ramadan (Engineering, outside member, PhD)

Everett Salas (PhD)

Past Students and current location (* denotes primary advisor):

Nicole Bonuso (PhD),Assistant Professor, Cal State Fullerton

Steve Dornbos (PhD), Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Margaret Frasier (PhD), Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Oscar Gonzalez-Yajimovich (PhD), Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Gerald Grellet-Tinner (PhD), Assistant Professor, South Dakota School of Mines

Tran Huynh (MS)

*Alison Olcott (PhD), Assistant Professor, University of Kansas (2008)

Sara Pruss (MS, PhD), Postdoc, Harvard U.

Publications (Link to list of publications)