Current Projects

•Notostracan taphonomy: Implications for stem-ward slippage and soft-bodied arthropod taphonomy

    Stumbling to submit a major portion of my Ph.D

•Deciphering the structure and significance of the ‘Conchostracan’ carapace (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata, Laevicaudata, Cyclestherida)

    A collaborative project with Tim Astrop and Steve Weeks (University of Akron)

•New Mesozoic conchostracans from Africa

    In collaboration with Dr. Eric Roberts (James Cook University)

and many other fossil branchiopods in varying states of description/redescription

    . . . including work with the Weeks Formation (Utah), Grés à Voltzia (France), Koonwarra Beds (Australia), Daohugou & Yixian Formation (China), the German Keuper beds, Carapace Nunatak (Antarctica), and many others.