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Paleontological Society Student Research Grants Awarded in 2009
| Name | Institution | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Deptola, Travis | Juniata College | Metabolic Rate Scaling of the Trilobite Phacops rana |
| Lagomarcino, Anne | University of Cincinnati | The relationship between genus richness and geographic area in Late Cretaceous marine biotas: A comparison between epicontinental-sea and open-ocean settings |
| Webb, Amelinda | Yale University | Measuring the ecological impact of the Ordovician mass extinction |
| Lord, Edwin | University of Georgia | Long-Lost Stromatoporoids: Carboniferous Reef in Northwest Georgia yields Unique Biodiversity |
| Schmerge, Josh | University of Kansas | A statistical examination of the change in body size of mammalian communities across the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary near Douglas, WY, USA |
| Stafford, Emily | University of Alberta | Estimating Crushing Predation from Damage Frequency in Fossil Gastropods |
| Calede, Jonathan | University of Oregon | Determining the diets of fossorial rodents of the Oligo-Miocene of central and eastern Oregon. |
| Zaffos, Andrew | University of Georgia | Biological Rarity and Extinction across the Ordovican-Silurian boundary. |
| Parks, Hillary | Western Illinois University | Sticking Our Necks Out: Anatomy of the First Cervical Vertebra and Implications for Inferring Posture in Fossil Primates |
| Cooper, Lisa | NEOUCOM/Kent State University | SOLVING A BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA IN WHALE EVOLUTION: PROTOCETID ARCHAEOCETES FROM NIGERIA |
| Wan, Zhenzhu | University of Cincinnati | Stomatal Parameters of Early Devonian-Early Carboniferous Land Plants as a Record of Atmospheric CO2 Variation |
| Danehy, Daniel | Southern Methodist University | Terrestrial vegetation reconstructions spanning the Paleogene - Neogene boundary in the Ethiopian highlands |
| Redman, Cory | Texas A&M | Sampling microvertebrate assemblages of the Straight Cliffs Formation (Coniacian) on the Paunsaugunt and Kaiparowits Plateaus to assess the influence of sea-level change on Late Cretaceous nonmarine paleocommunity structure in southern Utah |
| Guthrie, Emily | University of Oregon | Paleobiology of Theropithecus brumpti (Primates: Cercopithecoidea) from the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia |
| Platt, Brian | University of Kansas | Correlating climate change and biotic turnover in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation |
| Sappenfield, Aaron | University of California, Riverside | Ediacaran tubular fossils across the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary: Significance of Taphonomy and Sedimentology |
| Pardo, Jason | University of Illinois | Macroevolutionary consequences of trophic specialization in Paleozoic tetrapod diversification |
| Smith, Martin | University of Toronto | Onychophoran visual pigments and the origin of arthropod vision |
| Casey, Michelle | Yale University | Past and Present Trophic Interactions in Long Island Sound: The Effects of Eutrophication on the Food Web and Predator-Prey Interactions of Mollusks |
| Gardner, Eleanor | University of Georgia | Linking micro- and macro-level taphonomic alteration in avian bones as a function of sex and age |
| Anderson, Evan | Virginia Tech | The Microchemistry and Ultrastructure of Chuaria: Implications for the Taphonomy of Carbonaceous Compressions |
| House, Aaron | University of Cincinnati | A taphonomic comparison of the Middle and Late Ordovician molluscan Shell beds: Developing a mechanism of aragonite preservation in calcite seas. |
| Oseguera, Joanna | University of California, Riverside | Lacustrine Gastropods in Plio-Pliestocene Waucobi Lake Beds as a proxy for Paleosalinities, Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA |
| Martindale, Rowan | University of Southern California | Paleoecology of Upper Triassic Reefs and Implications for the End-Triassic Mass Extinction |
| Brady, Mara | University of Chicago | Comparing the temporal and spatial resolution of skeletal concentrations in Devonian carbonate deposits from cratonic vs. continental margin settings |
| McKenzie, Neil | University of California, Riverside | Biostratigraphy of the Inner Lesser Himalayan sedimentary belt |
| Slattery, Joshua | University of South Florida | Faunal Responses to Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) Ocean/Climate Change in the Western Interior Seaway |
| Altin, Deniz | University of Georgia | The total evidence approach for phylogenetic reconstruction of selected Allogromiid Foraminifera from coastal Georgia, USA. |
| Sallan, Lauren | University of Chicago | The Impact of the Late Devonian Extinction Crisis on Vertebrate Biodiversity |
