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Paleontological Society Student Research Grants Awarded in 2012
| Name | Project Title | Award |
| Allison Hsiang | Back to the Water: Hadrosaur paleoecology elucidated by oxygen isotopic composition of apatitic phosphate | Mid-America Paleontology Society (MAPS) Outstanding Student Research (1st) |
| Trisha Spanbauer | The climate-evolution connection: The relation of climatic forcing to the distribution and morphological variability of a dominant phytoplankton species in the Andes | Mid-America Paleontology Society (MAPS) Outstanding Student Research (2nd) |
| Rosemary Bush | Ground-truthing a paleoclimate proxy: Do n-alkanes really reflect climate? | Mid-America Paleontology Society (MAPS) Outstanding Student Research (3rd) |
| Adam Jost | Constraints on ocean biogeochemistry during the end-Guadalupian extinction from stable calcium isotopes | Allison R. "Pete" Palmer |
| Andrew Hawkins | Using a silicified fauna to isolate the collection component of the lithification bias | Allison R. "Pete" Palmer |
| Lauren Milideo | Actualistic Taphonomy of Cold and Temperate Climates: applications to Pleistocene paleontology | Richard Osgood |
| Daniel Lawver | Fossil and modern turtle eggshell: testing the validity of eggshell characters in cladistics analyese | Steven Jay Gould |
| Paige Kercher | Determining the efficacy of brachiopod calcite as a recorder of environmental conditions | N. Gary Lane |
| Michael Donovan | Anomalous insect-feeding diversity: evidence for host switching or colonization? | Rodney M. Feldmann |
| Chelsea Korpanty | Live-dead fidelity of molluscan assemblages in declining seagrass habitats: Siliciclastic versus carbonate environments | Ellis L. Yochelson |
| Camilla Crifo | Vein density, a proxy to assess forest structure in the fossil record | Kenneth E. & Annie Caster |
| Judith Sclafani | Using Hubbell’s neutral theory to test the species-area relationship in the Late Ordovician of Laurentia | Kenneth E. & Annie Caster |
| Trisha Smrecak | A test of the epibiofacies model: assessing impacts of changing marine conditions on encrusting organisms | Steven Jay Gould |
| Brendan Anderson | Investigating Burgess Shale Type Preservation Utilizing Organic Geochemistry | Ellis L. Yochelson |
| Neo McAdams | Sampling, imaging, unrevealed data, and phylogeny: What are we missing and what are the consequences? | Harry B. Whittington |
| Rachel Bowles | A morphological and geochemical study of the modern ostracode Cyprideis americana: toward a reliable paleosalinity proxy for marine saline lakes. | N. Gary Lane |
| Emily Wooton | A High Resolution Paleontological, Ichnological, and Chemostratigraphic Study of the Late Devonian Biocrises | Arthur J. Boucot |
| Jessamy Doman | Paleoecology at the origin of hominins: the faunal evidence, 5-7 Ma | G. Arthur Cooper |
| Nicholas Famoso | The evolution of occlusal enamel complexity in Middle Miocene to Recent Equids (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) of North America | Richard K. Bambach |
| Gregory Stull | Whole-plant reconstruction of an extinct tropical vine (Iodes sp.; Icacinaceae) from the Eocene of Wyoming | Ellis L. Yochelson |
| Carlie Pietsch | The role of the habitable zone in shaping the benthic macrofaunal recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction | Kenneth E. & Annie Caster |
| Michael Meyer | Regional Scale Redox Fluctuations and their impacts on life across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary, South China | Steven M. Stanley |
| Max Christie | The Ecological Effects of Species Invasion | Robert J. Stanton & James R. Dodd |
| Abigail D'Ambrosia | Continental effects of carbon cycle perturbations during the early Paleogene: Links to extreme temperature shifts and mammalian physiological change | Ellis L. Yochelson |
| Jasmin Saw | PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CORAL REEF COMMUNITIES FROM THE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT OF MALAYSIAN BORNEO | Rodney M. Feldmann |
| Maria Gold | Bird Brained? Reconstructed brains reveal how dinosaurs took flight during the Mesozoic | Kenneth E. & Annie Caster |
| Mathew Knauss | Quantifying ontogenetic variability of ornamentation in Hoploscaphites (Jeletzkytes) spedeni using GIS as a morphometric tool | N. Gary Lane |
| Matt Jarrett | Dominance of the Lilliput Effect at the K-Pg Event and the Evolutionary Significance | Steven Jay Gould |
| Natasha Vitek | Environmentally Correlated Variation in Box Turtles Across Both Time and Space | James M. & Thomas J. M. Schopf |
| Marissa Drehobl | The Effects of Climate Change on the Evolution of Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems | Kenneth E. & Annie Caster |
